Is this a good synopsis for my book?
This is for my book The Dark Mysterians: Gathering of the Horsemen
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Whitman, suffering from amnesia and not able to remember his own mother’s name, struggles with a new city, new school, and new life. Upon the arrival to his second chance in life, Joseph befriends three other teenagers with extraordinary capabilities. But when Joseph learns of his destiny, to fulfill a position as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and aid in the destruction of Earth, his life starts spiraling out of control.
Filled with angels, demons, half breeds, witches, werewolves, vampires and more, this epic novel will put Joseph at his wit’s end and the edge of breaking point, leading up to the final climatic scene where he either realizes that the Apocalypse is an inevitable end, or commences himself into a full-fledge mental shutdown.
It’s kind of rough and misses the comedy, romance, and horror scenes that takes place in the book, but this is what I used to query for literary agents to consider my novel. Only one agency (WritersHouse) accepted it, and I think that’s kind of bad but also normal since their so busy and since I’m only 14. Is there any advice I can take?
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It sounds like a great story and I would definitely read it! Just a point or two, I would change ‘upon the arrival to his second chance in life’ to ‘as he begins his second chance in life’. I would also change ‘this epic novel will’ to ‘this epic novel sees’ and I would change the word commence. It seems a little out of place and slow, where a word such as tumbles or throws would make it seem more dramatic.
Just some vocab points to what is otherwise an exciting synopsis! Good luck!
KBlaine, it kind of misses the point. It doesn’t tell the story, much less how it turns out. You give us the character and his situation, but we don’t know what *happens.* That’s what a synopsis is all about.
from http://www.fictionwriters.com/tips-synopsis.html
What is a synopsis?
1) It’s a narrative summary of your book–with feeling.
2) It’s written in present tense.
3) It’s written in third person. (You did these two and three just fine.)
4) It’s written in the same style of writing your book is written in. If your book is "chatty," then your synopsis is, too. If your book is serious, literary, filled with dialect, or any other style, so must your synopsis be.
5) The synopsis introduces your main characters and their main conflicts, all woven together in the narrative. (It does not list your characters.)
6) Weaving, by the way, is important. One paragraph should flow logically to the next. If you are switching ideas, you need to make sure you build in a transition to connect your paragraphs.
7) You do not have to include every character or every scene, plot point, or subplot in your synopsis. But your synopsis should give a clear idea as to what your book is about, what characters we will care about (or dislike), what is at stake for your heroes, what they stand to lose, and how it all turns out.
That was everything I could have asked for and more! It’s absolutely magical – a splash of drama, a bucketload of angst, a sprinkling of what could only be described the supernatural enchanted love. You are like, Superman. More, more, more.
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