querying narrative non-fiction - do I need a proposal?

[deblevy]

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

[Nathan Bransford]

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.

[deblevy]

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