![]() “I wanted that type of story to exist,” you say again and again, “in our own time period.” You could also say it is a contemporary Little Women, which is what you say most often, because that is the other reason why you wrote it. You could say it is a Millennial novel, which is true, but that will make some people presume that it’s all about tech and selfies and not buying paper napkins. Saying your book is about how to live is even more pretentious than putting an en-dash and two colons in the title. Most books are about how to live that’s why you wrote this one, anyway, to ask yourself the question of how to live and see if you can answer it by imagining characters living in a variety of ways. Readers will wonder what your book is about and you will have to figure out a way to tell them. Nobody’s going to run their finger over the title of your novel, all nine words and two colons, and tap Copy. Editors can swap your link for one that includes their publication’s Amazon affiliate code, you’re all for everyone making money, but the link has to be there. Mention the title as soon as you can, though, and give a link. (Some of the forms let you submit the post-hard-return half of your title as a subtitle, and you wonder if splitting the title in some instances but not others will mess up your SEO.) You hadn’t planned to have to type The Biographies of Ordinary People: Volume 1: 1989–2000 into all of those forms, because you always visualized it the way it would look on your novel’s cover. You probably shouldn’t have a title with two sets of colons, either. ![]() You’ll finally learn the alt code, after months of searching “en-dash” in another tab and copying the result every time you type your own novel’s name, but the real issue is that you’re going to be filling out a lot of forms, on Kirkus and Indiebound and Amazon, and half the forms will automatically convert your en-dash into a hyphen, and you’ll wonder if everyone who reads your title on one of those websites with one of those forms will assume you don’t know how to appropriately punctuate a date range. Never write a novel with an en-dash in the title.
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