{"id":25721,"date":"2023-08-14T06:47:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/?p=25721"},"modified":"2023-08-14T07:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:27:53","slug":"on-book-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/14\/on-book-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"On Book Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"On%20Book%20Titles\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a writer: How do you go about picking a book title? Do you wait until the end or do you have a title in mind from the start? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a reader: What makes a title interesting to you? Does a title have a say in whether you pick a book up or not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been asked (on more than one occasion), how I come up with titles for certain books. Not all, mind you, but there are a few that defy the &#8220;trends&#8221; of the publishing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the benefits of being self-published is that you retain all creative control and don&#8217;t have to change up a title just because a gatekeeper feels your idea isn&#8217;t marketable. I believe that gives you a certain power, even with something as seemingly innocuous as a book&#8217;s title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you ever changed a title of a book? This is one of those areas where things can get &#8220;sticky&#8221; but it is possible to change a title, especially if your book isn&#8217;t doing well. It&#8217;s like changing a description or a cover&#8211;again, you have the power as a self-published author to do whatever you need to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/449muCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first book I ever finished<\/a> (and the second published) was originally called <em>Void<\/em>. While that title certainly fit the genre (dark fantasy) and was reflective of the plot, I don&#8217;t think I was ever satisfied. When I finally published it in 2013, I changed the title to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/449muCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Difficult Mirror<\/a><\/em>, which was gleaned from a poem by George Seferis (which also inspired the title <em>Void<\/em>). In &#8220;Summer Solstice VIII&#8221;, Seferis penned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The white paper is a harsh mirror<br>reflecting only who you were.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Harsh Mirror&#8221; didn&#8217;t quite fit, but &#8220;Difficult Mirror&#8221; did, and since the story involves facing ones past, this was a shoe in&#8211;more so that the original <em>Void<\/em>. And yet, nearly a decade later, I thought to myself that the story did not just involved one person and their brush with their past but several. And so the title changed again to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/449muCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Difficult Mirrors<\/a><\/em>. Life is a difficult mirror&#8211;hard to look at when we reflect on all what we&#8217;ve done in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most recently, I have been working on a science fiction series called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/the-transit-series\/\">Transit<\/a><\/em>. This is my &#8220;opus&#8221; if you will, my own <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, my own <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>. It&#8217;s massive (9 books in all, over 1 million words), but like all books in a series, each one stands alone.  The titles of each are more reflective, however; they do not obviously point to the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is that a problem? I suppose it can be, but I also feel the titles are more memorable. (As an aside, the subtitles actually tie all the books together.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3sbaRxW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Out of Due Season<\/a><\/em> comes from the Bible where Paul says, &#8220;I was a man born out of due season.&#8221; (This is often translated as &#8220;born out of due time&#8221; or &#8220;untimely birth.&#8221; There are varying interpretations of this which you can Google. It comes from 1 Corinthians 15:8.) Jim Jones&#8211;the leader of Peoples Temple and perpetrator of the murder of 900+ people at Jonestown&#8211;used this quote as a way to say he (Jones), like Paul, was born in a time that was not ready for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI made my confession. I made my manifestation and the world was ready&#8230;not ready for me. Paul said, \u2018I was a man born out of due season.\u2019 I\u2019ve been born out of due season just like all we are and the best testimony we can make is to leave this God-damn world&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That fit the novel perfectly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second novel, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3s7Dufo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sunshine and Shadow<\/a><\/em>, comes from the poem &#8220;Eldorado&#8221; by Edgar Allen Poe. In the society which has been created after the events of the first novel, the colonists use this poem as a way to refer to birth (into sunshine) and death (into shadow) with Eldorado being their final destination (i.e., &#8220;my path to Eldorado&#8221;). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third novel did not come from a poem or a specific quote but I felt was reflective of the three plotlines that mirrored each other&#8211;each group in the novel sought a new home but in doing so, they left things behind. And so the line &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3KDESwC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all we leave behind<\/a>&#8221; was used several times by different characters in the novel and became the title after I was halfway through writing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fourth novel, which is currently being edited, has a more unique title. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/47pQxJr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Widening Gyre<\/a><\/em> comes from a poem by William Butler Yeats called &#8220;The Second Coming.&#8221; I felt the title was a dead ringer for the events that take place on the planet, especially the first stanza (there are two).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning and turning in the widening gyre   <br>The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br>Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br>Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br>The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   <br>The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br>The best lack all conviction, while the worst   <br>Are full of passionate intensity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could go on and give you a history of all my book titles, but I won&#8217;t. 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