There are no hard and fast rules for writing a Title - and what the blazes is a 'Right' Title?

This is part of the challenge you face as a Writer. It is your book and the title must be yours. I like Dee's suggestion of trying to think laterally.

Don't worry about it. Wait until you have finished your book because every thought you have at the moment will make you think that there is a 'better' title just around the corner.

It is amazing that when you see your selected title in print, it will assume a difference, a 'rightness' and you may well wonder why you had all this trouble with it.

Some time ago I was involved in suggesting names for products to be nationally advertised. It is amazing how 'different and just-right' those names appeared when they came to market.

To be honest the title doesn't matter at all. Most of my titles get changed when my stories are finally printed and i don't care as long as I get the money. I was a bit sad that 'A Worm's Eye View' was changed to 'Keeping Secrets' though. The editor said the former sounded a bit grizzly but I chose it cos the corpse in it was a blackmailing worm and she was now dead being eaten by worms.

Hi Colin

Some suggestions:

'Opposite's attract'

'In dark places'

'The Haunted Loom' (a reference to early computers that used to be festooned in bits of wire)but also refers to the darker reaches of the human mind'

'Never mind'

'Where Angel's fear to tread'

'Mind how you go'

'Don't look now'

'Hall of Mirrors'

'Spawn of Satan'

'Behind you'

'The Devil's Own'

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Thanks for the help and suggestions. I've uploaded a synopsis in the YA group. Here's a link.

loved binary inversion, but way too sci fi for this. I quite like the idea of having "Alex Crow" in the title as he's the only character to get a surname, and it's used throughout, as though people only refer to him by his full name.

Just read the synopsis and thought of "Atonement" then remembered it was young adult and that Iain McEwan has already taken it. "Sin's of the father" is probably on about a dozen other MSS also.

"Karma"
"Cage"
"Consequences"
"Call to betrayal"

"Release"
"Rectification"
"Residue"

Er... some or all of the above may be useless. I like Residue for some reason.

Odd, before reading that last line, "Residue" made me sit up.

Well, here's some more for the pot...

"Tangled" - a reference to a 'tangled pair', a quantum physics term describing two sub-atomic particles that influence each other remotely. Fortunately, it kinda works not knowing that

"Paths" - a shortened version of "The Paths we Tread", which I thought might reference both their lives and the physical aspect of his mother's mis-stepping.

"A Murder of Crows" - sprang to mind following your comment on his surname.

... and, keeping on the white goods theme started by 'The Fridge of Darkness', how about

"For Whom the Kettle Boils"

Jon

"For Whom the Kettle Boils" - sounds like a Robert Rankin novel. Love the idea behind Tangled because that's the heart of the novel.

"Bad Influence" was one I thought of in the early days, but it's already been done as a movie.

or just "Influence"?
"Payback" "Redemption Song" "A Fair Exchange"

"Lost and Found"

If you can say what your book is about in a single sentance then I shall look forward to seeing it in a list of sales!

Good luck.


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oops sorry about the spilling mistook!