I don't expect Lynsay to really use any of these but I thought it would be fun for us to post ideas for book titles for the vampire series.

Heard this song the other day and thought that it would make a good title "Another one Bites the Dust". So then I started thinking, what else could I come up with?

How about:

"At First Bite"

"One Good Bite Deserves Another"

"Where's a Vampire when you need one?"

"Not your Average Vampire" or "Not just your Average Vampire"

"The Vampire Strikes Back"

"Gentlemen Prefer Vampires" or "Vampires Prefer Blondes"



So, anyone else want to give it a try? It's kind of fun. Though I bet it's a lot harder for Lynsay when her editor is asking, "So, what's the title?"

Kimberly

I really like The Vampire Strikes Back - It fits exactly into the vein (no pun intended) of titles that parody those from movies and on TV.


Dave

I have to agree with you on that Mr. Spice. You can just picture it.

Oh Kimberly!! There are a couple on there I really like. Is it okay if we use one or two? We'll give you a dedication as a thanks.

Lynsay, who sucks at titles

Or...
The Vampire Bites Back

Gone With the Vampire
Once Bitten
Bite Me Once
A Bite Like No Other
Biting 101
1001 Bites of Vampire Nights

I think I'll stop there, they are getting worse!

What a fantastic topic!!

As soon as my brain is not so mushy from this cold, I'll be joining in. I really like "The Vampire Strikes Back" or "The Vampire Bites Back" also. And they do fit in so well with the other take-offs on movie titles.

"Once Bitten" was supposed to be the title of Lucien's book. Most of us feel Avon messed up when they changed Lynsay's original title to "Bite Me If You Can." I still haven't figured out how that one fits the book, when all the others do. Oh, well...even good publishers make mistakes

Actually, Lynsay, I have preferred the titles you come up with. I think you are being too hard on yourself. "Once Bitten" and "The Accidental Vampire" were perfect for the books.

wren...who is up late because she keeps coughing and can't sleep

How about:

Something to Get your Teeth Into!

Bite Club

Female with Fangs

I know its silly but well there we are!

xx

I really like "Gentlemen Prefer Vampires"

but wait about
" An Officer and a Vampire" ( for an Enforcer noval)

Here's a few to sink your teeth into.
Oh Vampire, Where Art Thou (Movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou)
Miami Vampire
Vampire Dearest
Vampire Run (a movie Logan's Run)
Vampire on the Run (Band on the Run Paul McCartney)
Up aginst the wall Red Necked Vampire or just simply, Red Necked Vampire (David Allen Coe song)
You are my Vampire (You are my sunshine)
My Fellow Vampires
Vampires Are Us
Tequilla Vampires
Vampires of London (werewolves of London, a song)
A Vampire Vacation (Chevy Chase's Vacation movies)
Dark Town Vampire's Ball (from an old old song Dark Town Strutter's Ball)

Just a few to get started. I might be back later with more. This is fun
G W Pickle

Just to name a few:

We Are The Enforcers

One Bite to Eternity

Nano-Bites: The Beginning

Feel free to use any of them Lynsay! That would be so awesome!

Someone mentioned that the publisher changed one of your titles. Is this common or if you really kicked up a fuss, would they let you keep a favorite one? And how often do you come up with one and they say they don't like it?


Cindy, I really like "One Bite to Eternity"!

I'm glad everyone else finds this as amusing as I do.

Kimberly

A Bite To Remember was originally titled Once Bitten by me or was it Bite Me If You Can? Actually I think it was Bite ME If You Can because Leigh was bitten and turned before she hooked up with Lucian. Anyway, I'm not sure how much pull I have with titles. Dave thinks I probably have some but I've never tried kicking up a fuss. I'm just grateful to be published and able to do this for a living.

Wren, honey, feel better soon. I hate being sick. Hugs and lots of sympathy is sent your way.

And you guys are coming up with some awesome titles. I think several would make great book titles. So, expect your name in print in the future in the dedication section. I will definitely ask permission and let you know ahead and get the proper details from those who just post their first names here. You guys are REALLY creative. WOW!!

