Last Year at This Time · 12:02am May 15th, 2019
I was chronicling:
The various ups and downs of four story submissions I had floating around out in the world.
If anyone wants to take a trip down Memory Lane, here's the first post, here's the second, here's the third, and here's the fourth.
This year, I've had two recent ups that I wanted to mention, especially since one of them relates directly to the saga linked to in the above paragraph.
The unrelated one is a poem, a 700-word-long terza rima ode in iambic pentameter all about what Medusa's been up to recently. I originally wrote it in a single twenty-four period for the Hiding in Plain Sight Writeoff last June, and the folks there awarded it the Gold Medal. After revising it, I got more suggestions from Pascoite, horizon, and Present Perfect, revised it again, then started sending it out. It collected a couple "no, thank you" notes, but now it's finally landed at Silver Blade Magazine for their upcoming Spring issue, I think: I'll post a link once it actually appears.
The related one, however, marks the return of Cluny the Sorcerous Squirrel to the Sword & Sorceress anthology. I got a note earlier this year from Elisabeth Waters, the editor, saying that volume 34, the last one in the series, was taking stories "by invitation only," and asking if the Cluny story that had gotten bounced from volume 33 was still available. I said it was, and since I got the contract today, I guess that means she'll be taking it.
Editors who don't mind my brand of fluffy, talking animal stuff are extremely rare, I've discovered, so I'm sad to see Sword & Sorceress folding. But now that I'm not writing new Cluny stuff, maybe I can finally get back to putting together the interstitial material that'll glue the first eight stories into the complete tale of her first year trying to become a familiar at Huxley College. Though I s'ppose I really oughtta finish up the Currycombs stories here, first, shouldn't I? 
Mike
Congrats, Mike! Ode to the Artistic Temperament is a gem.