It is astonishing how writers agonize over titles.  The only people who obsess about them more are publishers.

City of Dreams was originally called Legacy.  Boring.  I don’t now remember exactly how we came up with City of Dreams, but once we did everyone agreed it was perfect.  Shadowbrook was approved from the first.  Then came the third book in the series.  It started out as Kingdom Come and I liked that.  So did my editor.  Not, however, S & S’s marketing department.  Call it City of Something they said.  It’s a sequel, after all.   So, City of Glory.

What in the name of all that’s holy do we do for an encore?

The working title is City of Promise.  I truly hate it.  We’re in such a son-of-Sam mode, and that’s so much not what my work is about. 

Okay, if you’ve read the matrix and the excerpt, you know as much about the book as my publisher does.  What do you think it should be called?   

What would make you see it in a book store, and especially if you’d read my other books, but even if you had not, want to pick it up and read it?  What can we do that makes it obvious it’s a series, but doesn’t sound as if we’ve run out of ideas?