I am having the same issue. The other users who are experiencing this were originally posting in the foundry forum: http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?569151-Publish-Failed While my personal issue with publishing is not as dire as the OP's, the quest I was working on was inspired and designed to be available…
*Bump* Just finished a quest I had been working and hoping to release for the New Year's Celebration. It will say it's "Currently Publishing" for a couple of minutes, and then "Publish Failed".