Working: Chapter and Other Titles

First of all, I am working on a chapter entitled Swords and Monkeys. I won’t tell you anymore than that. You’ll just have to anxiously await and find out what happens to Dylan and the other children during this chapter. Will Billings do what we all know he is destined to do?

As far as series titles are concerned, well, I also have considered:

• “Picture Door Travels”
• Chronicles of the Picture Door Children
• Endless Sea Journals
• Pierats (also a possible first book title
• Picture Door Chronicles
• Endless Seas Saga
• Picture Door Saga
• Picture-Door Legends

Obviously I cannot seem to get away from the headings “Endless Seas” and “Picture-Door.” This is because they are the two most predominant entities in the book and they span the entirety of the series rather than one simple world. Again, I will just have to wait till it comes to me. Honestly, I’m not sure I particularly like any of them. Picture-door sounds stupid to me, and Endless Seas, sounds good, but I have a hard time putting an Endless Sea in every world, especially since they connect to ours, which does not have an endless sea in it at all. I suppose it could be renamed, but I guess it could be more metaphorical, and just have the Endless Sea that is in the world of the first book.

Alba, as the world of the first book is currently referred to. I had the name before I ever looked it up. It’s appropriate to my supposed Scottish Heritage, but my wife told me it made her think of Jessica Alba. Dear God please … noooooooo! So I guess I may have to re-work the world name, but I really have grown attached to it. Screw Jessica, the word was here long before she was … which raises the other eyebrow, should the name be a word already in existence. I hate Christopher Paolini’s name for his world, although I love his books. It’s just too hard to spell. Still, Alba is close to Albion, in fact a fundamental form of the word. And it starts with A, but I just can’t let it go. Maybe I won’t. We shall see. I’ll take a vote right here and right now from all zero of my readers at this point. Commenters vote! Keep it or leave it?