Imbolc New Moon
Working on my query letter. This is a strange animal consisting of a one sentence hook, a paragraph long synopsis (of a 103,000 word novel) and a short ending paragraph with writing credits and availability of a completed manuscript.
I’ve got the longer synopsis done (1,500 words) and I’ve clipped the first five pages. Both of these go at the bottom of the e-mail query.
My body puts up resistance to this work. It wants to read something, jump to translating Latin, sleep. This resistance combines a visceral fear and my usual anti-hoop jumping. Still, I pushed myself through it and now have a reasonably good long synopsis and a first-draft query letter. One more pass or so should do it.
This is to get an agent to read the manuscript, or proposal in publishing speak. That in hopes of representation and representation in hopes of a sale. You can see we’re piling up the hopes here.
