I have a post on publishing and fear up at PhD2Published. It starts like this:

The biggest barrier to publishing is fear.

• Fear of rejection.
• Fear of criticism.
• Fear that you really don’t have anything to contribute.

And then I talk about how to move forward anyway under the following headings

• Look for the contribution to knowledge
• Where is the debate happening
• Outwitting the gremlins
• When you get it back
• Keep the stream flowing

Go read Fear is in the eye of the beholder and maybe poke around the PhD2Published site for other helpful information.

This post was edited July 13, 2015.