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Dear XXXXX
Every year in America, 125,000 twins are born. This means that every year approximately 65,000 men come face to face with a truth that is neither cold nor hard: they will be changing diapers. But, although they don’t know it yet, the primordial fears of fatherhood will never come close to the joys of having twins. The unexpected pleasures of having two (or more) easily outnumber the drawbacks that necessarily accompany extra orifices to fill and wipe, and extra wriggling limbs to clothe.
There are, of course, thousands of books on having babies, hundreds on having twins, and a fair handful written by men about fatherhood. This plethora of advice and anecdote is hardly surprising – having children is, for any new parent, a leap from the precipice of comfortable experience into the wild unknown. Yet, inexplicably, not one book has been written by and for the father-to-be of twins.
I am currently seeking representation for my nonfiction book, titled Holy Crap! (A Dad’s Guide to Minimizing the Work and Maximizing the Joy of Twins). The book recognizes its target audience for what it is: a significant group of men who have neither the time nor inclination to be preached to, a collection of busy people with short attention spans and a preference for information in a boiled-down, easy-to-digest, and entertaining format. I am contacting you because of your high reputation in the industry and your interest in the non-fiction genre. I would like the opportunity to send you a proposal for the book.
As a former journalist and father of ten-month-old twins, I feel more than qualified to write this book. I now work as an attorney in Dallas, Texas, but spent fifteen years as a newspaper reporter, covering the police beat for a group of newspapers in Essex, England, and then working as a freelance writer in North Carolina. I have journalism degrees Sheffield College, England, and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My law degree is from Duke University, where I had short stories published in the school’s literary magazine, Alibi.
Thank you for your time and attention, I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.
Dear XXXXX
Every year in America, 125,000 twins are born. This means that every year approximately 65,000 men come face to face with a truth that is neither cold nor hard: they will be changing diapers. But, although they don’t know it yet, the primordial fears of fatherhood will never come close to the joys of having twins. The unexpected pleasures of having two (or more) easily outnumber the drawbacks that necessarily accompany extra orifices to fill and wipe, and extra wriggling limbs to clothe.
There are, of course, thousands of books on having babies, hundreds on having twins, and a fair handful written by men about fatherhood. This plethora of advice and anecdote is hardly surprising – having children is, for any new parent, a leap from the precipice of comfortable experience into the wild unknown. Yet, inexplicably, not one book has been written by and for the father-to-be of twins.
I am currently seeking representation for my nonfiction book, titled Holy Crap! (A Dad’s Guide to Minimizing the Work and Maximizing the Joy of Twins). The book recognizes its target audience for what it is: a significant group of men who have neither the time nor inclination to be preached to, a collection of busy people with short attention spans and a preference for information in a boiled-down, easy-to-digest, and entertaining format. I am contacting you because of your high reputation in the industry and your interest in the non-fiction genre. I would like the opportunity to send you a proposal for the book.
As a former journalist and father of ten-month-old twins, I feel more than qualified to write this book. I now work as an attorney in Dallas, Texas, but spent fifteen years as a newspaper reporter, covering the police beat for a group of newspapers in Essex, England, and then working as a freelance writer in North Carolina. I have journalism degrees Sheffield College, England, and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My law degree is from Duke University, where I had short stories published in the school’s literary magazine, Alibi.
Thank you for your time and attention, I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.