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Nov.16.2012 A Pitch is Still a Pitch When you hone you subject into a great pitch, you know what you’re book is about—and you can communicate that in a query letter or aloud. Pitchcraft™ is an invaluable tool—not just for landing an agent but for selling books. In this guest post, agent Katharine Sands, who coined the term,...	Feb.21.2010 What’s a Fragmoir, Logline, Six-Word Memoir or an Elevator Speech? In this age of short attention spans and shameless self-promotion, writers have to be prepared to sell themselves in short sound bites whenever someone asks: So, what are you writing? Memoirs Ink invite writers on their blog to try compression with a Fragmoir contest; Fragmoir is defined as a...
Nov.14.2009 Making the Perfect Nonfiction Pitch Let’s backtrack for a day to the all-important topic of pitches and query letters. I just received an expert blog post from agent Katharine Sands, editor of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye, a collection of pitching wisdom from leading literary agents, and this one...	Feb.24.2009 Creating a Winning Pitch:The Writer’s Elevator Speech Imagine yourself riding in the elevator at a hotel where you are attending a writer's conference. The door opens and in steps the one agent you really, really think would serve as the perfect literary representative for you and your book. You open your mouth, introduce yourself and begin to speak....