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Teresa Edgerton · 20th February 2007, 10:06 AM

Culhwch, my guess is that you would need to send in something in the vicinity of 50 manuscript pages -- depending, of course, on whether or not approximately 50 pages leaves you in the middle of an extended scene.

Commonmind, I think your answer is spot-on. Although agents and editors usually ask for a brief synopsis with the sample chapters, and that's where they can get an idea of the overall story.

As for the prologue question, this is what I've done in the past (and the editor never complained): If it's chapter length, I treat it as a chapter; if it would only come to two or three pages in the book, I treat it as an epigraph at the beginning of Chapter One.

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Teresa Edgerton Ink-stained Wretch Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: California Posts: 4,577	Re: "Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold Culhwch, my guess is that you would need to send in something in the vicinity of 50 manuscript pages -- depending, of course, on whether or not approximately 50 pages leaves you in the middle of an extended scene. Commonmind, I think your answer is spot-on. Although agents and editors usually ask for a brief synopsis with the sample chapters, and that's where they can get an idea of the overall story. As for the prologue question, this is what I've done in the past (and the editor never complained): If it's chapter length, I treat it as a chapter; if it would only come to two or three pages in the book, I treat it as an epigraph at the beginning of Chapter One.