Short Story Anthology Title Results!

Many thanks to all who voted and/or commented to help me decide on the name for my short story anthology. Three clear favourites emerged from the process :

A Parliament of Owls
Ladders to the Moon
Perfect Circles

Strictly speaking, Ladders won, but there were several votes only cast as comments or by word of mouth, so I decided it came down to these three. My original favourites were A Parliament of Owls (sounds cool, kinda mysterious) and Near Earth Objects (which I liked the double meaning of). But, as the votes came in, I began to warm towards Perfect Circles. Again, it's intriguing and it has the added advantage of being the title of one of the actual stories I'm going to put in the anthology.

So, Perfect Circles it is to be.

But, wait, that's too easy! As I began to collate the anthology, I decided I would divide it into three sections : fantasy, SF and realism. I know I'm all for mixing up the genres, but I decided it would be easier on the reader if I made it clear which sorts of stories they could expect. And naming the whole thing Perfect Circles has allowed me to give each section a circle-related title. So I have :

Spell Circles : the weird and the wonderful
Eccentric Orbits : of space and time
Life Cycles : of lifes and deaths

Do we like?

Something still nagged away at me, though. Wouldn't someone who only liked SF, say, ignore an anthology full of other stuff? Well, quite possibly, as quite a few people said. Which made me think perhaps I should do three separate anthologies after all ...

Then it occurred to me : this is old-fashioned thinking. It's easy to create and publish ebooks. Editing and formatting the text is hard work, but once you have each story/chapter straight, it's very easy to move things around and duplicate them. So, it wouldn't be very much more work to do four anthologies : one for fantasy, one for SF, one for realism and the original one containing all of them. Plus this will make for rather an interesting experiment, to see which one does best.

So that's the plan. Four anthologies, with the last of the four containing everything in the first three.

Spell Circles
Eccentric Orbits
Life Cycles
Perfect Circles

Obviously I'll need more artwork this way, but this allows me to cover all the bases. I can have an SF anthology that clearly looks like it is SF, for example, as well as having my all-encompassing collection there too. There will obviously be links in each book to the others for people to explore if they wish to.

It'll be very interesting indeed to see which anthology is the most popular ...