The SOB has gone too far this time.:mad:

The SOB has gone too far this time.:mad:

I saw that at Wally World yesterday and did one helluva double take! I thought the same thing. Poor guy can't come up with his own title. . . . time to give it up and find a job!

I saw that at Wally World yesterday and did one helluva double take! I thought the same thing. Poor guy can't come up with his own title. . . . time to give it up and find a job!

Don't authors (or their publishers) take steps to avoid stealing book titles?

Don't authors (or their publishers) take steps to avoid stealing book titles?

We should ask to FPW.

Don't authors (or their publishers) take steps to avoid stealing book titles?

First off, you can't copyright a title.

Second, the swipe is usually inadvertent.

I plead guilty with Nightworld -- I'd forgotten that years earlier Robert Bloch had written a novel called Night World.

BTW, Cussler's Black Wind has a completely different plot.

i'm guessing it was just a coincidence, and that they've never heard of fpw's black wind.

[QUOTE=Alan]The SOB has gone too far this time.:mad:

I am probably about to get pounded here, but I saw this book being advertised just prior to its release and didn't really think twice about it....this was only three days after I had just added a 1st ed/1st pr mint hardback of FPW's Blackwind to my collection. I had read the synopsis about Cussler's Blackwind and thought, "Okay same title, about Japan, different plot"......no big deal.

After I read this thread this morning (before FPW's reply), I thought, "Okay, FPW shares the same title with Robert Bloch...no big deal there, either."

Then I remembered that FPW and H.P. Lovecraft both have published books called "The Tomb" (although, the publisher forced the title on FPW)....again, no big deal that the titles are the same....at least to me.

Am I missing something larger here?

I am probably about to get pounded here, but I saw this book being advertised just prior to its release and didn't really think twice about it....this was only three days after I had just added a 1st ed/1st pr mint hardback of FPW's Blackwind to my collection. I had read the synopsis about Cussler's Blackwind and thought, "Okay same title, about Japan, different plot"......no big deal.

After I read this thread this morning (before FPW's reply), I thought, "Okay, FPW shares the same title with Robert Bloch...no big deal there, either."

Then I remembered that FPW and H.P. Lovecraft both have published books called "The Tomb" (although, the publisher forced the title on FPW)....again, no big deal that the titles are the same....at least to me.

Am I missing something larger here?

No, Flyboy, I don't think you're missing anything here. I think what's more important is the story. If the story was lifted, then there's cause for alarm. But what's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, to misquote a genius.

The SOB has gone too far this time.:mad:

John Keel, who's been a professional writer since the age of 16, once told me that the convention is to avoid lifting a published title for 3 years after the original publication. I don't know if anybody knows, or cares, about this courtesy anymore.

The SOB has gone too far this time.:mad:

John Keel, who's been a professional writer since the age of 16, once told me that the convention is to avoid lifting a published title for 3 years after the original publication. I don't know if anybody knows, or cares, about this courtesy anymore. In any case, Clive doesn't too severe a beating for this one.