NEW BOOK LOOKING FOR A TITLE

With the newest installment of the Will Nickerson Mysteries just about finished, I’m now starting to think about getting a good title for it. Easier said than done. Sometimes the title comes right up, even before the book is started, as was the case with Ranch Park and also with my ghost story, Mrs. Treaster’s Bed & Breakfast. No other titles were ever considered with either of those. With the others, however, the titles were harder to come by. I had “working titles” for them all, just to use while the book was being written, and with some I knew they were going to be changed to something more appealing. The “working title” of my latest one is simply “Montana Story”, but that is not likely to be the final title for publication. Whenever I publish a new book one essential step is to do a search on Amazon and Goodreads to see if anyone else is already using the title that I have in mind, and if so, I’d better come up with something else. My second novel, It’s A Place For Trees, was originally supposed to be titled The Tree Museum. That was the “working title” all the way through. I thought it was a good title and intended to publish it with that title. But when I did the online search, it tested positive. There was already another book by another author with that exact title, plus four or five with very similar titles, so that anything I researched with a similar title also tested positive. The publication of my book was delayed for a couple of weeks while I tried to think of a new title. My mother finally came up with It’s A Place For Trees, after a line in the chapter where Will takes Laurel’s arboretum tour. When I was a tour guide for the Holden Arboretum, I learned that “arboretum” means “tree museum”. However, according to the dictionary, “a place for trees” is actually a more accurate definition. So It’s A Place For Trees it is!

The Will Nickerson Mysteries, consisting of Ranch Park, It’s A Place For Trees, Viking It Is,
Let’s Make It Merry Christmas and What’s Up In Wyoming will soon be joined by a new
member of the family that’s now looking for a title!