Do you think QuickSilver would be a good title for a book?

It’s okay, but it’s a tiny bit cliche’ and may already be a book title.

Is it a mercury mine?

It doesn’t stand out at all, in my opinion. Too common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(novel)

@laureth No. It’s a silver mine.

Nope .. it would be a great surf board company though.

“Quicksilver” is an old-school name for mercury, so a mercury mine would be appropriate, titlewise. (Mercury looks metallic, like silver, yet it’s a liquid at room temperature – hence the “quick.”) So it would be a little bit like naming a novel “Hotdogs” when it’s about canines, and not sausages. Does this make sense? It would be in the nature of a pun. If that’s what’s intended, it might be something to keep in mind.

Can you give me a little more details about the book? Pweeeasse :)
I don’t know, Quicksilver isn’t just really exciting to me

Initial reaction, strikes me as a little pulpy and I easily picture it as an old western paper back.

It’s a great name for a book. Unfortunately for you, Stephanie Spinner thought so too. And she got there first.

My first impression is that it is either a word play on the brand Quiksilver or a book about quicksilver. And, as others point out it is a tired word that has been used before. I think you can probably do better…

As did Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens also have novels by that title. There is a nonfiction book about the mines at Terlingua by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale.

Perhaps the word Quicksilver could be part of the title.

I had forgotten that Bill Pronzini has one too.

@Darwin – Yes, like Phyllis Whitney did in 1955.

Eh, at first I thought it would be a good book and it sounded “real” – you know, you never really think of something written by someone you know really the same way as stuff written by other people. It seemed…official. But then maybe that’s because I had heard of other books called QuickSilver. I would suggest to her that she chooses something else.

@lilikoi – But Phyllis Whitney’s title was “The Quicksilver Pool,” which is slightly different from naming a book just “Quicksilver.”

@Darwin – Yeah but you said “Perhaps the word Quicksilver could be part of the title.” so I was replying to that specifically.

@laureth Good observation. It’s suppose to be some kind of serious romance, so glaring puns (in my opinion) may not fit well.

@Mike_Hunt Wish I could, but she is afraid of other writers in our group stealing her ideas…I’m still figuring out why she’s part of the club when she would rather die than have her work peer edited.

Does it involve greed? You could call it Silver Mine!

@Filmfann – That makes it sound like something written by Arthur Hailey.

There was a series on TV called QuickSilver right? I liked that series.

Ya, I’m going for the schmaltz

Quicksilver means mercury. (And it’s all one word, with no internal capital letter.) It would not be a good idea to name it something deliberately misleading.

But if the book ever got so far as to be accepted for publication, the editor would probably change the title anyway.

I have a favourite shirt by them.