I need help.
Book Two of my erotic romance series, Sinners on Tour, is deep in revisions. It won't be released until April... of 2011, but I need a title for it by this Monday (April 12, 2011). A GOOD title. My publisher doesn't like my proposed title. It's not "intimate and evocative" enough. I have some ideas, but two heads are better than one. So five or ten heads must be really good. Right?
So, I'm in desperate need of title ideas. I prefer something that has something to do with the book, or with rock stars, in general. If you have any ideas, PLEASE, share them. If my publisher chooses the title you suggest, you'll get glowing praise in the book's Acknowledgements section. I'll even send you a signed copy when the book is released next year.
The first book is titled "Backstage Pass".
Here's the cover, to hopefully get those title ideas flowing.
I'd love to come up with another title that screams "rock stars" and "fun", but all ideas are welcome. The hero and heroine frequently engage in sex in public locations, specifically tourist attractions. So a tie-in to that would be excellent, too.
Here's a short synopsis, so you know what the book is about:
Sinners on Tour Book 2 – Short Synopsis
Two years ago, Jessica Chase shredded Sed’s heart when she threw her engagement ring at him and left without a backwards glance. Since then, he’s tried to forget her by screwing any woman who will have him. It’s no use. Sed still loves Jessica and she obviously didn’t think a dirt-poor, struggling rock vocalist met her high standards. So why is Ms. Holier-Than-Thou stripping at Las Vegas club? Seeing her there, with all those men gawking at her, wanting her, touching her, sends Sed into a jealous rage. Jessica belongs to him. Always has, always will.
And now that his band—Sinners—has attained huge success, Sed has more cash than an armored truck. Surely, that will make her see him in a different light.
Two years ago, Sed Lionheart pressed an infuriating ultimatum on Jessica—give up her life-long dream of becoming a lawyer or his love. Heart-broken, she made her choice and ended their engagement. Since then, she’s tried to forget him by avoiding men entirely. It’s no use. Jessica still hates Sed and knows one mere woman will ever satisfy his over-inflated ego or insatiable sexual appetite. So why is Mr. It’s-All-About-Me at the strip club where she’s working for the summer? And what gives him the right to yank her off the stage and thrust thousands of dollars at her in some egotistical attempt to prove she needs him to take care of her? She doesn’t need Sed. Never did, never will.
But she does want him. And who wouldn’t? The man is delicious—sexy, virile, and amazing in bed.
Thanks to Sed’s posturing, Jessica finds herself jobless, homeless, and desperate. She has no choice but to take a summer job that has her trapped on Sinners’ tour bus with the impossibly sexy jerk for two entire months. And, curse it all, the passion between them is hotter than ever.
Seeking revenge for her broken heart, Jessica convinces Sed to enter into a sex-only relationship with plans to hurt him as he hurt her.
Sed agrees to a benefits-with-benefits relationship, willing to do anything to convince Jessica she’s the only woman for him. If only that bitter fan girl hadn’t recorded their explicit public display of affection at Las Vegas’s Eiffel Tower and posted the video across the internet. Her reputation in ruins, Jessica fears she’ll be expelled from law school and Sed’s concerned that she will never trust him again. But as they spend time together, working as a team, Jessica starts to see Sed in a new light. He’s changed in the two years since they parted. But has he grown enough to let Jessica retain her independence and share his spotlight, center stage?




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Neon Nights
Play Me
Rock Me
The Main Attraction
Strip for Me
Hot Lights, Hard Nights
More later
What do you think of Rock Hard? As a title, I mean.
Encore Performance
Hot Vocals
Frontman
Stage Play
Stage Presence
Heated Lyrics
I liked many of Pat's suggestions. "The Main Attraction" especially jumped out at me.
There's always the cheesy, Growl of Desire. Of course that only works if you've read the book.
Replacement suggestion: Live Act. Or, Up Close and Personal
Sin on the Street
Naked Truth
Second Sin
Sin Again
Strip Party
Private Passion, Public Display
Spotlight on Sin
I'm not good at this.
Ken, I will go searching through the text looking for something this weekend. Something might jump out at me. Right now, I'm drawing a blank.
Sinning Pretty
Sex and Sinners
Do, Lay, Me (couldn't resist that one, but it'd be waaaaay to hard to make that work for Do, Re, Mi)
The Stripper and The Sinner
Suxsed
Hard Rock
Rock On
Rockin'
I like Encore. A lot. It says a lot about their relationship, but doesn't really highlight their, um, public tendencies.
Pubic Party (snork!)
Pubic Indecency (someone stop me now!)
I honestly think Center Stage is perfect. He's the lead singer, she strips on stage... It goes with Backstage Pass and the whole rocker thing...
Judi a lot of my title suggestions played up Center Stage too.
Curtain Call
Main Event
Headliner
Exit Stage Right
Front Row Seat
Two to Tango
Head-Banger (okay, that might be TOO blatant)
Red Carpet Rocker
I like Center Stage but then there's the movie of the same name about ballet so maybe not
Coming Undone (been listening to a lot of Korn)
Almost Easy (come on, it's AX7)
Hard Rockin' Nights
Burn It Down (AX7 again)
Burning Up
Burning Love (can't go wrong with Elvis)
Tear It Up
True, on Center Stage. A fan of that movie might be slightly suprised if they picked up my book. But only slightly. :-)
"Coming Undone" lolol! and in all sorts of places.
Original Sinner
Stripped
Sinner in the Spotlight
Sin City Spotlight
Center Strip
And something with Spotlight would be good, too!
Sizzling Show
Personal Encore
Passionate Acts
Hot Lights
Hot and Heavy
Sizzling Acts
Passionate Encore
Hot Encore
Sizzlin Encore
Okay, I'm becoming obsessed with titling this book LOL
How about--
Public Encore
Out in Front
Eyes on You
On Display
Public Love
Nothing Hidden
Public Display
Let's Get Private in Public
Public Exposure
Private Exposure
Rockin' in Public
Something using The Front Man? The Front Man Exposed?
I'm going to have eleventy-million great titles.
Rock Me Silly
Rock Me Forever
Rockin' Encore
Hard Rock, Hard Love
Encore Lover
Rockin' Lover
Rocked by the Song
Ready to Rock
Rock and a Hard Place
Rock Steady
Rock the Night
I also had
Lover's Encore
Great minds, yo know. :-)
I like Rock the Night.
Or, Above Neon Lights.
Currently, I'm playing with the words "Encore" and "Encounter"
encore ecstasy
love’s encore
lover’s encore
encore seduction
encore encounter
open encounters
I found out that there's already a popular book called Love's Encore, however, so I guess that's out.
It's going to be impossible to widdle this list down to the 10 or 20 my editor requested.
Front and Center?
Uninhibited Encore
Peak Performance
Spotlight's Sweet Surrender
Spotlight Duo
Heated Performance
In the Public Eye, a Wanton Performance
something sweeter... A Second Engagement : In the Spotlight
or playing off the Grammy...Best Rock Performance by a Duo, might make a fun blurb add-on.
I bet Olivia's now driving herself crazy narrowing down such a great list of possibilities. Heh.
Hi!!!
Loving Encore
Private Love, Public Passion
I ended up compiling a list of 240 titles. I then whittled it down to 40 and ranked them in order of preference. I sent that list to my editor. They had a meeting and they chose:
Rock Hard
Well, there we have it. No subtlety there. LOL! And Sed (the hero of the book) really is rock hard (in more than one way *wink) and rocks hard. The book will look nice on the shelf, next to Backstage Pass.