Okay, so I have no title for my witch romance. It started out as “The Witches of Greenwich;” sort of a play on the movie “Witches of Eastwick,” but then I moved the location to Manhattan’s Upper East Side. So, that title is gone. My current working title is “Magic Bullet” or “Silver Bullet,” which, if you read the manuscript, makes sense. However, this is SO not a romancy novel title.
As for “Fat Girl Saves the World,” this title is way too close to a Prinz Award winner/honorable from a few years ago called “Fat Kid Rules the World.” You can see why the similarities might confuse a reader. Must scrap this title as well…
Why do I care? Because I always like to come up with wicked cool titles when I write. It’s part of the writing fun and I enjoy it immensely.
I found out that most publishing companies/editors name books for the authors! That’s a bit upsetting. Tragic, even. What if they give the book a lame title? An author would have to live with putting their name on that crap forever. AARRRGGHH!!!
If a publisher drags your work from the deep quagmire of manuscripts they look at daily AND you’re getting published, you hardly have room to whine, I realize, but someone as anal about titles as me might just have a mental breakdown. Very sad.
P.S. Hit the 20,000 word mark. Yeay! Only 80 bazillion more to go. Ah, well, back to the trenches…
