How I Came Up with Titles for My Trilogy

When I started writing my fantasy trilogy, one of the first issues I had to wrangle with was what to title my books. I’ll admit I fretted about it for a while, because to me, the title is a big deal. The title is arguably one of the most critical pieces of book metadata. When readers tell others about my books, the title is probably how it will be remembered. That makes the title an important marketing tool.

At first, I wasn’t sure what to call the series, so I just started writing it using a...