Today I wrote Isabelle’s book synopsis.  A synopsis is different from a query letter in some way or other, but I think mostly because it’s more of a summary, and is longer than a query.  The weird thing is that a synopsis can be from 1-12 pages, depending on what the agent/editor asks for.  So writing one synopsis doesn’t mean I’m done with synopses.

Do I just query and do the synopsis to the page length they want when they ask for it?  Or should I do the long version and pare it down when they want something shorter?  And do I do an outline now or later?

And what the heck is an “intro letter”?  There’s this one agent who requires an “intro letter” as opposed to a query letter.  I certainly hope it isn’t just a letter of writer credentials, because I don’t have any yet.

Ack.