What’s your candidate for the best book title in the world?

Mine’s William Manchester’s A World Lit Only By Fire… I can’t think of a more evocative title for a book about the Middle Ages.

OK, over to you — what’s your candidate for the best book title in the world? Send me a message on Twitter.

If you’re in the process of writing a book, chances are that you’ve spent a lot of time thinking about a great title. Relax. You’ll have plenty of time to change it before publication, and your editor will weigh in on the title too.

Do you love Alice in Wonderland – the book, rather than the movie? I do, so much so that I’ve got no intention of watching the current movie.

But I want to “read” Alice on an iPad. Watch this video to see why.

Isn’t it superb? Alice in Wonderland on the iPad is both a book, and a game.

If you’re currently writing a book, think “game”. How could your book become an integral part of an iPad game?

Get creative, and mention your ideas for an iPad game in your book proposal. Publishers are always looking for hot marketing ideas, so they’ll think that they’ve got themselves a truly savvy author.

Sadly, Michael Crichton is no longer with us. He’ll be missed. I’ve never yet been disappointed when reading one of his novels, and I’ve some of his books several times.

My favorite is Timeline, a book which takes you back to the Middle Ages and is, in my opinion, the best time travel novel ever.

An Appraisal – Michael Crichton – Builder of Windup Realms That Thrillingly Run Amok – NYTimes.com says:

“Michael Crichton, who died on Tuesday at the age of 66, was like a character in a Michael Crichton novel. He was unusually tall (6 feet 7 inches), strikingly handsome and encyclopedically well informed about everything from dinosaurs to medieval banquet halls to nanotechnology.”

Self-help queen Louise Hay is a publishing phenomenon, with her own publishing house.

Read this excellent article Louise Hay – Hay House – Publishing – Books – Authors – You Can Heal Your Life – New Age – New York Times which reports:

“LOUISE HAY IS ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS IN HISTORY, and none of the women who have sold more — like J. K. Rowling, Danielle Steel and Barbara Cartland — owned a publishing empire. They did not change the spiritual landscape of America and several of its Western allies. They were not pregnant at 15 and they did not lack high-school diplomas. Finer writers they may have been (depending on your taste), and wealthier women, but it would be hard to argue that any was more interesting than Louise Hay.”

I love the self-help field – it’s one area where you can turn the lemons which life hands you into lemonade, using your writing skills.

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There’s an interesting new development at Amazon.

Amazon Muscles Print-On-Demand Services reports:

“Amazon has announced that it will only sell print-on-demand books printed by its own print-on-demand service BookSurge.”

This is bad news if you’re currently selling your books published by Lulu.com and others at Amazon, because now you won’t be able to do that. You’ll have to use Amazon’s own services if you want Amazon sales.

This may be a quality issue. With BookSurge, Amazon could demand further editing with books which don’t meet quality guidelines. OTOH, it may just be that they want to build up BookSurge and make it the de facto POD standard.

Either way, it will be interesting to see what happens.

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I chuckled when I read the story because many writers think a “six figure income” is hype. Either that, or they think that a great income is reserved for copywriters, or genre novelists, or other specialist writers.

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