Missionary ManA collection of 63 posts

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...

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...

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!...

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...

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...

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...