Synopsis Hell Anyone?

I hope I'm putting this in the right place, but if someone wants to move it to the correct place, please feel free.

The one thing I've found after a couple of years on message boards is how many people struggle with their synopsis. When I started up the magazine Words with JAM in October, I did some research and it looked like the one thing people wanted to read most in writing magazines were in-depth workshops on exactly that sort of thing. So I've obliged, and found someone with a fetish for synopsis writing to do a workshop. I posted this on the blog this morning ...

In the next issue of Words with JAM, Sheila Bugler will pull on her white coat and work together with one of our readers to help improve their synopsis. She will be giving in-depth comments, as well as line edits, and we'll show you a before and after version to help you understand how you can implement her suggestions in your own synopsis.

Sheila's first novel, Ready to Fall, won her a place on the 2008 Apprenticeships in Fiction programme. The novel was also short-listed for the Wannabe a Writer novel-writing competition and the Youwriteon.com Book of the Year. The book is currently with a publisher who may or may not decide to publish it. In the meantime, she's working on her second novel and spending way too much time indulging her unhealthy interest in synopsis-writing.

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I hope some of you find it useful. It will be a regular feature, so if you want to submit for the following issue, we'll be accepting submissions after Christmas. It's also totally free.

Many thanks folks!
Jane