Logline for THE DISTRICT OF CAMELOT
Been working on it five years (the book, I mean), but I’ve finally figured out how to summarize DISTRICT OF CAMELOT in a single sentence: Tom Stearns, a New York Times reporter, travels into the heart of Southeast D.C. in search of a controversial preacher (based on former mayor Marion Barry) who’s gone missing.
Why is Reverend Crawford hiding?
To summarize your book: why is this such a difficult task? Seems like we should be able to easily communicate these projects we’ve lived with so intimately for so many years. Then again, if you asked me to describe a family member in a single sentence, that might be equally difficult. Unless they’re insane. Then you’d say: “this is my brother; he’s insane.” Hmm.
Congratulations on boiling it down to a single sentence!
It’s hard to write short, punchy sentences that sum up thousands of words. Five years though! Perhaps you were busy doing other things?
Whenever I am asked to summarize my books, my reply is: “If I could say it in a sentence, I wouldn’t have written 300 pages.”