In any genre, you can find a plethora of very similar--or even identical--titles. Just try searching on Amazon by some of the more common words, and see how many books you find with the same title. There are just certain words that epitomize a genre. And as we all know, titles cannot be copyrighted, therefore you can't claim someone is copying from you or stop them from using the same title. Otherwise, we'd likely run out of book titles. (You can, however, trademark a title as a "brand" under certain circumstances. You see this with some series names.)
So...here's a list of very common title words for romances (including erotic romances). There will be kudos and prizes to those who create the most imaginative and unique book title from this list. Rules:
~ Title can be any length.
~ You may use only the words on this list and connector or little words (a, and, the, this, of, or, for, with, her, him...).
~ You may use the singular or plural noun form, possessives, or any tense of a verb.
Okay, post your entries in Comments by Friday, September 25! Oh, yeah, extra points for an appropriately creative author pen name along with the title.
All
Bad
Blood
Blue
Born
Bound
Captive
Capture
Dark
Desire
Dragon
Dream
Eye
Forbidden
Hawk
Heart
Hero
Hot
Hunt
Knight
Love
Lust
Magic (or Magick)
Master
Midnight
Mistress
Moon
Night
Paradise
Shadow
Slave
Submission
Surrender
Time
Want
Wicked
Wild
Winter
Wolf
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Blood, Dark and Sweet
ReplyDeleteParadise in Winter
That's all I can think of right now. Long day. I do enjoy this kind of thing.
Sometimes titles are so easy and other times it's like pulling teeth.
The Wicked Wolf and the Midnight Surrender.
ReplyDeleteThe Hot Hunt for the Wild Mistress.
Wanted: Forbidden Blood.
Master Magic and the Dragon Mistress.
My pen name would be Sally Sidebottom. I think I've got a bestseller in the making!
Forbidden Moon Dream of the Winter Wolf
ReplyDeleteyes I know I've been silly but I couldn't help it. All words used in the title. Off to write the book now.
ReplyDeleteThe wild winter wolf who wants a heart is hunted at night time by the blue-blooded Master of Midnight only to be captured by the wicked Mistress of the Moon, then bound in dark desire to the slave, Shadow Dragon, whose submission and surrender are but a bad dream in paradise for our hot knight hero, Hawk, whose forbidden eye lusts for all born captive to the magic of love.
Ooh forgot the pen name -
ReplyDeleteLotty Words
Midnight Born
ReplyDeleteBorn of the Hawk
Winter Hawk
Hawk's Blood
Blue Eyes in the Dark
Midnight Blue
Time's Hawk
Dream of the Hawk
Time is a Wolf
Captive in the Dark
Surrender the Blood
Midnight Bound
The Moon After Midnight
Hunting Down the Moon
Yeah, okay, that'll do for now. Just having fun.
This was fun! Here are my titles:
ReplyDeleteBorn Blue and All Bad (of course, it's the story of Smurfette)
Shadow Knight of the Dream Mistress
Winter's Dark Surrender
Desires of a Forbidden Heart
Author's name: Ivanna Smallbottom
The Midnight Mistress's Forbidden Love for the Magic Knight by Master Slave
ReplyDeleteAll the Bad Blue-Bloods' Forbidden Lust for Midnight's Captive Dragon-Mistress.
ReplyDeleteBranwyn ap Chucullain ferch Meadowhawk
First line:
The hot moon rode wild and wicked over the winter wolves as they hunted through the night.
A Dark and Captive Heart
ReplyDeleteShadow Hawk
Surrender the Wolf
Capture the Night
Dream of Blood and Dragons
Hot in the Winter
Master the Night
Dream of the Night
Still having fun!
All the Queen's Men
ReplyDeleteA WICKED AND WANTING TIME
ReplyDeleteThe Bound Dragon's Magic Lust
ReplyDeleteBy Persephone Seedless
The Slave's Blue-Blooded Desire (and Dragons)
ReplyDeleteBy Daphne Austen
Word verification word: brand
Seriously.
