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Hope for Novelists and Other Writers by da-AL

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Do you have an elevator speech? Book writers are told that they need an ‘elevator speech’ — a one-minute pitch for when they inadvertently meet their star-maker. It’s also useful for talking about one’s book with everyone else.

Theoretically, that is. My elevator speech rarely gets past the first floor.

Bunny rabbit outfitted person reads paper.
Ryan McGuire of Gratisography is a smart bunny.

But I love my books, which is why I keep at them. My two novels are in the final edit phase as I build an audience of followers (that means you, dear reader) who I hope will be interested in them when they’re self-published. They’re narrated by a 40-year-old woman, in the form of letters to a deceased grandmother.

“An epistolary novel: written in the form of a series of letters.” Merriam-Webster Dictionary

The Hope Part of this Post: This video reminds me of me pitching my book — and Maria Keogh Semple’s “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” did great!

https://youtu.be/2H4g6Ks3p-k&rel=0

Here’s part 2 of her pitching (this time to another very successful author), which is also shown comically yet realistically…

https://youtu.be/nSdpOYF6fe8&rel=0

Semple’s book is so successful that Cate Blanchette is starring in a movie version of it!

https://youtu.be/wKvOud9GcRQ&rel=0

What’s been people’s reaction when you tell them about your books?

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Happiness Between Tails speaks to and from the heart. It connects lovers — of pets, authors, books — and of my still-unreleased novels, “Flamenco + the Sitting Cat” and “Tango + the Sitting Cat.” The stories are my love letters to all who fear they're too odd, too damaged, too old, too whatever to find happiness. ContactdaAL@gmail.com • BuyMeACoffee.com/SupportHBT

47 thoughts on “Hope for Novelists and Other Writers by da-AL”

  1. I’d not heard the term ‘elevator speech’ before. I know a lot of writers say they got kicked back and passed on numerous times before they finally got a deal, and a lot of those are some of the most prolific writers of today. You show great perseverance and it’s so inspiring to read. That first video made me chuckle, everything she wanted to say (epistolary novel, view of 14yr old girl but not YA, misanthropic woman) gets crossed out, even to the point of being told it’s ‘dead in the water’. Keeping going after all of that takes guts and passion. But it’s so worth it. Interesting post, thank you for sharing. Wishing you all the best with the two novels you have in editing at the moment… exciting times! 🙂
    Caz xx

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  2. I’m not known as a author (that says something about *my* elevator speech) so when one of my books comes up, people get nervous and change the subject. Or perhaps they’ve already read the books and that’s the real reason they change topics.

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