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I'm going to post this is both forums to see if I get a different response from one side or the other.
I'm in the final stages of a historical novel set in the first century. I've done a lot of research (Roman world, etc.) and uncovered what I think are some interesting and little known facts. I been thinking of writing a companion nonfiction book that covers life in the time period in which the novel takes place. In my mind's eye, I see the two shrink-wrapped and sold as a set. A great marketing tool for reading clubs, etc. The novel also creates credibility for the other, etc.
OK, you get the idea.
You can submit a nonfiction proposal with an outline, synopsis and one sample chapter. Pretty simple, really. I don't think the nonfiction book will have as much traction if I present it without the fiction one. So I'm going to be hustling the novel first. However, if I get an agent interested in the novel and then propose its nonfiction companion, they can't go to press together unless I really burn the midnight oil.
So-o-o, do I write the entire nonfiction thing not knowing whether there'll be interest in my novel, or wait until I snag an agent and take a chance?
I'm in the final stages of a historical novel set in the first century. I've done a lot of research (Roman world, etc.) and uncovered what I think are some interesting and little known facts. I been thinking of writing a companion nonfiction book that covers life in the time period in which the novel takes place. In my mind's eye, I see the two shrink-wrapped and sold as a set. A great marketing tool for reading clubs, etc. The novel also creates credibility for the other, etc.
OK, you get the idea.
You can submit a nonfiction proposal with an outline, synopsis and one sample chapter. Pretty simple, really. I don't think the nonfiction book will have as much traction if I present it without the fiction one. So I'm going to be hustling the novel first. However, if I get an agent interested in the novel and then propose its nonfiction companion, they can't go to press together unless I really burn the midnight oil.
So-o-o, do I write the entire nonfiction thing not knowing whether there'll be interest in my novel, or wait until I snag an agent and take a chance?
