Best way to title first in a trilogy

Woollybear

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Hiya. I'm getting notes together for my cover artist and curious what is standard or would be best for the subtitle for my novel. The phrasing. No matter how I try say this is the first in a trilogy, it feels wrong.

AEROVOYANT
Book 1 of Turaset's Industrial Age trilogy


AEROVOYANT
The Industrial Age trilogy, Book 1


AEROVOYANT
Turaset's Industrial Age trilogy, book 1

Or is there some other standard way to do the subtitle? I looked at a few titles and they seem to vary, and they all looked good, but I can't look at my own without thinking it looks stupid no matter how I try to write it. Help?
 
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ironmikezero

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I'd recommend keeping it simple . . .

AEROVOYANT

Vol. I
of

THE INDUSTRIAL AGE


Center everything of course (for some reason centering Vol.I & of won't format properly upon saving)
It's really your personal preference . . . you can always change your mind, right up to the last minute.
 
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Yes, trilogy might not be needed....
 

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Yes, trilogy might not be needed....

I put it in because it's kind of a promise that the writer knows when/how it's going to end. I've talked to a non-negligible number of people at book festivals and such who shy away from jumping into a new series if they think it might not get finished or go on forever. One of the reasons I like the trilogy as a format is it says from the get go "this story will come to an end."
 

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Maybe it can go in the back cover blurb, too, instead. Certainly on the website.