Hi everyone :) My new blog partners and I decided to have a contest every Wednesday, to help get everyone through Hump Day (in the summer it's not so important, but once schoool starts again, I'm always struggling to get to the weekend right around this time).
I am very excited to be the one with the first contest, because I really need your help! As you know, because I've been talking about it incessantly, I have a Pandora book coming out next year. Anyway, I just heard from my editor that Zero Day is not an optimum title, so I have to change it. And since that was my second title,and my first title, Unplugged, also got nixed, I'm in desperate need of help. So, you guessed it, I need help finding a title for the book and am throwing myself on your mercy.
Here's the blurb:
Pandora opens an email from her long-lost father on her seventeenth birthday and gets a lot more than she bargained for-- namely an attachment that uploads a worm to her computer and starts the countdown on technological armaggedon. As she and two friends, the gorgeous Eli and Theo, follow a scavenger hunt of clues of her father's making in an effort to find him and save the world, they face-off against everything from the FBI to a motorcycle gang bent on murder and mayhem to a massive tornado and the twisted mind of a madman, not to mention the very real threat of nuclear annihilation.
It's just a little different than Tempest, lol, but just as fun to write (and read, I hope). Anyway, the rules of the contest are: for every title suggestion you make for the book formerly known as Zero Day, I will enter you in a contest for a twenty-five dollar gift card to either Barnes and Noble or iTunes-- whichever you'd prefer.
Thanks in advance for your help!!!! The contest runs through Friday :)
Love the premise, Tracy. How about - Pandora's Box.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Pandemonium? Or something else that's a play of Pan ...
ReplyDeleteUntil the end of time....
ReplyDeleteDoomsday
Time's up
Curiosity's cat
I'll keep working on it today :). Now, I got a puzzle to work on.
Katie
Very cool premise! Just brainstorming here:
ReplyDeletePressed for Time
All But Hope
Fugitive Hope
Curiosity's Chase (or Curse)
Pandora in Pursuit
Good luck!
Sandra
What about "Open" It has a nice Alice in Wonderland feel to it, it'd look cool on a book cover, and it's what puts the story in motion. Oh, or "Opened" which has an interesting loss of innocence angle to it. Or "Unopen" which I like because it's not a real word, but it's a verb it had a tech resonance with the control-Z undo. And you could write some slick tagline about things you can close you can never unopen. Oh! Or for added tech Open or even back where we started or even but you'd want to check with a techie to make sure that codes right for "close"
ReplyDeleteWeeeee! I love titles.
Also the whole idea for this book
Crap. It stripped the cool bits out of the tech ideas. *Sigh* Let's try this where I've bracketed things like this:[] pretend they're tagged like this: <>: Or for added tech [un]Open or even back where we started [Open] or even [//Open] but you'd want to check with a techie to make sure that codes right for "close"
ReplyDeleteI love the sound of it! I can't wait to read it.
ReplyDeleteWhat about:
Open Attachment Here
Pandora's Peril
Pandora's Puzzle
Ravage
How about:
ReplyDeleteDestruction Download
Time Trojan
As Time Unravels
Doomsday Vortex
Good luck! My tag may come up as Anonymous, but I'll sign my name here...Karen Saunders from arwa
Thanks you guys! You're the best! I've got a huge list going to send to my editor already. Keep the suggestions coming ;)
ReplyDeleteIs this part of a series? Going to be the first of a series?
ReplyDeleteWhat about just Countdown to Armageddon?
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like such a fascinating book! I'm just throwing these out there so maybe it will spark something. Can't wait to read it!
ReplyDeleteCapturing Chaos
Backtracking Bedlam
Life in Chaos
Uproar
Pandemonium in Pieces
I'll try and come up with some more, this is pretty fun :)
Amanda
Pandora's Apocalypse
ReplyDeletePandora's Armageddon
Lots of great suggestions so far! I seem to be having a senior moment and I'm not having much luck coming up with a title, all I have so far is
ReplyDeletePandora's Quest
Not exactly the best but I'll keep thinking and I'll be back! :)
Pandora's inbox. Click for Attachment to Armagedon. (Spelled right of course.)
ReplyDeleteHoping to be a trilogy, Louisa:) Thanks everyone for the great ideas-- my list is growing! You rock :)
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds action packed. Can't wait to reat it. As for the title I'm always drawn to one word.
ReplyDeleteCountdown
I'd read the back to find out countdown to what?
Jamie Burton
Three, Two, One...
ReplyDeleteClick Here to Open
What Next?
Oops!
Thanks Dad.
Technical Difficulties
Connection Lost
Wow, I can't wait till the book comes out, it sounds great! Here's a few names I could come up with, hope it helps:
ReplyDeleteBy the Hour
The Ticking Race
Pandora's Hunt
Gift of Choas
Amanda Mouras
Here are a few more ideas. I hope you let us know what you end up choosing!
ReplyDeleteClick to Countdown
Link to Destruction
A Click Away from Chaos
Click Here
Chasing Doomsday
Amanda
Here are a few more ideas. I hope you let us know what you end up choosing!
ReplyDeleteClick to Countdown
Link to Destruction
A Click Away from Chaos
Click Here
Chasing Doomsday
Amanda
Hey Tracey! using zero (which I did like)
ReplyDeleteGround Zero
Binary Zero
Zero Time
Pandora's Inbox
MalDoom
ReplyDeleteDownload Doom
Don't Click!
Wormletter
Hope these help,
Mary Beth
I'm so so excited for your new book! I was thinking of some titles for example You've Got Mail, Viral Chaos, or Subject: Pandora.
ReplyDeleteLots of Luck,
Nathalie :)