Choosing the Title for a Book

Last week in one of my Yahoo Groups, one after another member offered suggestions to a writer friend asking for help in choosing a title for her new book. Everyone’s suggestions were great. My friend thanked everyone and announced what she liked best of all the suggestions. This made me think once again about the titles of my books, what is wrong and what is right. What steps should I have taken? First I checked to make sure no other book had that title. I should have checked to see what results I would get from a major search engine. I would have found that “Lovely Little Lamb” brings up a porn site. I should have considered what key words are most used on an amazon.com search; “I’ll Tuck You in, Deer” is border line. It is too long but descriptive.

This leads into my guest author this week, Shari Lyle-Soffe. I love her unique name for her series, Rooter and Snuffles. Please read what she has to say about her new book.
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April, thank you for inviting me to talk about my latest book in the Rooter and Snuffle series, "Trouble Finds Rooter and Snuffle".

As with the first two books, this book is made up of three complete stories about the mischievous raccoon brothers.

In the first story, Rooter the oldest brother finds a new friend, Twitcher Rabbit. Twitcher wants Rooter to like only him and Rooter is flattered. But is having only one friend a good thing?

In the second story, Snuffle is disappointed because of all the things he can't do very well. Then his brother and some friends teach him a valuable lesson.

In the third story, Rooter and Snuffle's game of pickup twigs is interrupted by the screams of a friend in trouble. At first the animals feel helpless. Then they realize together they can make a difference.

Events in the lives of Rooter and Snuffle are based on my childhood as the oldest of four children, and other children I have known.

Raccoons are a pleasant memory from my childhood and I hope children will enjoy reading about them as much as I enjoy writing about them.

Kevin Scott Collier's illustrations are delightful. Children always ask if I drew them. They love the colorful illustrations and so do I.

My publisher is Guardian Angel Publishing and they have done a wonderful job with the books. They are great to work with. All three books can be found at most online and brick and mortar book stores. http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Finds-Rooter-Snuffle-Lyle-Soffe/dp/1933090723/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210855639&sr=8-3

Children and parents alike can visit my webpage at http://www.rooterandsnuffle.blogspot.com
where they will find more information about Rooter and Snuffle and other characters from the books. There is wonderful information available there about raccoons. They will also find printable coloring pages and raccoon games to play.

I love animals and am donating part of my royalties from these books to Wildlife Images, a wildlife rehabilitation and education facility here in Oregon

Shari Lyle-Soffe

ROOTER AND SNUFFLE

BOOK LAUNCH "The Slippery Art of Book
Reviewing" http://www.sharilyle-soffe.com