As I said yesterday in my post, I have been getting contest entries ready. So I had to rethink the title for one of my MS's "Sutherland Family Curse" as that was a working title only and I didn't want to enter it into a contest with that name. Usually, I don't have trouble when it comes to naming my stories, but this one...I don't know nothing great or fitting would come to me. I threw a bunch of names out at my CP and she helped me to narrow it down to two. I asked my daughter and she was no help whatsoever. So I wrote them both on a piece of paper, tossed them in a bowl, closed my eyes and picked one. The "Sutherland Family Curse" is now "The Viscount's Potion". I'm still not the happiest with this name, but it does fit the story a little better. If your working titles are not appropriate for your stories. If they're not catchy enough, or you just need some direction with your titles check out this article by B. W. Clough entitled the "Theory of and Practice of Titles": http://www.sfwa.org/bulletin/articles/clough.htm
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