So I had a response from Gordon Van Gelder at F&SF in the mailbox when I got home last night. It went something like this: I've had a chance to read "Timesink" now and I think the idea for it is great—thank you
I should mention that while Missionary Man is on its way to Jim Frenkel, Silvertide is in the midst of revisions that will occupy me for probably the next six to eight weeks. But it's nice to have a deadline and a reason to work hard.
Much traffic in and out of my mailbox these days. Nerve didn't take the essay I sent them, "Supercalifornication," but I did end up getting a phone call from them. Isabella Robertson, one of their editors, was hoping I was actually still a missionary, and that
I have a trip to the post office to make this afternoon. In my shoulder bag are three big envelopes. One contains a Missionary Man excerpt entitled "The Fanatic in the Street," bound for The Atlantic Monthly. Another contains an excerpt called "Supercalifornication," bound for Nerve
Hmm. I guess that last post sounded pretty bitter. I guess a lot of these posts have. I don't want to end up bitter. One little bright spot on the Missionary Man front is that the first part of the book is apparently at Berkeley. My agent told
I've been just a little down lately. I took a full-time job last month, which is good for our bank account—particularly given that I haven't gotten much work in the past year—but I've been working insanely long hours, and the toll it
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.
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
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
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
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
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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