Any suggestions on getting all this hard work published

I promise to answer this. But first I have this 100K line to cross.

::feeling torn between noveling instead of MLing, aaaaaaa::

Arlight since Poet needs to hit 100K...lol. which you are close so you might as well. I'll answer it.

What you need to do is take a break from your novel for the month of November. Then in the coming months start to edit your novel. It takes a long process but it's worth it in the end. Once you think that you have edit enough you will need to find an agent. Make sure you don't have to pay out anything because if you pay then it's going to be a fraud most likely. Also find an agent that is in your genre and then send it to them. But don't send your whole story...only clips of it. Like a chapter or two. Because you don't want to deal with anything else.

Then I believe you wait or see. But if you don't want to get an agent find several publishing companies that will also fit your genre and send it to them. Not the whole thing though for safety reason. And then it's a wait and see but don't give up...when you get a sorry but your novel isn't what we are looking for don't take it to heart just work on it or work on another novel while you wait. You never know when the right publishing company comes along.

I think that's it...Poet did I get everything?

The blog is no longer active, but check out the archives for Miss Snark - lots of great advice there. Prepare yourself for rejections (notice the plural), and don't get discouraged when they come. Don't pay anything; legitimate agents work on commission after they sell your book to a publisher. Avoid any that ask for money, and be wary of any that refer you to things like pay-for-editing services. With regard to scams, you should read and/or read about the book Atlanta Nights. That should give you an idea of some of the things to avoid and why... it also serves as a very fine literary example (possibly of what not to do). Don't sit back and wait. Keep writing. Keep editing and polishing your current manuscript. And keep writing some more. Good luck!

thediarywithin makes some good suggestions. I heartily second the put-it-aside suggestion.
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Out on the home page, sometime in the next week, Baty & Co. will be posting a link to a "What next?" set of suggestions & guidelines, as he mentioned in the recent "Breaking News."
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Plenty of fiction-writing books discuss revision at least a little. Here are a couple that helped me this last year in my first attempt to edit a large piece:

The Modern LIbrary Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction by Stephen Koch
some of the best revision chapters I've ever seen; includes the differences between handling a slow first draft and a fast first draft (and we know what category we fall into...)

The Novelist's Notebook by Laurie Henry
workbook format; last 20 pages or so on revising

I was just looking at a helpful article "Does My Novel Have What It Takes?" in the
2008 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market,
which is an important resource for those who have revised, edited, edited again, and then polished, and think they're ready to dive into the world of rejection, er, I mean, publishing.

Look for these and nearby books on those library shelves.