First I will start with seven general principles:

Here’s how to come up with book title ideas:

• Use a book title generator tool.
• Write down the problem you’re solving.
• Create a subtitle to clarify.
• Make it memorable.
• Make sure it’s genre-appropriate.
• Create it to stir intrigue.
• Include your character in the title.
• Get feedback from your target audience.

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1. Keep It Short, Simple, and to the Point.
2. Be Clear About Your Main Benefit.
3. Announce Exciting News (News Your Audience Cares About)
4. Questions in the Headline.
5. Appeal to You Reader’s Hunger for Knowledge.
6. Tell Your Audience What to Do!

But if you enjoy the sensation of a dozen spiders crawling down your back, here are some truly creepy titles:

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirely Jackson.
• It by Stephen King.
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
• Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick.
• I Held My Breath as Long as I Could by Kristopher Kelly.

A creative title, on the other hand, grabs a reader’s attention while hinting at what’s to come. The direction your title will take — that is, how creative you can be with it — depends on the creative freedom the format of your text requires. Pick a significant theme or motif from your text.

Spooky Names

• Arachna. Spider Woman.
• Banshee. Screaming Spirit.
• Barnabas. First name of vampire from TV show (soon to be movie) “Dark Shadows”
• Beelzebub. Another name for Devil.
• Betelgeuse. Scary spirit – don’t say it 3 times!
• Blair. From the movie The Blair Witch Project.
• Bloody Mary. Ghost Legend.
• Blackbeard. Pirate Ghost.

Do

1. Keep it concise and informative. What’s appropriate for titles varies greatly across disciplines.
2. Write for your audience.
3. Entice the reader.
4. Incorporate important keywords.
5. Write in sentence case.

The only punctuation mark needed for a title would be a question mark at the end—if the title is a question. It is always considered perfectly acceptable to use questions as titles for any piece of writing—a poem, a novel, an essay, a short story, or any other literary piece.

A title is a story’s first impression. A title creates anticipation and expectation or, perhaps, disinterest. Often the title is what will determine whether or not someone reads a story.

Here are some ideas we’ve come up with:

• Stolen Sweetheart.
• Perfect Peace.
• Heartless Love.
• Perfect Smile.
• Endless Beauty.

The place of publication is the “name of the city where the publisher is located.” The place can be found on the title page or verso of the title page. It is not necessary to identify the state, province, or country after the city name (5.5.

Titles of books, plays, films, periodicals, databases, and websites are italicized. Place titles in quotation marks if the source is part of a larger work. Articles, essays, chapters, poems, webpages, songs, and speeches are placed in quotation marks.

For words used as words and letters used as letters, use quotation marks: Put “i” before “e” except after “c” or when sounding like “a” as in “neighbor” and “weigh.” then revise to avoid the problem: The letter “c” and the letter “m” appear twice in “accommodation.”

Titles of books should be underlined or put in italics . (Titles of stories, essays and poems are in “quotation marks.”) Refer to the text specifically as a novel, story, essay, memoir, or poem, depending on what it is. In subsequent references to the author, use his or her last name.

Commas should sometimes be placed before – and after – names and titles. Let’s start with the fact that unless a name or title is the last word(s) in a sentence, it can either be used with no commas at all, OR with a comma both before and after. It is incorrect to place only one comma before the name or title.

Holding the title of “author” over any “literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, [or] certain other intellectual works” gives rights to this person, the owner of the copyright, especially the exclusive right to engage in or authorize any production or distribution of their work.

Titles of full works like books or newspapers should be italicized. Titles of short works like poems, articles, short stories, or chapters should be put in quotation marks. Titles of books that form a larger body of work may be put in quotation marks if the name of the book series is italicized.

The basic structure of a book reference should list the author’s last name, first initials, publication year, book title, and publisher. For example: Rogers, C. R. (1961).

The general formats of a book reference are:

1. Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (year). Book title. Location: Publisher.
2. Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (year). Book title.
3. Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (year). Book title.
4. Editor, A. A. (Ed.). (year).
5. Editor, A. A., & Editor B. B. (Eds.). (year).

If you’re seeking permission to quote from a book, look on the copyright page for the rights holder; it’s usually the author. However, assuming the book is currently in print and on sale, normally you contact the publisher for permission.

Use double quotation marks around the title of an article or chapter, and italicize the title of a periodical, book, brochure, or report.

In APA, use italics for titles of books, scholarly journals, periodicals, films, videos, television shows, and microfilm publications. Quotation marks or italics are not required for articles, webpages, songs, episodes, etc.

When referring to books, chapters, articles, or webpages, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of a title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns. Italicize titles of longer works such as books and journals.