Wanted : Submission From a Hot, Wicked Knight
ReplyDeleteby
Ima Findhim
Slave of the Dragon-Eyed Moon
ReplyDeleteCapture, Surrender, Lust
In the Shadow of Magick: The Hunt for the Blood-Bound
Rhoswen Dyer
TITLE: The Knight, his Master, and a Forbidden Love
ReplyDeletePEN NAME: Al Wheys-Hardcock
-Christina
All the Bound Blue Blood(s)
ReplyDeleteForbidden Winter in Paradise
Lust of the Shadow Dragon
Wolf Moon
The Wolf, The Hawk and the Dragon
Time's Mistress, Midnight's Master
Shadow of the Master
Blue Balls and Green Eyes, Inc.
Desires of a Forbidden Slave
Dark Desires, Bound Lust
Submission, Surrender and Bad Dreams
My Wicked Captive Knight
The Wolf Master
Surrender the Heart
Between the Moon and New Hawk City
Pen Name: Sioux D'Nym
Forbidden Lust and Surrender All Night
ReplyDeleteWicked Dream of Dark Desire
Midnight Lust for a Hot Hero
Surrender to the Magic of a Shadow Mistress
Wicked Paradise at Midnight
Surrender to Wicked Desire
Marianne Stephens/April Ash
A slave to submission
ReplyDeleteCaptive of the blue eyed dragon
Blood, love and desire
Hot winter blues
A night of magic paradise
Capture the forbidden dream
Shadowed Heart
Mistress Knight, Master Hawk
Hunt for a moon mistress
Surrender to dark lustful desires
Ruby Blue
On the Hunt for a Hot-Blooded Hero
ReplyDeleteBound by Dark Magic
Blue Shadows in Paradise
Paradise Bound
Lust at Night, Love by Midnight (Quickie, right?)
Her Blue-Eyed Wolf
Dark Knight Hunting
Hot Knights in Paradise
Surrender to Paradise
Midnight Paradise Surrender
Born All Hot and Bad
Born All Wild and Wicked
Captives in Paradise
Capturing Paradise
Born to Dream Wild
Knights Out Of Time (time travel tale)
All He Wants Is
A Wicked Time in Paradise, and to complete a trilogy: A Hot Time in Paradise and A Wild Time in Paradise
Forbidden Dreams, Dark Desires
The Wild, The Wicked and The Wanted
A Dragon, A Knight, A Wild Winter Night (No, I don't think it is what you think it is. What do you think it is?)
And in honor of and inspired by Ms. Lotty Words: A Magical Hero at Heart is Born (where a blue-blooded knight with dark desires wants a wild wicked wolf or bad dragon to surrender to at midnight or a slave or captive submissive who loves hot winter nights and lustful times, hunting and capturing hawks with his/her eyes bound and dreams of moonshadows in paradise [all Masters and Mistresses forbidden]).
By Nighty Knight
Born to be Bound
ReplyDeleteA Time to be Wicked
His Wild Desires, Her Wicked Surrender
Dark Shadows, Wild Nights
Wicked Eyes of Forbidden Lust
The Dark Shadows of Forbidden Desires
A Captive's Wild Paradise
This was fun!!!
Oh! Pen Name??
ReplyDeleteDevour M'Sweets...
Born from the submission of the msitress and the lust of the slave
ReplyDeleteThe Shadow of the Midnight Dragon
Bad Blood in the Hunt for Paradise
Wild time in the hunt for the blue eyed hero
Hunt for the heart of the dark eyed knight
Hot Paradise Master Surrenders to Lust
Bound by Blood and Desire
The Forbidden Lust of the Midnight Mistress
Wild Forbidden Mistress wants a slave to surrender to her dark desire
Wild Winter Wicked Wolf Wanted
ReplyDeletePen name - Wanda Wanklestein
Paradise Wild by Angelique St. Martin
ReplyDeleteWinter's Wicked Mistress
ReplyDeleteby Lizzie Spanx