Sandra Parshall: Writing — Clues Drive the Mystery Plot
Tips on cluing in readers.
Tips on cluing in readers.
Good tips on mystery management, including not naming your characters all the same, keeping the cast down to seven (whoops!), and starting the plotting with the “Let me explain” bit and working backwards. I should have read this a long time ago!
Here — this’ll make us feel better.
Sample query letters for romance novels that won agents or editors.
Several sample synopses of novels that sold, I believe all romance.
Lots and lots of links on the subject of novel synopses.
Sample synopsis format. There are a lot of possibilities for formatting, I’ve discovered, but something similar to this seems promising.
Several selling romance novel synopses.
Tips and an example of a mystery novel synopsis (one that sold the book in question). Recommendation of losing subplots when writing the synopsis.
Helpful tips for creating the dreaded novel synopsis, and I like that it’s particular to mysteries since that’s what I’m struggling with!.