Comments on: Title angst

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:47:25 +0000

whooooaaaaa. my universe has turned upside down! but i likes it.

By: Dess

Dess — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:58:05 +0000

oooo different background *admires the blue and silver design at the top* preeeeeeeeeetttttttyyyyyyyyyy

By: Justine

Justine — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:09:41 +0000

Ally: Sorry! I’m just experimenting. Sundays are always the lowest traffic days . . .

By: Ally

Ally — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:04:32 +0000

wait now it doesnt.. im confused

sorry for double posting*

By: Ally

Ally — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:03:52 +0000

holy cow! it looks different.. i like it though.. very much

By: Ammy

Ammy — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:13:02 +0000

The title of a book is often what first catches your interest about it (or the cover of it if it’s facing you in the store and not a spine-book).

As for the headless girl rage… I’m tempted to think that Gossip Girl really fueled that particular area of cover design.

By: lauren

lauren — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:17:05 +0000

Justine. Oh, Justine. Could you be sweeter? No, you could not. (And Jennifer–Smarmshine! YES!)

By the way: I got a haircut. An ill-advised haircut. I now look like Liza Minelli, which is not the look I was going for.

By: tracie

tracie — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:00:32 +0000

Titles are an art form and I really have no talent for them whatsoever. It’s true how you agonize over it and then the whole issue evaporates.

Do you find yourself abbreviating your titles too? Giving them one-word nicknames? My family does that- “That’s the _______ book, right? (circus, cerebral palsy, twin, etc.)

Interesting discussion!

By: nichole

nichole — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:38:24 +0000

It’s true. My friends and I plan on reading the book,no matter what it’s called. I do feel that titles are important, as is cover art (for both books and movies). As i said before, I really enjoy clever titles. I, too, have been guilty of picking up a book based on the cover/title.

For example, even though i was committed to reading Cynthia leitich smith’s tantalize before i’d even seen a copy of the book (because i was invited to crash the launch party), under different circumstances i would totally have bought it based on the cover. isn’t it beautiful? I have some tantalize bookmarks that i’m afraid to use because they are so pretty.

I simply adore the magic or madness trilogy title and the cover art for each book is awesome.

anyway, i guess what i’m saying is that true fans will read the book no matter what. the title/cover just helps bring in new fans.

picking out books is tough work. everyone should have a personal librarian that tells them what good books are out there. i do.

By: jennifer, aka literaticat

jennifer, aka literaticat — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:58:07 +0000

GATB girl isn’t headless, you can see her face and everything, she’s just in profile.

well the very top of her head is cut. maybe they didn’t want to show the model-pattern-baldness going on up top.

i love the authors, so i will read the book even if it’s called hello, smarmshine.

By: Steve Nagy

Steve Nagy — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:34:51 +0000

Spot-on discussion. I’m sure having three authors made it harder to come up with a title.

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:45:54 +0000

Dawn: You may be right. I guess I look at it a little differently. I think what time does is get you used to a title. I thought Peeps was a terrible title for Scott’s first vampire book, now I can’t imagine any other and the UK retitling of it—Parasite Positive looks wrong to me.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:33:40 +0000

I’m one of those people who believes that titles, like character names, come in time…and you just know when it’s right because it fits like nothing else could possibly fit.

I also realize the power that a title can have over a perusing book buyer, but I’m a firm believer in right names of things. If it fits, it fits.