Sunday, June 06, 2010

Book Title Help

So, the book I've been yammering on about for a year or so now is pretty much finished -- just waiting to have one more conversation with my editor, some copy editing, and seeing whether it will be published in the fall or not. (It's likely, but a few factors on their end might delay it a bit.)

The most universally liked title (by me, the series editors, and the editor at the publisher) is Sects, Love, and Rock & Roll. But we need a subtitle that somehow shows that the book is a memoir-y / personal essay-y collection (without actually saying those words), alludes to the music-and-faith angle, and communicates the balance between reverent (somewhat) and irreverent (probably moreso) in the tone.

The is idea is something like "Confessions of a __________." (Some lame ideas could be stuff like "a jaded Christian music critic," "an evangelical record collector," etc. Those would be horrible as titles, but hopefully you get the idea.) But the question is, what can we put in the _______ that will make sense, sound sexy, and make people want to read it?

1 comment:

Ben said...

The first thing that popped into my head was something like "Confessions of a [insert favorite rock band] fan in the choir loft."

So, it could be something like "Confessions of a Pixies fan in the choir loft."

Now that I see it in print, I'm not sure how strong it is, but it's a start.