33 partials, one offer, Total Confusion

Hi there,
I am in here after a very long time and so hello to you all again.
I know Victoria is already smiling because she can pre-empt what I am coming up with.
Long story.
In July 2007, I got for myself a very well-established agent in London (ok, all checks done, huge sales, glam clients, ex-CEO of one of the biggie publishing houses) who shall remain unnamed. My 110,000-word historical reincarnation romance, about which she was ecstatic during 2007, however, remained unsold till Disaster Downturn happened in 2008. In the meantime, she asked for a revision and that was done. The MS remained unsold. Since early this year, she withdrew, not responding to email etc etc...and I knew my time was up. I cancelled my contract with her 10 days back. Unbelievable, but true that Bigtime Ms XXX got herself fired by an unpublished writer from unknown India. Well...I lost two-and-a-half years because I just could not...and still cannot...believe that Ms XXX could not sell one MS. And like a fool, I took all the time to come to this crucial decision of terminating the contract.
Ms XXX blames the Downturn and this may be quite true but given her enthusiasm and reputation, I still feel that this was one strange thing that ought not to have happened.
Since last week, I have been agent-hunting again. Right now, I have requests for 33 fulls and partials...YES, 33, and the number increases even as I write...and the names are yet again, unknown, small, big and huge. Needless to say, I sprayed by query all over. Needless to say too that stature does not make any difference to me now.
I just want this MS off my back ie turn into book.
Now, just a few minutes back, a Scottish agency based in Edinburgh which has business tie-ups with a bigtime agency in London called to offer representation. I have done checks. The AW Background Check itself gives the agency a clean chit. Clean, smart and enthusiastic; not too many sales but as I said sales and reputation make no sense to me now.
What do I do, pl? Sign on and get rid of this zombie sitting on my head for the last almost three years or wait for the Roundtable of the Remaining 32 to pass, ask, pass, offer, hedge, offer...again another year of waiting.
Pl help.
Tks
Abhijit Dasgupta
Executive Editor
India Today
M: +919830046661

Thanks so much for the quick response. But remember, I am a failed author. I COULD not be sold for almost three years. I am in NO position to bargain. The MS has been out to all and sundry in the UK already. The fact that I am still getting requests for partials and fulls is in itself something of an enigma. Nobody will even take into account the fact that the MS has not gone out to anybody AFTER the revision and that even if it has, one year has passed since then and there could be some new editor who could be waiting for it. Am I in any position to tell anybody, " Hey look, if you don't offer, I go that way..."? You think I can ask this of the agent in Curtis Brown ( my top choice, yes...with a partial right now)?
Tks so much but I think I need more, please.

Tks Honeysock, but the problem is now that at the same time I am scared (confused is the right word) of losing this Scottish gentleman ...I guess I parry and wait.

Yes, I have been upfront about the fact that it has gone around in the UK. And as for the second book, well, it's not easy is all that I can say. But well worth a try, I guess. Tks so much to you both, Icerose and YA.

Tks, Barbara. Yes, the bird in hand is what brought me here. As for the 33 partials, pl understand that I had gone through this entire process once before and I knew already who to ask and may be, how. ( And yes, I sprayed to around 500 agents, so there...that's not a great strike rate!)

And, Barbara, I forgot to mention ( which I should have, I guess) that I also have 250 passes already...all form rejections
Just a thought: I think agents nowadays look at India as a genre by itself and so their response time regarding an Indian author is very quick. Just a thought...

Ah, Dave. You make my day

Precisely, Pahntom. I think you are right. I must step aside for a while. For the last 10 days or so, all I have been doing is searching and querying without a break. And pressing the Send button every second. But I do not think that the 33 requests is any big deal. Not at all. Out of 500 odd, 33 is nothing.
And, I repeat, agent interest in India is very, very high, particularly in London. I say this from experience, both of 2007 and now. I am sure if Bookers and Pulitzers go out to an "exotic" land now, the agents will immediately point their browsers there. In the UK, you just need to put INDIA in the subject line and the rest will happen almost in seconds. It may be a pass, cool, but they will react anyways.

And, Barbara, my MS is about British India and has real British characters...I have had interviews with their descendants...some like the the Viceroy's great great grand-daughter...all this fascinates London. Yes, it still does...And throw in reincarnation and the possibilities of a Bollywood film, and you have some recipe there. In any other times, my novel would have at least sold, I am sure. My bad luck.

Momento, it's the same novel but with major revisions. Yes, she did submit.

I have sent the submission lists to all of them. Yes, it is a problem, of course, and most of them have said as much but wanted to read all the same. As I said in an earlier post, I am in no position to bargain because I have remained unsold for almost three years. Which is why this bird in hand is making me sick. Yes, sick...because I do not want him to run away and neither do I want to let go of the other "possibilities" out there. It's maddening.

Old Hack, Traven: Thanks so much. OH, you give absolutely sound advice. I have done all that you have prompted me to and am now waiting. I have been upfront with all sides and everyone knows what they are up against. I am sure, by Monday, the 32 will trickle down to a few but that's okay. At least it closes options and allows me to breathe easy. So, thanks again. And, Traven, that's a new coinage and I love it.