{"id":9042,"date":"2014-01-15T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2014-01-15T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:25:24","slug":"looking-for-a-new-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/looking-for-a-new-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a new title"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m about a quarter of the way through the revisions for the next Gaia Nova book, currently titled Heart of the Nebula.<\/strong> The thing is, the story is changing a lot in the revision, to the point where that title doesn’t really make sense any more.<\/p>\n

This tends to happen with most of my longer books. The original working title for\u00a0Genesis Earth<\/strong> was THE WORMHOLE PARADIGM. Desert Stars<\/strong> started out as HERO IN EXILE, switched to WORLDS AWAY FROM HOME, then simplified briefly to WORLDS AWAY before finally settling on its current tile. Bringing Stella Home<\/strong> is actually the original working title for that book, but it briefly changed to MERCENARY SAVIOR before switching back again. The only novel of mine that hasn’t<\/em> had two or three different titles is Stars of Blood and Glory,<\/strong> but that book was unusual in a number of ways.<\/p>\n

In fact, Heart of the Nebula<\/strong> has already gone through one title change. It started out as “Into the Nebulous Deep,” not the most inspiring title but definitely accurate (perhaps even mildly spoilerific). I thought about changing it to “Into the Heart of the Nebula” before shortening that to the title it has now.<\/p>\n

Anyway. For reasons I don’t really care to get into, I need a new title for this one. Here are some of the ones I’ve come up with so far:<\/p>\n