Hi Evelyn, I am so looking forward to reading Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary, I love its theme and storyline and hopping over to her website, I read her path to representation and found this intriguing bit: “At some point while querying KEPT, I read a bit of advice: when framing the idea for a new book, start by writing a strong pitch
Hi Evelyn, I am so looking forward to reading Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary, I love its theme and storyline and hopping over to her website, I read her path to representation and found this intriguing bit: “At some point while querying KEPT, I read a bit of advice: when framing the idea for a new book, start by writing a strong pitch. Or said another way: write your query letter before you write the book. With THE LOST APOTHECARY, this is precisely what I did. I developed a rock-solid hook and built the entire book around this hook.” I’d love to hear more about how Sarah put together a rock-solid hook for a book she had yet to write, and how in the next 16 months of drafting she kept writing toward that hook. Like her, my finished novel is making the rounds of agents (67 so far) without an offer of representation, despite a couple of full read requests, and while I truly believe in this novel (11 drafts, 3 years, one developmental edit), I am wondering what to do. Meanwhile, I’ve started my fourth novel and am excited about it but think that Sarah’s hook-before-you-draft approach could help me solidify this book in a way that will really hook an agent and eventually a readership. Thanks!
Hi Evelyn, I am so looking forward to reading Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary, I love its theme and storyline and hopping over to her website, I read her path to representation and found this intriguing bit: “At some point while querying KEPT, I read a bit of advice: when framing the idea for a new book, start by writing a strong pitch. Or said another way: write your query letter before you write the book. With THE LOST APOTHECARY, this is precisely what I did. I developed a rock-solid hook and built the entire book around this hook.” I’d love to hear more about how Sarah put together a rock-solid hook for a book she had yet to write, and how in the next 16 months of drafting she kept writing toward that hook. Like her, my finished novel is making the rounds of agents (67 so far) without an offer of representation, despite a couple of full read requests, and while I truly believe in this novel (11 drafts, 3 years, one developmental edit), I am wondering what to do. Meanwhile, I’ve started my fourth novel and am excited about it but think that Sarah’s hook-before-you-draft approach could help me solidify this book in a way that will really hook an agent and eventually a readership. Thanks!