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Bad title free-for-all

Okay, I know we all want to get it out of our systems. I’ve spent the past two days obsessing over what to re-title my book, and some of you have been gracious enough to offer suggestions, both on the blog and off. I sincerely appreciate your efforts. Some of your titles were . . . interesting.

I think I’ve finally come up with my own title, although I want to let it steep for a few days to make sure. I’ll let you know when it’s settled.

In the meantime, we all need to blow off a little steam. So here’s your chance to come up with the absolutely most horrendous titles you can think of for my book.

Again, the novel is about a girl caught in the fight between her high school and her church over the teaching of evolution. I’ll start the bidding with my own two favorite, most outrageous titles that I swear at some point in the last two days sounded perfect and totally normal:

THE DARWIN-JESUS SMACKDOWN

SCIENCE GEEKS AND JESUS FREAKS

Feeling inspired? Gimme what you got . . .

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Posted on Friday, June 16th, 2006 at 7:53 am under Reading, Writing . Subscribe to responses: RSS 2.0 Comment Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

7 Responses to “Bad title free-for-all”

  1. annette Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 10:50 am

    “Jesus Wears Dockers”

  2. Patrick Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 12:52 pm

    “Sometimes Darwin, Sometimes Dar-lose.”
    “Riding the Beagle to Eden”

    I can’t help but think that we have focused too much on the wrong part. Sorry, my imaginary bestselling nature is coming out. How about this -

    “Torn”

    or

    “Ringtone”

  3. robin Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 12:54 pm

    We have a winner!

  4. Patrick Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 4:19 pm

    Of course! I win EVERYTHING!! :)

    Is “Darwin Boy and God Girl” too obvious?

  5. Lizzie Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 9:50 pm

    Jesus is my Science Teacher

    The Pope and the Microscope

    or you could just yank a line from “Jesus He Knows Me”… cause he knows you’re right.

  6. robin Says:
    June 17th, 2006 at 7:26 am

    Oh, Lizzie, I like “The Pope and the Microscope.” Maybe someone will write a song like that some day.

    Maybe you?

  7. bj Says:
    June 18th, 2006 at 8:51 am

    “Darwin: 20, Fundamentalists: Zip”

    “A Fruitfly Grows in Eden”

    “Genesis and Genes, Perfect Together”

    “And Storks Really Deliver Babies”