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From the desk of Lily Lindon, editor at The Novelry and author of Double Booked (June 2022).

If you want an agent to represent your novel, you're going to have to write a damned good synopsis.

That's right – it's not enough to spend months of your life crafting tens of thousands of words of brilliant, original storytelling. You've got to be able to summarise it too.

Most agencies ask...