There is also the online business that reached page one of Google and was delisted the week it got there. The AdSense account closed for fraudulent traffic that Google's own advertising system had sent. Tens of thousands of dollars gone across three of the largest technology companies in the world, and no one to appeal to. That story runs underneath this one the whole way.
And there is a thirty-eight-hour bus ride home, a bus he was convinced was nuclear-powered and remotely piloted, seven dollars in coins thrown into a rough sea in the hope that God would mistake them for gold.
CLOSERS
Nowhere Near Perfect, a memoir by Kevin Katovic · sales pitch draft
How this was written. I read the manuscript (Nowhere Near Perfect) and used only what it says.
The eBay title is Closers: Nowhere Near Perfect, a memoir, and the sale includes full copyright and all rights,
as you decided. Anything I still could not know is highlighted [like this] .
1. Headline options (pick one)
Closers: Nowhere Near Perfect, a memoir told from the inside, by the man who lived it.
A wry, unfiltered first-person memoir the first spiritual-
feeling
2. The pitch (about 150 words)
Closers: Nowhere Near Perfect is the story of Kevin Katovic, told plainly and from the inside.
By its close, the author reports that he has not
His question to the reader is the one he leaves on the last page: after all, is it so hard to
believe?
3. Inside the book
Length
Chapters
Moments you will
remember
Format
About 14,400 words, 41 pages, 11 chapters
1 The Onset of Illness · 2 Hospitalization · 3 Road to Recovery · 4 Recovery Is Overrated:
Searching for Answers · 5 Prisons, Schizophrenia, Airport Hangars, and Things That Go
Bump in the Night · 6 Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law · 7 The Sidewalk to Recovery:
Trading My Way from the Top · 8 Nuclear-Powered Vehicles, Stealth Bombers, and
Schizophrenia Don’t Mix · 9 Psychiatric Evaluations: Third One’s Free · 10 Sanity Is a Thirty-
Eight-Hour Bus Ride · 11 Recovering from the Road to Recovery
A 2004 webmaster convention plan that ends with Google blacklisting his website; a
brokerage account where every position seems to move against him; a strobing police light
bar at 1:45 a.m. on a night bus into British Columbia.
Manuscript PDF, © Kevin Katovic.
4. Who it is for
5. Price and what the buyer gets
Asking price:
What is being sold: full copyright and all rights. The buyer owns the book outright, including future editions,
translations and adaptations.
Buy or enquire
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Price reality. That price is far above what memoirs typically fetch. If the goal is a sale, consider also approaching
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