Here's a little challenge.
The sequel to "Knight Life" is tentatively titled "Dead of Knight." It takes place some years after "Knight Life," focusing on the presidency of King Arthur, how the threat of terrorists impacts upon it, and--just to keep it real--a search for the Holy Grail and a head-to-head conflict with an individual even more ancient than Arthur.
Now...my noble editor, Ginjer Buchanan, isn't blown away by the title. She says it sounds like a vampire novel. So...any suggestions? Ideally with the word "Knight" in it?
PAD
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In Darkest Knight...
A Knight To Remember
Day for Knight
Knight and the City
Knights in White Satin
and of course...
A Dark and Stormy Knight
KL2: The Dark Knight Strikes Again?
Nope, that's taken......
One Knight Only?
Good Knight, Sweet Prince?
Knight After Knight?
Knight at the Opera?
and maybe one serious-type one: if Arthur is President, then the U.S. is the Knight Realm.
Geez, Peter, this is tougher than it sounds!
Marc Mason
Some others:
Knight Terrors
Hard Day's Knight
Knight after Knight
On the Knight in Question (lawyer in me coming through)
A Knight Not Fit For Man nor Beast?
How about "Late Knight"?
This is almost as hard as trying to come up for a name for a Medicine Ball exercise class that doesn't feature the word "Balls".
About Last Knight
Dawn Of Knight
Knight Makes Right
Long Knights Journey Into Day
Knight Of The Long Knives
In The Heat Of The Knight
The Longest Knight
Knight Blind
Forget Me Knight
Starry, Starry Knight
Knight Fever
Saturday Knight Live
Knight Court
Late Knight
Twelfth Knight
The Morning After The Knight Before
Knight Shift
Silent Knight
Knight At The Opera
New York (or city/place of your choice) By Knight
Btw - Long time reader, first time poster. Keep up the good work Pad :)
Just my two cents... since it's about the presidency, here's some ideas on how it could play on that in the
TITLE:
"One Knight in Washington" (...may be inaccurate if we still have two Knights in the story.)
"Washington Knights" (...sounds too much like a basketball team.)
"Arthur Goes to the White House?" No? How about "Arthur Goes to the Knight House?"
-Fer
Peter,
A Knight in his Own Court
Knight Time
Quest in the Dead of Knight (Yours with a direction away from vampires)
Quest for the Brightest Knight
Knight Sweats
The Darkest Knight of All
Victor
A-HA! I think iMark has hit on it.
"Washington By Knight."
That's my vote and I'm sticking to it. Thanks, iMark.
-Fer
With the search for the Grail, how about:
Holy Knight
"Endless Knight" (wasnít this one of your real working titles for the book?)
"Knight of the Living Mordred" (if Mordred is in the book)
"Arthur meets M. Knight Shyalaman" (if The Sixth Sense director is in the book!)
About Last Knight
Knight Makes Right
Long Knights Journey Into Day
Knight Of The Long Knives
In The Heat Of The Knight
The Longest Knight
Knight Blind
Forget Me Knight
Starry, Starry Knight
Knight Fever
Saturday Knight Live
Knight Court
Late Knight
Twelfth Knight
The Morning After The Knight Before
Knight Shift
Silent Knight
Knight At The Opera
New York By Knight
The Long Knight Of Centauri Prime :)
Btw - Long time reader, first time poster. Keep up the good work Pad :)
Knightmare (or Knight Mare)
A Knightmare Come True
In Darkest Knight
Deadly Knightshade
Knight Terrors
Knightly Visitor
Knight Game
A Knight In August (or whenever)
Beknighted
BeKnighted Souls
Knight Blindness
Knightcap
Knight School
Knight Crawler
Knight Gown
Knight Hawk
Knight-in-gale (if it involves a
hurricane)
Knight Stand
Knight Shtick
Knight Stick
Knight Watch
My favorites:
Knight Shtick
Knight Mare (or some variation
thereof)
Knight Stand
Knight-in-gale
In Darkest Knight
"A Knight of the People, or The Once and Future President."
(Let 'em get a vampire reference outta THAT one.)
"Election Knight."
"Terror by Knight."
"The Knight House."
"A Knight in America."
"Knight Life II: This Time, It's Personal."
Y'know, if you look at that word long enough, it really DOES start to look like it's pronounced, "Ka-nigget"... Anyway...
That's my best shot. At the moment.
