What's your elevator pitch? Tell us here!

[gh0stcr33p]

a girl who traps herself in another dimension with a mirror that can/could make portals

Mirror Monster | Tapas

[Raven_C]

Kids are sucked into a different world and forced to save their babysitter from an eldritch intruder, all before their dad gets home at 11 o'clock.

...something like that. I'm still writing the novel, though. lol

here's a little illustration:

[Kann]

Imagine a world where your neighbor or boss has blue hair and magical powers and it's comepletely normal.

Aoihito | Tapas

[ZombieOwl]

Okay, I need to check that out

[ZombieOwl]

OHMIGOSH NO XD
That would be so unfortunate... What if a dog ran off with it?

[Exeivier]

An m zombie series where the infection spreads through tick bites and a Usa/Mexico border city is isolated to contain the virus

Infestation: Year Zero :: Patient Zero part 1 | Tapas

[ZombieOwl]

Sounds fun
I love the softness to the illustration

[ZombieOwl]

Oh, hey! I thought your art looked familiar! You got the spotlight! Congrats

[dawgofdawgness]

Ehehe thanks! ^_^

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[indagold]

A boy who lived a mostly cloistered lifestyle is trying to survive on his own in a pretty mundane city. Some old classmates meet up with him and next thing he knows he wakes up in his apartment with a demonic lizard child staring down at him. From there things get very weird and disturbing.

All Broken Gods | Tapas

[GesuGesu]

it's goneeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Go to the hospital. Maybe some people are growing extras in the lab.

[HopCrop]

I may forget my keys, I may forget my phone, I may forget my wallet, but I would never, not once in a million years, forget my dick, even if it could come off. How could any man lose track of that? I'd triple bike lock that thing down and fit it with a proximity alarm.

[Zaboem]

As a pitch, this one needs some polish. What is interesting about the girl? Is she spunky? Is she daring or clever or goofy? What us special about the world in which she lands? Is it dark? Is it whimsical? Is it a world in which people have detachable genitals?

[gh0stcr33p]

oh, well I saw other people giving little detail so I decided to do the same thing. the main character is actually pretty stubborn yet curious, the dimension has a bunch of demon-like people but not as scary and the story can be pretty comedic yet it'll have some dark themes later on, and no there won't be any detachable genitals.

[Zaboem]

The amount of detail required in a pitch is whatever is needed to hook the reader. Your answers to the question felt more engaging to me than the initial pitch. It's basically the same concept to write an elevator pitch as it is to write an effective book blurb: tell is why the book is unique (not good, just unique), give us a reason to care about the main character, and tell us what that character does.

[HopCrop]

I'm just starting out, but I'll give this a try:

A young man tries to battle the demonic spirit of an uninhabited city with a mixture of unflinching determination and parkour.

Skyline Racers | Tapas

[Zaboem]

Here comes my pitch. I want to try approaching this from a different angle than my previous blurbs.

Imagine that you were an alien with vast intelligence and resources and an immortal body. You would get really bored eventually, right? A small number of these aliens rule the universe, and they entertain themselves by collecting humans to keep as pets, and then they sometimes send those pets to fight each other. One alien discovers a biologically perfect human specimen, our main character. The alien collects him, but it has no idea what to do with him, and this human is a naive pretty boy who is terrible in combat. They have zany adventures.

[GesuGesu]

imagine you left it in the bathroom after your morning piss and you need to call home to tell them you need to pee, so please move it into a bucket until you reach home.

[Zaboem]

Excellent elevator pitch!

[HopCrop]

I like the idea of a bored immortal alien, but I'd have to ask how a human could both be biologically perfect and also terrible at combat, since that is clearly a flaw in his biology.