ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the readers consider their choices regarding their completed work, prepare a final draft for submission and learn how to write a compelling synopsis. Some writers decide not to send out work to publishers at all, preferring to engage privately with what they produce, perhaps sharing it with a few trusted readers. However, most writers do eventually decide to send work out, seeking readers and contact with the wider world. The chapter sets out some guidelines for presenting the readers' work. For non-fiction proposals, editors and agents ask for a summary rather than a synopsis. A summary differs from a synopsis in that it is a plan of the non-fiction work that the readers are going to produce, whereas a synopsis summarises a piece of fiction that already exists.
