Want to write a wildly popular post? Put the word “Facebook” in the title.
Want to write a wildly popular novel? Put the word “wife” in the title.
Some of the best-selling books in recent years were (and none of these belong to the romance genre):
A Reliable Wife – not bad at all
The Silent Wife – poorly written and unconvincing
How to Be a Good Wife – a really brilliant novel
The Aviator’s Wife – haven’t read it and not interested
The Paris Wife – might pick it up at some point
American Wife – it’s supposed to be based on the life of Laura Bush but I’m still not tempted
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives – not my thing but crowds of people I know loved it
Wife 22 – not my thing either
The Tiger’s Wife – might be interesting
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants – interesting but I worry about what reading this book will do to my blood pressure
The Wife (by Meg Wolitzer) – haven’t read it and am wondering if I need to get acquainted with this writer that everybody is raving about
Husbands are not equally great title material. There is Dean Koontz’s The Husband, but I don’t remember any other notable novels not in the romance genre with this word in the title.
I’m sure I don’t have to explain to anybody the reasons for these phenomena.
Just observe that I didn’t put “Facebook” in the post’s title because I don’t chase after cheap popularity.
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