HOW TO TITLE A BOOK.........trust me, it’s not easy!
I’d have to say that writing a book is easier for me than coming up with the title. Thankfully I have some really good friends and beta readers who I have blackmailed into coughing up really good titles!! KIDDING! My peeps are brilliant and have come through for me every time. I thought you might find it interesting to see the list I sent to Kensington (my publisher) for the book that was ultimately called SIZE MATTERS. Of course the entire time I wrote it, I referred to it as SHE LIKES THEM BIG AND HAIRY....I found that title delightfully disgusting and fun. This did not sit well with the powers that be in NY. I still love that one, but am thrilled with SIZE MATTERS too. My thanks goes to author Kris Calvert for that one!!!
xoxo Robyn
PS Happy New Year!!!
(The letter to my editor)
Oooookay, Here we go....Clearly some of these are for my pleasure and would suck as titles! I’m still very partial to SHE LIKES THEM BIG AND HAIRY!, but that’s just me!! If none of these suit, I will send a new buttload tomorrow! Just let me know. I want to capture the fun of the book and it makes me so happy to be left of center. Hmmm...I wonder why.
Robyn
1.The Big Hairy Deal
you know what they say about big feet…
2.Big Hairy Deal
you know what they say about big feet…
3.The Bigger They Are...
4.She Likes Them Big and Hairy
5.Stop, Squatch and Roll
6.Is That a Squatch in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy To see Me?
7.Why Didn’t You Tell Me it Got Harder?
8.How Hard Can It Be?
Part Two....
Big Foot. Really?
9.Size Matters
A Girl, A Guy and Big Foot
10.Things Just Got Hairier
11.A Hard Man is Good to Find
12.Looking For the Big One
13.And Yeti Said He Loved Me...
14.Lust and Found
15.Big Man Hunt
16.The Harder the Man, The Bigger He Falls
And if you’d like to read the story that spawned all these titles go get SIZE MATTERS!!!!!!! Here’s the back cover blurb!
It’s a big fat hairy deal when I lose yet another bet to my best friend Rena. Not only do I end up attending Bigfoot meetings with her kooky Aunt Phyllis, I find myself traveling with a band of reality TV, Sasquatch-hunting nut-jobs! Not to mention a suspiciously shady film crew. As if those little nuggets weren’t enough to send me on the express-train to Crazytown...I stupidly swore off men!
Clearly all this would mess up any gal’s social life, but the worst part of the story? The minute I send my libido on vacation, I meet Mitch. Yep, Mitch, the sexiest cop ev-ah. The hottest, best kissing, finest tushied, SINGLE guy I’ve ever laid eyes on. I’d rather be hot on his trail than anything that involves the word Big or Foot. But sometimes what you’re hunting for is right in front of you all along …
Here's the Amazon Link- http://www.amazon.com/Size-Matters-Handcuffs-Happily-Afters-ebook/dp/B00DV1ISS6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1388719563&sr=8-3&keywords=robyn+peterman
Barnes & Noble- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/size-matters-robyn-peterman/1116110219?ean=9781601830630
We had a guy down the street from us who would walk around naked...and he had a wife as well. We often used the term Sasquatch in reference to them... *blush* But for the love of God! Our houses were almost on top of each other! Put some clothes on! LOL :D
ReplyDeleteI love making up titles...that I know will never stick.
LOL. Glad I don't have your neighbors!!!
DeleteWe had a neighbor who had a fondness for taking his wife over the back of a beautiful antique chair in his living room - no one would ever know this but they left their kitchen light on occassionally which was perfect backlighting. More than once driving my young daughters home we passed their house to see the display (he was quite tall and athletic)… so I really had a hard time looking him in the eye and well… he was always Dan Dan the armchair man to me...
ReplyDeleteOMG!!!!!
DeleteI come from a very tall family, I'm the shortest at 6'1" and the tallest is just shy of 7'. I had my own human jungle gym growing up, one good kick to the knee and he fell like a tree though!
