Kate McKean has repped books for twenty years at Agents & Books, and this week’s newsletter walks back a belief a lot of querying writers hold about her job.
Her point: an agent’s personal taste is one filter among several, and rarely the deciding one, since she has to believe she can sell a book more than she has to love it. So write the book only you can write and let the market take it from there. Simple to say. Harder to do with a rejection sitting in your inbox.