My One Sentence — Donna Hopkins

This book is about .

More from Wesley Verhoeve, 248 ¤ The Hardest Part of Making a Book:

After thinking through your area of interest and your desired limitations, we bring it together into a one sentence description of what your project is about.

This book is about .

The best book concepts sound almost embarrassingly simple when you say them out loud. That simplicity isn’t a weakness. It means you know what you’re making and it’s easy to explain it to others.

My start is obvious and very simple. This book is about flowers.

But then, I need to add context and constraints. The book will not be a series of floral bouquets; it will not be about flower arranging. It will not be an educational or illustrative book. It will not focus on the methods of growing or harvesting flowers. It will not categorize flowers by season or zone. It will not label flowers by name, neither common nor scientific.

My one sentence will sound something like this:

A florilegium (anthology) of flowers, gathered from small flower farms in rural Virginia, celebrating the way flowers bring us to our senses.

My one sentence will be revised as go along, but this is a good start.