If you have a book in the world, why not hone your thirty second elevator pitch about your book and record it for publication on air on the podcast?
Three reasons to submit your book’s elevator pitch:
- It’s free publicity for your book
- It’s easy to record your audio content
- It will help you hone and practice your pitch
Here’s how:
Go to our SpeakPipe page and leave your 30 second audio elevator pitch. The audio will come to us automatically.
You can do this on your smart phone or computer. Earbuds plugged into your phone or computer may help the sound quality, but are not required. Record in a room with low ceilings or with walls with bookshelves or wall hangings, and a good internet connection. Be sure to note the wave file bouncing on the SpeakPipe page when you record.
Tips for honing your elevator pitch:
Talking about your book is hard. Doing it in 30 seconds or less is even harder, but nailing the elevator pitch is a good way to hook readers and get them interested in learning more.
Here is an interesting post with some good tips by author Harry Bingham on the Jericho Writers website titled “How to Write an Elevator Pitch for Your Novel.”
Remember that you want to set your book apart, but readers also like to hear comparisons to books or films they know. They also like a pitch with humor, intrigue, conflict, and character.
Examples:
Host Landis Wade’s elevator pitch for his Christmas Courtroom Trilogy [The Christmas Heist, The Legally Binding Christmas, and The Christmas Redemption] goes something like this: “They’re books about lawyers trying to save Christmas, a cross between My Cousin Vinny and Miracle on 34th Street.”
Landis’s elevator pitch for his latest novel, Deadly Declarations, goes something like this:
“An unlikely trio of retirees try to solve a man’s death, his strange will, and the 250-year-old colonial period mystery of the controversial and long-vanished First American Declaration of Independence, actions which–if successful–will change United States history; that is, if they don’t die trying, what award-winning Chicago mystery writer Tracy Clark said “is what you’d get if National Treasure and The Firm had a book baby.”
Wow us with your elevator pitch and have fun doing it!
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