we're all wasting our time

datco2014

I just realised something today, something so fundamentally important that I can't believe it's not been picked up on any of the writing forums - what I'm about to reveal will make everyone on here able to rush off and write a bestseller in no time at all - ok everybody ready??

The secret is..........

Have the word GIRL in your title - that's it.

The secret recipe that sells squillions of books!

Gone girl
Girl on the train
Girl with the dragon tattoo
Girl with the pearl earring
Girl with the fat bum (ok made that one up but I reckon it's got million seller written all over it)

Claudia

Hah! So that's where we've been going wrong! Thanks, Datco.

Island Girl

Righteo, I'm onto it! Teehee

Lizy

Three Girls in a Boat ought to beat the lot of you hands down!

Liz

Hey! Let's change some other hits so they fit the pattern, the first one i thought of was Small Island, which would of course, in our case, become Island Girl... Sherlock Girl, The Kite Girl, The Girl Bird, The Cuckoo's Girl, Mucho Girl... they all work!

Bill

A Girl or All Seasons

Bill

Our Girl in Havana

boredrobots

Hey, my latest short story has GIRL in the title!

Carol

A Streetcar Named Girl

Girl on a Hot Tin Roof

Liz

Going along one bookshelf:

Antic Girl, Alias Girl, The Night Girl, The Wind-Up Girl Chronicle, Brave New Girl, the Butterfly Girl, The Colour Girl...

Carol

Gone with the Girl.

aeschylus

That TV series?

My name is Girl

Carol

Day of the Girl

Girl Farm

Lou Treleaven

To Kill a Mocking Girl

Claudia

Go Set a Watchgirl
Game of Girls
Girlworld
Raingirl
Downgirl Abbey
Notes from a Small Girl
Fifty Shades of Girl

This is fun...

Bill

Girl City FC

Nefertari

'The naughtiest girl in the school ' by Enid Blyton , my fav book as a child.

Mrs Bear

A Tale of Two Girls. Wuthering Girls. A Midsummer Night's Girl. Girl in the Willows. The Importance of Being Girl. The Icegirl Cometh. The Girl at Pooh Corner.

casey

I would have said Girls Galore, but I think that's already a top shelf mag :-(

Carol

The Diamond as Big as The Girl

Lizy

The Curious Affair of the Girl in the Night-time.

Lizy

My fave comic was 'Girl' - the sister comic to 'Eagle' which my brother had.

Claudia

A Farewell to Girls

happy_author

Damn! Knew I should have called my book 'Naked Girl Algarve Travel Guide'
;-)

Liz

Not sure there would be enough nudists to make a profit.

happy_author

Not sure there would be enough nudists to make a profit.

writemare

My next novel has 'girls' in the title (The Woolworths Girls) - out next March. The WIP is The Butlins Girls - definitely a pattern!