Thanks for your replies everyone.

MD - I will check out the places you suggested. I mainly write for myself, i.e. this is the first time that I've even considered looking at getting anthing published, so I will have a look at what types of themes get published where, etc.

Schmickers - Word count is 16,850. Genre - I'm not sure, that's part of my problem. "Coming of age romance set in the future", is probably the best way to describe it...

Fleur - thank you.

I finally got the story printed out yesterday so will get DH to read it and take it from there...