I've got a couple of articles sitting in the queue at ezine and one bounced with a helpful explanation but the other didn't get anything. (a third got accepted ) If someone is one of my connections on ezine are they able to see my unpublished articles in kind of a mentoring role or do we need to send it through to them? I'm not a writer but I know my subject inside out so its definitely unique, just some upskilling issues, I guess.
After the Panda update in 2011, all the major article directories including ezine were badly hit. So, ezine updated their editorial guidelines and now they are pretty strict. The content not only needs to be unique but also be free from any spelling and grammatical error.In addition, it must also be of minimum 400 words(except Diamond authors) and have a keyword density of less than 4.5%. Someone on your connections should be able to see your unpublished articles and if you offer him/her editorial rights then he/she can edit it or you can just give your log in info and he/she can edit it from your account. Hope it helps.