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Holy Nebulas, Batman!

I can hardly believe it, but I've made the finals for the Nebula Award in the novelette category! Now I can call myself "Nebula nominee William Shunn," always and forever. Holy shit! More info over in ❦shunn's journal.

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By: Elder Shunn

Nebula Nominee William Shunn

The final ballot for the 2001 Nebula Awards was posted this morning in the newsgroups for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Americas. It hasn't been released officially yet as far as I know, but I can't help shouting out that "Dance of the

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Frequently Answered Questions

Question 6

"But a person can't understand the beauty and necessity of the temple ceremony without experiencing it. What do you say to that?"

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Missionary Man

Antsy

I've been having an email exchange with my agent today, asking her about how her reading of my novel Silvertide is coming. Her latest message strangely touched me, after I'd been bugging her about when I would have her revision notes: "No, you're

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By: Elder Shunn
Missionary Man

Let's Do the Time Warp

It may seem absurd given the current date, but the April 2002 issue of Realms of Fantasy, containing my short story "The Veil Beyond the Veil," is on newsstands now. (Realms is a bimonthly title, and, like most magazines, its issues are timed to leave newsstands when the

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By: Elder Shunn

The Veil Beyond the Veil

A couple of nice happenings this week. The official preliminary Nebula ballot came out, and my story "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" is there in the best novelette category. I also got my contributor's copies of the next issue of Realms of Fantasy, which contains

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By: William Shunn
Missionary Man

"The Veil Beyond the Veil"

Another nice writerly thing this week—I received my contributor's copies of the upcoming April 2002 issue of Realms of Fantasy, which contains my short story "The Veil Beyond the Veil." This is a story I'm very proud of, and I've been

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By: Elder Shunn
Missionary Man

More Walls Than Windows

I posted several weeks ago about my agent's query to small press Four Walls Eight Windows being rejected. She forwarded the relevant emails to me, but upon reading the exchange I wasn't convinced that John Oakes of 4W8W had been given a complete description of the

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By: Elder Shunn
Missionary Man

Bad Timing

From the moment earlier this week when I heard that The New Yorker was running a long article on Mormonism in its new issue, I had a sinking feeling this was going to happen. Last night I found the rejection letter in the mailbox: Thank you for your letter and

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By: Elder Shunn
Missionary Man

One of the Less Eagerly Anticipated Fruits of Authorship

This email I received today refers to my other web site, www.shunn.net, but it's exactly the sort of this I need to get used to hearing, particularly once the book comes out: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:56:31 -0600 From: STDGAJ11@shsu.edu To:

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By: Elder Shunn
Missionary Man

Reading Circle

My cousin, who lives in northern Utah, belongs to a small reading circle who read a book and discuss it together every month or so. Her turn to suggest a book is coming up in a few months, and she wrote yesterday to ask me if she could suggest Missionary

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By: Elder Shunn
Missionary Man

Ballot and Wedding

Two items this time around, one writing- but not book-related, the other neither writing- nor book-related. First, my novelette "Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites" has made the preliminary ballot for this year's Nebula Awards, selected by the Science Fiction Writers of America. SFWA

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