{"id":37,"date":"2013-08-25T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-11-03T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T06:41:16","slug":"creating-a-killer-book-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/creating-a-killer-book-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a killer book title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following Valerie Peterson who blogs on publishing on <a title=\"about.com\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/publishing.about.com\/\">about.com <\/a>for over five years now and thought her recent article on creating a killer book title was worth alerting people to. The article covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What makes a great book title<\/li>\n<li>Using a step-by-step approach to creating a book title<\/li>\n<li>Making a &#8216;good&#8217; title\u00a0&#8216;great&#8217;; and<\/li>\n<li>Creating\u00a0strong, clear subtitles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Creating a good title for your book is even more important than that very first sentence (a topic to be covered in a future blog). A good title helps ensure it will stick in the minds of prospective readers. A good book title, like an effective and appealing cover, is a vital\u00a0marketing tool for the book (for example consider <a title=\"Fifty Shades of Grey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fifty-Shades-Chicken-Parody-Cookbook\/dp\/0385345224\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1377416109&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=50+shades+of+chicken\">Fifty Shades of Chicken<\/a>\u00a0which has a killer title <strong>and<\/strong> a picture of a trussed roast chicken on the cover). Read about what makes a selling book title.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publishing.about.com\/od\/BookAuthorBasics\/a\/Writing-Good-Book-Titles-What-Makes-A-Good-Book-Title.htm?nl=1\">http:\/\/publishing.about.com\/od\/BookAuthorBasics\/a\/Writing-Good-Book-Titles-What-Makes-A-Good-Book-Title.htm?nl=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A catchy, &#8220;selling&#8221; book title sometimes erupts spontaneously from the mind of the author, the editor or perhaps even marketing, but more often than not\u00a0creating\u00a0a book title &#8211; like everything else about\u00a0publishing a book &#8211; involves work. Read Valerie&#8217;s step-by-step guide to creating a book title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publishing.about.com\/od\/BookAuthorBasics\/ss\/Good-Book-Titles-The-Recipe-For-A-Better-Book-Title.htm?nl=1\">http:\/\/publishing.about.com\/od\/BookAuthorBasics\/ss\/Good-Book-Titles-The-Recipe-For-A-Better-Book-Title.htm?nl=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, you&#8217;ve got a good title for your book, but how do you make it a killer one? The following case study describes how a\u00a0just-OK book title became a title\/subtitle combination that expanded the market for the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publishing.about.com\/od\/BookAuthorBasics\/a\/Good-Book-Titles-A-Case-Study-For-A-Better-Book-Title.htm?nl=1\">http:\/\/publishing.about.com\/od\/BookAuthorBasics\/a\/Good-Book-Titles-A-Case-Study-For-A-Better-Book-Title.htm?nl=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And lasting, it can be hard to get the whole idea of a book into the few words of a book title &#8211; which is why sub-titles were invented. Subtitles can be used\u00a0to clarify or expand on the title of a non-fiction book (novels generally do not have subtitles although Janis Hills <em>Bonnie&#8217;s Story &#8211; A Blonde&#8217;s Guide to Mathematics<\/em> most definitely does). Read how your book can benefit from a strong, clear subtitle and how to write subtitles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publishing.about.com\/od\/BookAuthorBasics\/a\/How-To-Write-A-Subtitle.htm?nl=1\">http:\/\/publishing.about.com\/od\/BookAuthorBasics\/a\/How-To-Write-A-Subtitle.htm?nl=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next week I&#8217;ll be\u00a0raising the question of just how many eBook readers you should own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following Valerie Peterson who blogs on publishing on about.com for over five years now and thought her recent article on creating a killer book title was worth alerting people to. The article covers: What makes a great book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/creating-a-killer-book-title\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}