Titles Revisited

A few days ago (Thursday to be exact) Karen of KarensDifferentCorners blog presented the following questions:

 How did you come up with the title of your book in progress?

Or your current book that’s been published?

Or one of your past books?

Do you go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble and put in your book’s title, before you publish it?

And rather than commenting my answers, I thought it could be fun to blog about it instead. So let’s break it down one by one.

# 1: How did you come up with the title of your book in progress? 

Currently I have 3 books in progress. Sort of. Originally it was just Edge of Darkness, the story of how I came up with the title can be found on the most recent episode of Racewood Radio. Then there was another book the title of which I’d like to keep secret but as it’s been online before I’m not really sure why. And the third is of course the rewrite of Bridge of Memories. 

Back in the early years of Secrets of Witches when I’d intended it to be more than a trilogy I’d been trying to come up with title names that I felt fit. Among the names for the first book at the time were Secrets of Witches and The Witches Academy back when the books were going to focus more on the school (original I know right?) Like most of my titles there aren’t many exciting stories about how I came up with them. A lot of them like Bridge and like the title I’m keeping to myself for a while, just sort of popped into my head.

#2: Or your current book that’s been published?

Goddess of Carnage was actually a bit more exciting of a story than Bridge of Memories by far. I couldn’t really think of a title for book 2, but my good friend and editor Lori had suggested I stick with the theme I’d set forth with Bridge in that it would be two words separated by of. I’d come up with a few different titles but nothing quite stuck until Goddess of Carnage which admittedly is one of my favorite titles to date.

# 3: Do you go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble and put in your book’s title, before you publish it?

Yes and no. For Bridge of Memories I don’t believe I did, but thankfully there aren’t really any titles like it except for Bridges of Memory which is some baseball book if I recall. In the case of Goddess of Carnage I actually already knew beforehand that a play had existed by a similar name God of Carnage. I cannot say for certain that the title of the play did not inspire Goddess of Carnage. Though the two could not be more different. As for Edge of Darkness and the unannounced title. Both of them share a name with films. One of which was a B-horror movie from the 80′s and the other I had never heard of but apparently was fairly recent.  

PS: Podcast is coming, just a little later.