This question was asked in another on-line forum, and I thought it was interesting, so I decided to share it and my answer here.
Great question! Boy, titles are hard. I have a Bartlett's Quotations book, so I looked in that for the word "basket" to find the first two Claire Hanover gift basket designer mystery titles (A Real Basket Case, To Hell in a Handbasket). At that point I ran out of good quotes! My working title for the third book is Basketful of Trouble, but I'm not sure I'm happy with that. I'm open to suggestions!
As for the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures series, the publisher, Midnight Ink, chose Deadly Currents. My working title was Wicked Whitewater by Beth Groundwater, the first book in the whitewater river ranger series. The sales staff said, "Whoa! There's too much 'water' in all that!" After confirming THREE times with my editor that Beth Groundwater was indeed my real name and I wasn't changing it, they changed the title of the book and the name of the series. I saved the word 'wicked', though, to use for the second book, Wicked Eddies, which will be published in May, 2012.
Great question! Boy, titles are hard. I have a Bartlett's Quotations book, so I looked in that for the word "basket" to find the first two Claire Hanover gift basket designer mystery titles (A Real Basket Case, To Hell in a Handbasket). At that point I ran out of good quotes! My working title for the third book is Basketful of Trouble, but I'm not sure I'm happy with that. I'm open to suggestions!
As for the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Adventures series, the publisher, Midnight Ink, chose Deadly Currents. My working title was Wicked Whitewater by Beth Groundwater, the first book in the whitewater river ranger series. The sales staff said, "Whoa! There's too much 'water' in all that!" After confirming THREE times with my editor that Beth Groundwater was indeed my real name and I wasn't changing it, they changed the title of the book and the name of the series. I saved the word 'wicked', though, to use for the second book, Wicked Eddies, which will be published in May, 2012.