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I want and need your wisdom on the title for my new indie book. I recently completed a total rewrite and massive restructuring of my book, GLOBAL SENSE. I am planning to release it this fall. To get advance trade reviews (Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, Foreword, etc.), I need to modify the title enough for the book to be treated as brand new.

Toward this end, I want your feedback.

The one caveat is that I need to keep the phrase "global sense" within the new title. Beyond the time and effort I've spent branding the phrase, one of the goals always has been to add that phrase to the popular lexicon, which has at last begun to happen with people in conversations saying this or that thing "makes global sense," so I do not wish to drop this phrase just as it's finally catching on.

All that said, below is a list of the new titles I've brainstormed so far, listed in the order they arose. I have my favorites, but I will not spoil your objectivity by telling them to you now.

Please scan through this list and let me know if any pop out as the most compelling. If you come up with a better title not on the list, please sing out.

To get a look at the most recent edition (late 2011), please visit my website at http://globalsense.com/

Thanks much, and here goes:

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The Dawn of Global Sense

The Need for Global Sense

The Case for Global Sense

Making Sense of Global Sense

Global Sense Matters

Conscious Global Sense

Uncommon Global Sense

Plain Truth and Global Sense

Simple Facts and Global Sense

A Global Sense of Freedom

Enlightened Global Sense

Enlightenment and Global Sense

Democracy and Global Sense

Make Global Sense

Choices that Make Global Sense

The Global Sense Revolution

The Global Sense Evolution

Embrace Global Sense

Global Sense Makes Common Sense

The Rise of Global Sense

Global Sense for These Times that Try Our Souls

Global Sense For Global Change

Why We Need Global Sense

We Need Global Sense

The Need for Global Sense

Reasons for Global Sense

The Cause of Global Sense

Ideas That Make Global Sense

Living with Global Sense

A Call for Global Sense

Global Sense for a Sustainable Future

Global Sense for Planet Earth

Global Sense for Life on Earth

Global Sense Now

About Global Sense

Good Old Global Sense

Global Sense and the Common Good

A New Age of Global Sense

Global Sense For a Troubled World

Global Sense to Save Our World

Global Sense for Our World

Global Sense Solutions

Time for Global Sense

The Global Sense Approach

Grassroots Global Sense

Basic Global Sense

The Common Sense of Global Sense

Global Sense Choices

Liberating Global Sense

Advocating Global Sense

The Idea of Global Sense

The Impact of Global Sense

Truth and Global Sense

The Truth of Global Sense

Global Sense for the 21st Century

Revolutionary Global Sense

Evolutionary Global Sense

Reality and Global Sense

Inspiring Global Sense

The Power of Global Sense

Making Global Sense

Common Global Sense

Awakening Global Sense

Creating Global Sense

The Shift into Global Sense

Shifting into Global Sense

Understanding Global Sense

The Politics of Global Sense

Oneness and Global Sense

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Do any of these strike you powerfully? Have you any better ideas?
Thanks so much for helping!

Judah

The Journey to Global Sense? As it is something that is based on an individuals change and it's affect on the globe, change is not static nor stagnant..and it isn't something that happens to us. Thus it being a journey (or some other likened verb).

2 cents from a fellow Goodreader,
Best of luck,

Jay

I like Making Global Sense the best.
Lots of luck with it. Important subject....

Sarah

Here are the top votes so far:


Making Global Sense (9)
Make Global Sense (3)
Living with Global Sense (2)
Beyond Global Sense (2)
Global Sense and Sensibility (2)
Global Sense Solutions (2)
The Global Sense Revolution (2)
The Dawn of Global Sense (2)

More votes or suggestions are still welcome.

I like The Dawn of Global Sense, The Global Sense Revolution, Liberating Global Sense and Making Global Sense.

Kayla wrote: "I like The Dawn of Global Sense, The Global Sense Revolution, Liberating Global Sense and Making Global Sense."

In that order?

@Judah, yes

Kayla wrote: "@Judah, yes"

Thanks! Very helpful!

And we have a winner! (Thanks to all of you....)

My wife and I have chosen "The Dawn of Global Sense: Awakening Humanity to Save Our World in the 2st Century"

We chose this one chiefly because it "tells the story" of the book best, and because it conveys that the book itself tells a story, that ideas in the book build like a story.

At this point, the main question is whether on not to keep within the subtitle the prepositional phrase, "in the 21st century." We see pros and cons with and without. Your feedback would be most welcome on this last point.

Here is a fast draft of the cover with the new title: http://globalsense.com/about-global-s...

What do you think?

Judah


FYI: Here are the top ten title getting more than one vote:

1. Making Global Sense
2. The Dawn of Global Sense
3. The Global Sense Revolution
4. Global Sense Solutions
5. Global Sense Evolution
6. Make Global Sense
7. Beyond Global Sense
8. Global Sense and Sensibility
9. The Power of Global Sense
10. The Politics of Global Sense

I like the Dawn of Global Sense

The title selected for the new book is THE DAWN OF GLOBAL SENSE. Last night, while flying eastward at 39,000 feet above the earth, my wife and I did some brainstorming on possible subtitles. Here are the best options we developed:

Making sense of the new global awakening

Making sense of the global awakening

Making sense of the awakening into global consciousness

Making sense of humanity's global awakening

Making sense of the awakening into global awareness

Seems like these are moving in the right directions as subtitles for THE DAWN OF GLOBAL SENSE. Our goal is to help readers grasp the meaning of the phrase, "global sense" at the same time as conveying the core concept of the book.

Feedback? Suggestions?

Judah Freed

http://globalsense.com/about-global-s...

Here is the final title and subtitle:

THE DAWN OF GLOBAL SENSE: Making Sense of the Rising Global Consciousness Now Changing Our Lives

A huge THANK YOU to all of you who supported this process!

Judah Freed
http://globalsense.com

As a salute to the American Fourth of July, and as a thanks for all of you who recently contributed toward selecting the final title and subtitle of my new book (THE DAWN OF GLOBAL SENSE: Awakening to the Rising Global Consciousness Now Changing Our Lives), I am offering a free download of a PDF advance review copy of the book -- today only.
http://globalsense.com/about-global-s...