Sherri,

Have you ever attended a writers' conference where you can sit down face to face with acquisition editors for various publishing houses, agents, and representatives for magazines and various periodicals and pitch your ideas/manuscripts?

I absolutely LOVE Glorieta and plan on attending every year. I pitched quite a few ideas in various areas, and got a lot of things accepted and had many requests for more from the publishing houses, etc.

www.classervices.com (for more information on Glorieta)

Last year they had probably 60 editors/publishing houses/agents there to help writers get published.

Two POD (Print on Demand) places I have seen good things come from recently is WinePress www.pleasantword.com and ACW Press www.acwpress.com

Hope that helps!