Hi! It’s been a while but I’ve been trying to figure out a Title for this story I’m writing and I need a little help.
It’s a funny story actually but basically I was reading this retelling of the classic Alice in the Wonderland story but it’s in the POV of the Queen of Hearts. While reading through said book, all I could think of was how I could definitely write a better story than that so here we are:)
Actual context to work with: This story revolves around the Princess of Hearts and how she has to complete three trials to win the crown along with her three other sibling (respectively named Prince/ess of Clubs, Diamonds, Spades). There’s a lot of action, fighting, puzzles and stuff like that. All the siblings were separated when they were young so they don’t feel much kinship and are pretty hostile and cruel towards each other.
I hope that’s enough info?? And of course you can ask for more if you’d like~
Other titles I’ve come up with but it didn’t really feel right for me:
This is more to start thinking in different areas:
a song
So, a song older than me is Queen of Hearts, but it’s known as Playing with the Queen of Hearts. That’s an option that would catch an older audience, but not necessarily suit your book.
But there is an option to play around with that: Fighting the Queen of Hearts. That could be played around with to find something suitable.
Tarot decks use different symbols:
“wands, batons, or rods (clubs); cups (hearts); swords (spades); and coins, pentacles, or disks (diamonds)”. Cups were big in holding wine for ceremonies but in this case, it’s more about the relationship between wine and feelings. “In the minor arcana wands deal mainly with business matters and career ambitions, cups with love, swords with conflict, and coins with money and material comfort.”
Queens Winning Hand
Red Queen’s Trump Card
The Queen’s Suite
The Queen of Hearts Takes the Trick
A Deck of Cards is no Game
Red Queen’s Winning Trick
Stacking the Deck
House of Cards
Card Factions
Ah, thank you so much!! Tbh I’m pretty sleep deprived so my brain just wasn’t thinking but those ideas are so good and I can’t believe I didn’t think to brainstorm a little more thank you again!!
I am a fan of simplicity. If the book is about trials for a Princess, my suggestion is to call it, Three Trials for a Princess. Or The Trials of the Red Princess. Or like, Stacked Against the Queen or whatnot.