Apologies. This was the first time I replied to anything here. I kept getting an error message which said my post wasn't being accepted.
Obviously, that was not the case.
Once again, sorry about the bandwidth.
Someone's already said something similar, but:
Heat of the Knight
And if you're desperate:
Knight Roglycerine
Oddly enough, I thought last night it'd be funny if you wrote a short story called "Knight at the Roxbury."
"Knight Rider," "Knight Light," and "One Knight Stand" are the only pun I could think of not already listed below.
"The Knight that would be President"--not a pun, but still has the word "knight" in there.
"Dead of Knight" seems to be eminently appropriate considering the opposite of death--life--was in the first title.
Otherwise, if "knight" need not be in the title, "Resident Medieval" (a la the video game), "Medieval on Your Ass," or "Low, High, and Medieval."
Since Arthur is a king, maybe "The Knight it Reigned" or "Pain and Sovereign."
--Erhan Kartal
P.S. Error message or not, I'm clicking "Post This Comment" once.
"Knight Vision," "Hard Knight's Reign," and "Access De-Knight" just came to me.
If Arthur's nemesis is from the time of Jesus (and even if not, the Holy Grail certainly is), "Apostolic Now" works well as a pun and as an accurate story title.
--Erhan Kartal
P.S. Error message was received in the message below, but the message was posted instantly. Is there a way to just remove the error message in the code for the website?
just a couple:
Long Day's Journey into Knight
A Knight to Remember
Holy Knight
Knightcrawler
Mid-Knight at the Oasis
Knight of 1,000 Laffs
Knight's to Meet You
"It's the right time of the knight."
And with that, the song will be stuck in my head for weeks . . .
derek
Knight of the Lepus
Knight of the Iguana
and of course...
Knight Life 2: Electric Boogaloo
I figure, if you keep throwing these horrible alternatives at 'em, they'll realize "Dead of Knight" isn't so bad after all...
The Knight Stuff
(y'know, a take off of the Astronaut movie)
Matt
"Washington, DC*
[ed. In small print]
*(District of Camelot)"
"Knight-in-Chief"
-Gren
Knight of Our Life
Dead Knight Walking
The Sum of All Knights
Just my penny's worth of ideas.
jeff
If the book involves a Presidential scandal...
KNIGHTGATE
(Book 3, of course, would be KNIGHTGATE KG-1)
If President Pendragon appears on Ted Koppel's show...
KNIGHTLINE
If President Pendragon sends diplomats to Iran...
1,001 IRANIAN KNIGHTS
Shakespeare references are always popular...
A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT'S DREAM
For shameless cross-promotion:
A KNIGHT TO WUIN
If the book is heavy on the Arthur/Gwen relationship...
MOONKNIGHTING
(this should also bring in the Moon Knight fans)
Corey
Knight Terrors
The Knight the Earth Stood Still
Knight to King's Bishop 2
Lots of good suggestions already, and more than a few gleefully bad puns as well. How about...
A Knight in the Lincoln Bedroom
A Knight in the Oval Office
Both a bit long for a novel title, I know, but I hope they bear considering. Also, I know you'd prefer "Knight" in the title as a matter of series continuity, but as an alternative or perhaps a subtitle, how about something like:
Avalon on the Potomac
Camelot on the Potomac
On a side note... Like a lot of folks lately, I'm a long time reader but first time poster, and I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge my tremendous respect for PAD. Carry on, Peter.
How about "Questing Knight"? or "Executive Knight"? Also, I don't know what time period the book covers but if it is around 2 weeks then maybe "FortKnight"?
Btw, is there a tentative release date for the book already?
PAD, thanks for all the wonderful stories!!!
Raphy
The Excalibur Branch
No More Kings (We're going to elect a President)
Knight Moves
The White House Knight
Knighty Knight
... come on! you know you like it. ;)
others (and forgive me if someone else suggested the following since I haven't read through all the posts):
Knight Time Tales
Silent Knight
End of Knight
Knight's Dawn
Knight Owl
Knight Person
Knight Call
Howzabout these:
Knights of the Oval Office
Leader of Ye Free Worlde
Knight-time for Bonzo ('cuz Reagan... you know)
Inauguration Knight
Knight Colors (only works if you change the names)
Here's a companion book for you: The Wit and Wisdom of Arthur Pendragon
Knights of the Round Office?
The First Knight Returns?
