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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
(On a more serious note, I wonder if any of these 'horrible' titles [my judgment] predispose the big publishers from not offering contracts to Fantasy authors, perhaps judging the merit of the work only on the title.)
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When I worked for the publishing houses, we ignored the title when evaluating a manuscript. We thought (and usually correctly so) that marketing was an author's weakest skill and a good title is a marketing matter. We always reserved the right to rename a book.