Retitling My Books
I’m thinking I should take a lesson from the Internet and promote my books under different titles to try to attract more attention. What do you think? Would you buy any of the following?
The Goblin Series:
Goblin QuestThis Goblin Went Face-to-Face with a Dragon. You Won’t Believe What Happens Next!Goblin Hero13 Amazing Facts About Goblin MagicGoblin WarWhat the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About Talking Trees
The Princess Series:
The Stepsister SchemeWhy Your Stepsisters Should Scare Your More Than TerroristsThe Mermaid’s Madness8 Lies About Mermaids That Everyone Believes Are TrueRed Hood’s RevengeWolf Hunt Goes Horribly WrongThe Snow Queen’s ShadowThe Top 10 Ways Snow Can Kill You
Magic ex Libris
LibriomancerOne Librarian’s Secret Trick for Destroying Sparkling VampiresCodex BornNature-Loving Bodyguard Shares Six Ways to Kill a Man with a ToothpickUnboundThis Tale of a 500-Year Love Affair Will Make You Weep
The sad thing is that it was slightly easier to come up with the joke titles than it’s been thinking of the real ones :-/
Ron
November 26, 2013 @ 9:29 pm
The new titles need subtitles or they will never work.
Dara
November 26, 2013 @ 9:40 pm
If Internet ads teach us anything, it’s that it’s a weird trick. VAN HELSING HATES HER: One Librarian’s Weird Trick to Destroy Sparkly Vampires.
Pat
November 26, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
If Cracked (or Cosmo?) titled your books, these would be it. 😛
Alma Alexander
November 26, 2013 @ 10:42 pm
I think you’ve got something there. Next step, open a business retitling the lagging backlist of other writers and just rake in the cash (they pay in advance. You tell them upfront that there are NO guarantees that everything will start coming up roses post re-title.)
Marina
November 27, 2013 @ 12:27 am
If only you could fit a “Secrets to Weight Loss” in there somewhere I reckon you’d be on to a winner. I particularly liked “What the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About Talking Trees”.
Justin
November 27, 2013 @ 1:50 am
Smudge’s Quest (with friends)
Libriomancer rename.
Jim C. Hines
November 27, 2013 @ 7:39 am
Ooh, that could be fun. And the extra income stream would help with the holiday bills 🙂
Jim C. Hines
November 27, 2013 @ 7:39 am
Pretty much, yes 🙂
lkeke35
November 27, 2013 @ 10:57 am
Being a librarian Id pretty much read anything with librarians in it, but yeah, Id read the Libriomancer books. (Aaahhhh! What a cool superpower that is!)
Allison
November 27, 2013 @ 12:29 pm
I’ll take the hint on the plot of Unbound in the form of a silly title anyday!
Jim C. Hines
November 27, 2013 @ 12:32 pm
I wondered if anyone would pick up on that 🙂
mgwa
November 27, 2013 @ 1:07 pm
Post this to facebook and let it go viral
Sidsel Pedersen
November 28, 2013 @ 2:29 pm
You did actually managed to remind me to go buy Codex Born and I had forgotten it had come out. So yeah!
Elisabeth Waters
December 3, 2013 @ 7:15 pm
Of course Your Stepsisters Should Scare Your More Than Terrorists. They have better access to you and more knowledge of your weak points.