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 [...]
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 It’s that all-important summary, the one every novelist — published and unpublished — is suppose to rattle off at the drop of a hat.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 [...]