Fran: if by 'any luck' you mean 'getting published', then, ar, no, not yet... A couple of personal rejections, which apparently is a good thing?! I've only been sending for around a month though, so I've not lost hope entirely. I've started a couple of novels in the past, but with no real vision of where they were going, or writing technique, or... I think, for the short term, short stories suit me quite well, if only because I have such a short attention span.