Title Smackdown Cage-Match!

[lizvogel]

Have been working on titles for the novel-in-progress, and managed to winnow the list down to five current contenders. None of these has a heavenly choir backing it in my head, but by the standard of "Would I be okay with seeing it on a bookstore shelf under that name?", they're all good. Now it just remains to pick one.

Want to play along at home? Look these over and consider, if you saw them in the mystery/thriller/suspense section of the bookstore, whether they would entice you to pick up the book and read the back cover, or maybe flip through a page or two. Rank them 1-5 accordingly.

     Money and Prizes
     Truth From Lies
     Shadow Truths
     Private Truths
     Play To Win

For extra credit, pick your favorite and tell me about the story it represents.


(No, I don't guarantee that I will use any of these, let alone the winner; this ain't a democracy. But I don't guarantee I won't, either. And if you think you have a better suggestion, by all means, share!)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Play To Win. Espionage is a high stakes chess game, in the long run.

[lizvogel]

Yep, that's much the thinking I had behind it. Ta!

[lavenderbard]

I like Shadow Truths best (sounds like a neat pairing to my own Velvet Lies), and Play to Win second best, but the other three come in kind of equal.

Shadow Truths sounds more intrigue-y, and Play to Win more action oriented.

[lizvogel]

Thanks! That's a point re: Play To Win; the action in the book is a bit, er, cerebral. I do have a fight scene, but it's in chapter 10 and half a paragraph long. ;-)