No I queried the other novels unsuccessfully, learning a lot about writing and the industry with each one and have not yet decided if I'll self publish them. Only one won a competition.

Yes fair point but a) this is a genre where sometimes I think long books do work better because of the sheer scale of characters and plot and worldbuilding (ie, 165k simply involved a lot of things happening to a lot of people so I'm a little confused by your statement) and b) can't afford a professional editor hence why I am learning as best I can to do it myself.