Title help again?
Can anyone help me out here with an opinion? I’ve decided that I’m going to indie-publish The Glass Floor, because I can’t stand having it lying around any more, and The Witch’s Boy is none the worse for being self-pubbed. (What finally swung my decision was a series of graphs on Diane Duane’s blog indicating that indie-publishing is probably better for authors of Fantasy than pro-publishing is.)
Anyway, I’m going to try a method I saw in one of my numerous books on how to self-publish, and publish The Glass Floor in three novella sized installments, with a separate option to buy the whole book at a slight discount if you want to. That way people who don’t know whether they like my stuff can try the first third out for hardly any money at all, and only buy the other episodes if they want them. Whereas people who do know they like it can go for the whole thing at once at a bargain price.
With a miniscule amount of tweaking – literally a matter of altering a couple of lines, it neatly fell into three self-contained parts anyway, so it is as if it was preordained 
Now I begin to approach my point…
When I was thinking of titles for each part, I fell back on my old love, alliteration. Currently I have
The Glass Floor
Divided into 3 volumes:
The Glass Floor: Horror at Home
The Glass Floor: Corruption at Court
The Glass Floor: Terror at Topkapi
But when I got to Terror at Topkapi I thought OMG, that’s actually a good title! Maybe I should use that title for the whole series? I could call part 3 ‘Plague at the Palace’ instead, and have the whole series/whole novel called
Terror at Topkapi
Too B-Movie? Too cheesy? Or would it snag your eye and make you want to know more. I think the second. What do you think?
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"Terror" makes me think of a horror movie. I actually like "The Glass House" and think it works well with the 3 individual part titles. I'll look forward to hearing about your self-publishing experiences.
Charlene wrote: ""Terror" makes me think of a horror movie. I actually like "The Glass House" and think it works well with the 3 individual part titles. I'll look forward to hearing about your self-publishing expe..."Oh thank you! On reflection I think you must be right and perhaps if I want to use that title I ought to write a book which is better suited to it. It's good to have people who will put me right. Thank you!
Alex wrote: "Charlene wrote: ""Terror" makes me think of a horror movie. I actually like "The Glass House" and think it works well with the 3 individual part titles. I'll look forward to hearing about your sel..."Bouncing ideas off others sometimes works! (Which is always nice.) I forgot to mention that I do like "Plague at the Palace." That conjures up all kinds of images!
Charlene wrote: "Alex wrote: "Charlene wrote: ""Terror" makes me think of a horror movie. I actually like "The Glass House" and think it works well with the 3 individual part titles. I'll look forward to hearing a..."It is nice :) And I'm well aware that I'm awful at titles, so I'm grateful for any help I can get.
It's more of an infestation really, but I'm calling it 'the White Plague' because it sounds more romantic ;)
Alex wrote: "It's more of an infestation really, but I'm calling it 'the White Plague' because it sounds more romantic ;) "Oh yes! Definitely.
I agree with Charlene, I like the original title as the over all title. And I hadn't even thought about the horror theme with the Terror part. lol. The Glass Floor definitely makes me want to know more, and I like the fact that it's different sounding than the others, it's more all encompassing. :-)
Jordan wrote: "I agree with Charlene, I like the original title as the over all title. And I hadn't even thought about the horror theme with the Terror part. lol. The Glass Floor definitely makes me want to kno..."
Thanks for the comment, Jordan! A surprising positive result of this post has been discovering that most people like the title as it is already. I will definitely keep it as The Glass Floor then. Thank you!
