My title (Dead Sofa) got a 69% chance of being a bestselling title. I'm going to consider this what my stomach needs to stop panicking. Fun link, thanks!
Concentrate on the front cover picture. Everyone knows the first thing that grabs a reader's attention is the front cover. Which makes me want to write a book with the title: Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover with a really awsome front cover and the foreword to read: You judged it, didn't you? (insert accusitory look here). 'Cause I'm feeling wacky and stuff.
Okay. Anything You Can Do ... got a 31.7%. Maybe the site just doesn't like sections of popular idioms. Or maybe it was a bad idea. It's kinda hard to tell.
I have no idea what sort of "grammar type" my title is. I always, always sucked as grammar. I said it was a "Grammatically complete phrase" and got 44.2% but when I said it was a "Other phrase with verb (not grammatically complete)" it got 79.6% *shrugs*
What do you know. I said my title was figurative (which, come to think of it, I should have done in the first place) and said it began with a pronoun and the score shot up to 76.9%. I have no idea what methods this program uses.
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I saw this on here last year, but I haven't seen it around yet this year, so I thought I'd post it for all you lovely people.
Basically you put in a few details about your title and it works out the chances of that book becoming a bestseller, using just the title.
www.lulu.com/titlescorer/
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My title (Dead Sofa) got a 69% chance of being a bestselling title. I'm going to consider this what my stomach needs to stop panicking. Fun link, thanks!
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Mine, (Mercy Bound) got 38% but I'm not changing it. Because I'm stubborn like that.
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Mine (Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves) got 34 point something. So I'm not going to sweat it.
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By the way, I thought this was kinda neat...so I pilfered it to place on our regional team forum :-)
Hope you don't mind (I'm giving you credit so my plageristic ways is not totally ammoral!)
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Cool! True Blue got a 26.3 %! It's in the running for book of the year! (I hope....)
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Oo-er. My title, "Licking the walls" got 20%.
Maybe it doesn't do so well with weirdness. :/
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Concentrate on the front cover picture. Everyone knows the first thing that grabs a reader's attention is the front cover. Which makes me want to write a book with the title: Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover with a really awsome front cover and the foreword to read: You judged it, didn't you? (insert accusitory look here). 'Cause I'm feeling wacky and stuff.
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My title got a 41.4%
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So did mine :)
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This site is the only reason I want to come up with a title name before I write. xD
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Oh no! Procrastination here I come. This website is awesome. Thanks for the link!
My first title got a 41.4%. The next 2 both received 68%.
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Okay. Anything You Can Do ... got a 31.7%. Maybe the site just doesn't like sections of popular idioms. Or maybe it was a bad idea. It's kinda hard to tell.
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"Voice of Reason" neted only a 26%
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Start it with The or A and it's more likely to get a higher score... just saying.
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Somehow I think changing mine to "The Licking of Walls" would be weird.
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61.1% for y title :-)
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79.6% chance for Swimming in Stars. Not bad!
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Sweet, 72.5% :D I think the best thing is that I even *have* a title for this year, to be honest.
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69%. I'm going to refrain from making any dirty jokes. :P
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69%... which is the highest score I've ever gotten for any of my titles.
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10.2%. How depressing xD Oh well, I like my title...
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I got 10.2% also, so sad xD Probably will come up with a better title as I write
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Darkness Rising=59.3%
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Rising Spears got 55.4%.
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I have no idea what sort of "grammar type" my title is. I always, always sucked as grammar. I said it was a "Grammatically complete phrase" and got 44.2% but when I said it was a "Other phrase with verb (not grammatically complete)" it got 79.6% *shrugs*
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If you tell it your title is figurative, it goes up by almost 30%.
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What do you know. I said my title was figurative (which, come to think of it, I should have done in the first place) and said it began with a pronoun and the score shot up to 76.9%. I have no idea what methods this program uses.
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The title Absolution has a 59.3% chance of being a bestselling title!
Yep it was 32% when I changed it to literal.
Also, I had a hard time deciding if it was literal or figurative :/ I'm guessing figurative.
And that's silly seeing as the examples for literal are much better-selling books.
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Contact Binary = 69.0%
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Mine only got 10.2%. But, It is the only title I can think of for my story. And it fits perfect. So, I don't care.
'When Demons Die' = 10.2%