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The Trouble With Titles

1/20/2018

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1/20/18

I have been working on my untitled coliseum story off and on for about a year now.  It's purely fantasy with a type of dragon character I haven't utilized before.  Writing it has been fun even though it hasn't been smooth sailing.  I am finally approaching the climax of the story where the hero must fight the bad guy and I realized I needed to come up with a title.  The problem is that the only potential titles I could think of were 'Dragon Sands' or 'Dragon Moons'.  Both would fit with the story and I'm leaning towards the former, however I realized that the title is far too similar to that of my Supernatural Consultant series.  Every single one of those titles are two words and start with 'Dragon'.  The last thing I want is for someone to spend money on what they think is the next Supernatural Consultant book, only to be greeted with a vast desert and a cave full of dragon eggs instead.  I don't know what to do.  Should I use 'Dragon Sands' anyway?  I could use your advice, so please let me know what you think! 

Speaking of Supernatural Consultant, despite not being on the short list I mentioned in my last post, book seven is the story I started working on.  I've added about .5k words, which was enough to set the next scene and build some drama for what's coming next.  Which brings me to my conundrum about this story as well.  I originally settled on 'Dragon Trick' for the tentative title because it fit with the rough outline in my head.  As the story continues to expand on paper, I'm realizing that 'Trick' is not the right fit after all.  In fact, I think I might be leaning towards resurrecting 'Spy', which was scrapped as the title for book six (Dragon Lesson).  Do you think if I started calling book seven 'Dragon Spy' I would confuse readers who associate that title with Dragon Lesson? 
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Cjean
1/25/2018 03:25:43 pm

Not to be harsh, but anyone who confuses Dragon Spy with Dragon Lesson hasn't been "reading along with the rest of the class". Dragon Spy is a good title that should have a home in the series (which I absolutely adore, thank you).

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Cjean 🤗😊

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1/28/2018 09:15:57 am

Cjean, I was thinking the same thing about Dragon Spy. It's a great title for the series and since it will fit this book I think I'm going to go for it. Thanks for the advice!

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