Vampire Books Fans, Fangs and Writers discussion

i was thinking sice its vampires the name,the night of blood.*laughs evily to self lol*i think its a cool name for a vampire book.

What about something like, Tainted Souls....

Book titles can be hard work when doing local guides you have to always put the name of the location in the titles so you end up with 100s of books with similar titles example:

Cotswold Riverwalks
Cotswold Pubwalks
Cotswold Cookbook
Cotswold walkabout
cotswold ghosts

Look out for Cotswold Vampires (lol)

it would be ironic if some one titled a book about vampires fully alive

-starts singing Flyleaf-

No but to show my LACK of smartitude (yeah, it's a word, look it up :P) the vampire trilogy I wrote had these three titles:
Vampires: Hunters and Humans
Vampires: One Fang
Vampires: Forever's End

I YET TO THIS DAY have come up with a working title that.. well.. WORKS.

doomed2darkness wrote: "-starts singing Flyleaf-"

I love flyleaf They are like my favorite band!

Ikr??? I was BLOWN AWAY when I realized they were a christian band!

Sharon wrote: "What about something like, Tainted Souls...."

Then we get into the whole "Do Vampires have souls" debate. Oh, How about, Gee I Miss My Soul as a title

How bout
Beyond the Pale
Nightsong
Midnight Kiss
Enthralled
Immortal Beloved ;p
Transcendence
The Kindness of Shadows

oooh i like all of those :)

Me too, certainly something about those titles.

I love funny vampire books too. How about Your Crypt or Mine

lol funny vamp titlea are cool too;p

You Suck!
Red or Dead
Fangs very Much
Like a Bat out of Hell
Pain in the Neck
Dead in the Head

Lord Woolfie wrote: "How bout
Beyond the Pale
Nightsong
Midnight Kiss
Enthralled
Immortal Beloved ;p
Transcendence
The Kindness of Shadows"

These are good!

Lord Woolfie wrote: "lol funny vamp titlea are cool too;p

You Suck!
Red or Dead
Fangs very Much
Like a Bat out of Hell
Pain in the Neck
Dead in the Head"

Love these!!

maby..........

-paint it black
-sharpest lives
-my life sucks
-in the moon light

I can't really think of that many....

Bite the Good Bite

Once Bitten .........

Silent Heartbeat
Frozen
Cold
Frozen Pain
Eternally
Midnight Shadow
Midnight Frost
Hell Froze Over

I can't think of anymore at the moment but I thiought of some good ones that I actually want to use as story titles lol

Is there a summery of the book I can read?
I can't just come up with a name without knowing what the book is about. Just saying it is about vampires doesn't really help me.

i called my book Akeldama: The Field of Blood. Taking the biblical name of the field where Judas died made perfect sense to me, especially considering all the Vampire legends surrounding Judas. Unfortunately, someone named a vampire in another book Akeldama, which might cause confusion. Check out my book at Smashwords.com. More books are coming in the series and they all will have biblical names. The next one will be called This Dark World.

Hula wrote: "I am writing a story on Goodreads at the moment, and my title is the main characters name in my story: Aura. If it's too hard to create a title name, (it was for me) then just use you're main chara..."

did that too with a book. I wrote this short fantasy book, mostly just for fun though so far it's my best seller at smashwords. couldn't think of a title so I named after a character. It's called "The Noble Mr. Prickles." Actually named the thing after a chimpanzee.

Natalie wrote: "Oh cool, this group is awesome! I love all the names everyone has put up.

I actually find it easy to write a book, but I find it so hard to think of a name to go with the book, so I was wondering ..."

Bond of the Twisted Souls
Soul Song
Cage of Midnight

There's three.

Hula wrote: Lol. Sounds good/funny. :D

you should check it out then. Three of my books, including The Noble Mr. Prickles will be half price next month at Smashwords.com as part of their summer promotion. Lots of other authors too.

immortality bites

LEt's see: Depending where the story is going, a few suggstions

Silent Death
Wings of Darkness
Fangs of Steel
Get the Point?
Night Steelers
Once Bittnen,Twice dead

Sharon wrote: "What about something like, Tainted Souls...."

That's a good title. When are you ganna wright it?

Rita wrote: "Sharon wrote: "What about something like, Tainted Souls...."

That's a good title. When are you ganna wright it?"

Destinyclaire wrote: "immortality bites"thats great.

Rita wrote: "Sharon wrote: "What about something like, Tainted Souls...."

That's a good title. When are you ganna wright it?"

Destinyclaire wrote: "immortality bites"

MCR Lover!!!!!!!!!!! wrote: "i was thinking sice its vampires the name,the night of blood.*laughs evily to self lol*i think its a cool name for a vampire book."

Jeff wrote: "LEt's see: Depending where the story is going, a few suggstions. those are good too. I really haven't thought about it though.

Silent Death
Wings of Darkness
Fangs of Steel
Get the Point?
Night Steelers
Once Bittnen,Twice dead"

You guys have come up with some pretty good titles.

Rita wrote: "You guys have come up with some pretty good titles."

Rita wrote: "You guys have come up with some pretty good titles."

Leandri wrote: "My Boyfriend Sucks, (giggels, couldn't resist throwing this in the mix,lol)

Shattered/Broken Souls
Forever Hurts/Bites

The book sounds great!! Good Luck!!"

