The original title of this book was DON’T YOU WISH YOU WERE HERE? This was taken from the mouse pad that sits on Linus’s desk at DICOMY, and was repeated a few times throughout the book as a motif for Linus and the reader. The publisher (and rightly so) wanted a title that sounded more fantasy-like. And so we scoured the book, looking for ideas. When we landed on THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA, I knew we’d found the right name. The title is one of the first things the reader sees. It felt fitting it would then also be one of the last things they’d read, a bit of lovely symmetry that I absolutely take no credit for, seeing as how my awesome editor came up with the new title. Now, I can’t imagine this novel being called anything else.
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