Friday, June 20, 2014

Book titles can determined the success of a book?

It's head scratching to some but let's think about it. Book titles can be the detriment of a novel. Novels such as freakonomics, Moby Dick and even the Audacity of Hope are to me all good novels with not so good titles. Now let's take a look at some of the best selling novels over the past recent years. I know I know best sellers don't determine whether a novel is even a great novel it's just all about popularity. However a bestseller can be the determining factor in whether an author is able to publish a second mainstream novel or not. So in my opinion bestsellers do matter especially if you're an author who's main objective is to publish more novels and make a living off of being an author. Of course there are people who are totally against anything mainstream and i respect your standpoint but I don't agree with it. I believe you can be a successful novelist or successful anything without selling who you are in order to make it to the top. Even though anyone who's successful in the entertainment world or business world has to sell themselves as though they are a product and they are useful to a specific group of shoppers. Let's not act as though we don't have to sell ourselves like a product in order to make it known that we have a good piece of material that the world should known about. But back to the original reason I am writing this post. Bestsellers aren't determined by how good the title of your novel is but it certainly catches the eyes of readers which has been scientifically proven. A good title of a novel is eye-catching now whether the novel is good or not isn't determined by the critics it's determined by the readers. Critics are just overly opinionated less talented individuals who criticize more talented individuals for being able to do what they know in their heart of hearts they can't do. Moving on the reader determines the success of a novel and a title can be the biggest determining factor as to whether that novel catches the eyes of the reader or not. I'm not telling all up and coming authors to focus more on the title of their novel but it will surely be a benefactor if they do. Titles such as "The Hunger Games", 50 Shades of Grey", "Inferno", "The Host", "The Cuckoo's Calling" and even "A dance with dragons all have intriguing titles and some of which were the first major novel written by that particular author. Titles are as important to a novel as the main character is. Once your established maybe not as much but if you're not an established author I believe it can benefit your novel to have an attention capturing title to intrigue readers to at least pick up your novel and read the summary on the back and hopefully that summary is good enough to get that potential reader to purchase your masterpiece. Now let's read more and let's write more great material my fellow authors.

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