How did you choose the name for your novel? Do authors generally choose the name themself or do their publishers or editors do it for them?

So this is an interesting question. I can’t answer for other books and titles, but here’s how TQR got named:

When I first drafted my book, it was titled IMPASSIONED. I was happy with that title, but when I sold it to my publisher, they asked me if I was open to other titles. I was, and I gave my editor a long list of possible new titles. She looked it over with her editorial director, and they picked two titles that they really loved from my list. My editor then asked me which of the two I preferred. So I picked out of the two options, and that was DAUGHTER OF PASSION AND STONE. 

It seemed all was good, but then my sales team said that this was too much like other titles out there (which it definitely was, and this is an important factor that comes into play when titling new books). We needed to go back to the drawing board.

So I gave my editor another list of title ideas. Now, I really am not that great at titles, so I was getting to that point where I could not think of anything new. I literally sat my husband down one night with a pen and paper and said to him, “Help me think of a title for this book!!” ;)

One of the titles I provided was THE RISING NIGHT. The sales team loved the word RISING, so they decided to pitch a title back to me. It was THE QUEEN’S RISING.

And I was like, YES. That is perfect. 

And that is how my book got titled. It was a true team effort :)