Help me pick a title for the second book in my humorous action/adventure novel series ‘The Otherwhere Chronicles’. I have been calling it ‘Going Home’ because Arthur does go back to Earth and stays at his mom’s house in the Bay Area.
But Jessica says that sounds like the last book in a series. And there is already a book called ‘Going Home, the mystery of animal migration’ So if one of you can come up with a clever title involving the San Francisco Bay Area, or going home, or whatever, you will have the distinct pleasure of seeing your words in print on the cover of the book… when you buy it for full price… because this ain’t a charity… sheesh, I am already doing enough.
I will, however, put your name on the inside of the book with credit for the title.
So come on, people… wow me!
Pouring My Art Out 
Blacke held at Bay. Or Blackes Baycation. Slumber Party Earth. Lol ummm or I’m thinking Down to Earth
That last one is the one I am going with!
Good choice
You too.
Taking Back the Bay
Back to the Bay
Can We Land on Coit Tower?
Earthbound
Baybound
This is Kat btw…
Arthur In His Element
Aliens in the Back Yard
Hanging out on Earth
The Earth Antics
Beings by the Bay
An Alien Sleepover
Aliens Meet the Family
Arthur’s Earth Adventures
Alien Adventures on Earth
Havoc at the Bay
Tagalong Aliens
All good.
Mom, Can They Stay for Dinner?
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner… oh wait… taken already.
Arthur’s Aliens and Earthlings
Arthur Arrives
I do like the idea of having my name on the cover.
You are on a roll.
I like all of those… what about Down To Earth?
What about, “Only One Goes Home.”
But he brings his friends with him… I might change it to ‘Down to Earth’.
Noooo – that’s the name of a dishwash liquid here!
Really? That is so sad… but it makes it funnier to me.
Arthur Blacke washed up in the furtherest corner of the galaxy, and floated home in a bubble! No alibis needed; he was squeaky-clean.
That is going to happen later…
oops… sorry… it’s my random mind-reading antenna, it picks things up ahead of time… spoiler alert? (shuffles off abashed…)
No jumping ahead… I haven’t even written that part yet.
Aarghh! I will shut muh mouth!
Nobody will buy the books if you give it away…
I take it back (stuffing thought bubbles back into gob)
You will give yourself gas… ha
Is *that* what does it!!
Among other things.
…cooooorrrr….
coor blimey? or coors beer?
The famous pigeon says… cooooorrrrrr….
There’s a famous pigeon???
Apparently to be showcaged at wePoets…. ask Zoe!
I am sure I will see it.
Yes…. I’ve got it! What about “Homing Instinct”
Here is the pigeon, who might get famouser if it wins its titular credits. http://pmaoaudioblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/no-more-youtube-videos-consisting-of-blank-visuals/
I have seen that and been suitably impressed.
cooorrrrr…
cooorrrrect.
HA!
Indeed…
Return to Earth?
But down to earth is a play on words… because Arthur is down to earth… and going down to Earth…
Which way is ‘down’ in Space?
Does Arthur know which way is up?
Is he feeling down, compared to other earthlings?
Does he come down to earth after being on some sort of high? What a pain I turned out to be… I am trying to get a picture out of my mind, of Arthur riding home on a giant bottle of detergent, bubbles flying out behind him…
Bubbles flying out of my behind?
HA!!!
Taking off from Uranus…
Oh, that’s too much… tmi!
sorry
Doesn’t erase easily!
Nothing does.
Except perhaps a squirt of Down to Earth…
“No place like home” is too cliche.
No berth like earth.
Or mirth…
A dearth of mirth in the firth
A birth of girth in Perth is what it’s worth.
Whenceforth the firth mirth from the girth birth in Perth hurtled forthwith to berth in the firth and end the dearth of mirth on earth!
That should do it.
I forgot to add north… darn.
nirth
You wot!?
Whirt kirnd irv irn irksirnt irz thirt, sir?
Arthur takes a break, baywise.
Well, the next book he actually goes on a vacation, so I might use the first part of that one then.
I’ll wait.
good
Bayarrhea…lol…don’t know if that’d work for ya or not! how bout East Bay or Head East Bay, lol, but my real idea for the title would be just Fog City! that’s what we called it when I lived in Cali. 🙂
I like fog city… and I actually use the line Bayarrhea all the time… I think it is a funny way to pronounce it.
you realize it’s meant to be a cross between Bay area and diahrrea….??? lmao but I really think Fog City would make a great title, even tho I know nothing about your story.
I do know it is meant to be that, and that is the way I pronounce it… ask my kids… I should have patented it. I been doing that for years.
Me either, and Amen to that brother……..
Yay us.
I live in the Bay Area, (San Jose to be exact)) so how about “Going back to the place I can’t afford to live?”
LOL. Or, in keeping with the first title, “Journey home to the corner of Nowhere”
I might use that last one for the title of book 5 or 6 or 7… but I can’t call the Bay Area nowhere…
Gotcha. I love it here too. Just the whole cost of living thing. LOL How about Onlywhere!!! It’s the only place I wanna live. And if I am away, I gotta get back ASAP
I might have my hero visit the bay area in a bunch of other dimensions where things are really weird… I mean weirder…
Ever here the expression “truth is stranger than fiction?” I think they were talking about the bay area.
Possibly Berkeley or Santa Cruz to be exact, but you could just throw a dart at the bay area map and call it weird. Probably why I fit in here so well. lol
I grew up on Telegraph Ave…. well, really just North of it, but that’s where I ‘grew up’…
Nice. Always glad to find another Bay Area Native. And the refusal to grow up is a necessity of life that I think far to many “grown ups” miss out on.
I will never have that problem…
Sex, Violence, and Intergalactic Homecomings
There isn’t any sex… and there is violence but nobody dies… it isn’t a focus of the series… it is more about he gets out of huge problems without killing anybody. And he is the only one going home… so… uh… I like the effort?
There doesn’t have to be sex in the book. Just put sex in the title and you’ll sell more copies.
That is why I randomly tag some of my posts as ‘free porn’ or ‘big boobs’…
Home and Back Again
Well I do go back… so that might work.
This is hard without reading the book, so I’ll just throw some titles around…
Blacke is Back
Arthur Goes Home
Bayward Bound
I actually thought of that Arthur goes home one… but that last one is sweet…