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Oct 22, 2010 - 15 48

Lulu.com has a tool to let you check whether your title will be a best seller. Maybe not too scientific (these things are hard to predict), but interesting...

My current working title is Unchanged, which was evaluated at 63% likely to become a bestseller...

--Tim

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Oct 27, 2010 - 21 28

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Oct 27, 2010 - 21 22

I can't speak for others, but if you add the word "And...", I'd find your title scintillatingly irresistible.

I wonder if Lulu's heart would skip a beat for Scintillatingly Irresistible. Sounds like a Sidney Sheldon or Jackie Collins bestseller.

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"Nothing Gold Can Stay" has, according to Lulu, a 22.9% chance of being a bestseller. If I changed it to "And Nothing Gold Can Stay," it goes up to 79.6%. My alternative title, "Gold Valley" has a 63.7% chance of being a bestseller. XD

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Oct 23, 2010 - 04 24

Thanks for the information, Tim. Interesting.

One of my "working titles" is Building A Beach, which scores 55%. That's pretty generous, because it's very weak. It's just a temporary title. If anyone can think of a better title--something with more snap--for a book about building a beach, literally, let me know. And yes, it's fiction (not nonfiction) and no cracks about it being a crummy idea until you've heard the entire concept. ;-P

The better title I have, for a Peyton Place type novel with characters jumping in and out of one another's ... ahem... "lives" is Bed Pigs. Fairly catchy, I thought. Lulu disagrees. 35%.

Either I'm way off or Lulu doesn't know a good thing when she sees it (sort of like when I first met my wife).

I'm wondering what Lulu would say about The Great Gatsby or The Old Man and The Sea. My guess, 10%. Lulu, you just might need to get out more.

--Steve

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