Agents who don't rep suspense

Why is it that the agents I just love - Nadia Cornier, Rachel Vater, Kristin Nelson, Jenny Rappaport, Lori Perkins - don't rep my chosen genre, suspense? I'm trying to figure out if suspense is just not as popular a genre among agents or if agents who rep suspense just don't blog as much. I mean, there are a few - the gals at BookEnds, the Knight Agency - who do suspense, and I like them. But it's disappointing to see that so many of the agents I feel familiar with don't rep my genre.

And then there's Miss Snark, who seems like she would and who I feel like I'd love to have as my agent, but the whole not knowing who she really is thing makes it kind of difficult.

And, yeah, I just totally felt like whining.

And, an update on my post from a few hours ago. I put my political fiction on hold. I really think that, career-wise, starting out in the genre I ultimately want to end up in.

Genre troubles

Lori Perkins blogged recently about how your second novel should be published in the same genre as your first. The book I'm currently writing is political fiction. But I know that my second novel will most likely be a thriller. A political thriller, yes, but definitely not within the same genre lines as the one I'm writing now.

I'm considering... not necessarily putting it on hold, but putting it on the back burner, so to speak, to write something more in the genre I'd really like to write in and maybe write that in whatever free time I might ever have.

Holly Lisle, a fantasy writer, mentioned having another novel, outside her chosen genre, that she worked on once a week or so.

But I desperately don't want to set aside a second book in the matter of only a few months.