A mistake many writers make is imagining that a synopsis is merely a summary of their story. It’s one of the aspects, sure, but it’s far more than that. A synopsis is actually a marketing tool, and if you adjust your mindset to think of it that way then the whole thing becomes a lot [...]
If you’ve followed this blog series and done the exercises, you should now have the fifty word “High Concept” heart of your novel, the first part of your back-of-the-book blurb–covering the four aspects a reader would expect to be there–and the second part where you analyze those aspects from the perspective of a buyer.
Today we’re moving to the [...]
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If you’ve followed my last two blogs, you should now have the fifty word “High Concept” heart of your novel, and the first part of your back-of-the-book blurb–covering the four points a reader would expect to be there: hero, heroine, external situation, and a hint of the major conflicts the main characters are going to have [...]
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Okay. You’ve got the fifty word heart of your novel. What do you do with it? Expand it out to ten pages? No. You now use this distillation to write a three or four paragraph back-of-the-book teaser first.
There are three excellent reasons to write the teaser now.
To look at the work as a reader not [...]
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