Title Help! 

For my fractured fairytale, I'm trying to think of a title. . .I'm deciding right now between either Curiosity or Four of Spades. It's Alice in Wonderland themed. What do you guys think? Feel free to suggest your own! 

Ahhh! My book is under the planning stage, and I'm just gonna start early. I have no title for it, and I'm completely stuck with that problem.

So you can find an excerpt and synopsis on my NaNo account, but I'll tell you all the big break down of the book:

(wait, here's a warning, it's based off some CBers!)

First, Katydid is a girl living an average life. Her brother, who is a leftie and annoyingly creative because of it, tortures her daily with hypothetical questions about ridiculous scenarios.

One day, the siblings get  dragged off to a boring farmers' market, and no, it is really as boring as it is. Katydid begins to look for a new nightsand to replace her rickety old one, but instead runs into a giddy, wheelchair-bound girl named Jeanie. She and Katydid find a new nighstand, but it's even older than her old one, being over two centuries old. 

They're about to pass it up until Katydid's brother notices something about it: there's a hidden compartment and the skeleton key in the msain one opens it! DUN DUN DUN

Inside they find telegram messages dated back from the 19th century. After Katydid brother helps them decode it with his morse code memory, they wonder who sent the messages. They letters will say something like "Help."

The track down the history of the nightstand, and it originally appeared in Mexico. katydid makes and excuse to her mom that's she going to summer camp next week, but she and jeanie and actually going to go to Mexico.

When they get there, they do some more digging and find out there are wormholes to other dimensions scattered around the world, minly caused my meteorite craters and such.

The meteorite that killed the dinosuars has a large crater in Mexico, and as they enter it, they find a time travel device thingy and find them selves in the exact same area.

Except the year is around 1890's, and they're in a steampunk dimension.

They stow away on a pirate ship (whcih just so happens to have stolen rocket boosters), and near England. here the message in the nighstand came from.

They land on a secluded island with lots of woods, and to get to the mainland (the pirates won't come near England's coast at all in fear of being caught), Katydid and Jeanie venture through the woods and hire a kid to take them on a giant hot air balloon to the mainland (the island has a large cliff). But suddenly it catches on fire and crumples into the water. They survive and swim to the coast instead, wondering what happened.                              

After hitchhiking on a couple of buggies and asking around, they meet a teenage girl from the 1960's dimension, who has been trapped there for over five years.

Turns out she sent the message and sent them to the present-time dimension by using a little magic she got from a a fairyland dimension. 

Eventually, someone notices Jeanie's modern-looking wheelchair, and they ask if "the Mechanic" made it for them.

Jeanie, Katydid, and the girl ask who that is, and they go to him.

The person's very mysterious, and is pretty private because he's have been robbed many times, due to making electronics that seem too advanced for even the 21st century. 

Turns out he's trapped in 1890's as well, except he's from the VERY far-off future.

Suddenly, robot driod things barge into the mechanic's workshop, and they get away right before it's burned to the ground.

*dramatic stuff about all the mechanic's works and stuff ensues*

ANYHOW

They venture around England. They wonder why they can't go back to the crater in Mexico and go back to their homes (since that's how they all got there). Later, a boy tells them they can't because each dimension ha a different area of leaving it, somewhere around the world.  So going back to the crater wouldn't help.

Finally, they meet a boy who used to work with the villians, and they find out that a revolutionist group is trying to capture and brainwash people from the future so they can work in the 1890's and "make the world more advanced and a better place".

Nobody realy trusts the boy, but it turns out he's actually on their side. 

After using some magic potion from a fairy dimension and turning into animals, they get captured by the local dog pound (but they escape because one of them turns into a horse). Finally they find the revoluntist group's headquarters and they do some fancy stuff in getting in.

At the end, they find a map with all the wormholes to and from each dimension, and everyone goes back to their own time period. (there's a slight hint and love between the mechanic and the girl from the 60's, but they must go back home)

AND THE REST IS HISTORY UNTIL THE SEQUEL!

