Today I’m going to share the PowerPoint deck I prepared for my book 2 title pitch. With my debut, DRG, that title was found by consensus—and, frankly, was more in my editors’ hands than mine. With my third book, it has only ever had one title from inception, which my editors loved immediately. With my second book, which would eventually be published as
Hi! OMG -- I must have saw this right as you published it! I love the title This Might Hurt. such a good one b/c you put yourself in that person's shoes and you want to know what will hurt. I loved a lot of those titles. What I think is interesting about coming up with titles for books is that there's always one or two that everyone agrees is just IT. We had so many title possibilities for my first novel -- I wanted to use a term from the 1960s that was used a lot and when I landed on Darlings (rather than the ubiquitous use of "girls") than it was easy to add Summer. Summer Darlings. That was a great one. I think titling a book is the icing on the cake after writing it. It's one of the most fun things. I'm trying to come up with a title for my fourth book now....
Hi! OMG -- I must have saw this right as you published it! I love the title This Might Hurt. such a good one b/c you put yourself in that person's shoes and you want to know what will hurt. I loved a lot of those titles. What I think is interesting about coming up with titles for books is that there's always one or two that everyone agrees is just IT. We had so many title possibilities for my first novel -- I wanted to use a term from the 1960s that was used a lot and when I landed on Darlings (rather than the ubiquitous use of "girls") than it was easy to add Summer. Summer Darlings. That was a great one. I think titling a book is the icing on the cake after writing it. It's one of the most fun things. I'm trying to come up with a title for my fourth book now....