Monday, July 22, 2013

Help Me Choose a Name!

I need a new name for my novel, Glass Houses. The name doesn't fit as well as it used to--plus I see on Amazon that there's a teen vampire novel with that name now. Drat.

So I would really like some input from you folks. Here's a blurb about Glass Houses:
Glass Houses is a love story wrapped in a mystery, about a preacher's daughter named Jeanine and her obsession with movie star Jamie. At the age of ten, Jeanine believed that God Himself whispered to her in a dark movie theater and promised that the young star would someday be a part of her life. So began an eleven-year test of faith as Jeanine waited for her knight to arrive and rescue her from boring middle Georgia. And then, just as she’s graduating college and about to settle into the dreary nine-to-five life that stretches ahead of her, Jamie bursts into her life in an amazing way. He even seems to be falling for her, just as she’d dreamed. Trouble is, loving Jamie is nothing like she expected. Instead of carrying her away on a white charger, he’s hiding out in Georgia following the suspicious death of his former girlfriend. Jeanine longs to prove his innocence and get at the truth. Unless she can, Jamie’s dark secrets may shatter her faith—and her life.

The character Jamie plays--the one Jeanine is obsessed with--is named Danny Summer. The series of books and movies about Danny all have the name Summer in the title. There's a lot in the story about the Summer series, and how the author died and left the series hanging. The murder in my story ties into the lucrative revival of the Summer series, and who holds the copyright to be able to do that.

I also like the idea of summer symbolically. For me, summer was always about imagination and freedom. So I'm thinking I'd like to have the name "Summer" in the title. Here's what I'm leaning toward so far:

Saving Summer.

What do you think? Would a book with that title sound interesting? Suspenseful? Romantic?

Here are some other ideas I had:

Eternal Summer
Dying Summer
Eleven Years 'Til Summer
Waiting for Summer
If Summer Dies
Fatal Summer
Mortal Summer (or Immortal Summer?)
If Summer Comes
Killing Summer
The End of Summer
Summer's End

Okay, I think you get the picture. Do any of these strike you? Or do you have a brilliant idea I've overlooked?

Thanks so much! (And at least this post should show up on the first page of a Google search for "summer" today, if nothing else. I wonder if anyone else has ever used that word this much in one post.)

10 comments:

  1. Summer is so overused.Unless maybe, Summer's Secret. Here's some other ideas to toss around or use to springboard to another idea:

    Jamie's Summer
    Summer's Winter

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    1. Ooh, I love Summer's Winter! A LOT! Thanks, Ane!

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  2. Hmm... "The Shadow of Summer" or "In the Shadow of Summer" or simply "Summer's Shadow". Or "Dark Summer".

    Or "Mid-Summer's Murder" or "The Summer of Our Discontent" or "Forgetting Danny Summer"...

    Robin, Robin, are you still there?

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    1. I like the ones with Shadow. Then when I publish Jordan's Shadow, it can all tie in. I can be that Shadow writer. I like it.
      I also like The Summer of our Discontent. That had run through my head, too.

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  3. So is it primarily a romance, or primarily a mystery? Does it have a happily ever after kind of ending? I think the title should reflect the type of story it is, if at all possible. If it's a quirky or dark mystery, I think something like "The Death of Danny Summer" might be good.

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    1. Yes, it is somewhat dark, so your title is appropriate. I like it!

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  4. Mid-Sunner's Madness playing off Lorraina. :)

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    1. That's great, Christina, thanks! And I got it--although for a minute I thought it was even deeper and more symbolic than you intended, lol!

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  6. Robin, I was thinking of 'Summer Obsession', since the story is definitely about an obsession. Or 'Divine Obsession' or 'A Divine Summer Obsession'

    Do you have a new lead for the novel???

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