J.J.S. Boyce

World-building seems like something that is bound to roll to a stop. Hasn’t every major iteration of an alien planet been done, in broad strokes, at least?

Having just completed Sun of Suns, the first volume of the Virga series, I’m pleased to be proven wrong on that score.

Helen Michaud

It seems that every few weeks someone writes a piece about why agents will stop reading your manuscript, often within the first few sentences. It doesn’t seem fair, and perhaps it isn’t, but these are readers with a finely honed sense of what works — or more precisely, what they can sell — and they know that no one with buying power gets any more forgiving further downstream from them.

D.F. McCourt

Welcome back for Issue 11. AE continues to grow and we are doing our best to manage without too many visible growing pains or too much premature aging for our editorial staff. Without dwelling too much on statistics, our readership (as estimated by monthly unique non-automated visitors) is more than three times what it was one year ago. And in April 2012, our readership was nearly three times what it was in April 2011.