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Title implications of combining a book/sequel
I am in the process of combining a children's book and its sequel into one bumper paperback. The books have similar titles and I need to show both on the cover. However, I am unsure how I should do this.
The individual titles are:
Mr Charlie Chumpkins
The Further Mishaps of Charlie Chumpkins
Does anyone have any ideas on how I should approach the wording?
Thanks, TBers!
Comments
'Mr Charlie Chumpkins - Complete'
and having the two original covers (smaller) at jaunty angles, possibly overlapping, on the new cover?
(I could draw you a picture but then I couldn't upload it!)
and
The Further Mishaps of Charlie Chumpkins?
Divide the cover diagonally with the combined title as the diagonal line.
I've been fiddling around. I haven't tried to combine both cover designs yet. I'd like to, but not sure if I can. I'll leave that idea on the backburner.
I can't really create a new all-encompassing title as they already exist independently as kindle books in their own rights. I'd hate for someone to buy it thinking it was a third book then finding the inside identical to what they already have.
I think I'll just take the original cover illustration of the first and quite simply, as PM suggests, include both titles with an 'and' between them.
I can't really change the title, Carol as the two books already exist separately.