Do you ever do this? Come up with titles which sound amazing but you've no idea what the book is? I have a note book full of titles yet to be attached to books, though often the title does a lot of work for you by suggesting not only the genre and setting, but perhaps even the reader it might appeal to and a hint at the cover art.
After all, if you read a title 'The last husband on the shelf' you might imagine the front cover with a slightly cartoon image of a woman, probably in her late twenties, with the title written in pink script, slightly embossed, with maybe a touch of silver?
Though, if you cut it to 'The Last Husband' that has a hint that it might be a thriller, or even a horror classic - white letters ( again slightly raised) - somehow even more horrific if it's shortened further to-
THE HUSBAND - where you can almost imagine the bi-line 'until death do you part?'
Anyway - here are a few more - if you feel inspired, why not comment on what the genre, characters and even setting you think these ones might be, and who knows, maybe they'll some to life one day?
Mr Montague's bicycle.
Dream sliders.
Everything I'm not.
The baboon's revenge on the collective unconscious.
Execution city.
The Nightingale floor
The trials of Bunbery Rudge.
A house on a mandarin shore.
Wrestling the muse into submission.
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I'm covered in flour - it would take too long to explain...
The Nightingale Floor - definitely a horror set in a victorian asylum
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I love the Nightingale floor - it actually is a Japanese term for a creaking floor especially designed so that when you walk across it, it plays a song which you hear at night when it's quiet, but there's also the implication that it betrays you sneaking about at night, which would fit into the asylum thing rather well also.
DeleteDream Slider- A rousing tale of a small American Hamburger, chillingly set between a ketchup and mustard bottle...:)
ReplyDeleteOooh, I like that - a short order cook somewhere in the mid-west in the depression - I'd read it!
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I know this place... it is near sai kong in New Territories just outside of Hong Kong....
... there was this great little bar there and a craicing little waitress named Suzy and ...
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Even without your name, I'd know that was you mate! I'm sure you could write volumes about Suzy and the rest!;)
DeleteMr Montague's bicycle - Could it be a childrens's book about a bike that could take you to wonderful, out of this world places for out of this world adventures? Or the story of a recently widowed man who cycles the length of the country looking for...
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I like both of those, I always saw it as a book set in occupied France about a romance full of exquisite detail and a sad ending, but that's the fun of the game!
DeleteDream Sliders...something sci-fi, where beings are able to slide in and out of dreams to plant thoughts/actions into unsuspecting minds.
ReplyDeleteExecution City: YA crossover set sometime in the future where the number of people on death row has got to such a huge number that they get sent to live in Execution City to wait out their sentence.....??
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