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What Makes a Title Great?

Novelist Caroline Leavitt on the impossibility — and importance — of finding the perfect title: When I finished my new novel, I was relieved, excited, overwhelmed, and then terrified.  I knew I wasn’t really finished – I had to do the one thing that makes my head feel as if it is going to explode:  I had to find the right title. Having published eight other novels, I knew that a title wasn’t just my own creative decision.  My editor, my agent, publicity [...]