In a nutshell

Is it a part of an author’s responsibility to develop a good “elevator pitch”? If so, why; if not, why not? Any advice for those trying to develop a good/better one?
by Dietrich Kalteis
It didn’t occur to me when I typed ‘the end’ to my first novel that somebody was bound to ask what the book was about, and that I needed to do more than blink and ramble.
The first time I went to Bouchercon was months before the release of that first novel, and I met an author I admired and I was asked what my bo...