ReplyDeleteShannon
Awesome! I always wanted to be tall. At 5 foot 1 it's just a dream……
DeleteNo good neighbor stories as mine are too far for that which is a good thing cause I'm very loud in bed & at a place we rented our landlady made a comment on that one day & I was so embarrassed
ReplyDeleteLove your books
Never be embarrassed for great sex!!!!
DeleteI was young then now I would just be like and don't you wish you were me
DeleteI love the titles lol... Don't know why they wouldn't pick them lol... I love your books... I have size matters on my tbr list :)Also just want to let you know that Pirate Dave has made me puke in my mouth and laugh my ass off(most likely at the same time)... I couldn't put that book down no matter how bad I wanted to it cracked me up and grossed me out at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThanks for being part of the hop
j.m.platt83@gmail.com
I thank you and Pirate Dave thanks you!!!!!!
Deletelove those titles, LOL! thanks! :)
ReplyDeletebookjunky2013@yahoo.com
You're welcome!!! Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteLove the Titles you sent to the publisher. Me and some of my friends try to give the books we read different titles sometimes and come up with some doozies. We know the titles we come up with will NEVER be considered by the authors, but we like to do it anyway. Specially if the book is laugh out loud funny. Thanks for being part of the hop and for the chance to win. <^_^>
ReplyDeletereneebennett35 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Coming up with appalling titles takes talent!!! I wish you the best and may just call on your services one day!!!
DeleteI loved how hard can it be. I even wrote a review. but I had a roommate that would walk around without clothes and the buildings are close together. The cops told her to put clothes on or get drapes. she says I have a right to wear or not wear what in my own house. He says the neighbors have the right not to see it. We got drapes or she was getting a fine. Me I always wanted her to put the clothes on I just moved into the building next door.
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!
DeleteYou can't always judge a book by the name lol I always have to read the insert..or I would miss some good books for sure.
ReplyDeleteI do the same thing!!!
Deleteonly good neighbor i had was a hot guy who would wake up and walk out to check his mail in his tightys . course we did once live in a town were a woman would jog topless at 11 pm every other night and she was stacked . guess she liked the beat her jostling caused
ReplyDeletemeandi09@yahoo.com
OMG! LOL! Where in the hell do you live???
DeleteROFL...thank you for a good chuckle...LOVE the book titles.
ReplyDeletebooks4me67 at ymail dot com
The book sounds awesome. I am laughing already. :)
ReplyDeleteterrihawk66@yahoo.com
WOOHOO!! Thanks Terri!!!
DeleteLove the titles, so hard to choose! LOL
ReplyDeletesusanmplatt AT Hotmail DOT com
Thanks Sue and thanks for stopping by!!!
DeleteI have heard that is a problem with some writers and coming up with a title for the book they write...
ReplyDeleteYour choice are both funny and cute (lust and found...)
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I like that one too!!!
DeleteGreat list of titles. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Beth!!!
DeleteLove the titles of the books!
ReplyDeleteThanks Samantha!!!
DeleteBut I LIKED your titles...The Powers That Be must not have a very good sense of humor. I liked Lust and Found as well as And Yeti Said He Loved Me... Way too clever and funny.
ReplyDeleteI like those too!!!!
DeleteSome of those title choices were just too funny. I would have definitely check the book out just based on the title! LOL!
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YAYAY! Thanks Susan!
DeleteGreat titles!! I can imagine trying to find the right one. As for neighbor stories...There was a much older woman. who was amazingly sweet, who lived across the street from my husband's house when he was growing up. She would often go out to get her newspaper wearing a silky bathrobe and heeled, fuzzy slippers. She came out one morning at the same time as my husband. She had a puzzled look on her face and looked as if she had lost something. My husband asked her what was wrong and she replied, "Have you seen my pussy? She got out this morning and hasn't come back." She really was looking for her cat. Hoo Boy! My husband all but guffawed.
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