Reader Friday: What’s Your Title?

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imageWhat is the title (or working title) of your current story project?

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  2. It’s a series called “A Life Upside Down”
    The book 1, which I will publish until the end of this year has the following title: “A Spy’s Daughter”.
    The prequel (which will come out at the same time or slightly later) has a working title: “Seven Splitters of a Life”

    • Robert Crais posted a picture of his next manuscript, with “Untitled” front and center.
      Mine tend to be titled “XXX’s book”, named after the hero or heroine. For my mystery series, it’s always Mapleton with the next number.
      I did have to come up with an actual working title for a requested manuscript, which is In Hot Water. (the heroine is a chef). But titles are the LAST thing I deal with in almost every case.

  5. I’m in one of those weird midpoints. I’m about to pub “Chrissie Warren: Pirate Hunter,” and I’m already planning my next WIP, “In Blackbeard’s Hand.” And I’m also cranking out a serial titled “The Island of Bones” for a magazine.

  10. “The Thing That Haunts My Dreams.”

    That’s not the real title, just what I call it because it’s not going as well as I would like. But maybe John Carpenter would be interested?

    I am deeply superstitious about WIP titles. I never reveal them til the book is done and in a pipeline. It’s like talking about your book too much while you’re writing it…sort of lets the air out of the tires.

    • Now you’ve got me spooked, Kris–just went back and deleted my comment announcing my title–I have just enough Irish blood to worry about attracting bad luck! ?

  13. Funny you should ask. I had a perfect title that I loved: “Student Bodies”. Then I decided to tear the story apart and remake it to finish it. Now I am in need of a new title. Anyone have a good one they’d like to part with? I can do a swap.

    Lee McEuen, Utah archaeologist, gets picked up for murder on his way home from the desert. With what’s sitting in his basement, he’s already on shaky ground. Add to that the looting and destruction of thousand year old sites, and the past’s future is vanishing just as quickly as Lee’s. With a haunting past and a no nonsense lady sheriff both prepared to string him up at any time, the artifacts and pieces of bone just keep falling into place. Save the past, fix the present, and walk off into a future sunset. That shouldn’t be asking for too much. Well that and a shower, shave, and some BBQ.

      • Penny, I used this as the title for a short story, but it’s yours if you like it: BLOOD REMAINS

        • Hmmmm. That might work… Much better than the original at this point. 😀

          New working title…thanks Kathryn!

          • My pleasure, Penny! I love coming up with titles. I always keep a legal pad in the drawer, and write down title ideas as they come to me. I’ve come up with some real clunkers along the way, but the right one always seems to eventually emerge.

  16. Working on two simultaneously:

    ICE HAMMER is a trilogy sequentially subtitled INVASION, INSURGENT, and INVINCIBLE

    The other project is something I’ve dreamed of for a while. It’s a translation of a centuries old and rather famous novel of love and war. Taking the 18th century style rambling text and translating it into a modern historical thriller.

    Title: DESDICHADO

    If you can figure out the original title you win two internets and a cookie specially baked by Boffin the Leprechaun, under the supervision of Berthold, his younger brother, since Boffin is no longer allowed to handle open flames after the “incident”.

  21. Re: SUBMARINES ~ maybe a little teen romance involved, but…
    🙂
    It’s a “coming of age” story (like THE SANDLOT), set in WW II south Florida ~ so maybe U-BOAT SUMMER?

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