I think your question goes to the heart of why I didn't quite manage to get an agent for
Remix, Moejoe. It's contemporary fiction with elements of romance; it's a whodunnit but without the masses of suspects in the frame you usually get; it's not chicklit but my daughter reckons readers of chicklit would like it.
I wrote it attempting to write something as much of a page turner as an early Dick Francis, with an intelligent yet naive heroine as in
I Capture the Castle. My go at commercial fiction after writing two books in that unique genre, fantasy for people who don't like fantasy.
What a kind offer - but that's a carousel horse rather than a rocking horse, an important distinction