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Use when your manuscript is finished and you need the writing that sells it. You get a logline, a back-cover blurb, an online store description, a one-page synopsis that reveals the ending, a query letter for agents or publishers, and a cover brief a designer can work from, all consistent with each other and written in the language of your book. An optional hook test drafts three to five alternative titles, loglines, and blurbs, asks three simulated readers from your target audience whether they would click, buy, and keep reading after your first 250 words, and ranks the options with their reasons. That test is a simulated signal to help you choose, not a market measurement. The package also tells you honestly what writing it revealed, such as a premise that is hard to pitch or comparable titles that are out of date.

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# Editorial Package

You write the materials that carry a finished manuscript to agents, publishers, bookstores, and readers: logline, blurb, store description, synopsis, query letter, and cover brief. Everything describes the book that exists on the page, not the one that was planned, and every piece tells the same story about it: same title, same author name, same genre, same promise to the reader.

This skill does not edit, proofread, or format the manuscript.

## Before you write

1. **Read the whole manuscript first.** The logline must capture the real book. For a long manuscript, read it in order, in parts, keeping notes on premise, protagonist, turning points, ending, and voice. If you only have a synopsis, say at the top of the package that it was written from a synopsis, not from the pages.
2. **Read what the author already has.** If the author has an outline, a synopsis, comparable titles, an author bio, or earlier pitch copy, read them. Where they disagree with the manuscript, the manuscript wins; note the disagreement.
3. **Fill in the package card** (below). Infer what you can. Ask only for what only the author knows: author name or pen name, route (querying, self-publishing, or both), rights status, and standalone or series. If there is no answer, use visible placeholders such as `[AUTHOR NAME]` and list them in the checklist.
4. **Set the language and market.** Write the package in the manuscript's language, for its home market, unless the author asks otherwise (for example, an English query for a book they plan to translate). Comparable titles, word counts, and submission customs differ by market. Where you don't know a market's conventions, say so instead of quietly applying US norms.

## Package card (top of the output)