I Need a Title

[kaasirpent]

No, not for this post. For the novel I'm currently working on. It's tentatively titled Necromancer at the moment, but that's dull.

Since the bad guy is doing all his killing with fire, I thought it would be prudent to rename it to something involving, you know...fire.

You don't have to beat me over the head with a brick but four or five times until I get the point.

So. Titles involving fire, burning, incineration, cremation, flames, conflagrations....

The story is an urban fantasy very much in the same vein as Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series, but with a slightly less "noir" feel. More like...Criminal Minds meets The Dresden Files. But not exactly.

The bad guy killed a known necromancer (hence the working title) and an as-yet unidentified second person by incinerating them in flames so hot, nothing but ash was left. He then killed an infamous prisoner and a guard using the same method, but in broad daylight in a prison cell.

He has just burned down a bar where the prison guard was last seen, presumably to prevent any information about the guard's whereabouts from getting to the cops.

So fire is his preferred method of murder, and he uses magic to do it. Powerful, dark magic.

The only title I have come up with that doesn't suck so bad it creates a window into another universe is Dark Fire, and I don't really love it, either.

So, help me LJ-Wan Kenobi. You're (not really, but kind of) my only hope.

Comments

[buckeyebrain.livejournal.com]

Are you intentionally avoiding the obvious???? :-)

[kaasirpent]

Heh! No. :)

[kaasirpent]

Come to think of it, part of the initial impetus to start this story (mostly it was to overcome a blockage in another story) was hearing someone use the phrase "die in a fire" and getting that o.O look as the opening scene sort of popped into my head.