Lynsay

So I thought I'd look up a list of classic movies and see what I could come up with:

"Planes, Trains, and Vampires" (Planes, Trains, and Automobiles)
"Vampires Like Us" (Spies Like Us)
"The Vampire Who Loved Me" (The Spy Who Loved Me, another James Bond title)
"The Return of the Vampire" (The Return of the King, from the Lord of the Rings)
"Vampires of the Caribbean" (Pirates of the Caribbean)
"The Vampire Redemption" (The Shawshank Redemption)
"The Vampire Element" (The Fifth Element)
"Good Vampire Hunting" (Good Will Hunting)
"The Good, The Bad, and the Vampire" (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly)
"A Few Good Vampires" (A Few Good Men)

These three are my favorites:

"Romancing the Vampire" (Romancing the Stone)
"Close Encounters of the Vampire Kind" (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
"A Vampire of Her Own" (A League of Their Own)

Kimberly

Here are a few more ideas:

Vampires or Immortals, That is the Question
Vampire Go Home
Vampires of Atlantis
Law and Vampire
The League of Extraordinary Vampires

Lynsay, feel free to use whatever you wish.

Cindy

I really like Nano Bites. That would be so cute!

Thanks Kim.

Thank you Amanda.

My Funny Vampire (instead of Valentine)

My Favorite Vampire (hats off to Bob Hope)
Biting My Way (hats off to Bing Crosby)

Okay, here goes

The Twilight Bite (from The Twilight Zone)

The Taming of the Vampire

Twelfth Night Bite

A Midsummer Night's Bite

A Bite By Any Other Name (for Julianna & Romeo?)

Victoria's Secret Bite (or Victoria's Secret Vampire)

To Be Or Not To Be A Vampire

The Vampire of Venice

All's Fair In Love and Vampires

The Trouble With Vampires (Hayley Mills' The Trouble With Angels)

That Darn Vampire (from That Darn Cat)

The Bite Before Christmas (from Twas the Night Before Christmas)

It's A Wonderful Bite (Jimmy Stewart's It's A Wonderful Life)

The Vampire Clause (from Tim Allen's Santa Clause movies)

Snow Bite and the Seven Vampires (suggested by my son)

The Bite of Music (suggested by my son from The Sound of Music)

The Adventures of Vampire Jones (Indiana Jones...by my son again)

The Bite and The Bachelor (Debbie Reynold's Tammy and the Bachelor)

The Vampire and I (from The King and I)

How To Win A Vampire In 10 Days

How To Turn A Lifemate In 10 Days

Vampire Enchanted (from Ella Enchanted)

Grumpy Old Vampires (from Grumpy Old Men)

The Vampire Who's Coming To Dinner (from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?)

A Bite In The Moonlight

A Bite By The Silvery Moon

Bitten At Tiffany's (Audrey Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany's)

The Breakfast Bite (Molly Ringwald's The Breakfast Club)

Vampire Of The Year (from Man of the Year or Woman of the Year)

To Bite Miss Right...or To Bite Mr. Right (whatever works)

Make Way For Vampires (from Make Way For Ducklings)

Bringing Up Baby Vampires (from K.Hepburn/C.Grant's Bringing Up Baby)...this could be a collection of some of the couples journey into parenthood[StorkBoy]
[StorkGirl]

I have to go get some sleep now! Got a hair appointment later today! Gonna need alotta to get through this cold winter day!

wren...SP3 ...who is freezing here in the South USA

You guys' suggestions always spark some of my own.

To Bite or Not to Bite (sparked by Wren)
His Girl Vampire
Bitten on the Wind (did someone already suggest that?)
Wuthering Bites (ha-ha)

Ok watching sci-fi gave me some more ideas

The Vampires of Our Lives
Vampires in the 21st Century
Wine and Vampires
The Vampire Game
The Biting Game
Vampires? Do They Really Exist?
Vampire Hunters (Enforcers)
The Repairman and The Vampire

Wren,

(Hopefully this doesn't doublepost because I hit the backspace key and suddenly I was back at the messageboard!)

