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Martha “Marti” Tucker

HIGH CONCEPT WILL GET  A PUBLISHER’S ATTENTION!

Writing the bestseller-kind-of-Novel only requires know how, patience and a dose of good fortune.  If you take a few minutes to learn what “High Concept” is from this article, then execute it, you will get an agent or publisher’s attention. 

High concept is a fresh way of looking at a story.  It gives an unusual premise and asks a dramatic question.  So let’s break that down in simple terms.  Remember, premise is what point you want to make. 

In the  Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires premise: division in the Black community leads to turmoil—The novel  reveals the life of 36-year-old Indigo Tate, who is married to the Mayor of Compton, California.  She is drop-dead gorgeous, educated, ambitious--and stuck in the ghetto--fresh. Most women who can afford to live away from the inncer city won’t live in the inner city.  They cut all ties.  Can you imagine Beyonce living in Compton, or Jackie Onassis, or Oprah?  So given Indigo’s background, ambitions and dsires, this is unusual, high concept.  How often do you find such a Black woman in the middle of a bitter political war with crooked leaders connected to the South American cartel?  But it rings true because it’s about the reality of inner cities.

While most stories are either social commentary or mystery, they usually are not both.   The Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires  took years  to lace the mystery with social commentary in a way that will not be preachy.  What did I want to prove?   I wanted to prove that Black people need to stop being divided to gain progress.  We’ve seen the inner city, but we’ve not seen it solving its problems. It logical, but unusual. It’s different. That’s the nature of high concept.

Is any story going to last as long as Gone With The Wind? Why? It has Scarlett who is a love-struck, but independent woman, even in days of slavery.  What about The Color Purple.  When Black women find themselves in a situation that bad, they usually give up, or something bad happens. High Concept: The main character has hope to overcome, and she does. She hold her dream of seeing her children, and she does. 

Bio:  Martha Tucker is an author of The Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires,

 a breakthrough romantic urban thriller

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