So I’m about a quarter of the way through the revisions for the next Gaia Nova book, currently titled Heart of the Nebula. The thing is, the story is changing a lot in the revision, to the point where that title doesn’t really make sense any more.
This tends to happen with most of my longer books. The original working title for Genesis Earth was THE WORMHOLE PARADIGM. Desert Stars started out as HERO IN EXILE, switched to WORLDS AWAY FROM HOME, then simplified briefly to WORLDS AWAY before finally settling on its current tile. Bringing Stella Home is actually the original working title for that book, but it briefly changed to MERCENARY SAVIOR before switching back again. The only novel of mine that hasn’t had two or three different titles is Stars of Blood and Glory, but that book was unusual in a number of ways.
In fact, Heart of the Nebula has already gone through one title change. It started out as “Into the Nebulous Deep,” not the most inspiring title but definitely accurate (perhaps even mildly spoilerific). I thought about changing it to “Into the Heart of the Nebula” before shortening that to the title it has now.
Anyway. For reasons I don’t really care to get into, I need a new title for this one. Here are some of the ones I’ve come up with so far:
- STAR WOLF
- THE LONE WOLF OF THE NEBULA
- HOPE OF THE FREEDOM STAR
- LEGEND OF THE FREEDOM STAR
- EXODUS OF THE FREEDOM STAR
- LONE WOLF OF THE FREEDOM STAR
I really like the words “wolf,” “legend,” “exodus,” and “freedom star,” but I’m not sure how to combine them in the best way. I’m kind of partial to STAR WOLF, just because it’s shortest, but LONE WOLF OF THE FREEDOM STAR has a ring to it that comes closest to what I’m shooting for.
Those are my thoughts for the moment, anyway. What do you guys think?
