Q&A Friday: Comps, Titles, and Comp Titles
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Glenn asks: How much does your title matter in pitching agents on fiction? My sense was that publishers change titles as they wish. This happened twice to me with nonfiction books, but maybe it's different in the fiction realm? Have you ever been so turned off by a title that you moved on? Or so grabbed by a title that it made the query sing?
Here's how much a title matters:
