Transporting Success

Consider changing the title.

Funny you should ask that.

I posted to Usenet asking how I could find an artist to do a decent map for the novel I had written and got a response from an artist who both wanted to do that sort of map and was apparently a fan of my nonfiction. The artist offered to do the map in exchange for one copy of each of my books of which I had a spare copy; you can see the result at:

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/harald/Harald.html

Perhaps you could link up with an illustrator in a similar fashion.

So far as using nonfiction reputation to get an agent or a publisher for fiction, my experience is not encouraging.