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BobForPresident:

--- Quote from: CSDylan on July 07, 2009, 12:10:53 PM ---It's obvious that a lot of series use a consistant style for their titles.
The [blank] for Animorphs
Dead is in the title of all the Sookie Stackhouse books (as far as I know
Jim uses two word phrases for Dresden (or used to I guess)

I was just wondering what you guys thought were some good patterns you've seen or are considering using. Personally I've taken to useing Bob Dylan songs, if only as working titles.

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Jim uses two-word phrases with same number of letters in each word, I'd point out. :)

RA Salvatore's on a 'Fill-in-the-blank' king kick right now: Orc King, Pirate King, Ghost King, etc.

I can't title my stories til they're done. My novel has been title-less for six months now.

THETA:

--- Quote from: BobForPresident on July 10, 2009, 03:47:10 AM ---I can't title my stories til they're done. My novel has been title-less for six months now.

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I cannot make a satisfactory title until i finish a story.  A real story, not my 2,000-5,000 word compositions or even the lengthier 35,000 word ones i have.  The two attempts i made at an actual novel had several drafts of titles throughout the process of writing, but i assume that i'd ultimately come to the decision at the very end.

meg_evonne:
Plus I've had published authors tell me that the marketers, agent, and even the bookstore buyers selected the name in the long run.  Hey, if they publish it, I figure they know what titles will sell.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: meg_evonne on July 10, 2009, 03:09:37 PM ---Plus I've had published authors tell me that the marketers, agent, and even the bookstore buyers selected the name in the long run. 

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I know a fairly successful author who had a title changed at the last minute because it was judged too closely similar to the title of that month's flagship release from that publisher; so the first book in the series in question has the title that was ment to be the series title as a whole.

Starbeam:
Some other title patterns..the Weather Warden series is a different weather phenomena, the Rachel Morgan witch series are all takes on movie titles--all but the first are Clint Eastwood movies, I believe.  The Harry Potter books all have a plot element in the title.  The Alera titles are pretty easy to figure.  I know there was something else I'd thought of, but now I can't remember.

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