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No, absolutely not. Keep it to yourself.  The right title can sell a book/movie far beyond the exact same book/movie with a naff title.

The 'right' title has immense value.

Develop the novel under a secondary title as a work in progress. Submit the actual title to your publisher and they (if the the title is gold) will protect it.

Let it loose on a site like this and (if it is gold) you'll see it in print elsewhere pretty quick and it'd be hard to prove the title is your property.

From the following link; http://www.writersdigest.com/online-edi … sed-before
   
Much like names, slogans and ideas, titles are not protected by U.S. copyright laws (which is why so many books have the same titles). To qualify for copyright protection, a work needs to possess “a significant amount of original expression”—and while “a significant amount of original expression” isn’t fully defined by hard-and-fast rules, the courts have ruled that expressions as short as book titles do not qualify.

Whine

To the Last Man by Jeff Shaara

I continued to read this even though it incensed me to the point that this is the only book I’ve ever wanted to burn.

Oh, I’ve tossed a few aside unfinished in my time, but this one I want to destroy. I’d burn it upon the first garden barbeque of the summer but I fear the flames from it would taint the food inedible and render the air poisonous with its fumes.

This is not fiction, it is pure filthy stinking lies. This is like the ‘fake news’ shit where they simply make stuff up and present it as reality.

Shaara Junior, Jeff (That’s Geoff - like Chaucer - in a mature language where people can deal with the heritage spelling of ancestral names rather than resort to bastardising words into easy to spell fast-food nomenclature). Jeff, like the spelling of his name, has taken real historical events and changed them into a version of his own making.

Jeff is like one of those people who claim that the holocaust was a hoax; that resentful Jews made the whole thing up. This is despite the fact that the camps exist. (I have personally visited Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz Birkenau and thus seen them with my own eyes). Not to mention the evidence of the surviving inmates, the guards, the troops who liberated the camps and the records and photographic evidence. And yet people still write that all this evidence is false and there were, in historical fact, no Nazi death camps.

Jeff has re-written the history of the First World War in that same fashion. He has taken the actual people, the world leaders and prominent military leaders of the time and put his perverted words into their mouths. Turned them into dubious shallow characters within a Marvel Comic novel where his God and Lord of War, Pershing and his demi-God Patton enter a stagnant and sordid little World War and immediately set about the destruction of entire armies with ease as they conquer contemptible little European countries with their super-hero powers. 

This is a perverse and disgusting practice. 

Basically Jeff has written his official history of WW1. Within that conflict all the reader needs to know is that he USA is fucking awesome. America, and only America is entirely responsible for winning World War One. The American solider, albeit being a member of miniscule force, assembled quickly without much training, equipment or experience entered the fray at the eleventh hour and totally wiped the battlefield clean of all German forces whilst making the British and French armies look like sullen retarded and ineffective cowards. Yey!

The American Generals were tactically perfect. Not only where they vastly superior to the Generals of all other nations, they were able to clearly see the folly and idiocy of everyone who was not an American.

At the war's end, all of the world’s military and political leaders (victors and vanquished) gather at the Armistice talks and one at a time they take Pershing to one side in order to inform him (confidentially and conveniently off-the-record), that he is without doubt the finest military leader the world has ever known, beyond perfect and so superior and courageous that he’s made the Generals of all other nations others look like bumbling idiots and that his American troops fought like ten foot tall lion-wolves, each American super-warrior worth a hundred scummy European half-wit halflings. 

However, despite Pershing being officially acknowledged (secretly) by the entire world as the greatest military genius this planet has ever produced, and never having put a foot wrong in his entire life, his mealy-mouthed resentful pacifist President, Wormhole Wilson never recognises Pershing or the sycophant lap-dog Patton. Wilson takes the glory for himself and returns Pershing to the dusty broom-cupboard from whence he came.

The History of the world; honest Guv. According to Jeff.

Disrespectful tosh, A crime against history.

A new contest! I only just noticed this on Monday. I thought this competition had snuck out quietly, but I notice there are several entries

An intriguing inspirational image for the plot basis.

Thanks Sol!

Crazy Horse

Sometimes, I feel better these kind of reviews than egocentric, authoritative amateur writers who pile energy and hours into suggestions that you should re-write your prose into something just like they would write and that when you read their stuff, it is not up to a standard that you would ever pay to read.

I’ve seen flawed technical advice, insistent editorials and authoritative directives kill many a fresh and vibrant literary voice over the eleven years I’ve been on this site.   

That said, these reviewers could at least aim to point out three typos or three improved word choices.

baloney

Mickey Mousse

Anachronism