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That title Paul, seems a little transparent to me......
My WIP is called Who Kills A Nudist?, which is really its own tagline, though this thread has got me thinking. The ghost of Humphrey Bogart is whispering wisecracks in my ear, some of which would do credit to 40s and 50s pulp fiction: 'He came to tan. He stayed to die' & 'His all-over tan became all-over dead'
My WIP is called Who Kills A Nudist?, which is really its own tagline, though this thread has got me thinking. The ghost of Humphrey Bogart is whispering wisecracks in my ear, some of which would do credit to 40s and 50s pulp fiction: 'He came to tan. He stayed to die' & 'His all-over tan became all-over dead'
This is how I'll be revealing the tagline on social media. Call me dramatic...but I prefer Relda...Emu-relda
Stand by for John Milton to rise from his grave and sue."Heaven went to war, and we lost." for the book They Who Fell.
Haha, awesome! You need the big drums though, something grandiose to go with the swoosh, like the Universal Pictures logo.
Do you need one?
I'm working on Noble Beginnings and want to be able to give it a suitable tagline.
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A few years ago, the director of Hot House Fiction kindly invited me for an informal chat. I took with me some useful research including the creation of tagline to instantly grasp the series description for the reader.
Question is what is suitable.
For example I was thinking:
Noble Beginnings
"Because parkour was made for space"
How does that grab you? Or not...do you guys have one created for you. It sounds like a tagline for a film too ..doesn't it?
GOT IT. AND YES it makes sense.
I'm not entirely certain how to describe a tagline except it's like a hook - job is to intrigue you. A pitch is a little longer summarising for the objective to sell - except that's also what a tagline is..so what is the distinction between the two?A tagline is not the same as a one sentence pitch, or is it? Can it be both?
I'm not entirely certain how to describe a tagline except it's like a hook - job is to intrigue you. A pitch is a little longer summarising for the objective to sell - except that's also what a tagline is..so what is the distinction between the two?
A browse through Hot House Fiction site shows some interesting taglines:
Darkside by Tom Becker "Don't turn out the light"
Darke Academy Secret Lives by Gabriella Poole "You'll be dying to join the chosen few"
The Hidden Enemy by Zack Satrianna "It's right behind you"
And lots more...
None of these I would classify as pitches.
Is a pitch more like a blurb?
Well I can understand what it means to prepare a pitch and I can understand what it means to prepare a tagline. They are different. Defining the distinction between the two is more than semantics for the fact that the two must be different. I've been up since 4am so brain is still not in gear after how many mugs of coffee? I've lost count.Ah the joys of the nuanced idiosyncrasies of publishing.
Never thought of a tagline for my book.
such a complicated story...what on earth can a tagline be to describe a 72 year old retired assassin that never used guns or knives. Just engineered accidents.
Might just explain a few various deaths that have actually happened. Or situations nobody has even heard of yet they did happen. To open up a line of doubt about something the reader has heard of. Conspiracy or .........just an unfortunate incident ?
But for me to rule is worth discretion,Stand by for John Milton to rise from his grave and sue.