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everything you need to know about titles

Everything You Need to Know about Titles

Date: May 11, 2025
Location: online
Cost:$59

Overview

Names and titles can make or break a story: Gideon the Ninth, The Hobbit, Parable of the Sower. How do you come up with a title that intrigues a reader and gives them a new understanding by the end of the story? How long is too long for a title – and can one be too short? What if the title you want is already taken? In this mixture of lecture, discussion, and writing exercises, you will become adept at titling and come away knowing how to write titles.

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Meet Your Instructor

Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor with over 300 original fiction publications. Rambo was co-editor of Fantasy Magazine from 2007 to 2011, which earned them a 2012 World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional nomination. Their short stories have appeared in such places as Asimov’sClarkesworld Magazine, and Tor.com. In 2012, their story “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain” was a Nebula Award finalist, and in 2019 won the Nebula for Best Novella, “Carpe Glitter.” Their 2023 publications are space opera Devil’s Gun. 2024 releases include Rumor Has It, the 3rd in the space opera series, and fantasy novel Gods of Tabat, the 4th book of The Tabat Quartet.

They are a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Clarion West, where they studied with Octavia E. Butler, Andy Duncan, L. Timmel DuChamp, Connie Willis, Gordon Van Gelder, and Michael Swanwick. Find more about Cat and the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers at catrambo.com.

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