Runoff poll

[sholio]

Okay, at this point xparrot suggested a brilliant alternative to one of the titles I liked that wasn't quite there yet, and my other two favorites are heavily leading the poll, so it's time for a runoff poll!

Click the cut to see what the titles look like on the actual book.

Poll #20221

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 56

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Check all the ones you like!

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Iron in the Blood
29 (51.8%)

Shadow and Steel
26 (46.4%)

Rogue Myths
22 (39.3%)

(For comparison, the next two books are titled Echo City and Hollow Souls.)

Comments

[slhuang]

I like Rogue Myths! Is it an asshole move at this stage if I suggest also maybe brainstorming 2-syllable adjectives to match Echo City / Hollow Souls? Like Shadow Myths? Or um... Wayward Myths? Savage Myths?

...idk, I'm bad at titles. But if you did something like Shadow Myths / Echo City / Hollow Souls it would match really well in cadence and I'm into that. ;) Or Shadow Steel?

*is totally the jerk who should have commented yesterday *

The cover is badass regardless.

[sholio]

... Man, I like Wayward Myths. Hmmm. Savage Myths and Feral Myths were both ones I kicked around, but both of them have major Unfortunate Implications when paired with a POC cover model. Rogue Myths, I think, manages to skip that because it doesn't have particularly negative connotations.

I think a 2-syllable first word has a better cadence in addition to fitting the pattern of the other titles better, but at this point it's probably going to be Rogue Myths unless something clicks for me really hard that has the same general meaning. Though ... Wayward Myths. Hmmm.