In search of an agent for...

my next book. Nonfiction. A memoir by interview. Here is part of the query letter my co-author and I are sending out:

Never Stop Dancing is the memoir of a young widower trying to understand the mystery of life and death and love, learning to re-assemble the pieces of a broken life for him and his two boys, and developing a path forward following the sudden and horrific loss of his life partner.

On the morning of April 29, 2010, Amy Polk did something she did nearly every day: she stepped off the curb onto M Street in South West Washington, D.C. Unlike other mornings, a left-turning truck struck her in the crosswalk, killing her instantly. That same day her husband, John, along with his two young boys, Adam, 7, and Bryan, 4, fell into a frightening and lonely world of chaos and bewilderment (Washington Post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/... DCist Daily article: http://dcist.com/2010/05/pedestrian_f...) .
Shortly after Amy’s death I approached John with this book idea, which follows a similar format to my previous memoir-by-interview, Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying: 40 Years of High Seas Travels and Lowbrow Tales (2011).

Soon after Amy's death, John had started to document his journey at his blog, Hole in the Sun (http://www.hole-in-the-sun.com/). But we both wanted to record the deeper journey of how John’s new life was unfolding after Amy’s death, as it was unfolding. I interviewed John over the course of the first year and few months after Amy’s death. From more than 12 hours of transcribed recordings, Never Stop Dancing emerged. It is a deeply personal and intimate story, one uniquely told in time.

Already, John's story has resonated with many people: His essay Valentine Letter to My Sons was cited as a top-20 blog entry for 2011 by Alive and Mortal (http://expressive-arts.blogspot.com/), and he was interviewed for an April 1, 2013 BBC Radio 4 show because of one of his blog posts on the "digital afterlife" of lost loved ones (http://www.hole-in-the-sun.com/2013/0...).

Because this memoir deals head-on with issues of life, love, and death, and the nature of God and existence, we believe Never Stop Dancing is the kind of memoir that will appeal to a wide audience.

So, yeah, there it is.

Anyone interested in the next NYT Bestseller? ;)