The Ultimate Guide to Pitch Writing

Several years ago, I wrote about various methods for pitching our story. At the time, I was thinking mostly about traditional publishing, so my perspective was someone looking to pitch to agents, including queries and “elevator pitches” (a story pitch short enough to give during an elevator ride at a writers’ conference).

However, story pitches are used for self-published books as well as traditionally published books. No matter how we publish, we need to introduce our story to potential rea...