International Thriller Smilla’s Sense of Snow,
by Peter Høeg; translated by Tina Nunnally:
I know Isaiah, I know snow, and I know when I see his small body lying in it that this child’s death was no accident. Using my Danish father’s detested wealth, my Inuit mother’s hunting wisdom, and my own internalized moral and geographic compasses, I turn my scientific curiosity toward flushing out the murderer in mystery thriller SMILLA’S SENSE OF SNOW. To some, Smilla Jaspersen may be only a five-foot-two, mid-thirties, socially maladjusted old maid living on the edge in Copenhagen, but I am also a proud Greenlander who can still take to the ice in pursuit of justice.
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NOTE: The above is a sample pitch, categorized by type of fiction, that I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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