SYNOPSIS and QUERY S.O.S.

Achieve Your Potential with a Selling Synopsis or
Query

Are you ready to receive one-on-one help in writing an exceptional
synopsis that will shine from the slush pile? Stymied by your query
letter that could attract the interest of an overworked literary agent?
Have questions, but don’t know where to turn for help? Frustrated in
trying to condense your completed manuscript into a 10, 5 or 2-
page synopsis?   Don’t give up because there is help.

For a variable flat fee, Mary Buckham will provide you templates,
explanatory lectures, examples, and provide  you an in-depth one-
on-one critique of your synopsis and/or query letter – what works,
what doesn’t and why. She will show you, with your own words,
where you can strengthen and improve what you’ve written, how to
focus your story’s turning points and what an agent expects to
read.  She will answer any and all of those pesky questions that
tend to stop us when we sit down to grapple with synopsis and
query writing.  When you are finished you will feel confident that you
have conveyed your strongest selling points when mailing your
synopsis and/or query to literary agents and publishers.

Mary offers three options depending on your needs and your budget.


Option #1:  The Do-It Yourself Special - $20

A series of 12 lectures with 9 templates for you to analyze and
extract the key components from your manuscript that an
editor/agent needs to see to determine if the story is worth their
time and attention.

Great for writers who:

*  Have never written a synopsis and don’t  know where to turn
*  Are on tight budgets
*  Want to plot-proof your novel – is everything in your story that
needs to be in
  your story?
 Option #2 : One-On-One Individualized SYNOPSIS
Help - $70

You will receive the above mentioned lectures and templates as
well as individualized analysis of your existing synopsis. From
what you have drafted, I will analyze  line by line, word by word, until
you have the strongest synopsis possible.

Great for writers who:

*  Have a rough draft synopsis and want to make sure it’s a solid
selling tool!

*  Are  ready to hear what editors and agents don’t have the time to
tell you

*  Are serious about learning the difference between so-so and an
exceptional synopsis
 Option #3 : Individualized Query or Cover Letter
Instruction - $25

Punch up your query letter to make sure it sells not only your
manuscript, but you, the author. Be ready to change a query to a
cover letter and know the difference. Increase your chances to get
even a partial request based on your query alone.

Great for writers who:

*  Are targeting the right agents and editors but are still not getting
requests based on their queries

*  Don’t know their strongest selling points as an author

*  Want to pull all their information together – why they are              
querying this particular agent or editor, what the story is about in a
paragraph or less and why they are the best person to be writing
this story – but don’t know how to get this information across

*  Want to change their current queries from vanilla to enticing!
Mary has worked with hundreds of individual clients to create
selling synopses and query letters in all fiction genres—literary,
mystery, romance, SciFi, contemporary and historical fiction and
more.  
To sign up for one-on-one synopsis/query help, click on the “Buy It
Now” button for the option you want. Or email Mary directly at
Mary@MaryBuckham.com with any questions or her mailing
address if you prefer to send a check.
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