{"id":"6092","date":"2020-12-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickfu.com\/blog\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2020-12-08T07:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:12:19","slug":"thriller-book-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pickfu.com\/thriller-book-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Which One Won? The thrill of a short book title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes the hardest thing about writing a book<\/a> is coming up with the title. The wrong one can drive readers away, while the right one can bring them running. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how do you decide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One author recently took two titles<\/a> for a medical\/legal thriller to PickFu’s pool of fiction readers for help: UNETHICAL<\/em> (Option A) and Josephine’s Father & The Institute<\/em> (Option B). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you guess which one won?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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And the winner is…Option A! With a score of 68 to Option B’s 32, it’s clear readers preferred the shorter title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s why.<\/p>\n\n\n

Shorter yet more interesting<\/h2>\n\n\n

While Option A’s title is just one word, readers found it infinitely more interesting than Josephine’s Father & The Institute<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I like the shorter titles that grab you,” said one respondent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A single-word title catches your eye the best and is the most intriguing,” another person said. “The other title kind of rolls on and on until you’re no longer interested.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite its brevity, the one-word title “is memorable and intriguing [and] gives the reader an immediate feeling of anxiety that ties into the medical\/legal thriller genre,” said another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short, intriguing, and genre-fitting? Now that’s a solid title. <\/p>\n\n\n

Too long and too vague <\/h2>\n\n\n

Not only was Option B’s title long, it was also unclear. “The other one is too long for a title and too vague,” wrote one respondent who voted for Option A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A female reader wrote, “Josephine’s Father & The Institute<\/em> sounds like an 18th-century book about a father who puts his daughter in an institute for being pregnant. UNETHICAL<\/em> sounds like it could be contemporary and would be about something unethical that occurred.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As another reader pointed out, “Josephine’s Father & The Institute<\/em> doesn’t really seem to have anything to do with a medical\/legal realm.” <\/p>\n\n\n

Key takeaways <\/h2>\n\n\n

Shorter isn’t always better, but in this case, the one-word title was both more interesting and <\/em>more relevant to the book’s genre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you need help selecting the perfect title for your mystery or thriller, PickFu’s audience of fiction readers<\/a> can help you decide. Create a poll today<\/a> and get responses in as little as 15 minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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