Why an Agent Might Reject You and Why a Publisher Might Not...

I read an interesting post at literary agent Janet Reid's blog earlier this evening. It gets into why she, as an agent, has to reject people for various reasons, one of them being "I can't sell this." You can get there from here.

Part of one sentence in the post resonated with me:

...and/or the only publishers taking on this kind of book don't pay enough for it to be profitable for us.

I wanted to elaborate on that, speaking from my own experience. Just because an agent/agency doesn't think a b...