Tag: literary pitch example

Literary Novel Clock Dance

Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler:   Daughter of a steadfast, loving father and mercurial mother, eleven-year-old Willa Drake wants to be a steadying influence on a […]

Mainstream Love Story The Longest Ride

The Longest Ride, by Nicholas Sparks:   Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson sits slumped in his car in a snowdrift, unable to move. His wife, dead nine years […]

Pitch the Story

People love to hear a good story or a good joke. Whenever someone says to my brother-in-law, “I’m going to tell you a joke,” he […]

Comic Mystery Bad Monkey

Bad Monkey, by Carl Hiaasen:   In comic mystery BAD MONKEY, a severed arm reeled in from the waters off Key West offers former Deputy Sheriff […]

Romantic Thriller Mean Streak

Mean Streak, by Sandra Brown:   On a winter practice run alone in the North Carolina mountains, pediatrician marathoner Emory Charbonneau runs smack into fate as […]

Literary Novel The Other

The Other, by David Guterson:   A middle-class English teacher with a wife and two children, my life would have been poetically mundane if not for […]

Psychological Thriller The Best of Me

The Best of Me, by Nicholas Sparks:   When death of a mutual friend reunites Dawson Cole and his former sweetheart Amanda in psychological thriller THE BEST […]

Paranormal Romance Maybe This Time

Maybe This Time, by Jennifer Crusie:   When her ex-husband, lawyer North Archer, asks Andie to take care of his cousin’s orphaned children in a haunted […]

Literary Novel Bel Canto

Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett: When Latin American revolutionaries hold hostage a houseful of international musicians and guests in literary novel BEL CANTO, an indomitable […]