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Which title do you like best?

  • 29-05-2012 12:36am
    #1
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    I need a title for a Regency mystery/romance.

    Which of these would make you pick the book up?

    Secrets and Sins.

    The Earl's Lady.

    Dangerous Deception.

    A Regency Affair.


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  • #2
    pauline fayne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭pauline fayne


    I like Dangerous Deception .


  • #3
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Thanks. That one seems to be edging it right now.


  • #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    By default, the second one. 'Secrets and Sins' is too blatant a Jane Austen rip, 'Dangerous Deception' doesn't really resonate as a period work, and just seems a bit too alliterative for the sake of it. 'A Regency Affair' is more of a synopsis than a title, IMO.

    'The Earl's Lady' gives an idea of what the book is about and is obviously a bodice-ripper.

    Are you set on these choices or have you a few others you haven't included?


  • #5
    i-digress
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭i-digress


    Dangerous Deception is the one I prefer. Who doesn't like a bit of danger and intrigue with their romance? ;)


  • #6
    Malachi Cold Smile
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Malachi Cold Smile


    secrets and sins sounds like one of those awful tatty vampire sex books
    dangerous deception doesn't really suit
    a regency affair is a synopsis as pick said
    that leaves earl's lady but if it's a mystery that won't do it justice as it just sounds like a romance


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  • #7
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    I've also got "Seducing the Spinster" and "Bow Street Belle"


  • #8
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    EileenG wrote: »
    I've also got "Seducing the Spinster"
    First-person short story à la Literotica title if ever I heard one.
    "Bow Street Belle"
    If she's a prostitute (or a football hooligan) this one might work.


  • #9
    Kinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Kinski


    Spinster has connotations of "old" for me...like, "my aunt is an elderly spinster." Doesn't exactly scream "bodice-ripper."

    "Dangerous Deception" just makes me think of "Dangerous Liaisons."


  • #10
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Kinski wrote: »
    Spinster has connotations of "old" for me...like, "my aunt is an elderly spinster." Doesn't exactly scream "bodice-ripper."

    "Dangerous Deception" just makes me think of "Dangerous Liasions."

    It makes me think of Police Squad!


  • #11
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    So anyone got an alternative? The story is about an earl whose sister is being blackmailed, and he suspects the chaperone of the girl he is courting, but finds that she is a detective and he had an affair with her.


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  • #12
    wavehopper1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭wavehopper1


    EileenG wrote: »
    So anyone got an alternative? The story is about an earl whose sister is being blackmailed, and he suspects the chaperone of the girl he is courting, but finds that she is a detective and he had an affair with her.

    I'm a +1 for Dangerous Deception. I like it.


  • #13
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    It's a walkover for DD, so that's the name I'm submitting it under.


  • #14
    Antilles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    The Earl's Deception!


  • #15
    DermoLogical
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭DermoLogical


    "The Earl, his sister, the chaperone and the detective"
    "The Earl's sister"
    "Noble deception"
    "Affairs and deceipt"


  • #16
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Antilles wrote: »
    The Earl's Deception!

    Except that the Earl is the only one in the entire book who is not keeping secrets or deceiving anyone.

    Makes me wish me was.


  • #17
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    DermoLogical wrote: »
    "The Earl, his sister, the chaperone and the detective"

    I like that one. Except when I have to type it out.


  • #18
    Antilles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    EileenG wrote: »
    I like that one. Except when I have to type it out.

    No worries, your fans will just refer to it as "Chaperone."


  • #19
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Antilles wrote: »
    No worries, your fans will just refer to it as "Chaperone."

    I love your assurance that I will have fans.


  • #20
    longshawn28
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭longshawn28


    "Secrets and Sins"
    This one sounds good.


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