Wednesday, February 16, 2011

New Title for Books--A Grand Theory of Everything

A couple of days ago I received new insight and inspiration for the title of by book effort that is exploring spirituality and science. This came about a week after returning from a Hay House cruise in the Caribbean where I attended a writer's workshop. There I learned a lot about the process of finding a traditional book publisher vs. self publishing. A key part of this is writing a book proposal: first to obtain a book agent and then a publisher. As part of the workshop handouts, they gave the example of a top-quality book proposal. When I got back from the cruise, I researched the book proposal author and her proposed book on Amazon to see how her book turned out. Well, there were lots of changes, including a major title change.

This got me thinking about my book project and whether or not I needed a title that is more descriptive of my books' content. That's when the new title came to me. The new overall title is "A Grand Theory of Everything." I am getting used to it even though it is very grandiose. The theory of everything (TOE) is used in physics to represent the goal of obtaining a physical theory that covers all of the known, basic physical phenomena. Physicists have made significant progress towards this in quantum mechanic's Standard Model, but they have not been able in include the phenomena of gravity that is current covered in Einstein's general theory of relativity. In my "theory" as presented in the two books, the underlying basis for everything is spiritual phenomena and the consciousness of souls "spun" off from source God. So in that light, I think the title is a good fit. I have also made slight changes to the Book 1 subtitle. It is now:

Book 1 - Scientific and Spiritual Sources for a New Age of Science

Book 2 - Spiritual Sources for a New Age of Revelation [no change]

Let me know what you think of my new titles.

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