Synop

Exact quote: "You're lucky I looked at your five pages before I read the synop." ❋ Stillsostrange (2009)

Anyway: I stayed up late last night completely rewriting the synop, which you would think would have given my brain less time for nightmares. ❋ Moiread (2009)

Being me, of course, I can't exactly manage to keep is secret, though there is no guarantee it will sell and I can't tell you who it's for -- but anyway, sometime this fall, I'll be producing fifty pages and a synop on the Heroic Hookers Of The Steampunk West (a book I have been wanting to write for a while, so yay!) envisioned as a YA novel. ❋ Matociquala (2009)

Azteclady said I needed to put a spew alert on that synop. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The synop for this book was the first chapter and a general overview that was about one page long. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Lauren McKenna, Editor (Critique of first chapter and synop) ❋ Unknown (2006)

When I read your synop, Jane, I kept thinking about the recent A&E special series “Murder By The Book” in which Ellroy describes both killings, which so deeply impacted him and his craft–rather like Gillian Gray in this story. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'm kinder than Miss Snark and I'd ask for a synop to see if you could satisfactorally resolve this storyline with a satisfying ending. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

This read more like a short synop, and I guess that's all right if you're pitching to Sherrie L. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

And thanks for turning the grenade launcher on the synop, Miss Snark; otherwise, I'd be inflicting this SOB on all the agents, and they don't need that. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

Truth: if you found a new author with a few chapters of stellar writing and a well-defined synop of the rest, would you really care that it's not finished? ❋ Miss Snark (2005)

W.C. frondibus supradecompositis glabris, foliolis tripinnatis, pinnulis cordato - ovatis crienula - tis, soris contiguis, indusiis imbricatis, stipite glaberrimo, Swartz synop. filic. ❋ Unknown (1797)

W.H. frondibus bipinnatifidis lanceolatis subtomen - tosis pendulis, laciniis linearibus obtusis in - tegris, baseos biiidis, indusiis hirsutis, Swartz synop. filic. ❋ Unknown (1797)

Swartz synop.filic. 44 'excluso synonymo Schkuhrii. ❋ Unknown (1797)

W. P, frondibus pinnatis, pinnis subcordatis ovatis obtusis crenatis basi subauriculatis, fronde re - pente apice radicante, Swartz synop. filic. ❋ Unknown (1797)

W.A. frondibus pinnatis, pinnis rhombeo-subro - tundis, antice dentatis, rachi laxa hlitormi radicante, Swartz synop. filic. ❋ Unknown (1797)

The point is to give a feeling for what the book will be like–that means your synop needs to reflect the actual voice you’re going to use in the book. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I promise, it’s better, however good you think the synop is. ❋ Unknown (2008)