In Search of a Title

Authors and editors and marketing departments do not always agree on what makes a good title. Does that surprise anyone?

Get a few authors together and eventually someone will make a joke about writing a book called My Secret Baby Cowboy’s Vampire Pirate Bride in Amish Country. (What do you think? Shall I write it?)

I have an excellent record for titling my WIPs and keeping said titles right through to publication. It isn’t often that I’m asked to change them, but it happens. For the story I’m...