From: brendawriter@yahoo.com

On 6/7/2015 5:39 PM, Michelle Bottorff wrote:
> William Vetter  wrote:
>
>> Why I ask this, is that I noticed an audiobook of a novel in public
>> library that said _The Quest_ on the spine of the box.  Cover blurb told
>> me it is Ancient Egypt with a sorcerer as POV character.
>>
>> Alas!  This author has used an exotic setting with exotic POV character
>> and all he can come up with is _The Quest_.
>>
>> I thought this is worst title possible, because any fiction could be
>> titled "The Quest" or "The Journey."  In theory, all story characters have
>> a journey.  Such is how my mind works.
>
> Someone in one of my groups over on LibraryThing is reading something
> called Saga.  It's supposed to be really good, too.  But that was kind
> of my reaction to it's title, too.
>
>> Mais oui, all of the titles y'all have provided thus far suck bigtime also.
>
> I titled a short story _Dark Moon Light_, and twice it got past the
> first read and into the "serious consideration pile".  Both times the
> editors didn't recognize it by title, and said, "Never heard of it, send
> it again" when I sent inquiries asking why it had not been returned in
> the usual timespan.  When they recieved the second copy, they said:
> "Wait, don't we already have this?"
>
> I haven't come up with another title for it that I like better, though.
> :(
>
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Over on Book View Cafe's blog we are starting a series in June. It will
be Write Hacks -- hacks for writers. And the first one is by me -- about
using Amazon or Goodreads for your titling needs. If you put a title
into the search window, you can see precisely how many works have been
published through the ages with that title; the number is nearly always
larger than you expect. (I write as the author of HOW LIKE A GOD.)

Brenda

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