Titles

Fun Fridays – September 2, 2022

By Steve Laubeon September 2, 2022

Tomorrow is International Bacon Day! Celebrate the bacon!

A few years ago, there was a fun online thread with creative people replacing movie titles or book titles with the word bacon. For example:

The Lion, the Witch, and the Bacon
Pretty in Bacon
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Bacon
Eat, Bacon, Love
The Lord of the Bacon

So I thought, “Why not apply the same to bestselling Christian titles?” And came up with the following list:

Bacon Calling
The Bacon-Driven Life
The Five Bacon Languages
This Present Bacon
Find Your Bacon
An Expository Commentary on Bacon
Love and Bacon
Bacon Wins
Redeeming Bacon
21 Immutable Laws of Bacon
Bacon Is for Real
90 Minutes in Bacon
Same Kind of Bacon as Me
The Bacon
The Ruthless Elimination of Bacon [a book of heresy, if there ever was one]

What titles can you add to the list? Be creative! And add them to the comment section.

Have fun this Labor Day weekend.

I Couldn’t Think of a Good Title for This Post

By Bob Hostetleron March 21, 2018

Some writers love to come up with titles for their stories, articles, or books. Some hate it. Some are good at it, some are awful. But we all have to do it, like it or not. A title can make or break a pitch, even though editors will often change our titles. So here are my twelve top tips (try saying that ten times fast!) for titling your tomes: Know your market. If you’re writing for the Christian …

Category: Book Business, Book Proposals, Creativity, Get Published, Marketing, Pitch, Pitching, Self-PublishingTag: book proposals, Creativity, Titles

Choosing a Good Title For Your Book

By Dan Balowon August 23, 2016

Placing a good title on a book is not as simple as one might think. In fact, some prominent books have had rather circuitous journeys to their final title. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice started out as First Impressions. Tolstoy’s All’s Well That Ends Well released to some yawns until it was re-titled and published as War and Peace. On the Road to West Egg; Under the Red, White, and Blue; …

Category: Book Proposals, Branding, Craft, Get Published, Marketing, Pitching, Writing CraftTag: Craft, Titles, Writing Craft

Naming Names

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon July 24, 2014

We recently received several excellent questions that I would like to answer: 1.) Should (you) repeat a book name and how old should it be? I believe you are asking if it is okay to use the same title for your book even if it has already been used before. And if so, how many years should pass before using that previously used book title. What you are trying to avoid is having your book mixed up …

Category: Book Proposals, Writing CraftTag: Characters, Craft, Titles, Writing Craft

Do You Have a Great Title for Your Book?

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon June 26, 2014

Several years ago, one of my daughters entered a photography contest at her school. One of her entries pictured our cat sitting with a plastic bag wrapped around her feet. We never will know how or why our cat did this — the pose just happened. We titled the funny picture, “Cat’s Out of the Bag!” But then we discovered the rules didn’t allow photographs to be titled. …

Category: Book Proposals, Craft, Tamela, Writing CraftTag: Craft, Titles, Writing Craft

Get Attention with the Right Title

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon August 9, 2012

When an agent or her assistant tackles the email slush pile, she sees one subject line after another written by authors vying for attention. Some lines describe the book category, while others make a claim about the author himself. But most include the book's title. I tell authors not to get attached to titles because all too often, they are changed somewhere between the time the editor takes the …

Category: Book Proposals, Marketing, TamelaTag: book proposals, Titles

En-TITLE-ment: Finding the Perfect Title (Part Three)

By Karen Ballon August 31, 2011

Remember that old adage for retailers, “The customer is always right?” Well, for novelists seeking the perfect title, that should be “The audience is always right.”

Tip #4: Remember Your Audience! Novelists do a great job, on the whole, of keeping their audience in mind as they write. But sometimes when trying to come up with a catchy title or cover image, they go a bit far afield of that …

Category: Book Business, Craft, Creativity, Get Published, Karen, Marketing, Writing CraftTag: Book Business, Karen, Titles

En-TITLE-ment: Finding the Perfect Title (Part Two)

By Karen Ballon August 24, 2011

First, here are the answers to last week’s questions:

Name That Tone!
The Boneman's Daughters--chilling
Redeeming Love--romantic
The Shunning--Amish
The Riddlemaster of Hed--fantastical
A Vase of Mistaken Identity--whimsical
Without a Trace--suspensful
Three Weddings & a Giggle—humourous and romantic
Name that Genre!
Kidnapped--adventure
Sister Chicks Down Under—witty women’s …

Category: Book Business, Creativity, Get Published, Karen, Marketing, Writing CraftTag: Karen, Marketing, Proposals, Titles

En-TITLE-ment: Finding the Perfect Title (Part One)

By Karen Ballon August 17, 2011

One of the most difficult—and important—things we did when I worked in the publishing house was come up with titles for our authors’ novels. Sometimes it was a breeze, either because the author’s title was spot-on or because the story lent itself organically to a certain title. But more often than not, it was a long process of back-and-forth with the author, marketing, and sales. So how can you, …

Category: Get Published, Karen, Marketing, Trends, Writing CraftTag: Book Business, Craft, Karen, Pitching, Titles, Writing Craft