I am clearly among the elite. I think I am behind the power curve (military speak for I need to improve and change something). I have an hypothesis about my poor showing thus far, i.e., the genre I have such an affinity for is a small niche, albeit growing, and therefore because of that the density of favorable responses is small. Perhaps the needed ingredients are perseverance, timing and querying the right agent. Still sounds like a shot in the dark, but being a soldier, that's not a real difficult problem to overcome.