Fine, not “World of Tiers,” so then what?
You all startled me by saying No, no, ugh, don’t give your book the same name as PJF’s exceedingly old series, which apparently a high proportion of you not only read, but remember rather clearly.
FINE.
Gates of Air and ShadowGates of the WorldThe Tiers of the World — see what I did there? It’s a different title! Sort of!Thresholds of Midnight and DawnMidnight Tiger, Dawn DragonOMG, this is terrible. No wonder I gave up and said World of Tiers.
You know what, I’m going to tell you a little about the world, because it’s not like this is secret or gradually revealed. It’s right at the top of the story, before chapter one. The names of these tiers might be simplified, but maybe not, I’m thinking about it.
The realm of the gods, a divine realm, the roof of the worldThe realm of dreamsThe eternal-dawn tierThe bright-starlight tierThe glittering-winds tierThe clouds-and-air tierThe center of the world, the human realm: the stone-and-earth tierThe hollow-iron tierThe obsidian-and-glass tierThe dust-and-ash tierThe eternal-midnight tierThe tier of nightmaresThe tier of demons, a divine tier, the root of the worldNightmare tiger, dream dragon, gods, demons, doorways that lead up and down through the world, setting is strongly flavored with SE Asian ecosystems and architecture and so forth, but is secondary world, not remotely historical or anything like that.
Might as well try to come up with something moderately acceptable as first-pass back-cover copy right now, since that is relevant. Let me see.
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Long ago, Vích took her little brother and fled the mysterious but terrible fate their mother intended for them both.
Bound together by his gift and her curse, they have never feared any of the ordinary dangers that beset mortal people, but they have never been safe from those who would use them both in pursuit of power beyond life and death.
Now those enemies have found them.
The world will never be the same.
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This is a little misleading in some ways, but whatever, it’d do for now. Go for it, come up with a title that isn’t World of Tiers and I would be ecstatic to consider your ideas.
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