All right, true confessions time: I dislike synopses (and I only use the word dislike as an attempt at tactfulness). They’re hard to write, ...

The query letter is probably the single most important tool for marketing a novel, and it’s made up of four main parts: a plot summary; a pl...

So now you have a list, or at least the beginnings of one. That was the easy part. The hard part is determining which of the agents on that ...

Over the next week or so, I’ll be doing this series entitled “Anatomy of an Agent Hunt.” I’m planning to pull together a (by no means exhaus...