After several rounds of recommendations did little to improve the book's performance, and with people often telling me the title and synopsis weren't very good, I spent a long time discussing it with my editor and decided to try changing the title after all.
When I first chose the title "I Have Seen a Dragon," I honestly didn't think too much about it. It was a lighthearted book full of memes, and the cheat was a dragon, so that meme just popped into my head.
At the time, I hadn't settled on the main storyline or style for the rest of the book, and it hadn't occurred to me that plenty of readers might not know the meme at all.
Later, readers often told me the title was nothing special, and that they only found the book interesting after clicking through and reading some of it. For readers unfamiliar with that internet meme, the title alone might really not have much appeal.
As I kept writing, the book's main content turned into a zany, lighthearted adventure about the main trio going around getting up to all sorts of antics, which didn't really fit the tone of the title anymore.
I've now decided to change the title to "Did He Ascend Today?"
A lot of readers might still think this title is nothing special, but it's already the best one I've come up with lately...
I really am not very good at writing titles, synopses, or openings... What I'm better at is putting an opening out here, then watching the comments every day to see which of everyone's memes are funny and copying them straight into the book. That's why the later parts always get richer as I keep writing.
When I'm writing the title, synopsis, and opening, I really don't