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Books
· NIBBLES OF NONSENSE Hilarious Comic Verse

· 140 All-Time Must-See Movies for Film Lovers Now Available On DVD

· Silent Movies & Early Sound Films on DVD: New Expanded Edition

· Music, Thrills, Mystery, Comedy & Suspense on Video & DVD

· ROSALIA de CASTRO Selected Poems rendered into English verse

· CinemaScope Four: M-G-M MOVIES Light Up the Screen

· WESTERNS: A Guide to the Best (and Worst) Western Movies on DVD

· British Movie Entertainments on VHS and DVD

· Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in Books 1-24

· These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards


Short Stories
· Merryll Manning: Beachfront Holiday -- Opening Paragraphs

· Merryll Manning Beachfront Murders Part 16

· Merryll Manning Beachfront Murders Part 15

· Merryll Manning Beachfront Murders Part 14

· Merryll Manning Beachfront Murders Part 13

· Merryll Manning Beachfront Murders Part Twelve

· Merryll Manning Beachfront Murders Part Eleven

· Merryll Manning Beachfront Murders Part Ten

· Merryll Manning Beachfront Murders Part Nine

· Merryll Manning Beachfront Murders Part Eight


Articles
· 214.93 Dollars. Is This a Record Price?

· TITLES TO AVOID How to use Hollywood Classics Title Index

· BAD TITLES 2 more outsiders

· BAD TITLES: 3 To Avoid

· RIGHT NAMES and titles for stories, poems and novels

· Exactly the right title for your book, poem or story?

· Find Right Titles for Books, Poems, Stories

· Catchy Titles and Interesting Character Names

· Rosalia de Castro: A BRIEF LIFE

· Why do German movie fans love JHR's books?


Poetry
· ROSALIA de CASTRO The Old Road Del antiguo camino

· HAPPINESS by Rosalia de Castro

· Restless Thoughts by Rosalia de Castro

· The Two Doves by Rosalia de Castro

· Taste and See That the Lord Is Good

· Thank You, Lord!

· God Is Our Strength and Shelter

· God Heals the Broken-Hearted

· Translating Poetry: Literal versus Poetic Approaches

· Anyone for Love? -- Number 1 at Kindle Store

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News
· Last Days for $5,550 Margaret Reid Poetry Contest

· $5,550 Poetry Contest Closes June 30

· Free E-Book This Weekend Only!

· FREE EBOOK FOR EVERYONE! Next 2-3 days only!

· Poetry & Short Story Contests Now Open!

· POETRY GIVEAWAY Closes Soon!

· Inspiring Poetry Giveaway

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Most publishers receive well over 100 submissions a day! To give yourself an edge over the competition, you NEED a catchy title.

So how do you think up catchy titles and interesting names? Charles Dickens used to keep a notebook in which he'd write down real names and places that caught his eye. But now there's a much easier and far more effective way. This is what I use: Hollywood Classics Title Index

That link will take you to Amazon Kindle. If you prefer NOOK at Barnes & Noble: Hollywood Classics Other ebook stores such as Apple and Sony also stock this book.

For 99 cents, this book will provide you not only with thousands of fascinating titles but names as well. Movie titles and the names of both movie stars and character players are chosen and designed for one reason only: TO CATCH ATTENTION!

Of course, it's not a good idea to use the titles of recent movies and the names of current stars. This book, however, lists over 3,000 movie titles from 1920 through 1970. It also provides extensive cast lists with more names than you could use in a thousand years. You can also mix first names with different surnames and use titles as a springboard. For example, here's a 1920 movie titled "The Man Who Had Everything". You could change that to "The Man Who Had Nothing", "The Man Who Had a Dream", etc.

Even more importantly, you can also see at a glance that "Man" is a word that carries enormous impact. No less than 33 movie titles begin with that word.

On the other hand, this book reveals that "Boy" is a word with virtually no appeal at all. Strange, but true ! Only three movie titles begin with the word, "Boy", and one of them had so little impact that (as the book actually indicates) the producer went to the considerable expense of withdrawing the movie from circulation and changing the title, "Boy from Barnado's", to "Lord Jeff"!

 

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