Apex Book Company

Interesting anecdote about our lead story, “Pimp My Airship.” Maurice Broaddus was on one of his typical late night rants on Twitter. One of his random tweets was some thing like “I am thinking about writing something called ‘Pimp My Airship.’” He claims that several editors wrote him saying “I’d be interested in a story with that title .”

Is this nonsense true ? Who knows…maybe , but what can tell you is that Maurice wrote the story and it turned out to be a work of art. I’m proud to admit that I wasn’t one of those editors begging for the story, and I’m double proud to be the one publishing “Pimp My Airship.”

As for “Kenny 149,” the background story’s not so glamorous. All the same, it’s notable that it is author’s first sale (who says you can’t make your first sale to a professional- level publication?). It’s also the first story pulled from the slush to make publication by our most junior member of the team—April Snellings. So, I offer a heartfelt congratulations to both!

The presentation of this issue should be improved from the previous as I get a better hang of designing a letter-sized publication. Also, one of the universal requests from readers of the last issue was the desire for more content. Due to prohibitive printing costs, upping the page count isn’t an option. To get around this, I’ve lowered the font size by .5. In all, this allowed me to add an extra 5,000 words of added content squeezed into 32 pages!

Enjoy.

—Jason Sizemore