More on Writing Comps

Well the wait was short and sweet for Amazon; I didn't make it past round 1. Yet it was a really worthwhile exercise. It brought home to me that you need to approach the title, pitch and synopsis with the same excited commitment as you do the narrative. If you are submitting to conventional publishers you are probably not going to make it out of the slush pile unless you do; and the same is true in a way for epublication, as the reader will be firstly attracted - or not, by how engaging the title/pitch/synopsis is.

I'm even wondering if it would be worthwhile to write the synopsis first. It would really hone your ideas about what you are writing about. I'm sure I would find it a real struggle though as I have to write an awful lot to discover the story.