{"id":30642,"date":"2016-08-14T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=30642"},"modified":"2017-08-01T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:32:31","slug":"clever-book-titles-vs-really-nice-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/clever-book-titles-vs-really-nice-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever Book Titles VS. Really Nice Book Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B01AGFYUBI\/ref=as_li_ss_il?&amp;imprToken=9xu1rWJ9ApQS8V5Borrmjw&amp;slotNum=0&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=httpwwwmarkes-20&amp;linkId=b8566b2653ab2ca2d3c6f6c2c53d96a1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B01AGFYUBI&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=httpwwwmarkes-20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=httpwwwmarkes-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=B01AGFYUBI\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>I was just working on the Soon to be Released Mysteries page, and was struck by how many really clever titles there are out there! I mean, I knew that lots of Cozy Mystery authors are coming up with really clever titles, but it seems like now more than ever! Gone are the days of <em>Murder at the Vicarag<\/em>e or<em> The Body in the Library<\/em>. Instead, we have titles like <em>Die Like an Eagle<\/em> and <em>Much Ado about Muffin<\/em>. (Incidentally, almost every time I see <em>Die Like an Eagle<\/em> I start humming Steve Miller&#8217;s <em>Fly Like an Eagle<\/em>!)<\/p>\n<p>I know we&#8217;ve talked a number of times about how important the books&#8217; covers are. <a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/mystery-books-covers-part-1.html\">See this post for just one example<\/a>. But I thought it would be interesting to talk about\u00a0titles vs. covers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B01839Q4WW\/ref=as_li_ss_il?&amp;imprToken=9xu1rWJ9ApQS8V5Borrmjw&amp;slotNum=1&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=httpwwwmarkes-20&amp;linkId=e552461210c8a0b42dc690037fa2a436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B01839Q4WW&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=httpwwwmarkes-20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=httpwwwmarkes-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=B01839Q4WW\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>So, with all these clever Cozy Mystery book titles, I started wondering:<\/p>\n<p>Which attracts you the most: the book&#8217;s title or the book&#8217;s cover? Do you find yourself picking up a book just because the title is clever or is it the artwork that grabs you?<\/p>\n<p>Please post a comment and let us all know which one you think is more important, and if you can, why.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just working on the Soon to be Released Mysteries page, and was struck by how many really clever titles there are out there! I mean, I knew that lots of Cozy Mystery authors are coming up with really clever titles, but it seems like now more than ever! Gone are the days of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-7Ye","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30642"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33192,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30642\/revisions\/33192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}