Comments on: High concept pitches (and a mug)

By: Dee Phelps

Dee Phelps — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:24:01 +0000

How about, “THE DISAPPOINTMENT ROOM”? Imagine a woman so wicked and selfish that she affects the lives of eight generations of her family.

By: Stephanie P

Stephanie P — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:20:46 +0000

The novel I’m querying:
“Haunted by the burning of his native city, Smyrna, and the ruins of an extinguished pantheon, Vasili revisits the events and secrets that have shaped his life as Greece is besieged by the Second World War.”
-Memories of Myrrh

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:38:10 +0000

This isn’t very high concept, but I could not resist this post.

When a fashionable and self-absorbed young woman with a heart of gold (think Cher from Clueless) finds out that her father is going to be starring in a reality show, she’s ecstatic…that is until she learns that it will be on the road with his fellow truck drivers. Will this stop our heroine? No! She surreptitiously manages to get herself on the trip to some isolated part of the world. Let’s say Greenland. Or Maine! In order to get by, she’ll have to depend on her father, his crew, a tube of lipgloss, and a pair of red heels that she brings along(just in case). Who knows? She just might find a little romance on this adventure.

Think Ice Road Truckers meets Private Benjamin meets Legally Blonde.

Oh! And there’s an old dog, named Sam.

Title: TRUCKER IN HIGH HEELS

ABC Family, are you reading this???

By: MS

MS — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:45:45 +0000

What if the stepmother wasn’t really wicked at all?

What if she was a widow fighting an uphill battle, trying to do the best for her family in an uncaring society, low on money, past her prime and burdened with an ungrateful, spoiled, disrespectful stepdaughter?

(Miriam, if you happen to know Sharon Stone and Lindsey Lohan’s agents that would be great, lol!)

By: Larissa

Larissa — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:21:40 +0000

The novel I’m currently querying is a YA titled THAT SUCCS and my critique partner calls it “A coming-of-age succubus story.”

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:46:06 +0000

How about my current WIP?:

A Teenage Alien in Victorian London.

By: Partner

Partner — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:28:20 +0000

The elephant’s gaze swivels from the seductively gracious equestrian to her husband, the evil head trainer. Suddenly, she spits out her lemonade and snips, “Can we please talk about the hunky veterinary student in the room?”

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:28:01 +0000

Oh, fun! Here’s my tag line:

A young woman hiding her unplanned pregnancy deals with her failed love affairs by searching for her birth mother in hopes of coming to terms with being abandoned, only to find out her birth mother is pregnant as well.

By: RamseyH

RamseyH — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:20:39 +0000

One of my favorite high-concept titles ever: The Hunt for Red October.

You don’t have to know the first thing about the book – “hunt” tells us it’s suspenseful, “Red October” tells us we’re looking for some kind of ship/sub, and “Red” tells us it’s Cold War Russian. Love it.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:22:54 +0000

What if a white woman, raised in the privileged south, collaborates with the town’s black maids to reveal the racist ways of her friends and neighbors in a shocking exposé?

What if a young girl, who was murdered by a pedophile, watches from heaven as her family grieves and ultimately catches her killer?

What if an old man reads a love story to his Alzheimer’s-afflicted wife about love lost and love recaptured, only for her to eventually remember the story is their own?