would you buy your book?

Sort of a weird thing to feel compelled to ask, but would you buy a book by you on the subject of your book?As an agent, I receive plenty of slush submissions. A couple dozen earnest nonfiction proposals cross my transom every week. In most cases, I can’t help but notice that the would-be author lacks any real qualification to write the book they have in mind: No relevant credentials. No relevant experience. No track record of success at doing what they’re telling others how to do. None of it. As far as I can tell from the proposal, they thought really, really hard about something, came to a conclusion, and decided to run with it.That’s fine! Write whatever you want, people. But when these authors don’t take rejection well, I wonder (to myself) how often they themselves go on Amazon to buy books by other people with no relevant qualifications. I mean, maybe that’s their jam? Perhaps they enjoy nothing more than spending twenty or thirty bucks on a meaty hardcover book about cosmology…