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Thanks for the tips Jim. I’ve been blogging and working my 30 second blurbs and pitches the past couple months. People are easily bored, and if they’re asking what genre is this again from the very start, then you’re sunk. I’ll save this to my Bookmarks. Have a great weekend!
Dead on tips! Thanks.
This post gave me a scare.
Not a “Stephen King” type scare…a worse kind.
When I read the line “I wonder if they were done” my first thought was “Oh no, he’s going to write a book similar to mine, and here I thought I had something original.”
Naturally I’m not so vain to think I could come up with something completely unique…but that’s not the point. The point is…well it’d be easier for me to just share the synopsis of the novel I’m working on and let you see for yourself.
The working title is “Unfinished Business” and the synopsis is;
We all have things to do…until we die.
When you die, your ‘to do’ list gets cancelled.
That is, unless your corpse is prepared for burial by Meg Seabury.
For thirteen unremarkable years, Meg has embalmed and prepared corpses at the Peaceful Slumber Funeral Parlor. But when she prepares the corpse of an 82-year-old World War II veteran something extraordinary happens. Suddenly, she becomes acutely aware of an unfinished task that had been weighing heavily on the man’s mind and she feels compelled to finish it.
Her next client is a woman who died in a tragic car crash while driving to see her suicidal brother. Meg soon finds herself visiting the brother, determined to give him the will to live.
Suddenly, each new corpse brings with it a new mission and she is powerless to stop it. To Meg, it’s a bizarre, nightmarish curse until she realizes that she is the last hope for these souls to rest in peace. But when she embalms the corpse of a convicted murderer bent on revenge, it becomes a deadly threat to her own life.
Detective Dave Steere is investigating night club owner Mike McMahon for racketeering. When McMahon is murdered and the evidence points to Meg, Steere’s gut tells him that something isn’t right. McMahon had plenty of enemies, but Steere can’t find any connection to Meg.
Now he has to figure out if he’s tracked down a murderer, a victim… or something he can’t explain.
At the risk of flattering myself…great minds think alike?
Excellent! I was blogging about something similar, but I think you’ve summed it up perfectly here.
http://louisewise.blogspot.com/search/label/Elevator%20Pitch
@Chantel — you’re right, this isn’t an exact science. Pitching is like dating (a blind date at that) — one person’s cup of tea, stylistically, is another’s Ipecac (look that one up if you haven’t heard of it). Not all men like stilettos and not all women like a guy wearing his hat backwards.
The thing I want to clarify… this “set-up” strategy isn’t supposed to stand alone. It’s a prelude to the actual story pitch (which should be driven by story milestones, rather than first-this-happens-then-this-happens-then-this-happens, etc.). The Dan Brown example is such a set-up, but not the whole pitch by a long shot. This is a strategy, a means toward an end, and the end is a story that sounds promising to the listening agent, however that happens. Context-setting will help you get to that goal. The one that “won” (in your example) simply was able to hold the agent’s attention and then describe a story in a way that got that job done. The trouble with exact science, and dating, is that it doesn’t always turn out as planned, there’s chemistry involved. We do the best we can, and we always do better with a strategy that includes set-up and context, rather than simply sitting down and gushing out the story (i.e., Ipecac).
Thanks for contributing. Hope this clarifies and helps. I wish you the best with your writing and pitching efforts. L.
I did a Pitch the Publisher session last Sunday and did just what you suggested, as did the majority of the pitchers, because what you indicated was also what they gave us with regards to guidelines. Two people with legitimate fiction pitches did not adhere to the guidelines. One of them was told they needed to be more succinct, but the other person was given the prize for the best pitch. Those of us who did what we were told? We were all told we needed more arc, more scope, more in depth exploration of plot and character in our pitch. In other words, if we followed their guidelines and given a pitch similar to the Dan Brown pitch you provided here, we would have flunked their pitch test (please tell me why they gave us those guidelines?) Apparently, there was a middle ground between what they said they wanted and what was too much, where they really wanted us to go.
Sometimes you just can’t win for trying…
Brilliant! Good advice for the covering letter too, because it’s all too easy to try to tell the story there too. Thanks, this is great.
Excellent piece, sums it up quite well.
As always Larry you cut through the crap and deliver the information in a clear concise manner. I can’t help but laugh, you about covered every damned thing I’ve done wrong till now.
Thank You. Hopefully I won’t cause more agents to slip into a comatose state.
Soooz
This is CRUCIAL advice. I fall into the same trap when people ask me about my blog, “Well first I started writing about this, and then it gradually turned into X, and…” meanwhile people are thinking, “Yeah, yeah…get to the point – what is the PURPOSE – what is the MEANING behind it all?”
We can improve upon our pitch by first asking “Why did I write this book in the first place? What did I want to achieve?”
Great article! I’ll be coming back for more sometime soon!
Right for the jugular! Great advice, Larry.
Thank you, Larry!
I can sure see the difference this makes and I know I would have started off with the amateur approach. What a powerful thing to learn!
Sandra
I enjoyed the post, too.
Wow, Larry. You’ve nailed it again. Yours is the only blog I subscribe to and I’m reminded why every time I read a post. Thank you–always–for the USEFUL information. In less than a year, I’ve grown at my craft considerably, and I attribute most of what I’ve learned to you. “Story Structure Demystified” changed my entire writing paradigm, and damn, I’ll be buying “Get Your Bad Self Published” today. 🙂
All the best,
Misty