1. FICTION: A thoughtful one page letter describing the completed novel along with SASE (self addressed stamped envelope) for response. Or query by email, info@baldibooks.com. If we ask to read the novel, we will ask for the entire manuscript.

2. NONFICTION: A descriptive query offering the questions you are raising in your proposal along with SASE for response and/or return of material. Or query by email info@baldibooks.com.

On the basis of the query, we may ask for more material. Please allow at least two weeks for consideration of the query letter.

If we want to read your work, we may respond by email to your snail mail letter. Please include email address and phone number in your query letter.

Having responded with interest to your nonfiction query, we will ask for a PDF proposal.
A proposal includes:
• an introduction
• an annotated table of contents (offers a sense of structure/outline of the project)
• a chapter from the work in progress, usually the first chapter
• back matter: examples of other published articles, vita

If you approach other agents simultaneously, please let us know you are doing so.

Other tips:

Best foot forward. Please make sure your manuscript is as clean, lean and mean as possible.

Please be patient, it takes time to read.

No reading fee.

It all depends on the writing.

Our interests include:
General fiction Reference Biography Computers/technology Business/investing/finance	Mind/body/spirit Travel Lifestyle Cookbooks Science	Cultural history Literary fiction Gay/lesbian fiction Hybrid/creative nonfiction Memoir History

 

I am look for great nonfiction proposals about:
— what museums will be like in the future
— anything with anthropocene in the subtitle
— what it takes to become an architect
— water conservation for dummies
— what happens to art during bad times (like now)

To date, we have repped many books (memoir/narrative) about how one becomes (you fill in the blank), such as:
journalist: scientist: transman: comic: choreographer: geologist: furry: drummer: bookshop keeper:   musician: drag queen: hustler: house cleaner: writer: psychologist: engineer:	SHELTER FROM THE STORM   MESSY REAL ADULT HUMAN MALE YES, I CAN SAY THAT DANCING MAN A WILDER TIME FURRY NATION STICKING IT OUT NIGHTS AT RIZZOLI PRACTICING DIARY OF A DRAG QUEEN ASSUMING THE POSITION   OTHER PEOPLE'S DIRT WRITING PAST DARK HEARING VOICES THE IDEA FACTORY	Julian Hatten Anna Henderson Oliver Radclyffe Judy Gold Bob Avian w/Tom Santopietro   William E. Glassley Joe Strike Patti Niemi Felice Picano Glenn Kurtz Daniel Harris Rick Whitaker Louise Rafkin Bonnie Friedman Scott Haas Pepper White	The New Press U. of Minn. Press Unbound editions Dey St./Harper Collins   U. of Miss. Press Bellevue Literary Press Cleiss Press ECW O/R Books Knopf/Vintage Avalon 4 Walls 8 Windows Algonquin Harper Collins Dutton Dutton	2025 2024 2023 2020 2020 2018 2017 2016 2014 2005 2001 2000 1998 1993 1990 1989

We are not looking for:
Children's, middle grade, young adult
Christian
Genre category fiction: science fiction, fantasy, westerns, mysteries, women's romances, thrillers
Poetry
Plays, teleplays or screenplays
Novellas