Book Proposal, Synopsis, Marketing

Okay, so I have finished writing my book and now I have to write a book proposal that will get the agents "engaged and excited" about it, hence they will be able to get their publishers "engaged and excited" too.

So, now I not only have to have the love and drive to write, but have to also learn to market and sell the book. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that why you hire an agent? so that they do the marketing and selling for you? It seems to me that agents are interested more in quantity rather than quality. They don't even care to read the actual product anymore. As long as the proposal, again, written by the writer (since they haven't even read the book), is 'excellent' then they feel confident that they can sell it...

So, pretty much, my book can be low quality crap, but as long as I over-dramatize, glorify, fudge my synopsis they will have faith in its sales.

I don't even know what to think of agents. I would actually really like to avoid going through an agent all together. It seems to me that they do very little work for you at all, that they just use their connections to get you published...when they feel that 'excitement'.

I'm feeling really discouraged to care to get published at all. All I want to do is write! I'm a writer, not a salesperson or a marketer. Sure, I can learn to do those things but that takes time, time away from thinking about my character's lives, time from writing. I could die tomorrow! If I don't write down what I've been thinking about happens next in the story, then that's it, it dies with me...

But of course, now that I've completed 3 Strikes, I can't just let it sit in the computer file. I think it's readable material, fun, enjoyable, adventurous, interesting. Definitely better than some of the books I've read that got published, somehow (must have had a great proposal!). I guess I am feeling down. Who knows how long this will take and how many rejections I'll have to get past.

I suppose my one hope is to write a killer synopsis, which is ironic, in a way...