You are funny,like it.

Eternal
Drained
Bitten

I Have more but that would be hard to list them all.

Blood Bond of the Dark Aristocracy :)

Cold fire
eternal life
This bites

This is a great list---these are exactly the titles I would avoid using, or be tempted to read myself.

Hi Sandrine,

Slightly confused - are you saying you would or wouldn't be tempted to read this?

Would Not be tempted.
I browse the shelves at bookstores these days--well, more than usual lately--scanning titles and covers to see what appeals, what doesn't.
Some--too many--of the titles seem the same; some of the covers have a double take image that is so twilight or shades of greyish.
Some 5 word titles are 5 words that are a complete turn off. And a recent trend is "cartoonish" images, for lack of a better way to describe them. A little clever, for the first one or two; not so much after you have seen a bunch of them. But it all comes down to this: what sells.

There are an awful lot of books playing off the 50 Shades theme. My immediate thought is 'Hmm, looks sexy...' followed about five seconds later by 'I'm so bored...'

Of course, The Hunger Games went for simple motifs as well. It's definitely a fashion. I think it worked for The Hunger Games, but it's often just pretentious.

Covers and titles are tricky things. My first novel is:
Kings of Infinite Space
or, alternatively:
Kings of Infinite Space: The Quest for Alina Meridon
I like these titles, but I can't help wondering if the Kings of Infinite Space is actually a turn-off for people browsing. Perhaps the title should just have been:
The Quest for Alina Meridon
or even just:
Alina Meridon

Also, the original cover was done by a friend of mine, and I like it but it doesn't really sell the book, so this year I decided to switch it to something photographic. Here they are:


Do you have a title and cover yet?

It's hard to get different looking covers since lots of the companies use the same cover maker over and over again. I just that's why I'm a photographer so I can take my own imagines to make covers out of. For a series you have a cohesive theme and look to the covers or it can just look messy and make it seem like the books are not apart of a series. Gray scaling is just an easy why to hide the flaws to me at least. I will never gray scale a photo unless I'm going to do a full recolor of the image(Which I don't do much). I have too many friends that are will to model for me to do that and most of the time I can get the look I want make taking lots of pictures of the same idea and finding the one I like most with mostly light corrections and a bit of high light to a few colors. It's quite top model.

Francis wrote: "There are an awful lot of books playing off the 50 Shades theme. My immediate thought is 'Hmm, looks sexy...' followed about five seconds later by 'I'm so bored...'

Of course, The Hunger Games wen..."

I can't see them well enough to make a choice. You are a very smart man so you decied which cover you like. Since the book is about a woman, the cover shoul refect that.

Lanee wrote: "It's hard to get different looking covers since lots of the companies use the same cover maker over and over again. I just that's why I'm a photographer so I can take my own imagines to make covers..."nte

You have a lot of talent, to wright & taking good pictures. If it aint broke, don't fix it.

Thanks Rita, I'm just saying what I've learn with looking at things. I mostly have lighting issues with my Photos even if I use my pro lighting(My makeshift ones would better)

Okay, something different, then. How about:

Thief Of Blood And Time
The Man Who Walked In Shadow
Centuries Mine

or, for a vampire comedy:

One Foot Out The Grave

Or, thanks to Rita:

I Ain't Broke - Don't Fix Me!

Lanee wrote: "Thanks Rita, I'm just saying what I've learn with looking at things. I mostly have lighting issues with my Photos even if I use my pro lighting(My makeshift ones would better)"

Just keep tring, & you will get it all figured out.As for mw, I'm terrified of camras, in front & behind them.

Francis wrote: "Or, thanks to Rita:

I Ain't Broke - Don't Fix Me!"

Thank you, Francis. That was nice of you, to guote, me.

Rita wrote: "Lanee wrote: "Thanks Rita, I'm just saying what I've learn with looking at things. I mostly have lighting issues with my Photos even if I use my pro lighting(My makeshift ones would better)"

Just ..."

I was that way to0 but now I'm not. But I find it better when behind them at first then get in front of them gives you a better idea of angles and lighting. I think my problem is I most go photo shoots outside and i try to work with the things that are easy to find. You only have to worry about one source light angel but light pollution can completely ruin a photo. I also find using nature in a cover just makes thing look less forced.
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Francis wrote: "There are an awful lot of books playing off the 50 Shades theme. My immediate thought is 'Hmm, looks sexy...' followed about five seconds later by 'I'm so bored...'

Of course, The Hunger Games wen..."

For the title I want to go with simplicity itself (NOT my title by the way!); for the cover I want an element of mystery but I also want to portray an image of New Orleans, which is the center stage of the book; the city itself is a minor character. I have taken many photos that I may be able to use; nothing just seems quite right.
I think the "Quest for Alina Meridon" sounds more intriguing. My author friend showed us the cover she picked and loved for her first book; I quite liked it also. It did not sell. She changed it to a artwork image and that seems to be doing better. I don't really like it. I see a lot of titles, and covers for that matter, that seem like the same thing over and over. But then, people seem to want to be told the exact same stories, over and over, with minor changes in detail. I guess. I bet there will be only 100 people on the planet who will really get my book and love it.

Hung, Drawn & French-Quartered

Hmmmm....yes, Hung, and French-Quartered would do; not sure about the Drawn. :)