Comps, or <em>The Anthropologists</em> and <em>Perfection</em>

The last time I was working on a novel manuscript I wasn t thinking as much about it as a product that will need to be somehow sold as I was just trying to get the fucking thing done. (Spoiler: it has not sold.) I think this was, is, fine. But it meant that when it came time to write my query letters, my one- and two-page summaries, I was playing catch up. In particular I struggled to find "comp,"…