: Re: Should I care if my short story has the same title as someone else's book? It appears to be a pretty obscure book. It's on Amazon, but there are no descriptions or reviews. From the

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I'd say that it doesn't matter at all.

Titles are not required to be unique. A little searching can reveal dozens of short stories and novels that have shared titles, all without hurting recognition or sales. I would only be concerned about this if one of two things apply:

The work whose title you share is very well-known in your genre. In that case people are likely to believe that you're deliberately aping the title, and editors are likely to reject the story, or at least require that you change the title.
Your title is too generic, and so is shared by many different works. In this case the problem is not primarily that your title is shared but that your title is boring. You'd be better off coming up with something more interesting and distinctive.

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