dead to the world
How important is the title of a book? It’s an accepted fact that the cover image plays a very large part, in bookshops at least, in how well a book sells. I’ve bought a book before simply because I like the picture on the front cover. But I don’t recall ever having bought a book on the strength of its title, so I’m wondering how important a title is. I’m thinking of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road or A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book . Both wonderful stories but are the titles especially enticing? Did the titles alone encourage anyone to buy? Of course apart from grabbing a potential buyer’s interest a title should also give an insight into the story between the pages, something the above mentioned titles absolutely do. I set out to write my story with only one title in mind, Dead To The World. It gives insight into the story and also sets a tone so a reader will know what to expect. I should have checked early on, before I got wedded to it, that it had not been used already. I felt r...