My novel’s title could make it a bestseller!
I’ve been trying to come up with a decent title for the novel I’m revising ever since it came back from the Writing Show makeover contest labelled “Untitled”. I felt sad for my poor manuscript and resolved to come up with a better title. Not having much experience with titling novels, after I’d decided on something that seemed to sound OK to me (sorry, it’s a secret), I wondered if someone in the magical world of the internet had come up with a site where you could test out your titles.
Of course they had. I quickly found the Lulu Titlescorer page, which uses data from New York Times bestsellers of the last 50 years to decide what chance your title has of making your book a bestseller. Now, far be it from me to imagine that the content of the book should also have something to do with this, but let’s humour them and try it out.
On the site, you have to type in your title, as well as answer a few questions about the its grammatical make up. Click the magic button and - whammo, the official result for my current working title is that it has a 51.4% chance of being a bestselling title! I played around a little by throwing in some titles from actually bestselling books and they came out around 40%, so I must be on a winner. Now I just need a site to finish writing the book for me, too.
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