Your Book, The Synopsis, Blurb, and Elevator Pitch

You need all of these in your tool kit as an author.

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I love writing. One of my favorite parts of being a storyteller is getting the words from my head to the screen and page. I love being able to look at what I’ve done and then share it with the world.

Part of the sharing process, however, requires more writing. This is challenging because now it’s not just storytelling. This is how you market, pitch, and explain your book to the world.

Maybe for some, this is easy. I suspect if I wrote my books with a more singular character perspective and focus, this would be. Yet that’s not how I work. I write from multiple character perspectives, and I like to blur where the lines are between good and evil, and other complexities like that.

Thus, explaining the book — especially when it’s a third of the overall series and that’s one big arc — is challenging.

For some time now, I’ve been working on the blurb for the first book of my new Savagespace sci-fi trilogy. Alliances and Consequences gets the show started and the series off the ground.

As I’ve worked on my blurb, I’ve presented it to a couple of groups I’m part of on Facebook, and one I’ve recently had the privilege to join on Discord. There have been a…