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Unusual Book Titles

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Just when I thought everything was done and dusted on my first attempt at a novel,  and my finger was hovering above the KDP button of no return, I fired the cover and title out to a few more experienced authors for a round of applause. What I received, however, was a unanimous ‘Mmm – not sure about the title, John’. With cogent reasons given, I, stunned, stared at the title I had been working with for maybe three summers, hoping that inspiration would emerge from the out of focus title page fog. Thankfully, it did, with, Beatles-like, a little help from my friends. Am I, shamelessly, allowed to pre-advertise a forthcoming novel? Let’s just say The Bait Digger will be available from all booksellers in the near future. If you like historical spy novel, this one, set in 1796, might, no, will definitely, be up your street. I wanted to use the word compelling, but I should leave that to it readers. Apart from advertising my first fictional baby, it made me think about titles. A sc...