What to do, what to send, and what to expect.
What a literary agent actually does, whether you need one, and how to go about finding one in the UK.
A submission package is what an agency asks you to send: usually a covering letter, a synopsis, and your sample chapters.
You spent years building a story, and now an agent wants it flattened onto a single page, ending and all. It feels impossible. It isn't. Here we explain what a synopsis is for, how long it should be, and how to write one step by step.
The covering letter is the first thing an agent reads, and it has one job: to make them want to read your sample pages.
Comparison titles, or comps, are published books you name to show an agent where yours would sit.
