Okay, What next?

My character, Red, writes with an ink pen. He logs his work in leather bound journals. He has quite the library since he's over a hundred years old. I made him my age plus a hundred.

I've completed my first book and while my beta readers read my first draft, I will begin my research on query letters. I wondered the internet for hours yesterday and found its not as easy as it sounds. For those of you who don't know what a query letter is, it's a letter introducing your book to either a publishing house or , in my case, a literary agent. I chose literary agent because they do the heavy lifting. As far as heavy lifting goes, no thanks. I've got a bad back. Not funny... sorry.
My letter will include a hook line of my novel, the second paragraph is the synopsis and the third my bio. It has to be one page or else the agent will simply disregard and move on to the next letter. I need to make my letter golden. I still need to research some more, but in the man time I will write out my synopsis. I'll be sure to post what I come up with.

The Hook: A long ass sentence reeling in the agent in before she decides to take her lunch break early. It has to be exiting and pull her in; make her want to put my letter in the yes pile. It's like the blurt you read on the back cover of a book that introduces the character, conflict and the story line. This part has to be as tight as possible. Thank god i work at a book story.

Kind of like a movie trailer with the guy with the deep voice... in a world where nobody loves you,
a garbage man named Jackson is the your only hope--from man-eating  giant inspects. Can Jackson overcome his fear of these nine legged creatures before his limps are eaten away from a deadly spider virus?.. something like that or nothing like that. Idiot!

In a world where an author has no clue how to write a query letter--the internet is her only hope for that she will one day become... a published writer. (maybe not that cheesy and dramatic but you get the idea).

The Synopsis: The synopsis will then clarify the hook with more detail like reading the inside jacket of a book or the part kids copy to turn in a book report. Yeah... I was one of those people. For shame... I have to let the agent know this book is a historical paranormal romance sci-fi musical fiction category. It's actually paranormal romance... about 79,200 words! Ole!

The Biography:
Any thing related to writing like contests, published work, awards--you know stuff I havn't done. They don't need to know I'm a self taught knitter or I hunter children for fun on the weekends. It has to be writing related and so far I only have two. This blog and joining a critique group. I'm not even sure if that counts. More research. More coffee.

With all the internet surfing I'm happy I can have distance from my work. After reading this first book like a thousand times, I probably missed somethings. That's why there's beta readers! They'll point out what I failed to see because my eyes glaze over every time I read it. I''ll need this time to plan my letter and create my hit list literary agent list.
I read in a couple of places I have to send like five out at a time and wait and then send another five. It's like fishing, someones got to bite. But first I must have the best bait.. I mean letter.