In case inquiring minds want to know

and frankly they may not now, but they likely will eventually when I'm too busy to detail this process...

I'm in the querying phase with the book I wrote and heeding the advice of this chiquita/writer:

http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/16373/how-to-stay-sane-while-querying-literary-agents.html

I often have said I know I may have to knock on 400 doors.  And I'm game, I know it's a marathon not a sprint.  It's just a process, because you can't mass email your queries, you have to pick and choose agents who are potentially most partial to a project like yours and base that determination on what other books they've gotten published, authors they've launched, etc...

so

I've been working on "the book" since January of 2007 - had myself a nice little 5 year anniversary party this past Winter, and I completed my first draft in 2010 and the one that got vetoed by the gals in the Fall of 2011.  But prior to last week, even when it was a work of nonfiction and all I had to send around to potential agents was a completed nonfiction book proposal, I had only queried 4 agencies.

Whereas as of today, I've queried ten.

and

For anyone who's not so quick at their times tables,  I'm looking at 78 more weeks of querying 5 a week before I've hit that 400th... vs.  160 years of doing so (which is what I would have been facing based on the average of 2.5 per year that I'd been rocking since that first draft was done).

In it to finish it?  Sure.  Why not?  This won't be my first marathon, and I smiled through my last one.