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Take an Elevator Quiz

Posted by: claireflaire on: October 18, 2011

Every author (published and underpublished) knows – in order to drum up interest  — you need to have a short, catchy description of your novel. One you can spurt out in the time it takes to ride an elevator from the first to the fifth floor. It’s a struggle to condense a gripping 100,000-word novel into one sentence that [...]

Going Up! Honing the Elevator Pitch

Posted by: pageadaywriters on: December 1, 2009

Some call it the elevator pitch; others know it as the log line or hook line.  It’s that all-important summary, the one every novelist — published and unpublished — is suppose to rattle off at the drop of a hat. All of us struggle to write it, memorize it and practice saying it. Those few [...]


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