From: brendawriter@yahoo.com   
      
   On 6/7/2015 5:39 PM, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   > William Vetter  wrote:   
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   >> Why I ask this, is that I noticed an audiobook of a novel in public   
   >> library that said _The Quest_ on the spine of the box.  Cover blurb told   
   >> me it is Ancient Egypt with a sorcerer as POV character.   
   >>   
   >> Alas!  This author has used an exotic setting with exotic POV character   
   >> and all he can come up with is _The Quest_.   
   >>   
   >> I thought this is worst title possible, because any fiction could be   
   >> titled "The Quest" or "The Journey."  In theory, all story characters have   
   >> a journey.  Such is how my mind works.   
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   > Someone in one of my groups over on LibraryThing is reading something   
   > called Saga.  It's supposed to be really good, too.  But that was kind   
   > of my reaction to it's title, too.   
   >   
   >> Mais oui, all of the titles y'all have provided thus far suck bigtime also.   
   >   
   > I titled a short story _Dark Moon Light_, and twice it got past the   
   > first read and into the "serious consideration pile".  Both times the   
   > editors didn't recognize it by title, and said, "Never heard of it, send   
   > it again" when I sent inquiries asking why it had not been returned in   
   > the usual timespan.  When they recieved the second copy, they said:   
   > "Wait, don't we already have this?"   
   >   
   > I haven't come up with another title for it that I like better, though.   
   > :(   
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   Over on Book View Cafe's blog we are starting a series in June. It will   
   be Write Hacks -- hacks for writers. And the first one is by me -- about   
   using Amazon or Goodreads for your titling needs. If you put a title   
   into the search window, you can see precisely how many works have been   
   published through the ages with that title; the number is nearly always   
   larger than you expect. (I write as the author of HOW LIKE A GOD.)   
      
   Brenda   
      
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