Out of the dozen or so books I've had published, my editor retitled at least eight of them. Yes, it is important to have a good title to attract attention to your book--initially. Once it sells, though, it then has to work into the publisher's book list. They have to be careful about titles that sound too much alike, titles for several books in a series, etc. So, just don't get attached to your title because you probably won't get to keep it! When I sold my first book to Berkley, the working title was The Winter Man. I change the title to BloodWork when I submitted it to my agent to send along to Berkley. My editor called me and said they had a book called BloodWork in the line already. They were going to call my book, The Winter Man. "Isn't that a great title?" she gushed. Denny