How to Title Your Book: Tips for Brainstorming & Choosing a Strong Book Title + Title Reveals!
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2022
- Here are my top tips for coming up with a strong title for your next novel that will help you sell more books and reach more readers! PLUS I'm sharing a title (and series title) reveal for my upcoming books!
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Titles mean more to me than book covers. I grew up before the Amazon era and it was the titles on the spines of the books at the library that inspired me to stop and explore. Some of my favorite titles are: A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, and Flow My Tears The Policeman Said. How tantalizing! Let it be said: your titles are ALWAYS on point!!!
Ooooh I love all of those titles! And thank you so much!
I can't wait!!!!!! They sound amazing!
yayyy thanks Sarah!
I'm always excited when you upload a video.
Thank you!
. Thanks so much This is super helpful. Congratulations and good luck with your books.
Thanks so much! Glad it was helpful!
Yay, I’m excited to hear your titles! I think they’re great. 😄 I enjoy seeing all the different books you have on your shelves too, ha. I never see anyone post about The False Princess, but I loved that one.
Yay thanks Makenna! I'm so glad you like them. :) And that one was a fun read for sure!
SO EXCITED FOR THE BOOKS TO COME OUT! Love the titles!
WOOHOOO!!! haha me tooooo, thank you!!
I hadn't thought about looking through genre-specific words on all my fantasy books! That's such a good tip
I love the series title. Keep up the good work.
Yay thank you so much! :D
Quite helpful video! I've been struggling to find a good title for my latest novel.
So glad it was helpful!
Super helpful! Titling books is one of my weaknesses. I love the series title and the titles for the next 2 books! I love how The Secret Curse feels almost like a reference to The Cursed Hunter, especially since we'll start getting more of how Nezrin's people came to be cursed. Very clever!
Yay thanks Erica, so glad you like the names (and good catch about The Secret Curse being about the curse that is Nesrin's curse later on in The Cursed Hunter - no one else has gotten that yet! ;) So glad the video was helpful too!
@@BethanyAtazadeh okay now I'm even more hyped lol!!
I'm great at book titles. I wonder if there's a side hustle of naming books? I could call myself the Book Whisperer.
I really like the series title. If she is the queen of something specific or a certain kind of queen, it might be cool to have an adjective before queen. But obviously, you know what you are doing. Love your videos.
Thank you!! That's my favorite too! :D
You’re a genius, Bethany!
Love your titles!!
:D Thank youuu!!
Best book title ever: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Runner-up: "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul"
LOL that's hilarious!
@@BethanyAtazadeh “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
GREAT ideas, t hank youso much for this.
You are so welcome!
Great titles! For me, apart from writing, Picking a title and the book cover are the most exciting things! 😀
Thank you! And I agree!!
Ahhh I absolutely love them!!! They're so intriguing!! And I love the series' title! I just recently figured out the titles for a trilogy I'm writing and love them so much!! They're Master of the Desert, Slave to the Desert, and Rulers of the Desert. Though I can't decide if the second one should be Slave to the Desert or Slave of the Desert.
Yayyy thanks Katie!! :D I'm so happy you like them! And those are super fun titles, I like the repetition of the word Desert!
i don't know if you're interested in my opinion lol but I like Slave of the Desert just because you already have Master OF the Desert as well as Rulers OF the Desert. The patterns would be the same and congrats on your book!
@@gamexpress111 Ok thank you! I'm like split 50/50 lol, as Slave of the Desert matches, but I feel like Slave to the Desert sounds a little better, but I don't know.
Well done with the titles.
Thank you!
When I searched your channel, I entered "Choosing best keywords" and found this upload.
Your topic covers titles/subtitles very clearly - but what about brainstorming and choosing the best choices for the '7 search keywords,' and how to decide their ranking from 1 to 7?
It would be interesting to hear your thoughts about that aspect of self-publishing.
Love it!
Yay thank you! :D
Duuude, using this method, I managed to find the title for my Mystery/Sci-Fi/Teen Drama Mashup. Title for the Franshise as a whole, one Book title plus the generation the first book is Talking about! Thank you so much!!!! I'm going to use this method for all my books and Franchises!!!!
Yayyy! So exciting, glad it was helpful!
It was!!!! I went through like three titles already!
The first one, No one truly didnt have, but it sounded like a Romance titile.
The second one was more so like a class ( which my book features) but it's s setting more so. And no one had a title like it! Buuut.... No one knows what "Rudimental" means so all it'll do is confuse them....
The third one is the last one I came up with using your method!
Keep being you! You are so great and a great Mama!
I get a sentence I like and use it, which seems odd, but for someone who writes short stories, and needs a lot of titles, it's either the charcater's name, or a sentence I like. Usually works.
Hey that totally works! :)
Great advice. I have my title. my problem is the subtitle. The part about similiar names is really wrecking me on my nonfiction. Many books on the same subject all seem to carry a very similiar subtitle! But the bad thing is that the subtitle perfectly explains the subject.
I have always liked single word titles. So my five novels are Ransom, Rebellion, Resolution, Reiver and Renegade. Currently working on Railroad....
Absolutely love them!!! Do you always have outlines done first before trying to figure out titles? or when do you begin trying to figure out the titles?
