The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd:
I, Lily Owens, accidentally killed my mother when I was four. Now I’m fourteen, it’s 1964, and Rosaleen, my dad’s housekeeper, has been beaten and arrested while trying to register to vote in literary novel THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES. I spring her from the hospital and, leaving my abusive father behind, travel with Rosaleen to Tiburon, South Carolina, guided only by a honey-jar picture of a Black Madonna with the town’s name scrawled in my mother’s hand. There we find a home with the beekeeper, my mother’s former nanny, in a bright pink house full of love and redemption.
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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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