Oh, Gods — I’m thinking of submitting queries again after this latest edit.
I can think of all sorts of reasons not to — all of them in terms of rejections I have already gotten. I keep fixing it, and I keep getting rejections.
On the other hand, if I don’t send queries, nobody will get to see whether it’s publishable or not.
I’m still not ready to self-publish, mostly because self-publishing in the academic world means that you haven’t been peer reviewed and, thus, your work is not legitimate.
I am so torn …