From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher

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Part 2: The book summary

Part 2: The book summary

From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher

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Part 2: The book summary

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- [Narrator] Part two of your query letter is where you include a brief and intriguing summary of what the book is about. No more than two to three longer paragraphs or three to seven shorter ones. If it fits, you can copy and paste your entire short synopsis right in here, or you may need to adjust it a bit to fit the style of your query letter. Either way, once you've nailed that short synopsis, this part of the query letter should be easy. But remember, leave them hanging. Always leave them wanting more. Give them a good taste of how awesome your book is, and then yank it away from them. It's a little like playing hard to get. It's a delicate game. You have to give them just enough to make them want you, but not enough for them to feel like they've seen all there is to see. Let's go back for a moment to the query letter I wrote for The Fidelity Files, which can be found as a PDF handout in the previous lecture. Once again, I'll point out how I ended this summary section with a…

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