Elevator Pitches: Round One

Eidolon: Batman meets Edgar Allan Poe

Empress of Ice&Oceans: Hades & Persephone meets Koschei the Deathless


Frost & Fire: Cruel Intentions meets Harry Potter

Glass: Alice in Wonderland meets The Craft


Hit the Lights: Rainbow Brite meets 1984


I Hear the Bones Singing: Criminal Minds meets the Brothers Grimm


Night-Dreamed Roads: Mad Max: Fury Road meets the Pixie Hollow movies


Samedi: Princess & the Frog meets The Night Circus


Sayuri: Star Trek meets Pacific Rim


VR Book: The Matrix meets Young Justice

Defining Elevator Pitch

An elevator pitch is basically your ability to pitch a book in 1 or 2 lines. So…for example, let’s take a look at some classics most people know.

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire: Four wizards compete in a three-wizard tournament. Scandal! (I borrowed that from @polandbananas20).

The Hobbit: middle-aged introvert dragged along by dwarves who want to slay a dragon and get their kingdom back.

Throne of Glass: Game of Thrones meets The Hunger Games with really pretty dresses.

Delirium: Romeo & Juliet in a dystopian world where love is considered to be a mental illness.

Great (by Sara J. Benincasa): an adaptation of The Great Gatsby in modern day except with lesbians.

The Selection: The Bachelor, royal edition, with mild civil war (also borrowed/paraphrased from @polandbananas20)

So like, if I wanted to do elevator pitches for some of my books, I might write them something like this:

Eidolon: Edgar Allan Poe meets Batman when Jack the Ripper stalks a neo-Victorian kingdom of half-human magicians.

The Silver Princess: royal Elf twins fall in love with a young doctor while their nations teeter on the brink of civil war.

Frost & Fire: a vindictive brother and sister try to ruin the lives of their fellow students at magic school.

Make sense?