What Makes a Single Title?

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Recently Michelle Grajkowski read my manuscript Something to Talk About (AKA The Story I Love) and remarked for it to be a single title, it needs to be bigger.

I understand what she's saying. Something else has to be at stake. But what?

I was going to use Virgin River and Nora's wedding books as examples, but that's not enough like my story, since they are technically part of a series.

My critique partner and I were talking about this on...