I’ve heard all sorts of opinions about whether you should give titles to your chapters. Some readers say they love chapter titles, others hate them, others simply don’t notice whether they’re there.

In my first novel, Blue Rabbit, I used snippets of song lyrics as chapter titles. My second novel, The Relic Spell, which goes on pre-sale next month (!) doesn’t have chapter titles. Both approaches were lots of fun to work with (and each carried their special challenges).

My point today isn’t to tell y...