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Sandra Parshall: Writing — Clues Drive the Mystery Plot

Tips on cluing in readers.

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KILLER HOBBIES: How to Plot a Mystery

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!

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Famous Authors' Harshest Rejection Letters - Romy Oltuski - Entertainment - The Atlantic

Here — this’ll make us feel better.

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Query Samples

Sample query letters for romance novels that won agents or editors.

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Synopsis Samples

Several sample synopses of novels that sold, I believe all romance.

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Writing a Synopsis

Lots and lots of links on the subject of novel synopses.

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Format Novel Synopsis

Sample synopsis format. There are a lot of possibilities for formatting, I’ve discovered, but something similar to this seems promising.

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Synopsis Project

Several selling romance novel synopses.

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Long Ridge Writers Group

Tips and an example of a mystery novel synopsis (one that sold the book in question). Recommendation of losing subplots when writing the synopsis.

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How to Write a Synopsis for Your Mystery Novel: Special Guest Blogger | Uphill Writing

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!.

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