I've worked on this novel for 7 years...Finally querying

I sent my first-ever query letter the other day. I started this novel 7 years ago and have slaved away on it ever since. It took a lot for me to be finally ready to submit a query to an agent. I'm not expecting much (no one is ever successful their first try, right?) but it feels like a milestone just to put it out there.

I have a big list of other agents I want to submit to, but I'll wait and see what this one says first, I suppose.

I just feel happy to finally be able to stop working on this novel and get onto my next. At least until it captures someone's interest and there is more work to be done on it.

Thanks. I'm trying to find a happy place between expecting a rejection completely and having false hope, but I'll admit I have a particular attraction to this agent since they are located in a city I'll soon be moving to and they represent multiple types of work (my next novel will be of a different genre than my first).

Thanks guys! I got my first rejection! LOL I'm actually really happy though. It's neat to get something back, even though it was a non-personal standard rejection letter. They just said all the typical stuff--they get hundreds of subs a day and my project just didn't sound right for them.

I'll prepare a query for my next choice now.

Here's hoping! Thank you all for the support and good luck with your current projects as well.

I hope so. It's definitely going to be a learning process. I don't get my mind, sometimes. I thought for sure I was ready, but last night, I re-read my query letter and thought "Geez, this sucks. Not surprising it didn't catch their eye."

I stayed up all night rewriting it, and I like the version I have now better.

Thank you! I posted my query in QLH if anyone wants to help me out:

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8506976#post8506976

I made this thread about a year ago. The book is being published now! Yay! Never give up!http://www.absolutewrite.com//www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/