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How to Create a Best-Selling Book Title

By: Sarah Parsons Zackheim and Adrian Zackheim and

Updated: 03-26-2016

From The Book: Getting Your Book Published For Dummies

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You'll get help from your agent or editor with composing a title that will help sell your book, but for your own knowledge (and when it's just you trying to find that agent or editor), use the tips in the following list to come up with a title with oomph:

Keep it brief
Imply a benefit
Crystallize a wish
Promise fulfillment
Create an "aha" for the reader
Be provocative

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Sarah Parsons Zackheim has worked at William Morrow, Doubleday, and New York Times Books. She is the author or coauthor of three books, including Dress Your House For Success.

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