This totally cracked me up: (Thanks to Miss Snark)
Now that the novel is finished, I have been spending time doing much research into submission guidelines for various agents. I discovered that every agent wants something different. Some want a query only. Some want a query and one page synopsis. Some want a query and detailed synopsis. Some want query and 5 pages and a detailed sysnopsis. Some want a query and 50 pages and a detailed synopsis and a picture of your right butt cheek.
The picture of the right butt cheek I can handle, but boiling 90,000 words of a mystery novel with a bunch of twists and turns down into one page is proving difficult, to say the least. I have several different final products, and all of them sound bland and boring since I had to gloss over so much of the twisting and turning of the plot.
Maybe I can send a picture of Angelina Jolie’s butt cheek instead, and go with a page and a half synopsis.
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.)
2007
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