I should have kept a record of dates, but here is my journey so far:
Nov 2020: Book finished. Query finished. Synopsis' finished. PM list of all agents built, top agents targeted (as in CHOSEN TO QUERY). Ten queries sent out.
Dec 2020: Five rejections. Fifteen more queries sent out. Start second book in series.
Jan 2021: Five rejections. Silence. Feeling jaded. Hire an editor for query letter. Get feedback on book as a whole, and on letter. Told that as my work is portal fantasy, it's a common first time writer genre, and a hard sell. 15 page prologue not helping. I start the rewrite of my book to try spice it up. Overall, money well spent on editor.
Feb 2021: Five rejections. I close off all queries sent that did not respond. I rewrite book and start getting obsessed with querying, agenting, publishing. Agent research on Twitter makes me depressed. Give up second book in series despite being 150 pages in.
Mar 2021: Finish rewrite of first book. Feel it reads way better. Send out twenty queries. Feeling more confident. Ten rejections. Start new book.
Apr 2021: Five rejections. Send out ten queries. Silence. Think my WIP sucks as well and maybe I'm wasting my time. On page 150 of first draft.
I round off figures above in fives, but as of today, the 7th April 2021, I have sent out 47 queries and have had 0% success beyond the query letter stage. Personal rejections are hard to spot, but one agent said my book (the first version) was too long (84k for MG Fantasy). That was the closest to a personal rejection that I could spot. I suspect all else was form of some sort.