A title! A title!

[House of Mustard]

We have finally got a title:

"On Second Thought..."

Yeah.  Whatever.

And the release date has been bumped up to February - the audio will come out at the same time.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

eh. It doesn't say much. I can't remember your old title, but I think it was more amusing. Anyway, you're being published, so "YAY!" When are YOU buying us all lunch?

[Mistress of Darkness]

Unfortunately, he already did. You and I were not included, title suggestions not withstanding.

Congrats HoM! That's great news. Though I feel just as neutral as you about the title, it would, at least get me to pick up the book and look at the back.

[Fellfrosch]

Cool, Mustard. We'll have to organize a big "first day purchase campaign" to make sure the bookstores make some healthy reorders.

[House of Mustard]

For those keeping track at home:  Tonight I cut seven thouand words.  Eight thousand more to go.  The sad thing is that I cut everything that wasn't vital.

Oh well, I guess people that are too lazy to read the book shouldn't be offended by a choppy, disjointed story.

[EUOL]

HoM didn't buy anyone dinner--he just had a party.  You see, he didn't get an advance for his novel (because Covenant is cheap) nor was he foolish enough to promise his writing groups he'd buy them a meal when he got published.  

[Morag]

 

Well I know this forum is more about HoM's title but I am just starting a new book and well it has no title.  Some of you who were in my writing group a long time ago may remember a chapter I wrote about a little boy names Koshin who just happend to be the son of the High priestess of a religion that dominated a vaguely asian empire, it was the one with the tea.

Well I need a title for this new book.  I know most of you don't know anything about it and those who read the first chapter years ago well a lot has changed.  

But the current title is just Koshin
pononced like
'ko' from coke
'shi' is like she (the female pronoun)
and the 'n' is well like any other n

Just start sending titles who know maybe one of you will get inspired.  I know as much about this new book as any one and I have no idea what to call it so clearly knowledge of the book in not the decideding actor in knowing what to name it.

[Mistress of Darkness]

The Terrors of Tea

Actually Koshin is a perfectly acceptable title.

I'm not really coming up with anything serious:
Tea Time Machinations
Cult of Tea
Control

That doesn't help, but it might help somone come up with something useful.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

hey, I think *I* read that one.

I have to agree with MoD, Koshin is a fine working title. When you have the whole thing outlined, that may be an impetus for a different title if you need one.

[Mistress of Darkness]

And as HoM found out, the publisher might make you change it anyway.

[fuzzyoctopus]

"A title!  A title! We have got a title, and we need no more title!"

(Sorry, that's just the first thing that keeps popping into my mind whenever I read this thread...)

[EUOL]

I was going to suggest that such things aren't as common in mainstream publishing, but I realized that Tor changed my book title (though it was, like most of the changes we've made, very much a mutual agreement.)  We shortened THE SPIRIT OF ELANTRIS to simply ELANTRIS.

Anyway, Morag.  I like Koshin.  It gives a feel for the book, since it's Asian-themed, and is kind of catchy.

[stacer]

I like Koshin as well. It's got a good strong sound to it, and it's original.

And then you can say A title! A title! I have got a title! (Fuzzy, I thought I was the only one.)

[Spriggan]

so it's basicaly the Japanese pronucation.  Anyway short titles are actualy better because they're easier to remember and pick out when scanning through a bunch of books at the store.

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Short titles also allow for better, larger display text on the cover and spine, which makes it more appealing to people browsing.