September 25, 2008
Putting your title to the test
Does your WIP Title have Bestseller potential? Click on THIS link, type in the title of your WIP, fill out the specs then come back and share your results.
Here are mine:
The title Touch has a 55.4% chance of being a bestselling title!
The title Nothing In The Dark has a 22.9% chance of being a bestselling title!
The title Mirror, Mirror has a 55.4% chance of being a bestselling title!
Yeah, whatever!
Ha!
The title “Ravenous” has a 35.9% chance of being a bestselling title!
The title “Halfblood” has a 35.9% chance of being a bestselling title!
The title “The Rose Legacy” has a 10.2% chance of being a bestselling title!
(Doesn’t seem to say much for titles like “Cujo”, or “Carrie”, or “The Raven”, does it?)
That’s cool. If it’s a bestseller, they can call it anything they want.
I guess it likes single word titles, but I couldn’t crack 50%.
Cold - 31.7
Excalibur - 35.9
Storm - 45.6
Layla - 45.6
Kate Hates Baseball - 14.6
Avatar - 35.9
Cold Blooded - 41.4
Felicity Stripped Bare scored 14.6%. But it did pretty well at the publisher’s bookstore, was in the top ten for 3 weeks.
Hello… I got 55.6%
for TRADING FACES (with all the questions answered) that’s better then when I just put the title in and didn’t read the read of the choices DOH! 
Vanessa, that is awesome!
I Said Never~ 20.1 percent
Diary of a Food Addict~ 26 percent
See Megan Run ~ 55.4 percent
Since the last one is coming out next month, I sure do hope so.
Raine, Ravenous sounds delish!
Bernard, the most intriguing title (at least to me) is Kate Hates Baseball. Now I want to know why.
Felicity Stripped Bare has a great hook to it, so no wonder it did so well with the publisher.
Like Felicity Stripped Bare, Trading Faces has a hook to it too. I like!
Melissa, I think I like I Said Never the most. It’s the most intriguing to me.
It’s the only erotic tale in the bunch, Tanya. There is a very funny story attached to it. I queried a publisher about ‘Kate Hates Baseball’, and received a request for a full look. They wrote a very nice rejection letter, saying while they liked the story, the initial conversation aboard the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train was unbelievable between the three young women involved. The conversation, eavesdropped on by me on a BART train on the way to an Oakland A’s game, was the only real part in the story, and formed the initial inspiration for the rest.
The conversation, eavesdropped on by me on a BART train on the way to an Oakland A’s game, was the only real part in the story, and formed the initial inspiration for the rest.
Now isn’t that weird!?! Well, you know what they say. Truth IS stranger than fiction.
The title Forbidden has a 35.9% chance of being a bestselling title!
The title Oh My Demon has a 20.1% chance of being a bestselling title! (I hate this title BTW but can’t think of a better one)
The title Nowhere, Oklahoma has a 35.9% chance of being a bestselling title!
Oh My Demon???? WOW. I like! I like! That makes me want to crack the book open.
Heeh Tanya…I’m sure you’ll be reading …er critiquing it in the near future if you want. I owe you email but I had to do edits all weekend. Plants are watered and trimmed and kitchen baseboards are SPOTLESS!!!!!!!