I hope you feel better soon. Hopefully having a nice new shiney will help.

For those asking about getting published I suggest you refer them here:

http://www.aleuromancy.net/article_series/demyst/demyst_articles.html

The person who wrote the articles on the site is a former Tor editor and recently published author (Salt and Silver by Anna Katherine) She originally published the article in her Live Journal but later expanded on it, covered a wider range of topics and posted it on her personal website.