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I put a science fantasy type space opera up for preorder under the title "Shadow Captain"...and only then discovered that there is a space opera named Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds. (My only defense is that he is generally seen as a hard SF writer, and that is a subgenre I don't follow, especially in tradpub).
What can I do? I don't want to be seen as trying to ride on the coat-tails of a much more respected author, especially one whose audience would probably find my adventure story frivolous at best. Coming up with a different title and putting it on my cover art and in the manuscript is maybe a day or two of work at most, and I don't begrudge it, but I don't see any way of getting Amazon to let me edit the title. Help!
What can I do? I don't want to be seen as trying to ride on the coat-tails of a much more respected author, especially one whose audience would probably find my adventure story frivolous at best. Coming up with a different title and putting it on my cover art and in the manuscript is maybe a day or two of work at most, and I don't begrudge it, but I don't see any way of getting Amazon to let me edit the title. Help!