Subtitles are also hard

Okay, given that I’m definitely splitting SILVER CIRCLE in two, probably with at least a moderate cliffhanger at the end of the first book, I need to come up with subtitles. These are necessary partly to warn readers that Part 1 may end in a cliffhanger. I think basically all readers everywhere understand that if a book says Title: Part 1, that indicates that the book is pretty likely to end in the middle somewhere, with a resolution to follow in Part 2. This implicit warning helps prevent reader frustration.

For that purpose, “Part 1” and “Part 2” serve as well as any other subtitle. But that’s not very … what’s the word … evocative. Artistic. It seems to me that subtitles are better if they’re real subtitles. But what should the subtitles actually be?

Please vote:

First Option

SILVER CIRCLE 1: Before the Storm

SILVER CIRCLE 2: Shattered Skies

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Second Option

SILVER CIRCLE 1: Conflagration

SILVER CIRCLE 2: Restoration or Consecration or Reclamation or something like that. Or the reverse: Detonation or something like that. It’s not like the entire second book will be peaceful, after all. It will contain the plot climax, and then probably

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Third Option:

SILVER CIRCLE 1: The Calm

SILVER CIRCLE 2: The Storm

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