I’m just thinking out loud here, really, but lately I’ve been considering Shades of the Magi as the name of my series. I think I’ve officially given up on the original setting tentatively falling under that series-name, which means it’s free to use for something else. And then I had a thought. I don’t know when, where, or why, but it just popped into my head a few days after I’d (subconsciously) decided not to use it for the fantasy setting: what if I used it for Children of Fire and its sequels? It would only take like, 10 seconds to reorganise the categories on here, if I went that way, and since I’m not using it for that fantasy series I tried a few times to do (and have so far found a lot more success in starting a brand new one, in that I have a story I’d actually like to write)… what if I used it as a setting-name for C.O.F.? After all, C.O.F. is about the aftermath of a war with mages and destructive spells and stuff. Hence, people are living in the shadow of the mages, or magi. It makes a heap of sense. And, up until now, I’ve had almost no idea what to call the series – not any set in stone idea, anyway. Just ‘Children of Fire, the series’. Or maybe ‘The Element War’, although I think that might be more appropriate to any sort of in-the-war prequel series I may or may not write.
Poll time? I think so.
I like the Element War because it raised questions. (Elements at war? What are elements?)
I don’t like Shades of Magi, too much like 50 Shades of Magi…
I didn’t even think of that. Hmm. But I can make it work! People will forget all about that poorly written, poorly ‘researched’, Twilight-fan-fiction-with-everything-Twilight-removed tripe when they read my awesome book!
It’s not like ‘shades’ is copyrighted… is it?
That’s true. It is not copyrighted, but your title did put it to mind.
Still, I do like Element War…
Ehh, I rather like Shades of the Magi (or something similar, at least) as a series title. “Children of Fire” seems only good for one book in the series, and “The Elemental War” seems to plain, to me (Like anybody doesn’t know what an element is…)