Well that's really interesting to know lucy. I just consider a story of 40,000 words really short. It's over before you can really get into it. Though I guess that's another skill entirely, writing really short stories that fit what people are looking for.

I can't imagine what it would be like to work for an online publisher, just how difficult it would be to find that diamond needle in the haystack of submissions. I would love to hear anything from anyone who has actually had something published, the process itself I find really fascinating. I work for a publisher myself, though what we produce is so far from fiction, and especially erotic fiction, that I may as well be a steelworker. The whole online part of the industry is a bit of a mystery.