I found it interesting while listening to a lit agent talk about what they were looking for that they explicitly said they wanted stories for boys with boy protagonists. The implication made is that all the books have girl protagonists.  Sadly, I couldn’t corner the agent and (politely) argue the point that until very recently, most of the protagonists in books have been boys. Now that the girl protagonists kick butt and save the world, they’re too trendy to be interesting? Three years ago, I started my first full-length novel. I remember telling a friend of mine that I had to write a boy protagonist for several reasons. One, a boy protagonist was more universal, and would appeal to both boy and girl readers.…