Hi,
I was wondering how important it is to have every book in your series with a unique title?
I am currently writing first drafts for all the books in my series so I can keep consistency in the plot if I need to change something early on and also so I can release them close together. I have still been coming up with titles for them as I go. On doing a search for the names of my first three books on Amazon, there were no other books with those titles. However, there is a title for Book 4 for that is so perfect for the actual story that I'd love to use it. Unfortunately, it seems it's quite popular on Amazon - quite a few other books use it. As this isn't the first book, would it matter that much if the title wasn't unique?
Many thanks
Tracey.
The title of the first book is the important one, but then that goes for everything when it comes to selling books. If Book 1's title, cover, and everything about it doesn't get people to look and buy, they aren't moving on to the rest of your series. Once you launch book 1 and it sells, you can call the rest of the books in the series anything, and people who loved Book 1 will buy them, and people who didn't...won't.
For example, see all the book series that reuses the same common word/phrase over and over, but adds an additional word to it, ala BOOK 1: DUDE WHERE'S MY CAR, BOOK 2: DUDE WHERE'S MY BIKE, BOOK 3: DUDE WHERE'S MY PANTS, etc etc. If you make sure the covers are properly branded, along with the title treatment, the title itself really doesn't matter after Book 1.
