If you’re planning to submit your manuscript to a literary agent, you’ll need to have a compelling agent query letter (email) as well as a synopsis (in the case of fiction writers) or chapter outline (for nonfiction writers).

You’ve put so much time and effort into writing your manuscript or book proposal. Why not give yourself the best chance of grabbing a literary agent’s attention by having a book publishing professional review and edit your agent submission materials?

How it works

1. Following payment I’ll send you an email setting out the specific information about your project I need to help you. 
2. Once you send me the requested information (and/or your draft materials if you have them) in a Word or Google Doc, I review your draft agent query email and synopsis, providing my comments, suggested edits and questions via annotations using Word mark-up. This is the first draft.
3. After you respond to my suggestions via email with additional information, I revise your agent query email and synopsis, making further refinements and suggestions. This is the second draft.
4. We go around one more time: you respond to the second draft and I review and annotate what becomes the third (final) draft of your agent query letter and synopsis, respectively.

Your outcomes

• You’ll have a professional query letter and synopsis, ready for submission to literary agents when your project is publisher-ready.
• You’ll have a connection with a publishing professional who has experience as a traditionally published author, an editor, and former literary agent.

Complete literary agent submissions support for serious writers

You get one chance to impress a literary agent. Why not make sure you’re doing everything possible in your submission to maximize your project’s appeal — before you send them out for consideration?

In addition to writing/rewriting your agent query email and synopsis, plus my tailored agent research of the top 25 agents for your project, the Bestseller offers my personalized feedback on your first ten pages plus a 1:1 Zoom meeting to discuss your project and answer all your publishing questions.

That’s right: an actual conversation. With a publishing professional. Addressing all your questions about your project and the publishing process.

And detailed editorial feedback from an author/editor with a strong track record of getting clients over the line with agents and book deals.

The Bestseller: How it works

1. Following your 25% deposit payment ($299) I’ll send you an email setting out the specific information about your project I need to help you. 
2. You send me the requested information (and/or your draft query email if you’ve already written one), your synopsis or your chapter outline (nonfiction), and the first ten (double-spaced) pages of your manuscript in Word or Google Docs. 
3. I review your materials, providing my comments, suggested edits and questions via annotations in mark-up. This is the first draft.
4. We have an 1:1 conversation of up to 30 mins between your first and second drafts by telephone, Zoom or WhatsApp.
5. In the meantime I annotate my thoughts/suggestions on the first ten pages of your manuscript.
6. You respond to my editorial suggestions and matters arising from our conversation via email.
7. When you provide any outstanding information, I will revise your agent query email and synopsis, making further refinements and suggestions. This is the second draft.
8. In the meantime I provide your literary agent research report in a Google Sheet with the names and agencies of the top 25 US agents for your individual project.
9. You come back to me when you’re ready with further revisions and additions, which I review and edit. This is the third and final draft.

Your outcomes

• You will have direct access to an experienced publishing professional — someone who has been a traditionally published author, an editor, and a literary agent — as a sounding board for your questions and concerns about the publishing process.
• You will have a professional query letter and synopsis, ready for submission to literary agents when your project is agent- and publisher-ready.
• Your detailed agent research report will make the submissions process more efficient.
• You will have a clear understanding of what if any further development is required to maximize your project’s appeal to an agent.
• You will feel more confident by experiencing a complete range of literary agent submissions support.