How good is the title of your Novel? Find out here!

Prawn · Nov 29, 2006

Here's a toy for you: It is a database of titles of bestsellers in the past 50 years or so. If you put the title of your novel in, it will tell you what chance it has of being a bestseller! My novel "Across the Green Line" has a 41% chance. What about your novel?

Stew21 · Nov 29, 2006

my first MS has a 63.7% chance of being a best seller! HA!

my second, which I think is so far a better manuscript doesn't yet have a title.

MajorDrums · Nov 29, 2006

oh god. only a 26.3% chance for my title. i'm too embarrassed to say it, now.

veinglory · Nov 29, 2006

Oh dear, and today is pretty much my last chace to change it, I'm submitting the blurb form!

The title King of Dragons, King of Men has a 10.2% chance of being a bestselling title!

MidnightMuse · Nov 29, 2006

I wanna play a different game

44.2 percent chance. Guess I'll keep my day job.

veinglory · Nov 29, 2006

Hey, nobody has beaten my low score yet

Momento Mori · Nov 29, 2006

Hmm ... 45.6% for my title. That's encouraging!

Stacia Kane · Nov 29, 2006

41.4%

Eh. I still love my title.

Stacia Kane · Nov 29, 2006

41.4%

Eh. I still love my title.

Prawn · Nov 29, 2006

So nice you had to say it twice, december!

How about this result:
The title the davinci code has a 35.9% chance of being a bestselling title!

BruceJ · Nov 29, 2006

Mine was 14.6%. I hope this is like golf...

Elektra · Nov 29, 2006

Prawn said:
So nice you had to say it twice, december!

How about this result:
The title the davinci code has a 35.9% chance of being a bestselling title!

That's weird--I got a 45.6% for it.

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 29, 2006

Drat. Now I have to rethink my titles. Both "Don't Anger the Demon" and "Atlantis Rising" come in at 10.2%.

alices · Nov 29, 2006

Poor TC!

Without Remorse – 26.3%

Executive Orders – 10.2%

Clear and Present Danger – 10.2%

icerose · Nov 29, 2006

Six of my titles had around a 10% chance and two made it as high as 20%.

kuatolives · Nov 29, 2006

Harry Potter and the Corporate Cash Grab - 14.6%

Bufty · Nov 29, 2006

69% - Hmmm - maybe I answered the questions wrong.

blackbird · Nov 29, 2006

This means nothing. I intentionally typed in the title of several novels that I happen to know are bestsellers. Two of those, The Bridges of Madison County and The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, came up with only a 10.2% chance of being bestsellers. Which goes to show, this little test has no actual merit when it comes to predicting what will actually sell. It's merely based on analytic probability-evidently, for example, titles containing the preposition "of" seem to have an automatic mark against them. But as reality has proven, those kinds of statistics have little value when it actually comes to what people will or will not read. It's a fun game, but take it for what it's worth. Don't go into a panic thinking you must suddenly change your title.

Elodie-Caroline · Nov 29, 2006

How do you know they aren't just looking for titles that have never been used before... someone on there might want to get some new ideas? lol

Ellie

kristie911 · Nov 29, 2006

My first MS title got 20.1%...and amazingly the second is exactly the same.

Hmmm...interesting, the way it's going, I'm thinking the chance will be much, much lower!

aruna · Nov 29, 2006

Prawn said:
Here's a toy for you: It is a database of titles of bestsellers in the past 50 years or so. If you put the title of your novel in, it will tell you what chance it has of being a bestseller! My novel "Across the Green Line" has a 41% chance. What about your novel?

Hey!
The title White Night has a 69.0% chance of being a bestselling title!.. wait for it, folks!

Haggis · Nov 29, 2006

It seems as though my first novel, The Sun Also Rises, only has 10.2% chance of making it big. On the other hand, my other novel, Atlanta Nights, gives me a whopping 45.6% chance.

jbal · Nov 29, 2006

veinglory said:
Hey, nobody has beaten my low score yet

I tied it with 10.2% for The Malignancy. Better odds than I expected actually.

Codger · Nov 29, 2006

"The Shining" and "The Godfather" both scored 10.2. I guess that titles aren't everything.

smiley10000 · Nov 29, 2006

So I guess I shouldn't get too excited that I have a 51% chance of hitting the bestsellers list...

ah well... It's worth hoping anyways...

10000

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