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What's In A Book Title?

What's In A Book Title?

How I chose my book titles - and the titles that didn't make it

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Holden Sheppard
Nov 21, 2024
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I want to talk about book titles today, since this week I shared that my third book will be published as KING OF DIRT.

I am so pumped about this cos it feels like more than a title to me.

As I shift into writing contemporary fiction for adults, KING OF DIRT is something of a mission statement about who I am and what I do. It evokes the masculinity of my c…

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