Me: Okay, here is my pitch. How about '50 Shades of Grey' but genderswapped.
Some Fictional Publisher: Ah yes people do like "50 Shades of Grey" but it already would be niche with a Female Domme...
Me: and the relationship slowly unraveled into being as toxic and unhealthy as critics of '50 Shades of Grey' think it should be.
Publisher: Wait so would this be a romance then or more of criminal tale-
Me: And the 'Grey' woman is actually the Head of a Mafia family and her paramour is a sidekick of the vigilante trying to take her down.
Publisher: Okay so this is sounding more like those Marvel comic things-
Me: Oh yeah and the 'grey' Character has super powers and her mafia family is based off of the seven sins-
Publisher: Okay scale it back now, I have no idea what niche you are trying to fit in here. Is it a romance? Thriller? Is it YA even though there is a '50 Shades' kink factor? What are you-
Me: And 'Grey' character is a Black Woman who was a child soldier and the 'Ana' character is basically a male Ana but with blue eyes and the 'crackhead mother' back story!
Publisher:...get out.
(That's how imagine it would go anyways...)