I liked "The Vampire Clause", "The Trouble With Vampires", and "Grumpy Old Vampires". That last one could have used for Lucian's book!

Kim

Kim,

Thanks! Well, since Lucien's already had his story, we do still have the reclusive, poor cursed with losing lifemates Armand that we all wonder about. Really would like to know more about him eventually!

Or, Lynsay may have another "grumpy old vampire" lurking in her brain somewhere!

wren

Vicky,

I like Female With Fangs! Something new...Fangs instead of Bite or Vampire...a possible title for Mirabeau?

Kim, this is such a fun topic!

wren

Denise,

Terri & I like To Bite or Not To Bite better! It's cuter & not as long as the one I came up with!

I also think Wuthering Bites is fun!

Now, if we can come up with some more with "fangs."

Vicky came up with Female With Fangs, and Avon has liked using the same word in three books at a time so far!

wren

There's always:

Fangs for the Memories
Fangs a Million
Just Say Fangs
Fang in There (hang)
Fang Ten

Wow, we've come up with a ton, and some that might actually fly with the publisher.

I've actually read a book by Kathy Love called "Fangs for the Memories." There are two more in this trilogy of brothers who are vampires, "Fangs but no Fangs," and "I Only Have Fangs For You." Her new book is "My Sister is a Werewolf," and is part of the same series. I've only read the first one, but I saw the werewolf book in B&N. It was in one of those larger paperback books, though, and they cost about $14.99...I'm only going to splurge on those for Lynsay's combos with Hannah Howell. Gotta keep your priorities straight, kwim?

I think Kathy Love is a fairly new published author who writes for Zebra and Brava. The book was lighthearted, and she shows potential as an author (trying to be fair & not do comparisons to our favorite author ) but at this time, would be more of a check-out at the library or trade with a friend book for me. But, the titles of Ms. Love's books were cute.

wren

Denise,

I like Fangs A Million.

What if we changed All's Fair in Love and Vampires to
All's Fair in Love and Fangs...

wren

Works for me.

Fang-scratch Fever
One Bite for the Road
Saturday Bite Fever

Too tired tonight. My little guy (6) started with a stomach virus this morning around 4:00. So I'm pretty wiped out.

My Fair Vampire

Now, Vampire

It Happened One Bite

To Catch a Vampire

Last Vampire Standing

A Vampire Always Bites Twice

A Vampire Named Desiree (bit of a stretch, that one!)

The Unbearable Lightness of Nanos

Who's Afraid of Vampire Enforcers?

A Vampire to Remember

A Bite to Remember

From Here to Immortality

Late One Bite

One Bite Past Midnight

No Place in the Sun

The Immortal (Argeneau or Notte) Connection

Vampires of Lost Atlantis

No Country for Old Vampires

Silence of the Nanos

Enforcer : Judgement Day

Wow, Connie. I like a bunch of those. Okay, I'm having trouble remembering what has been suggested so I'm going to have to make an Excel file, LOL!

One Bite is Never Enough
One Bite Too Many
Bridge to Immortality
Last Vamp Standing (instead of Vampire maybe)
Vampires 101 (another story about a newly turned)
The Importance of Being Vampire (or Immortal)
A Room with a Vamp (or Bite)
Les Vampires
Last of the Vampires (though that has a bit of finality to it, oh wait, Katie Macalister had Last of the Red Hot Vampires)
Hitchhikers Guide to Immortality

Denise

I already did that. It helps

Just thought I'd bump this up. We have a lot of newbies and I thought they might have some fun with it!

Oh, and a possible title for when Lynsay writes a book about the vampire who doesn't use the Argeneau name because he wants to make it on his own:

The Vampire Identity (The Bourne Identity)


Also,

To Kill a Vampire (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Little Miss Vampire (Little Miss Sunshine)
I Am Vampire (I Am Legend)
Vampires in Black (Men in Black)
An American Vampire in Paris (An American Werewolf in Paris)

Kim (who should be doing housework instead!)

