It’s official. The second book in my Bigtime series will be callled … Hot Mama. It’s about a superhero with fire-based powers whose love life is about to crash and burn.

I love the title. But … it’s the one that I came up with for the book. Any author will tell you that titles usually change — sometimes three or four times before one is finally decided on. Most authors don’t get to keep the titles they create for their books.

But I have.

I’d originally called Karma Girl simply Karma. But my super agent suggested adding the Girl, which I happily agreed to. It’s a much better title. So, she submitted it as Karma Girl, and the title stuck. 

Hot Mama was all me from the very beginning, although I also suggested Burn, Baby, Burn. So, I guess you could say that I’m 1 1/2 for 2 on titles right now. Not a bad average at all.

Right now, the working titled for Bigtime 3 is Jinx. I’m thinking about changing it to Jinxed, though. We’ll see. And looking ahead, Bigtime 4 and Bigtime 5 (should the series go that long) have working titles of Black Widow and Nightingale.

What about you? Does Hot Mama make you cringe? Want to know more? Inquiring minds want to know …