I'm very serious about getting this book published. I already found a cheap copy editor on NaNo (she admittedly costs around $200, but that's super cheap compared to other editors). I'll probably publish this book using pronoun and such.

At first I was thinking of using a big book company, but I realized that's basicalky impossible at my age, so I thought let's do self-publish first. Besides, if it's really good, book book publishers may even contact you and you can reprint your book and sell it to em. 

I've got a ton of plot ideas at the moment! Honestly though, I can't stick to just on. Here, I'll write you a few of the summaries for pieces I'm working on right now~

(This one is called In Another Life, but I might change that title later on)

Tesha Narang often finds herself dreaming about what it would be like to be someone else. A normal kid with a normal life- far, far away from her hometown of Dempsey, Ohio. She wishes she wasn't stuck with heterochromia, a genetic mutation which causes her eyes to be different colors. If only she could fly away... 

When she meets a stranger one night after a long day at school, things start to seem okay. For once in her life, she's found someone she can trust. But when an accident happens and a close friend of her family, Mrs. Simon, undergoes a costly surgery, everything goes back to the way it was. Mrs. Simon and her husband would have to sell their general store to pay for the surgery. How could Tesha find a way to help them?

Fortunately, her Literature teacher has noticed her talent for writing and showed her a contest for aspiring authors. The prize money? 10,000 dollars. With that kind of money, the Simons could keep their business going. Tesha resolves to win- and give the money she earns to Mr. and Mrs. Simon.

That's all I have so far. What do you think?

I'm also working on another plot idea, with no title yet. I'm think of calling it Because of Hope (Hope is the name of the hurricane, you'll understand when you read the summary)

Katie Grace Moreau has lived in the same small town her entire life. She's gone to the same school, hung out with the same people, and worked in the coffee shop that her mother owns for what seems like forever. But, Hurricane Hope changes all that. She and her family are forced to evacuate, leaving everything she's ever known to be destroyed.

The aftermath of the storm is devastating. Luckily, her house will be rebuilt, but it will take time. She and her family go to live with her mother's Aunt Pearl, who coincidently takes care of her distant cousin, Jane "Devan" Dawson. Soon, Devan and Katie become friends.

Devan hates how Aunt Pearl is so old fashioned- she doesn't want to be a giggly, stupid girl who does nothing but cook and clean. Her dream is to play drums for a rock band. Katie shares this love of music, and together, they find ways to make Aunt Pearl see Devan's potential. Finally, Pearl agrees to let Devan audition for a local band.

Yeah, so the details aren't really worked out on this one. I've got to the part where Katie goes to live with Aunt Pearl and Devan, that about it ;) I guess I'll just have to see where the writing takes me.

P.S. You might've seen my drawings of Devan and Katie on the Art thread. They are on there if you'd like to see what they look like! 

Oh my gosh. When I was reading throught this thread and saw all these 'fractured fairytales', I remembered a story idea I'd had a while ago. Brace yourself- this was something completely random and stupid that came to me while riding the bus home from school.

A rapper with the stage name Punzel.

'Rap' Punzel. Get it? Oh wow, cringe attack. But I thought about it some more- a spinoff fairytale or whatever they're called, set in the hood? That's definitely different from the other ones I've seen. Maybe I'll write it later on.

St Owl: Well, I'm not sure yet, but I might name the boy mechanic "Rubie" and the teenage girl something similar to intials *cough* BHR *cough*

The boy who used yo work with the revolutionist group might be named "Will T."

You can tell who Katydid is.

*wiggles eyebrows*

But I ended up making the characters really different from their actual personalites (like the kid who helps them on the balloon will be a guy-version of Air) 

I wanted to put more CBers in there, but that'd be really confusing.

don't tell them on you-know-where or I would die from embarassment.  

Also I tried changing the names more but I don't have any ideas! If they read it I will be forced to hide in a corner.

*sigh* 

Oh but hey, if I work on a sequel I might be able to introduce some more CBers!

(in the book I won't mention anything about the CB, though).