Comments on: Sizing up the competition

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:49:49 +0000

I always love my title and think everyone else's in my writer's group is corny. What I get from that is, I have no barometer for good titles. Thanks for your hints. I think it'll help me when I get this *** book done.

By: stark. raving. mad. mommy.

stark. raving. mad. mommy. — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:21:07 +0000

Thanks — this is something I've been curious about.

By: Emily on the Southern Prairie

Emily on the Southern Prairie — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:05:22 +0000

Great tips. Thank you!

By: Muffintopmommy

Muffintopmommy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:14:43 +0000

Very helpful post. (Even if it's not totally what I want to hear!) Thanks so much.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:37:19 +0000

A very useful post.

I think people are often skeptical about comparing their own book to others already out there, because it's their own precious baby and they're not going to turn it into something about high school vampires just to make it commercial.

But there are so many books out there that the book you're writing is already bound to be 'like' or 'appeal to the same people' as another book.

By: Sajidah

Sajidah — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:03:16 +0000

Jessica, thank you for this. I'm in the process of querying a manuscript with a theme which hopefully fills a "hole" in the market and this post covered everything I needed to be aware of.