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The Submission Kit

Query letters, synopses, and author bios built from the book you already analyzed

What the Submission Kit Is ↓The Four Tabs ↓Start With the Profile ↓When the POV Stat Says “Not Reported” ↓The Query Letter and Its Agent Variants ↓The Synopsis Reveals the Ending ↓Author Bios ↓Editing, Regenerating, and Getting It Out ↓

What the Submission Kit Is

Querying is a paperwork problem wearing a writing problem's clothes. The manuscript is finished; what stands between it and an agent's inbox is a query letter, a synopsis at whichever length that agent asks for, and a bio — each one a distinct form with its own conventions, and each one demanding that you summarize a book you are far too close to.

The Submission Kit drafts those documents from the project you already have. It reads your chapter synopses, your characters, your genre, your point of view, and your word count — the work the analysis already did — so the letter is written from your actual plot rather than from a paragraph you retyped into a generic tool. Open it under Package in the sidebar, in the Send group.

What comes back is a first draft in a text box, not a finished submission. Every document is editable in place, and the last voice on anything an agent reads should be yours.

The header tells you how much of the book the kit has to work with — “12 of 34 chapters analyzed.” That count is the real quality dial: the more chapters carry a synopsis, the more of your plot the drafts can see.

The Four Tabs

The view is four tabs, and they run in dependency order — the first one feeds the other three:

Profile: The Submission Profile: the facts about you and your book that every other document draws on. Fill this first.
Query Letter: A ~250-word base letter, plus a personalized variant per agent you are querying.
Synopsis: A short pitch (~250 words) for the query letter, which withholds the ending, plus one-page (~500 words) and two-page (~1,000 words) versions that cover the full arc.
Author Bio: Short (~75 words) and long (~150 words) third-person bios, generated together.

Start With the Profile

Genre, point of view, and word count are pulled from your manuscript and shown read-only at the top — nothing to type, and nothing that can drift out of sync with the book. Everything below them is yours to fill:

The AI is instructed never to invent credentials, publications, or awards beyond what you list. That is protective — a query letter that quietly promotes you to an MFA you do not have is worse than one with a thin bio — but it means an empty background yields a thin, generic result. Query Letter, Synopsis and Author Bio each show a nudge back to Profile until that field has something in it; generation stays enabled either way.

Target audience — who the book is for, in the phrasing you would use in a letter.
Comparable titles — up to five. Titles you pinned in the Comp Title Finder are used too, so anything already pinned there does not need retyping here.
Author background — the facts for your bio. This is the load-bearing field.
City / location, credentials, and social handles — up to five each for the list fields.

When the POV Stat Says “Not Reported”

The point-of-view stat is derived from the POV set on your scenes, and it is deliberately cautious: if enough scenes have no POV set that they could change which character leads, Bookshaper declines to name one and says how many are untagged. It does the same when the leading POV belongs to a character who no longer exists in your project.

That blank is not a bug to work around. The POV goes into the query letter's stats line and into the synopsis prompt, and a letter naming the wrong POV character is a letter an agent will notice. Tag more scenes and the stat fills in.

The Query Letter and Its Agent Variants

Generate the base letter first. It comes back at roughly 250 words in the standard shape agents expect: an opening hook with a genre signal and a one-line premise, a plot paragraph establishing protagonist, conflict and stakes, a “for fans of” comps line, a stats line with title, word count, genre and POV, and a short third-person bio paragraph from your profile facts.

Then add the agents you are actually querying. Add agent takes a name and a “why this agent” note — “represents literary thrillers with a speculative edge” — and generates a variant that opens or closes on that personalization. Each variant holds its own text and its own note, so regenerating one never touches the others, and you can keep a dozen letters side by side through a submission round.

The query letter never reveals the ending. It is a hook, like a back-cover blurb — the plot paragraph is written to leave the agent wanting the manuscript. The synopsis has the opposite rule, and mixing them up is one of the more common querying mistakes.

The Synopsis Reveals the Ending

A submission synopsis is not marketing copy. An agent reads it to judge whether the plot, the structure, and the resolution actually work, which they cannot do if the climax is withheld. Bookshaper's one- and two-page synopses therefore cover the complete arc — the climax, the major twists, and how it ends. The short pitch is the deliberate exception: it is the query-letter paragraph, so it stops before the ending on purpose.

Generate whichever length the agent's guidelines ask for. The one-page version covers the full arc concisely at around 500 words; the two-page version runs to about 1,000 with beat-by-beat coverage. Keep all three — agents differ, and having them ready means a submission window never turns into an evening of rewriting. The short pitch (~250 words) is the one that goes in the query letter itself, and it is the only one that withholds the ending.

Editing, Regenerating, and Getting It Out

Every document sits in an editable box with a live word count, a copy button, and the date it was generated. Type into it and your edits are saved with the project — this is the point of the whole view, and the drafts are meant to be rewritten rather than sent as they arrive.

Because regenerating overwrites the box, Bookshaper asks before it discards work you did: if you have edited a document, Regenerate confirms first; if it is still the untouched AI draft, it runs straight through. On the Author Bio tab one regeneration rewrites both bios, so the confirmation covers the pair.

Copy lifts a single document straight into an email. To get the whole packet at once — base letter, every agent variant, all three synopsis lengths, both bios, and your profile context — use the Print button in the toolbar, and your system print dialog's “Save as PDF” if you want a file.

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