Pitfall #6: Ygdylc’haafuk’s Revenge

or,

McIntyre’s Laws of Titles

Never use a title that is impossible to pronounce or embarrassing to say.

Doing either causes people to find it awkward to discuss your book. For example, Superluminal (a book of mine) has been misspelled and mispronounced by everybody, up to and including the New York Times (“...her novel Superliminal, which she says means ‘faster than light.’”)