Spent most of the day fiddling with a possible Pigeon pitch over at Betsy Lerner’s—I know I’m jumping the gun, but that’s been my favorite (read only) form of exercise lately—and so have nothing much to share, except that I clearly need to gather more information on pitches versus queries versus one-line blurbs versus summaries.
Or, quite possibly, finish the book first . . .
But everyone so far has been very helpful. One person cooked up a terrific example of a pitch using the bare premise I’d offered, except it’s nothing like the story I’m writing.
Damn it.
Maybe it would be easier to write a new book based on the pitch ideas…
Easier, maybe — better, probably not.
Although a short story about pitches might be interesting . . .
Damn, I wish you’d reprinted the pitch here. I’ve been preoccupied with some things, and only skimmed those comments at Betsy’s–I missed most of them. But didn’t you write about the book in comments to another post of hers, several months ago? I remember LOVING the title.
You can find my pitch, before and after, here, as well as a lot of far better ones.
And thanks! It appears that people either love the title, or it reminds them of bird poop. Ironically, I haven’t used the actual Pigeon Drop scam in the book — or bird doings, either.