Arrgh! It was bound to happen.

Having left the Query synopsis for a day, I looked at it last night and decided it was not quite right.  Yet more tinkering ensued.

Am I entirely happy with it?

No.

Will I leave it alone?

Probably.

Why?

Well, in my trawls across the internet, and with my interactions with people (and Literary Agents) I have realised that their requirements are all different.  I have come across so many different suggestions as to what constitutes the perfect query letter.  Perhaps the best site I have encountered thus far, are the ones set up by Janet Reid aka Sharky.

But each literary agent, and publisher, has their own idea of the perfect query letter, the perfect synopsis, and the perfect biography. They have, also, their own idea of what constitutes the perfect manuscript or at least one they are prepared to take on.

What is depressing is that this changes with time, the seasons, what they ate that morning, what mood they are in, etc, etc, etc.

So that is why I have decided to call time on my tinkering. Instead I now concentrate on assembling the disparate parts, perhaps polishing the first three chapters a bit more - for that is all they are interested in seeing - and then blasting the documents out to agents and publishers alike.

Then one steals one’s self for all the rejections.