One of the most essential components of writing and selling fiction is how quickly and strongly you’re able to snare your audience. Ensuring you have a clear and exciting elevator pitch is one of the tools fiction authors need, not only for garnering outside interest in your work, but also as a means of strengthening your own writing. In this workshop, we will discuss three components that assist us in selling our books to readers, agents, editors, and ourselves with highly-crafted, sharply-honed elevator pitches. We will also create back cover copy for our work. Finally, building on the back cover copy, we will draft the all-important query letters using strategies endorsed by successful agents. 

In this workshop we will generate new writing through guided exercises and prompts; provide feedback on writing you bring from home; provide feedback on writing you produce in our weekend.