Zeno Agency has opened for subs until the end of the year.
I've been lucky so far as they've asked for 50 pages and a synopsis in response to my query last week.
www.zenoagency.com

I'm really surprised there seem to be agencies for genres - I can understand a genre specialist within a large agency, but an agency that caters only to limited genres blows my mind. "A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle

"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."

Oh, gawd! Don't start him off! Oh alright then, but be prepared.

Tempy
x Everyone has a price - mine is chocolate

Chocolate is important.

Sulcus, you have my permission to go full steam ahead! Enlighten us with your wondrous words of wisdom! (How's that for alliteration? I know...you've probably a better one: sapplewhite, you suck! ) (No offense, sulcus...only teasing!)

Okay to the point in question itself. In my humble opinion, it's bad enough that the book world is divided into genres in the first place. Jane Austen wasn't dubbed romantic fiction in her day, HG Wells wasn't marketed as SciFi and Poe wasn't on the horror/fantasy shelves at the bookshop. But today, as part of the dumbing down process, bookshops have to be told where a book is to sit in their shelves, readers are led by the nose to the books that they like because somehow they only read certain types of books and marketing departments of publishers push books by targeting certain readers rather than wider audiences. It doesn't stop there, since genres have their own sub-genres; urban fantasy has steampunk or the New Weird, which further filters readers fewer and fewer. Supposedly I would never read anything fantasy, yet as an inquiring reader who is prepared to read out of my comfort zone, I've recently read some China Mieville. I'm not a huge fan of SciFi, but every now and then I dip into some.

So, I think it's deleterious to readers and writers both (and possibly booksellers but you'd have to canvas Tempy for a professional opinion on that) to categorise everything in a reductive fashion. Now there is not only marketing by genre, but agenting devoted to it? I just find that depressing. Okay having read their site, these seem two fans of their genres keen to promote new works within it. But agents shouldn't to my mind be setting the commissioning and publishing agendas. A gopod book is a good book is a good book. "A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle

"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."