Book title

by Clare Williams
22nd January 2017

Hi everyone

Does anyone have any tips/ ideas of how to come up with a book title? It took me ages to come up with the one I have 'damaged', I googled it and couldn't find many books with that title. But then someone told me it's actually quite a popular one, and a search on iBooks confirmed this. Now I'm back to the drawing board.

I didn't think it would be this hard to think of a title!

Thanks

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I know what you mean, Jude. Sometimes I think it's harder than writing the book!

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Clare Williams
24/01/2017

It's the hardest thing, I think. And a lot of book titles out there aren't all that memorable or original, I often think. I also think it's impossible to come up with something that no-one else has ever used, but that doesn't seem to worry people these days - there are loads of novels with the same or very similar title - but not with your name as the writer!

The titles I've used for my 2 novels took me ages to come up with and I am not particularly impressed with either of them....but in the end it was the best I could do.....

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24/01/2017

Thanks Lorraine

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