In case you were wondering, Kitten on a Fatberg has now been renamed Work in Progress.

As part of the editing process, we had a conflab with the publishers, and it was decided to change it.

This was a little tough for us co-authors to get our heads round at first - the title has been there for so long, it seemed almost older than the book itself.

But it felt like Kitten on a Fatberg was quite limiting for Design to visualise and Sales to market - and, as our editor put it: 'The term itself is no more than a fleeting reference in the book (though a funny one!), and I worry that at present it isn't doing the work of presenting the book to its potential audience as it might – it's just a little too oblique. I worry also that it feels a little too self-consciously zany; the book itself, to my mind (and having participated in exactly these writing workshop groups myself...), is more wry, more brutally observant than Kitten on a Fatberg suggests, and I'd love to see that reflected in the title. 
 
Well, naturally, she had us at 'brutally observant', and we set about coming up with a new title. After an intense pub debate or two (remember those?), we drew up a long list, then a shortlist, and finally all agreed on Work in Progress. Why? Well, each of our characters is writing away hard at their own Work in Progress (or WIP, as writers like to say); but equally, each as a personality is a bit of a Work in Progress too. 

Having lived with it for a while now, I can say that we're all really happy with the new title and hope that you will come to like it as much as we do.