Often, authors have the perfect title for a book before they’ve written a single word of the story. Others never name a novel till the very end. I’m guilty of the first. I’m also guilty of changing a title a hundred times while writing the actual novel. I’ve gone through about eight titles for my current manuscript I’m working on.
I’ve been addicted to this thing for several years now, often trying out titles that I think of. I also love to try out titles of books that have already been published by well-known authors. The title of my current book, STEALING WISHES, scores a 79% chance of being a bestseller, while some of the working titles of my next book have only been scoring 26%. Here’s a few I tried just now while writing this… Twilight scores a 35%. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (one of my personal favs) landed a 26%. Fellow reviewer LK Gardner-Griffie’s book, Misfit McCabe, scored a 70%. While I don’t take the results to heart, I usually like to choose a title based on a phrase from the English language that we often over use without knowing it, or I like titles with some sort of hidden meaning. For instance, my first book’s title is The Other Side of What came to me as a result of the phrase, “the grass is always greener on the other side.” Stealing Wishes was the result of seeing a homeless person get arrested on COPS for taking money out of a fountain. I had already added that as an odd habit performed by my main character, and the title just popped into my head after that. Originally, it was to be called 32 and Counting (which only scores 34% on the title scorer). My next book was written under the title For The Most Part. Again, a phrase we use a lot but I’m afraid it may be too vague. I changed it earlier this year to When Our Stories Had Happy Endings but I’m afraid that’s too long and sounds too dreary. Back to the drawing board… So, how DO you choose a title?
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