How i come up with my book names

Coming up with book names can be one of the hardest things you will do for your book but i am going to tell you how i name my books so you can get a brief idea of how to do it yourself.

first thing first is i write the book. while i am writing book names pop into my head so i write them down on a note on my laptop screen to make it easier to come back to.

say i was writing a book about a killer teddy bear some name ideas i would think of would be

• killer bear
• the silent killer
• whats wrong with teddy: a death story
• teddybear in new york killing edition
• the bloody bear
• the surprise killer 

i would then have to go online and search up each book name and see if a book already has that name. normally my search will look like {name} book so for example killer bear book.

while i am doing the searches any books with that name will be removed.

so after my search, my list looks like

• whats wrong with teddy: a death story
• teddybear in new york killing edition
• the bloody bear
• the surprise killer 

as you can see there was already books called the silent killer and killer bear so they were removed. because there are four names left i have to work out which would be the most eye-catching and that i will think will get the most sales.

so say my book was based in Canada and not new york i obviously wouldn't use teddybear in new york killing edition. but if it was in new york the edition part would most likely make people think there will be more books in the series in different places. which would be fine if it was a series but if it was a solo book it wouldn't work.

something like what's wrong with teddy: a death story may make little kids pick it up and the parents not see a death story so that wouldn't be the best either. which narrows it down to the bloody bear and the surprise killer. 

the bloody bear shows its a story about a bear and if the cover of the book was a bear covered in blood it would be pretty obvious about what it is about but if i was writing a mystery the surprise killer would get peoples attention and would be a major twist in the story what is actually a teddy. 

so i personally would pick the surprise killer because it would be a major twist. and because my book will have already been written i would know that the bear was a twist in the story which makes it perfect.

there you have it, how do you name your books? let me know in the comments and have a wonderful day.