Love with the Proper Vampire

GypsyCharm

Two Vampires of Verona (possibly of Notte Story)
Much Ado About Vampires

J4-Who is not very creative

The Vampire Who Loved Me

Fangs for Everything

The Vampire Next Door

Once Bitten Twice Shy

Vampires are a Girls Best Friend

Vampire Rising

Love in a Nano-second

I'd like to ask another question I really don't understand how Vampire, Interrupted relates to the actual book?

***SPOILER WARNING***

The title is a play on the title, "Girl, Interrupted."

So, if you think about it this way, Marguerite's life as an immortal was interrupted by the three-on-one.
She lost all her memories of Julius and baby Christian, was kept isolated, and never grew in her strength to be somewhat free of Jean Claude...which she would have done if the three-on-one had never taken place. As she had grown older, she would have been able to block him from reading and controlling her, especially after being trained to do so. The events that Vita caused by getting Jean Claude and Morgan to do the three-on-one were tragic for everyone.
.

While Jean Claude wasn't ever a saint, I think he would have left Marguerite alone to be happy while he stayed hidden with his real lifemate, and her life would not have been "interrupted." His real lifemate being killed, and his participation in the three-on-one on Marguerite drove him over the edge...and he became a "mean drunk." I wonder if he kept Marguerite so isolated because he was afraid that she would remember something or that if she saw Julius, he would know something had happened to her. The only good that came out of the "interruption" was that Jean Claude did give Marguerite the children she so desparately wanted.

So, although it was against the law to have turned another, since he had turned and married Marguerite, in some ways, JC was as much a victim of Vita as Marguerite, Julius, Christian, and even Morgan.

Morgan? Well, yes...he only went rogue after his best friend died. When his lifemate refused to be turned until she was too old to survive the turning, and then Jean Claude was dead...he just didn't care anymore. He missed having Jean Claude there to help while the decades or centuries passed by...waiting & hoping to find another lifemate. Jean Claude could not stand to continue living as he had...the guilt and alcoholism had taken him too far. Much of JC's and Morgan's tragedy were their own doing, but being part of Vita's evil schemes ultimately contributed to their demise.

Julius was interrupted from 500 years of being with his true lifemate, and Christian was left without his mother. But, I think Marguerite is the one the title centers on, and even now the three-on-one keeps her from remembering her life with Julius and Christian before, which is kind of sad.

wren

Wow, Wren I didn't even think about that. I guess I am not a very deep thinker.

Glad I have you there help keep me in line. Appreciate W2

J4-See I told you she was deep!!


C1 just chirping in

So I guess if the Argeneaus ever become a stage musical we could call it A Bite At The Opera.

I'd totally pay money to go see that Mr. Spice

Or "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Blood Bank"

J4-Who is a musical junkie

So, Mr. Spice...do I get to help Lynsay with the screenplay? Actually, I think that is a really good Argeneau book title...

Deep, huh? Thank you, dear AE4 sisters! I do my best.

W2

P.S. I just noticed...certain letters on my keyboard are fading away. Especially these L S A N D and C E...and the number 1/! key...they have almost disappeared. Hmmm...and there are a few others that look like they have been tapped quite often. I have a premonition about what could be causing it.

J4...

I love that title... Very funny!

W2

Ok here are a few musicals:

Fiddler on the Coffin

My Fair Vampire

BATS ( my kitties favorite)

C1

C1

Great musical titles! Lots of fun...couldn't decide which I liked best. How about:

West Side Vampire
My Fair Vamp
Hello, Vampire


W2 who can't think of anymore at the moment...

ooops...no wonder "My Fair Vamp" sounded familiar

Sorry about that.

wren...who should go to

Here we go again:

Singing Vampires
The Vampire and I
A Chorus Vampire
Beauty and the Vampire
Bye Bye Vampire
A Grand Night For Biting

C1 feeling

no prob.. you just know a good musical when you hear one

C1