In a post on Writers in the Storm, Karen DeBonis offers advice for solving a conundrum many of us struggle with: how to talk about our book. Even if you have your logline or teaser memorized, this might not always be the best response when someone asks what you’re writing.
“Just as written dialogue doesn’t follow the rules of proper writing because we don’t speak that formally, our answer to a verbal inquiry about our book should be conversational,” DeBonis says. “We need to describe our own book using the same language we’d use in telling a friend about another book.”
DeBonis shares examples of descriptions of recent popular novels and how you might condnese those blurbs into a more conversational exchange.
