Does Your Book Need an Elevator Pitch?
The short answer is: YES! But, how, what, when, why…
Let’s start with why.
I was in a writer’s meeting, and they asked about my book. And I started talking about it. Eventually, I said something that made all the listeners sit back, and as I continued to speak, one of the other writers closed her ears and made a sound like she doesn’t want to hear the rest. I had ‘spoiler alert’ screaming in my head.
Clearly, I was not presenting my book very well. How could I expect people to buy it? And I gave away one of the biggest plot twists. Well, not so much a plot twist; May, the protagonist, has lived a very eventful life, but her mind chose to remember one period with such clarity that she is compelled to write it. To show how important that part is I created contrast and gave her some shocking events that her mind could have remembered but chose not to.
When I started writing the book, many years ago now, my ambition was to write about how easy it is to miss the magic of an ordinary life. In my opinion, it is…
