StoryStudio member Mark L. needs your help! He’s finished with his novel and currently in the process of sending out queries, but… he doesn’t have a (good) title. He’s tried and he’s tried; he even tried out a few versions on the Advanced Writers Workshop group where’s he’s workshopping the darn thing.
But now he’s burned out on brainstorming, so he’s turning the wheel over to you. If you come up with a winning title for Mark’s novel, he promises to buy you “many expensive Belgian beers and/or overpriced coffee concoctions.” And we all know how much writers love our caffeine....
About Mark’s novel:
Seven years of bad luck, seven years spent touring in a van held together by duct tape and coat hangers, rehearsing in a loft infested by incontinent rodents, causing shallow pings in the vast music machine, and just before giving up, one last chance to make it.
Finnegan is a blink away from thirty-three, the talented lead singer/songwriter for indie rock band The Babylon Sonic. A last gasp demo snags the interest of a label, luring them from New York to snow-plagued Chicago. The show is three days away and nothing is going right. Sullen lead guitarist James disappears from a hospital after overdosing on absinthe. Cranky English manager Shemp paces the frigid loft threatening to quit. Longtime girlfriend, neurotic fringe theater actress Holly, abandons him without explanation. And dodging the smothering blanket of depression seems impossible with each sleepless night. What’s that one shot in music really worth? Can Finnegan recapture the intensity he had when adolescence was still winning the battle and everything was sharp inside, buzzing and humming with the strange electricity of youth?
YOUR TITLE HERE is a 130,000-word novel for anyone who loves music or songwriting and imagines what it might feel like to climb on that stage, and anyone whose compass has ever spun wildly out of control while chasing that dream they’ve had since childhood.
If that’s not quite enough inspiration for you, check out Mark’s music page, featuring music similar (and in some cases identical!) to that of The Babylon Sonic.
Submit your suggestions in the comments here, or email them to . Have fun!
