Canwen Xu

she was very, very quick to send a full manuscript request.

She was very quick to, to ask for a call.

And immediately, I just felt like there was so much chemistry between us.

We love all of the same books.

That was a huge thing for me.

I was looking at her

list of favorite books.

I was like, Oh my gosh, I haven't seen a single other agent who has the same has such a similar taste in books that I do.

And we just really hit it off.

And I'm really grateful.

But I will say that when I was querying the book, the book was a lot different than the version that's coming out now.

So it was originally a

very contemporary fiction, women's fiction type book.

My comps were Sally Rooney, Lily King.

It was not a thriller at all.

It was not a suspense book at all.

It was just about this girl who has to deal with rejection and kind of spirals.

And then when I went on submission, I had a call with Angela at Berkeley and

And again, it was like we had a lot of chemistry at the beginning of our call.

But she then kind of, you know, put something out there.