In the Still of the Knight?
And if there's a third in the series, dealing with space exploration, how about: Good Knight, Moon?
Knight of the POTUS
The Imperial Presidency
Executive Chivalry
The Knight House
Sovereign Duty
Knights of the Oval Office
I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with that Woman, Morgaine Le Fay.
Crusader in Chief
Excaliburgate
Cabinet of the Round Table
Hail to the King
Knight and Day
Knight Club
Knight Work
Knight Watchman
One of These Knights
Jon
Crusader in Chief
Excaliburgate
Cabinet of the Round Table
Hail to the King
Steeling the Knight
Dance the Knight Away
Knight to Meet You
Ouch, that's sad...
Here's a Knight Rider episode guide. Just pick one of the Knight titles from it!
Hmm... international terrorists, I assume, not domestic ones, so how about _Knight_of_the_World_? Or would that be too Biblical?
-- Jay
How about...
The Quest Wing
Or you could just go for a B5 reference and call it The Long Knight of Arthur Penn...
Knights of the Round Office?
The First Knight Returns?
In the Still of the Knight?
And if there's a third in the series, dealing with space exploration, how about: Good Knight, Moon?
President Pendragon and the Penitent Percival!
Election Knight
Hail to the Knight
Knight At The Top
Red, White and Blue Knight
Good Knight, Mr. President
The Knight Stops Here
Knight Takes All
(and can't resist a few that break the 'rules'):
Knight Life: Grailgate
Knight Life: The Armored President
Knight Life: A Capitol Idea
How 'bout...
A Knight To Remember
Won Knight Stand
Knight Makes Right
Knight Life II: Arthur! Arthur!
Knight Moves
How about calling it "Not Another Knight Like This"?
Knightfall
Knightly Rounds
Sorry, that's all I got. I'm usually great with bad puns...
Round Table in the Oval Office
Round Table of the Oval Office
Knight on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
The Knight After
The Next Knight
Knights of the Order of the Rose Garden
-or just-
Order of the Rose Garden
All the President's Knights
D.B. Bennet's right, I've spelled Knight so many time I've started seeing the letters for the word- where I've started noticing the juxaposition of letters in the word that seem funny.
(No, that wasn't a title suggestion.)
eddie
Ya know, if you do pick one of these titles, the least you could do is send a comp copy of the book to the contributor.
Well actually, that's not the least you could do- the least would be nothing at all... hmph.
eddie
how about..
Bring on the Knight
Knight Shift
Knight Moves
Last Knight
Knight Light
anyway..there you go..
Stephen
I like "Death of Knight". It fits to the title of the first novel. Maybe you can convince your editor. I think with this title she thinks of "Forever Knight", the Canadian TV-series with the Vampire Cop Nick Knight. But I did not come to this comparision, the title does sound nothing like a vampire novel to me. What does a knight have to do with a vampire? Can't understand her conclusion.
But if you have to choose one. From the possibilities which have been posted yet, I liked most:
Knightmare
A Knight to remeber.
I would not play too much with the similarity of Knight and Night. The reference would be to obvious with the most examples here. And that would be poor for such a talented author like PAD. But it is only fair to consider each possibility and take the best.
"Beware of Knight"
"Thank God It's Knight"
"Season of Knight"
To eleborate on Adam Lipkin's suggestion
'In The Still Of The Knight',
I would suggest tweaking it a little to get just
'Still Of The Knight'.
I think this works better, the book being a sequel and all.
Okay, I'll take my editor's hat off now...
After some thought, I decided that Won Knight Stand was an example of trying too hard. The storyline would seem better served by...
One Knight's Stand
Last Knight
Fright Knight
The Knight Before
The Knight After
Knight Vision
White House, Black Knight
Black Knight, White House
Knight Stalker
Knight Gallery
Knight of Terror
Troubled Knight
OMG!! i just stumbled in here, don't mind me, i'm still laughing my ass off at "I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with that Woman, Morgaine Le Fay"!!! decided to stop reading lists there, as i almost fell off the chair laughing....
had "Knight of the Living Dead" been suggested?
I just want to personally thank all of you who posted knight puns here. I'm putting together a chess tournament at UCF and since our mascot is the Golden Knights I wanted to name our chess tournament with a knight pun. Thank you all for the inspiration, the one I'm going to use is "Bring On The Knight." I also thought the most clever was "West Wing Knight."