The Undiscovered Country

A Better Title

One piece of advice authors give to newbie writers is to never get married to the title of your book, especially those wanting to go the traditional publishing route. Publishers will invariably want to change it.

For instance, "All Quiet on the Western Front" was originally titled "Ouch, I've Been Shot!"

My WIP (91k words and still counting, although I'm in a bit of a lull right now) if you haven't read previous entries I titled "The Keeper."

Last Wednesday, we started a Bible study on the Book of Mark, and verse 3 says, "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness . . "

I thought, based on the premise, "Shouting in the Wilderness," is a far more interesting title.

For now. If I decide it's worth seeking a publisher for it and it's accepted, they'll change it again anyway, I'm sure.

So even though I'm not supposed to "marry" my titles doesn't mean I can't at least have a little "fling" with them.