Battle of the Blurb vs Title. Which is Tougher?

Which is harder to do, come up with your book’s title or writing the blurb?
This month’s Insecure Writers Support Group post could be very difficult or easy peasy. For me, it’s simple. No question about it. It’s a title match, hands down. Blurbs, though sometimes onerous, basically come from the story and characters you’ve already created—things you already know and are comfortable with by the time specifics are called for. But the title . . . a title is your work’s birth name. Once it’s on the “certificate,” that’s how your work is identified, how it’s searched for on the shelves. It doesn’t just list the known ingredients, it’s the name of recipe, that identifying word or collection of words that tells you in a glance if this work is what you have a taste for. THEN you check the ingredients i.e. the blurb’s plot and character sketches in brief (in case you have an allergy to one of them). You want that title to stand out amongst thousands that fight for your attention. Each one of those specific words has to connect to the others in a way that creates your unique stamp upon what you’re offering the reader. It’s the tease that coaxes the reader to the blurb that seals the deal.
It gets particularly tricky when you’re doing a series. You want words that link the titles together in some manner, so they establish a community of characters or situations. That’s why my books are all UNTITLED 1, UNTITLED 2, etc. until I find that magic word or two that binds them as a series. For my vampire series, it was MIDNIGHT that was the key word followed by a qualifier i.e TEMPTATION, SURRENDER and for my shapeshifter series, BY MOONLIGHT was prefaced with MASKED, CAPTURED, and BOUND, etc., and for my old contemporaries, they all started with the word WARRIOR. Though a blurb can follow a similar pattern, the luxury of added words fills in the particulars to explain what’s behind that enticing title. Together, they tantalize the reader beyond their ability to resist.
At the moment, I’m working on a contemporary romantic suspense series that, as of the beginning of Book Two, has no main title element. I have a list started next to my laptop of possibilities but no clear winner as of yet. At this point, writing the BOOK is easier!
How about the rest you Warriors out there? I’m eager to read your answers.


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