Diana Rowland — Writing, Life, and the Stuff in between

Would the short synopsis be like the back cover blurb? (Except about twice as long–I just counted the words on my current mind candy and the blurb has only about 120.)

No, a blurb is different. A synopsis is a retelling of the story, condensed. A “detailed synopsis” can be several pages long. That one was easy. For the one page synopsis I basically wrote as short a synopsis as possible, then went through and reduced, reduced, reduced. It’s frustrating because so much of the flavor of the book is lost, but at the same time I totally understand why a busy agent would only want to read one page for each of the hundreds of submissions he or she receives every month. And I’m sure that in that one page they can at least tell if the writer can actually write.

It will be rather awkward to keep my fingerss crossed during the submission process. How about if I alternate crossing my legs and crossing my eyes?

Well, since it can take many many months to get through the process, I would advise going about your business as usual. For the sake of your own comfort, that is.

Glad to hear you are done (and on to the next step).

Be careful with AJ, they might recognize it.

BTW, I finally home.