Read our Friday Pitch Slap series here.
Full Listing:
- How to Knock a Reader Dead
- If it’s a Duck, it needs to Quack like a Duck
- When Characters Unite
- My Book is a Butterfly Unicorn
- When the Going Gets Rough…
- Down with the Apologies!
- It’s easy…just be awesome!
- …huh?
- On Why We Missed The Point Completely
- Burning through the Synopsis Smoke Screen
- Selling the Story without the Blurb
- Getting Reviews: Go Bold, Get Noticed
- Building the Blurb, Setting the Story
- You only get 3 seconds to make a first impression.

August 29th, 2011 at 11:02 am
[...] Here is the article series in which we discuss what works and what doesn’t:http://thecanaryreview.com/editorials/pitch-slaps/ [...]
January 5th, 2012 at 9:53 am
[...] the extra time on your blurb. Draft and redraft. Ask a friend. Ask a canary. Spend several sleepless nights gnawing on your [...]
July 24th, 2012 at 10:55 pm
[...] I’d been wondering what I might post about today, since the pitches are now being done over at The Canary Review. [...]