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mary_j_59 ([personal profile] mary_j_59) wrote2014-03-04 08:34 pm
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Title problems - a poll or two

Okay - I grant you, there are very few people in the world who have actually read my books! But this isn't about content. It's just about titles, and what you think is evocative or interesting. So here are a  couple of polls.

My first book for which I'm seeking an agent and/or publisher is literary YA SF. The working title is HONOR. It's a pretty good title, I think; it gets at what motivates the MC and drives his actions. But it's also just a little generic, perhaps. So-
[Poll #1959242]

[identity profile] litlover12.livejournal.com 2014-03-05 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'm unfairly stereotyping, I don't know, but if this is meant to be a YA book, I can picture teenage boys recoiling at a title like "His Mother's Sword"! (Girl cooties and all that . . . :-) )

[identity profile] mary-j-59.livejournal.com 2014-03-07 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Girl cooties, yes. Alas!