In a few months, I’ll hit the ten year anniversary of the very first query letter I ever sent. If you couldn’t guess from the title or my constant whining on Twitter, I still do not have an agent. I guess this can be sort of a ten-year anniversary post, though. Note, this post does contain request rate numbers, so feel free to avoid if you don’t like seeing those. How it started I’ve been writing basically since I knew how. My first completed work that I can remember is a mystery short story that I wrote in first grade and submitted to the school paper. Through middle school and…