[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fiction By Best Selling Author & See Long Synopsis
- From: "Edwards, Paul" <pedwards@xxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:28:58 -0400
Two issues. First, would we be better served with a single, slightly longer
synopsis that would obviate the need for doing two.
Second, with many of the books I submitted, I wrote a short and long synopsis
and only ever saw the short one see the light of day once the book made it into
the system.
I think that there is some merit in doing what Allison has done in the
newsletters and simply quoting Amazon where available. That is certainly a
safe course. I cannot speak for other folks on this list but I know that I
often scan but do not read so that my synopses are really nothing more than
capitulations of what I have gleaned from the book cover or elsewhere.
Paul
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From: Guido Corona [mailto:guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx]
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Correct. Short summary is just one or max 2 helpful sentences about the book.
And it should not contain personal editorial comments. Be as factual as
possible.
G.
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This is supposed to be a short summary. If you include "idea taken from
Amazon.com" it will cut into your allowed summary length. Amber do you
have no idea what a book is about when you scan it? Just curious.
E.
At 10:01 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
>Guido,
>Would you recommend if we are not good at coming up with summaries of our
>own, can we go to Amazon.com and look at their summary, then make one up
>on our own based on that? I wouldn't use the summary directly, but take
>the main idea, then in quotes at the end of the summary say, "idea taken
>from amazon.com
>Amber
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