Writing Book Titles that Make Readers Buy Your Book

There’s certainly a lot to be said about writing book titles that make readers want to pick up, remember, and buy your book. I would go so far as to say the word-of-mouth effect of your book marketing will greatly benefit from writing book titles that are catchy and that feel good coming out of peoples’ mouth.  

So here we are going to provide several helpful suggestions that will help you in writing book titles that make readers buy your book: 

• Don’t be confusing – let readers know what your book is about. Unless you’re writing fiction you don’t want to be too elusive and fancy with your title. For a good non-fiction book you want to stay dead centered on what your book is about and dress up the concept a little bit.. The title Real Estate Riches is very attractive to readers who want to learn about selling real estate but it’s still on target. Writing book titles begins with being clear on hat you are providing in your book and simply telling people this.

• Touch their emotions. People really try to avoid losing, missing out, and pain so using these emotional triggers will help. The title Who Moved my Cheese? Makes people think about being left out of the loop. Nobody wants to be left out of the loop so we pick up the book. Writing book titles that trigger emotions will help you sell more books.

• Describe a situation many people deal with and can relate to. By doing this you will get more people looking at, buying, and recommending your book because they can already relate to it just because of the title. For example we have had many comments on our Christian women’s book series called Refined by Fire. Many Christians can relate to this title because it is one of the fascinating metaphors that the Bible uses in describing the process of adversity to produce excellence and purity in a Christian’s life. So we often hear readers and contributing writers of the book series referring to the title and saying “that’s definitely my life story.” You want to identify with your readers.

• Solve a Common Problem. By better understanding your target audience, you will be able to better solve their problem in your title. This is an important step in writing book titles that really grab your reader. They are already impressed by your book and when they actually read it, they are really going to love it.

• Make a huge promise. You want to tell them how they can double their income in 30 days, how they can build a beautiful deck in half the time, how they can cut fat without sacrificing good food, etc. Make an outlandish promise; but be sure to actually solve it in your book, of course.

If you do these few things you will definitely be well on your way to writing book titles that make readers buy your book. Taking the time to do these exercises will help you create a much better title than you would have without it so it’s well worth the effort. Remember what I first said, your book title is like the face or identity of your book, so take good care with creating it. 

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