I'm currently toying around with a new idea for a novel, and have written about fifty or so pages. However, it's a bit of a departure from most of my genre stuff that I've written before (sci-fi/fantasy).
My question is how would one go about query a novel that takes place in contemporary America, with no discernible genre? For reference, my story is about the meteoric career trajectory of a sports publicist who is thrown into the lavish world of professional athletics. I suppose it is most comparable to Moneyball, but completely fictional.
What sort of agents would I query on this? How would I introduce my novel? Would I just call it "a general-fiction" novel? It's definitely dramatic, but also has lots of dark humor. Yet I've never really heard of novels being reffered to as "dramas"...
My question is how would one go about query a novel that takes place in contemporary America, with no discernible genre? For reference, my story is about the meteoric career trajectory of a sports publicist who is thrown into the lavish world of professional athletics. I suppose it is most comparable to Moneyball, but completely fictional.
What sort of agents would I query on this? How would I introduce my novel? Would I just call it "a general-fiction" novel? It's definitely dramatic, but also has lots of dark humor. Yet I've never really heard of novels being reffered to as "dramas"...
