Most of you already know this, but I'll recap it for those who don't...
In 2006-07 my husband and I quit our jobs and took our kids out of school to spend a year biking around the USA and Mexico. In twelve months on the road, we pedaled 9300 miles.
Now we are getting ready to take off again - this time to ride from Alaska to Argentina. We'll leave on June 8 for that journey, and expect it to take about 2 1/2 years.
Anyway, I wrote a book about our last trip and have been trying to find an agent for it - without much luck yet. I've had quite a few agents interested in reading it, but then they pass on it.
In the past week I've gotten responses from two different agents talking about our upcoming journey - that I should write a book about that one and try to pre-sell that. While I certainly agree that our upcoming journey is definitely a book in the making, I can't help but think our last journey was worthy as well - how many families with 8-year-old twin boys go out for a 9300-mile bike ride?
So - what do you think? Should I shelf this book and try to write a proposal for our next one now? Or continue shopping this one around in the hopes that someone takes it? We'll be taking off soon, and I'm not sure how much time I'll have on the road, so I can't commit to too much, but I do think I could eventually pull a proposal together.
Thanks for your help!
In 2006-07 my husband and I quit our jobs and took our kids out of school to spend a year biking around the USA and Mexico. In twelve months on the road, we pedaled 9300 miles.
Now we are getting ready to take off again - this time to ride from Alaska to Argentina. We'll leave on June 8 for that journey, and expect it to take about 2 1/2 years.
Anyway, I wrote a book about our last trip and have been trying to find an agent for it - without much luck yet. I've had quite a few agents interested in reading it, but then they pass on it.
In the past week I've gotten responses from two different agents talking about our upcoming journey - that I should write a book about that one and try to pre-sell that. While I certainly agree that our upcoming journey is definitely a book in the making, I can't help but think our last journey was worthy as well - how many families with 8-year-old twin boys go out for a 9300-mile bike ride?
So - what do you think? Should I shelf this book and try to write a proposal for our next one now? Or continue shopping this one around in the hopes that someone takes it? We'll be taking off soon, and I'm not sure how much time I'll have on the road, so I can't commit to too much, but I do think I could eventually pull a proposal together.
Thanks for your help!
