Titles are hard
My agent doesn’t like the title The Winter Dragon for my current manuscript. I mean, she likes the title, but feels it sounds too noble and so on for what it applies to in the actual book — it is kind of the symbol of the bad guy, not the good guy. Or was. I shifted that around a bit, too, during this hopefully more-or-less-final revision.
So, new title. I know the publisher (this one is for Saga) may not keep my title, but it’s always nice to come up with a good one. So what do you all think about the following choices:
A) Iron Hinge Winter
B) The Iron Hinge of Winter
C) Both sound stupid, go in a different direction
I like the first, the second is perhaps a tiny bit more accurate given the usage in the book, I’m not sure either *sounds* good. Comment, please!
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My first thought is (bearing in mind I'm not a native speaker) - would every reader know what a 'hinge' is? ^^
Well, that didn't cross my mind. Though I suppose that sort of thing could be hard to predict for almost any word outside the, I don't know, 1000 most common words in a language.
'HInge' isn't a strong word, I don't think. How about going simpler, as in Iron Winter? Or Winter Iron?
Yep, commenters have made it clear that "hinge" doesn't work for them. Back to the drawing board . . .
