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Permalink Reply by Sandi R. Sams on May 12, 2011 at 9:33am

My WIP I have simply been calling Willa. It is about a young woman struggling to escape an abusive relationship.

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Permalink Reply by Elaine Masters on May 30, 2011 at 11:07am

Input welcome! Updating a previous non-fiction work. Working titles (need to get travel into it): Easy going, travel time. Travel bliss. Travel ease: Feeling great on the go.

Adding '-time' works in with my previous branding: Drivetime Yoga, Flytime Yoga, Officetime Stretches. Keeping an eye out for SEO considerations like working 'back pain from sitting', 'on the go', etc. into the subtitle helps. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Taylor on June 6, 2011 at 12:33pm

Best thing about sex talk..... When someone asks me, Is that normal? I always say everything is normal...? RIGHT?

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Kerr on June 15, 2011 at 11:00am

I'm working with a new title: Drink the Kool-Aid: A Cult Survivor's Guide to Getting Rid of the Hangover. Thoughts?

 

It's based on my 7 yrs in a fundamentalist cult and will be humorous and serious. 

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Permalink Reply by Debra Shawcross Farmer on June 24, 2011 at 8:07pm

Hi Lisa, check back to your original post.  I only just viewed your reply.  Hope what I have suggested helps. Deb

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Permalink Reply by Jillian Dodd on June 16, 2011 at 5:51am

I'm trying to decide between two titles for the first book in my new series. The series follows a young girl, 15, through dating, friendships, relationships. It's a romance, geared toward the young adult market. I have a group of young girls reading and critiquing it for me and they think I should change the title. Thought I'd ask to see what you experts think :) 

The series title is:  The Keatyn Chronicles: Book One

Then this book title: I've died and gone to hottie heaven.  OR  Push me over the edge of the love cliff.

 

Here's a rough book cover for the book:

Don’t make fun. I mean what would you call the story of your life when you’re just starting to live it? Some names I came up with and disregarded: Leaving the love of my life to go to an east coast boarding school to become my own person. How to have your four eyed, debate team, goes to bed at 9:30, band geek roommate dump YOU as a roommate. How to survive multiple encounters with the God of All Hotties. How to (or maybe why you shouldn't) kiss four different boys in less than three days. My sex life (as in I have a sex life!!! And it’s actual hot sex, um :) yeah). The psychic panty network. A perfect four leaf clover. I’ve died and gone to hottie heaven. How to tutor a god. How getting tagged in a Facebook photo kissing someone can cause all sorts of shit. My boots aren't slutty, they're Gucci. How not to fall in love with a player. Sniffing markers when making football posters really doesn't get me high. Forget that my parents are famous actors, this book is all about me. The adorable nickname your little sisters call you sounds slutty when freshman boys say it. True love leaves a mark. Boots is the name of the monkey on Dora the Explorer. How to carefully hone your high school reputation, haha NOT! Skinny soy chai latte no whip, and so on. The point is, I came to boarding school to find myself, take control of my life, but uh, yeah, that's not working out so well... and the truth is, even I don’t know how this one will end, I’m still trying to figure it all out.

But I do know this. When I put my head on Aiden’s shoulder on the ferris wheel, I felt like I’d died and gone to hottie heaven. Just saying.

 

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Permalink Reply by Angel Graham on June 24, 2011 at 7:38pm

Title for my Memoir:  Broken Pieces of Me (A Story of Healing and Hope) ----(abuse story)

Title for a short guide:  Get Noticed: A Reviewer's Guide for Authors

Title for a F/f BDSM:  Tender Love

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Permalink Reply by Marita Fowler on June 30, 2011 at 5:56pm

Fat Assassins is the title.  Here's an excerpt from my query letter, so you'll have context.

 

Fat Assassins is a completed 90,000 word mainstream fiction set in Nitro, West Virginia. Shasta M. Murray and Ulyssa S. Grant are two curvy country girls desperate for money after losing their jobs. They unknowingly accept employment as assassins for a New Jersey mobster. They quickly discover being an assassin is a stressful job with exhausting emotional obstacles. Shasta fights to overcome her gentle hippie upbringing while Ulyssa struggles to dodge her extreme Catholic mother, Darth Guilt, to finish the job and return their lives to normal.

Cataclysmic explosions, near death experiences, and federal task force mobilizations are just a few of the byproducts of their botched assassination attempts. Assisted by hillbilly friends, dysfunctional family members and deranged townsfolk they scramble between killing, getting killed and avoiding jail.

 

I would appreciate any feedback! Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Roberts on August 11, 2011 at 1:56pm

Ha!  I laughed out loud.  I seriously can't think of a more perfect title.  I'm a sucker for puns.

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Permalink Reply by Debbie Lewis on July 5, 2011 at 12:20pm

Bear with me, this is my first post.

I'm writing a memoir based on a diary I began when I was put into chemical menopause as part of my continuing breast cancer treatment and ended when I finished my first marathon.  My mother had recently died from brain cancer and I was dealing with packing away her things so there is much about cancer, aging, death and running.  I originally thought I would title it Finish Line (lots of endings in this book) but at one point I quote the Emily Dickinson poem Experience, about carefully stepping through life, in the shadow of death, and one line strikes me as a possible title:  That Precarious Gait.  The precarious gait refers to experience, but it could more specifically refer to my running gait.

Any thoughts on which would be better?  Finish Line or That Precarious Gait?

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Debra Shawcross Farmer on July 5, 2011 at 5:54pm

Hi Debbi, I like both...The Precarious Gait catches me more though.  Perhaps will a follow on title such as;  Running through Life.  Good Luck.  Deb

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Permalink Reply by Esmeralda on May 10, 2012 at 9:07am

I think Running through life is a good title too, but I would hesitate with That Precarious Gait, which would make me more curious about the content. Good Luck

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