So you’ve just completed your latest book. It’s gonna be a bestseller, one of your best yet. You close the book, thinking of nothing but your bed and the look on your publisher’s face when he realises you completed it before he could think of some way to invent a new law and get rid of you, but then you notice that there’s something missing. The title. Those three lines on the right-hand corner of the cover are empty. You scowl at the photograph of your main rival in publishing that may or may not have been “accidentally” splashed with boiling hot tea three weeks ago when they had released their new book that had won twenty-one grand awards within forty-three hours of its release, and sit back down. Tonight’s going to be a long night.

See?! This is exactly what I’m going to be like when I’m twenty-six! Except for the boiling tea part….. I’d use boiling oil…

But this is exactly what happens to me every time I write a story, even now. You want your title to be eye-catching, memorable, original and to overall make the book seem just that bit glossier. You’ll just know when you’ve found the right title. Trust me, you’ll take several tries, but in the end it’s worth it. There is no feeling like the feeling of finding the right book title, but the key ingredient to a good title is that it sticks. Something you can’t keep in your head for more than 2.7 seconds probably isn’t the right title for your bestseller.

“So, sir, tell me, what inspired you to write your amazing book?”

“Uh, well, when I was about to write a new story I had the idea to base it on a true event and I called it…. uh…. what was it called again?”

This could be you in a future interview! Anyway, back to the point. Sometimes I am completely blown away just by a title. It could be a clever title, a funny title, a deep title or even just a short, conclusive title! It just makes me want to try the book even more! It makes you think, who thought of this? because it seems so obvious that no-one would ever have thought of it.