I am in the painful and humiliating process of trying to get my novel published. Not much success. Sent it out to about 35 literary agents and publishers. All responses were negative with most of them being kindly written form letters. But, it is a great challenge and I'll keep working on it.
It will interesting to see what the new Hattie book says about the stuff that I am trying to discover. On the surface it seems like it will talk mostly about the stuff you've already researched. We'll see.
Thanks for keeping in touch.
Your friend, Bill