My upcoming novel had a singular title all during the writing. Every draft. Every change. The title accompanied the progress of the work. My publisher bought it, that's what we called it. He was fine with the title. Then he sent me an email: a writer (who happens to live in my neighborhood!) was coming out with a book (let's say two seas…
My upcoming novel had a singular title all during the writing. Every draft. Every change. The title accompanied the progress of the work. My publisher bought it, that's what we called it. He was fine with the title. Then he sent me an email: a writer (who happens to live in my neighborhood!) was coming out with a book (let's say two seasons before mine) and with the same title. And VERY superficially, the set up of the book was....similar. So that was that. Since the title was also a family name if I was going to maintain the idea behind the title, I would have to change the family name as well. And that was when I learned to stop caring so much about the title of a book. Until that moment where I will have to, I suppose.
My upcoming novel had a singular title all during the writing. Every draft. Every change. The title accompanied the progress of the work. My publisher bought it, that's what we called it. He was fine with the title. Then he sent me an email: a writer (who happens to live in my neighborhood!) was coming out with a book (let's say two seasons before mine) and with the same title. And VERY superficially, the set up of the book was....similar. So that was that. Since the title was also a family name if I was going to maintain the idea behind the title, I would have to change the family name as well. And that was when I learned to stop caring so much about the title of a book. Until that moment where I will have to, I suppose.
YUP. Recently went through something like this with a client. No fun, but ultimately fixable.