Sunday, October 12, 2008

Name That Book!

Ok. First, thank you to all of you for your great suggestions, comments, and encouragement. It's exciting to get on here from time to time and see the comments. I'm sorry that I don't update this more often. However, I have now essentially completed my book and am ready to begin marketing it. The only thing keeping me from doing so is...The title (well and a few jitters of just doing it-- You know, kind of like picking up the phone and asking that girl out for a date back in high school)...The working title I have currently, while maybe ok, is just a working title and maybe not perfect. So, I'm going to leave it to you guys to help me out. I'm going to put some possible titles that I've brainstormed w/Kelly and myself here. I'll leave it for you to either vote on your favorite one, or to add something that you feel inspired about. I don't know, maybe if you come up with something fantastic I'll give you the second copy signed by yours truly (sorry, the first copy goes to the wifers.)! Anyway, Here are the possible titles so far-- In NO particular order other than the first one is the working title...from there it is just as I'm writing them from my list or thinking of them...

"A Classics' Tale: How My Baseball Team Saved Its Sponsor; Put a Twinkle in the Coach's Eye; Restored Distinction and Prominence to the Town; And Fulfilled All of My Boyhood Dreams"
"A Classic Tale"
"A Tale of The Classics"
"True American Classics"
"The Last of the True Classics"
"A Classic tale of a Classic Game in a Classic Town on a 'Classic' Team"
"Boys, Baseball and The Power of America's Pastime"
"Double Play Classics: The Power of America's Pastime"
"We Want a Pitcher Not a Belly Itcher"
"Classics' Double Plays: The Power of America's Pastime"
"Saving The Classics"
"The Knothole League Knockouts"
"The Magic Valley Magic"
"Magic Valley Magic"
"A Tale of Two Teams"
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...Please vote or add to it-- I want to finish this part quickly, so put your creative thinking caps on 'cause I'm ready to rock 'n roll onto the next phase of this little project really soon! Thanks for all your support in this! I'm really excited to get this done! I'll post again when I get a Title decided on (of course, if some big fat 'ole publisher chooses to represent me, they'll probably choose some other lamo title, but I should have a title to send w/my query letter) and when I start sending in queries. Wish me luck!