My workshop partners were adamant last night that my novel is literary. I really didn't want it to be perceived as literary (while still saying the important things that I wanted to say) because I have heard over and over again that the market for literary fiction is dismal. An agent does have the full, so I guess that I will keep my fingers crossed. If she doesn't like it, I will trunk it while I write a thriller.
Good luck with the Thriller. I've sent out a fair amount of genre items and they haven't done all that well so I've drifted back to writing "literary Sci Fi". the funny thing about that non-generic genre is that it emerged from me telling stories (the three-sentence kind you can put into conversations at dinner parties) and people saying "Why don't you write that?" Now just say "My latest story is xxx Insert # sentences***" and nobody says "I'm glad you wrote that"...they just nod encouragingly and wait for the story you haven't written and then they say "Why don't you write that?"
Now I just say, "No, that story is too good to write."