Submitting to Astraea Press...First Hand Experience

Now I don't know what others thought about their submissions process but I expected it to be something like what I had experienced with the query process. A wicked witch like woman saying something like " Hehehe...I'll get your manuscript and all your hopes and dreams too and rip them to shreds depending on my caffeine intake at the time of reading."
That is so far from how it happened. Here is the summary of the process of my submission for Familial Witch and what I found out was happening on the other end.

• Astraea Press was a new sweets publisher that was up and coming that I found through social media. After watching them for a few weeks I decided to submit my short story Familial Witch. 
• Checked out the submissions requirements. I added 10,000K to it since they want 10-15k for short stories. 
• Polished it up. Reread the submissions requirements. Followed them!
• Then sent her in and prayed they would love it. 

 So apparently what happened on the receiving end was not a witch but a sweet southern belle much like myself who gave it to one of our readers.(I don't even know who the readers are. Its taboo to even mention them. Rumor is Steph has them chained up in the basement with our cover artist Elaina.) So the reader liked it, talked it over with Stephenie and they offered me a contract. It was so opposite to what I expected to experience. If you are considering submitting to Astraea Press please do so. We are very hands on. We communicate and support each other in all our endeavors before, during, and after publication.

So does anyone have any submissions or query stories good or bad they could share?

Thanks Ya'll

Bri