Livejournal entry makes fun of book titles.

[bradamant]

The Brooklyn Public Library may be developing a nice collection of ebook titles, but the findability leaves something to be desired. There's no way to filter ebooks from audiobooks, so you can't browse by genre without weeding through all the audiobooks. Instead, I usually look at "all ebooks" ordered by date added

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[misterpardonme]

these titles are so much funnier to me when i picture them being read aloud by kent brockman. especially promoted: secretary to bride.

[bradamant]

I was beginning to be afraid that no one else would be as amused by "The C.O.O. Must Marry" as I was. And to think I'd always thought of C.O.O. as a boring job.

[misterpardonme]

Precisely! That's why he can't find a bride.

re: "Pleasured by the English Spy." I thought Ian Fleming had already adequately covered that topic.

-je

[imaginarycircus]

I remember when I wrote the fake romance novel within my last adult sort of literary novel--it was a series about a woman called Summer and the novels all had awful titles like "Summer Heat" and Summer Lightning." :D

[jordanpants]

this reminds me that on of my old, abandoned life goals was to be a Harlequin Romance writer (read: romance writer who writes dressed as a harlequin). The sheer retardedness of these titles makes me think I am, in fact, highly qualified for this. I'm dropping out of grad school any minute now to write a variation on the theme "beautiful, bankrupt, blackmailed, and horny." It's going the be the romance novel of our times.

[bradamant]

Harlequin publishes 1200 books a year, according to the video linked above, so I think it would only be the romance novel of our times if by our times you mean lunchtime next Wednesday.

As imaginarycircus points out, many of these are in series. So there's one series called Innocent Mistress, Virgin Bride (and the library actually has METADATA for this!). (Further boggling: "Ruthless Billionaire, Inexperienced Mistress" is a title from a totally separate series!).

Anyway, you can see how you could milk ten books from a single concept using this system. Perhaps you could try "The Swedish Billionaire's Virgin Secretary's Accidental Love Child."

[jordanpants]

1. I absolutely plan to have it done by next week. That's exactly why I want to be a romance writer: short attention span.

2. I'm going to start with 'The COO must get married' and work my way down through the ranks from there. If I cover the army, navy, and air force, I'll have enough titles to get me through at least June.

[bradamant]

I hate to break it to you, but judging by the cover of that book, it has nothing to do with the military. It's about a Chief Operating Officer. This of course has its own potential to be a series.

Betrothed to the C.F.O, in Love with the C.I.O.
The Sexy Chairman of the Board Kidnapped Her
Forced to Share a Room at Sales Conference
Keeping Her Stock Options Open
Betrayal of Fiduciary Trust