Yay thank you! Honestly, I don't remember... I think so, and I think usually first drafts and sometimes even second drafts as well. Prior to that, I usually have some kind of working title to refer to, like "princesses and castles" which is what I called my stolen kingdom series for a long time.
@@BethanyAtazadeh ahhh, well great video and very helpful, but all your videos do that for me!! Again, thanks so much!!
Thank you for the video and the tips! I never thought about the importance of marketability (at the same time, I haven’t debuted yet) and I’ve always chosen my titles on personal likes/dislikes and sudden “ah-a!” moments.
Hence the question: what about titles that sound like obscure words to the Common Reader? Or are in a different language but has no precise translation/the translation doesn’t sound good?
I would personally avoid titles that a reader wouldn't recognize, but if you feel really strongly, that rule could be broken. I just think it'll make it harder for readers to remember and search, which can really impact who buys and reads your book. It's really that simple, so it's up to you!
I unfortunately didn't know much about publishing or marketing when I published the first book in my series, and the book name is incredibly common when I look on amazon now. When I tell people what it is, I just tell them to look up my author name because if they look up the title, they won't find it.
I totally understand - there's so much to learn about publishing that it can be hard to get it all figured out with the first book! I had mistakes in other areas, you're not alone!
Is it OK if I use the title The Queen's Rising for the title of my autobiography?
A) I love the series titles!! B) Thank you. I feel like I've seen a similar video on this channel but I think something just clicked for one of my stories. I *might* have a title XD
Yay thank you so much! I don't think I've ever done a video on book titles before, so I'm glad it was helpful!
Excellent advice!! I took forever trying to name a novella duology I’m working on haha I have placeholder names for my Patrons and my gosh they’re so ugly: Hunting a Tiger and Taming a Tiger (I have yet to reveal the second book’s placeholder name). I chose these placeholder names as I wanted these books to be part of my holiday collection at first, (they’re set with Valentine’s Day and Summertime themes) but I’m expanding the world way too much and prefer to have them venture into their own mini series/duology. The only issue I’m having now is titling the series… any more tips? because my name generators are making me pull my hair…
So glad it was helpful! And those are fun name ideas!
Would having a book tittle that starts with 'Fire" work? Would it be eye catching? And congratulations on your book title!!!
I mean, it depends on the genre, but sure! Kristen Cashore has a book called Fire and I love that novel!
For awhile there, all mystery/thriller books had to have "girl" in the title ("Gone Girl" seems to have started this, although we may never pinpoint its exact origins).
Speaking of books with female main characters: "Tomorrow Is Another Day" was the working title of "Gone With the Wind", and up until the very last second, Scarlett was named "Pansy".
Having an editor is important in the publishing process for titles, too. Many famous books had original titles that were just awful, but an editor was able to suggest something better. Would you prefer "Trimalchio in West Egg" or "The Great Gatsby"? Because F. Scott Fitzgerald preferred the former, but his editor, Maxwell Perkins, said "hell naw, dawg." Pretty sure that's how it went.
Interesting!
@@BethanyAtazadeh Pansy O'Hara. Yikes. Margaret Mitchell argued bitterly against changing both the book title and the main character's first name and lost. Thank goodness.
The whole title not taken is so hard with fantasy because there are so many common words and phrases that are used >.
Haha sooooo true!! It definitely was a long search process for me haha
Best title ever for a poetry collection: "Love is a Dog from Hell" by Charles Bukowski
I can't say how important it is to google your title first. I was going to title my last book in my Peter Pan trilgoy Tinkerbell's Revenge, but when I googled it, it's a fairly common strain of marijuana. Since I write middle-grade, that is a big no-no (although, I did find it kind of funny). Always, always, always google the name!!!
Haha too funny!! That cracked me up lol, thanks for sharing!
Should the title reveal be done at the same time as the cover reveal (which obviously bears the title)? 🤔
Either same time or before!
Argh! I love these titles so much!
@@BethanyAtazadeh I have to admit, I gained a bit of street cred in my family (and with my students) when I told them that you used one of my suggestions. 😍 😂
This was really helpful, but I was wondering if it’s all right to use a title if it’s already been used but fits your story to a T? For example, the first book of my trilogy is called From the Ashes but a few other books have that same title even though they’re not fantasy (which mine is). Do I have to change it in that case or is it okay for it to be the same? Because the phrase fits my story exactly and I’d hate to change it just because someone else used it too.
Titles aren't copyrighted, so technically you could. The reasons I'd avoid it, or try to make at least a slight change remain though... your book is highly unlikely to show up first in a search when someone tries to find it. Most likely the other books will always show up first and make it hard for readers to find your book.
@@BethanyAtazadeh Okay, thank you! And I love your channel by the way. So glad I stumbled across it!
What's your next project after finishing the series?
I have tons of ideas, but I can't say for sure yet... I guess we'll see haha! :D
“A Troll of Robes and Noses”
Okay I have a silly question
Aside from your books on the bookshelf have you read ALL of those books?! Lol
Do you mean have I read all the books on my shelves? All but about 10 or so, yep! I have a little shelf in one corner with my TBR stack that I haven't read yet, otherwise read them all!
oh... i just borrow ("borrow") song titles that seem like they probably would fit, and hope for the best. Less for my brain, yea! And it works so far lol #laziness
Nice haha!