The best thing about having an agent is that they tend to feel obligated to actually listen and respond to your new book pitch ideas—no matter how outlandish.
Though I’ve sold ~20K books cumulatively, I’m not Tom Clancy and thus, I do not have a writing yacht or gold-plated fountain pen. What I do have is a nice boatload of book ideas that have never gone anywhere. Here are some of them.
The Boy Who Burped Big (a children’s story about a special superpower)
101 Poems about Hot Dogs
Business Dogs (a combination of business advice accompanied visually by photos of dogs wearing business attire)
Everything’s Better with a Polar Bear
Lesser Baby Firsts
Letters From Santa (Santa writes back to kids’ letters, admonishing them for their poor writing and/or toy ideas)
I Think My Son is Trying to Kill Me
How to Suburbs (a book about how to move to the suburbs)
I’M SORRY I PEED IN YOUR FACE And 100 other baby apologies they’d write if they could (but they can’t because they’re babies)
Humans vs. Sharks (an unscientific comparison about who is the superior species)
Sasquatch and the City
A Field Guide to Modern Disasters (too soon)
The Most Ironic Ways to Die
The Innocent’s Guide to Lying
Why Dogs Rule: a Slobbering Ode