The original title of Another New Life was Return to Love. In fact, the original file and Pinterest boards still contain the original title. It got me thinking whether this was common or not. Apparently it is. Check out these famous books by their original title:
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four –The Last Man in Europe (I guess it wasn’t specific enough.)
Ernest Hemingways’ The Sun Also Rises — Fiesta (Was it a book about Spain or China?)
Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace — All’s Well That Ends Well (Mouthful.)
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird — Atticus (I could see that.)
And, my favorite book The Great Gatsby — Gatsby, Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires, Trimalchio, Trimalchio
in West Egg, On the Road to West Egg, Under the Red, White and Blue, Gold-Hatted Gatsby or The High-Bouncing Lover (I think they choose correctly. Gold-Hatted Gatsby, really?)
Do your titles last from idea to publication?
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Sydney Aaliyah Michelle 
Fascinating, I didn’t know about any of this.
On the Road to West Egg would have worked for Gatsby. People would have shortened it to West Egg though.
The Great Gatsby ended with a dead egg…
My first book’s title lasted until publication. The other two didn’t get titles until after I submitted them to my publisher.
Hi Sydney! Very interesting! Love this post and thank goodness for some of those name changes. lol! Great cover, btw.
Isn’t it amazing how the final title is always the right one?