What's your book's tagline?

[Emurelda]

Do you need one?

I'm working on Noble Beginnings and want to be able to give it a suitable tagline.

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A few years ago, the director of Hot House Fiction kindly invited me for an informal chat. I took with me some useful research including the creation of tagline to instantly grasp the series description for the reader.

Question is what is suitable.

For example I was thinking:

Noble Beginnings
"Because parkour was made for space"

How does that grab you? Or not...do you guys have one created for you. It sounds like a tagline for a film too ..doesn't it?

 

[Carol Rose]

I like it!!

 

[Emurelda]

I like it!!

Well that was easy Thanks!

I was hoping space could be interpreted as both open space as well as outer space.

 

[Carol Rose]

Well that was easy Thanks!

I was hoping space could be interpreted as both open space as well as outer space.

Makes sense to me!

 

[Alistair Roberts]

I think it's nice and catchy

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Actually made me think (ouch) !!

"Wendy Tuthill, The Goodiwindi Murders"
Because murder is never simple...

 

[Emurelda]

I think it's nice and catchy

Look what didn't make the cut:

Noble Beginnings
"Where parkour in space is out of this world"

Noble Beginnings
"Parkour in Space"

Noble Beginnings
"A Novel of Monolithic Proportions"

Noble Beginnigns
"A parkour race in space"

And then the beauty....

Noble Beginnings
A sci-fi quest of perpetual parkour

lol...I am so glad evolution is real!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

It sounds good; easy and natural, but (blush) what is 'parkour'? Your target audience will know, of course.

 

[Emurelda]

It sounds good; easy and natural, but (blush) what is 'parkour'? Your target audience will know, of course.

Good question. Some call it free running..some describe it as the art of motion. It's a relativley new global phenomenon taking a potential place as a sport in the Olympics...mypaybe sooner than we realise.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Ah, OK, I've seen about it, but I didn't know that word for it. Doesn't the @Octopus Messiah do a bit of that?

 

[Robinne Weiss]

I think it sounds great! Lots of room for interpretation of "space", which makes it intriguing.

 

[Richard Sutton]

It's a messy story, so the tagline suits.

 

[Emurelda]

Ah, OK, I've seen about it, but I didn't know that word for it. Doesn't the @Octopus Messiah do a bit of that?

That would be great to see. Me trying to parkour only ends up bruising...my ego.

 

[Emurelda]

I think it sounds great! Lots of room for interpretation of "space", which makes it intriguing.

Brill , unanimous agreement.

Ok..i will reveal tomorrow why I asked...please insert cliffhanger here

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[Emurelda]

My cliff ain't worked righ'

 

[Emurelda]

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It's a messy story, so the tagline suits.

Looks like the back to the future logo.

Am looking at other book taglines.

 

[Octopus Messiah]

The world is your gym! (And I like Parkour is made for space! Nice one.)

I've been training parkour (free-running) for over 2 years-- and yes, it's been in loads of movies and all the kids are doing it! Parkour also democratizes fitness, reclaims your body from parasitic lifestyle gurus-- permission to sing the praises ( from the ground, not the rooftops obvs-- the broken-bone learning curve is too steep for me)? Great!

You train with what's available: scaffolding, walls, fences, stairwells, children's playgrounds, benches, trees--cat burglary, essentially. Your gym time goes outside (#trainorshine!) & I can simultaneously walk the dog and have a work-out, which is key. It's a great feeling to know you *could* vault over that wall and through that window if you needed to... but no flips or heights for me thanks.
In my outdoorsy, sexy dreams, I'd be doing this:

(in London reality tho, I just spent two drizzly hours in a dodgy children's playground!)

 

[Emurelda]

I love that 'democratizes fitness' from our own on-site parkour enthusiast. Brill workout pic! @Octopus Messiah . Thanks for sharing. So far only one pic is downloading for me. Were there more?

 

[Emurelda]

My ipad is slow.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Heee, that's a great horizontal, Octopus.

In my dreams sometimes I run, and I am laughing as I run, and fly, but the flying is odd, and I have my back to the ground, and really, it is more like being a leaf on a (very gentle) wind. I have to flex my back to stay afloat. (Does that sound like a novel title, 'A Leaf on the Wind?')

 

[1408]

When I first read the tagline I read it as space, space, uhm, not planety space, and I thought oh yeah! Then I remembered that your book is sci-fi and I thought, ooooo! I think it works, especially the double meaning thing. Would the cover of your book have some space themes to it so people could see that double meaning right off?

Edit: in space... got carried away with space - now the word looks weird.

 

[Emurelda]

When I first read the tagline I read it as space, space, uhm, not planety space, and I thought oh yeah! Then I remembered that your book is sci-fi and I thought, ooooo! I think it works, especially the double meaning thing. Would the cover of your book have some space themes to it so people could see that double meaning right off?

Edit: in space... got carried away with space - now the word looks weird.

That's a really good point about the cover. I'm looking for an artist..actually I'm looking for art work on various sites by people who specialise in capturing parkour motion well then approaching them to commission the cover art. The setting does need to be 'spacey'. That part will be done once I've completed the book. But for now it's brainstorming still and headhunting for that special artist.

 

[Octopus Messiah]

IMHO This is your man. His work is *amazing*. Bit naked tho.
http://www.london24.com/news/quirky...free_runner_doing_parkour_in_london_1_3858213

 

[Emurelda]

IMHO This is your man. His work is *amazing*. Bit naked tho.
http://www.london24.com/news/quirky...free_runner_doing_parkour_in_london_1_3858213

That man ain't naked - he's covered in muscle armour

 

[Emurelda]

@Octopus Messiah for now I am lucky to have access to Mr. Sebastien Foucan who has kindly endorsed my project and will be writing the foreword to my first novel

 

[Octopus Messiah]

Nice! This guy's great and working on a lot of the same techniques I am-- though with much greater success! I'm definitely going to watch his videos... I like how his moves are much more down to earth and accessible than those crazy roof-jumpers where they never show you the A&E outcomes of their "fails."

There's a move Sebastien does around the 3 minute mark called "Konging" where you slap your palms down, do a crunch and swing your feet through that I'm working toward but will no doubt result in a couple spectacular face plants before I get it right. And so, we wait.

Keep us posted!

 

[Emurelda]

I really had no idea your parkour talent @Octopus Messiah ...I might accidently swing by east london during your dog walks

 

[Octopus Messiah]

if by "talent" you mean "liability"...

 

[Paul Whybrow]

My WIP is called Who Kills A Nudist?, which is really its own tagline, though this thread has got me thinking. The ghost of Humphrey Bogart is whispering wisecracks in my ear, some of which would do credit to 40s and 50s pulp fiction: 'He came to tan. He stayed to die' & 'His all-over tan became all-over dead'

 

[Alistair Roberts]

That title Paul, seems a little transparent to me......