Open Mic Saturday

Welcome to Open Mic Saturday. This is the place to share your news and perhaps do a little bragging. If you're writing a novel: how much progress did you make this week? If you're writing short stories: did you finish anything or submit anything this week? If you've sold or published anything recently: when is it coming out and where can we find it?

In short, as a writer, what kind of progress did you make this week?

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As a fiction writer I've been kind of swamped this week and so have made no progress on the novel, but I do have two announcements. The first is that I finally got the long-promised new banner posted yesterday, and then the multitalented Vidad MaGoodn promptly did some fine-tuning that made it much better. Thanks, Vidad!

The second is that ten days ago I contacted the editors of F&SF, Analog, and Asimov's, and asked two questions:

1. Do you consider posting a partial or complete work-in-progress on a website for the purposes of critique to be a "prior publication" that would disqualify the finished story from being considered for publication?

2: Does it make a difference to you if the critique site is a password-protected members-only site?

The results are coming in. Answers in the Comments section, so that Google doesn't find them and broadcast them to the world.