Today, I have to write a description of myself and my book. I’ve been putting off emailing this literary agent (a friend of a friend who said he would consider accepting new talent) mostly because every time I try to describe my book I feel like I’m missing something. I know what it’s about but it’s 95,000 words right now so I’m having trouble putting all that into one paragraph. Just yesterday as C.K. and I were writing my About page. He asked me how I would finish that sentence about my book. We ended up finishing it with something about 2 competing families on Long Island but that’s not all it’s about. 

I got some good advice though. A friend said that I should have other books to compare it to (i.e. “It’s Blank meets Blank with a little bit of Blank.”). And she said I should think about how I would pitch it in 30 seconds as if I was on an elevator with a publisher. Maybe if the elevator got stuck and we were somehow there for like twenty minutes…

I’ll let you know how it turns out.