Nathan Bransford - The Forums

hi -
I'm in the last revision stages of a work of narrative non-fiction (if there was a genre called "himoir", this would be it. Reads like a novel or memoir, but it's about someone else) Many of the agent websites I've been visiting say to submit a query letter for fiction, and a proposal with sample chapters for non-fiction. My work is non-fiction, but I wouldn't even know where to begin to give a list of chapters or a proposal. In the same way that I am following the rules of fiction (waiting until I have a fully polished manuscript before soliciting an agent) do I query as if this were fiction, but indicate that it is NN? Please advise!!
thank you!
Deb

For memoir the rules are more like fiction. You can query without necessarily having a proposal, though an agent may want to see one. It's kind of in-between.

Thank you! I thought as much. Lovely to exist in this in between world.