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Wolfgirl’s Pet Witch is now a Prequel to Innocent Devil’s Harem.

This connection will not ruin either story, as they are separated by roughly 370 years, and overlap will be limited.

I want to rename the story to show that connection:

- Innocent Wolf’ssomething

- (or) Innocent Wolfsomething

However, I’m making this separate post, so I can explain the logic behind a title choice. One of the reasons why Innocent Devil’s Harem works as a good title is because ‘Innocent Devil’ seems like an oxymoron (or opposites, like freezing fire), and then ‘Harem’ indicates to the reader what kind of story it is.

Any title that needs the ‘context of the story’ to be understood is usually a ‘bad’ title choice, in my experience. The reason why is because the title is meant to get a reader to check out the story, and if they have to check out the story in order to understand the title, then the average person is just going to skip over it.

Most people absolutely judge a story based on Book Cover and Title, but most importantly Title, so having something that grabs their attention is important. An amazing Title with a bad book cover will do a thousand times better at getting people to check it out than an amazing book cover with an average title.

Anyway, here are some ideas, but I want to hear yours!

Please also let me know if you like any of these ideas, and perhaps even rate which is your first pick, second pick, etc. Eventually, I will do a poll for this, but I want to get some more ideas first, as well as a better grasp of what people like most.

(NOTE: Pretend as if you know absolutely nothing about the story, and randomly saw this title with zero context -- which one would be most engaging to you? Relevance to the story is ironically not the most relevant thing)

- Innocent Wolf’s Pack (‘true werewolves,’ like the Apex in IDH, but wasn’t planning on Rose becoming one, could change this -- maybe Rose does need to become a werewolf too)

- Innocent Wolf’s Trinity (context is female MC and 2 female love interests, wasn’t planning on expanding the love interests beyond the two, even though there are other female characters.)

- Innocent Wolf Shepherd (kind of like this one, more intriguing than guardian, ‘Wolf Shepherd’ is an oxymoron)

- Innocent Wolf Queen (implies gender of MC, could possibly be the most useful in setting the premise for a reader -- in fact, because this is Ariana's story, this might be the best choice for those who have read IDH, so that they understand right away that this is a female MC story, but that it might be something they'd enjoy due to it's connection with IDH, a harem story)

- Innocent Wolf’s Pride (context is emotion of pride, and pride of lions, loosely relevant)

- Innocent Wolf’s Conquest (relevance? No idea, just thought it sounded cool)

- Innocent Wolf’s Reign

- Innocent Wolf’s Home (good option, but I feel like this requires story context to work, which is not ideal)

- Innocent Wolf’s Flock (I’m concerned the average person wouldn’t recognize the meaning of flock outside of context, I’ve seen this happen with the word ‘genome’)

1) What are your ideas?

2) Which of the above are your favorites?

I created a Poll for some of the more popular picks.

Comments

Binuvyen

Not sure if this has been previously considered, but a pattern I have seen elsewhere. Instead of relying on the story name to link them, create a name for the story world and link them through that. Examples: Brandon Sanderson has his Mistborn and Stormlight Archive stories in the "Cosmere" setting and a completely different set of stories set in the "Cytoverse". Terry Pratchett also linked a lot of story lines with very different types of main character by setting them all on Discworld. In both cases there are often signifiers like "The Wee Free Men, a Story of Discworld" or often a page listing the previous books in the setting. Just throwing it out in case it sparks ideas.

KaizerWolf

It's a good idea, but he can get away with a lot due to sheer popularity. The entire point of linking these worlds is so that people who like IDH will give this story a chance. But yeah, that's technically an option.

Axel L

To be fair, I was hooked by the original title alone. And if you're going to rename it just so people can get the connection, then not much other than "Innocent Wolf [Girl]" makes sense. But since you decided to make them connected, couldn't you theoretically get more readers by announcing it in the author notes from the IDH posts?

KaizerWolf

Yeah, I plan to do that this weekend (mention it for the next IDH chapter). I only decided to make that connection this week. But there are some who only read the books on Amazon, and other such places. So I want to make sure those people know without me being able to directly tell them.