[Interview] John Trevillian
Freelance writer and journalist, John Trevillian is the creator and designer of AEs Mail Adventure , an award-winning interactive writing game. He is also head of the AEs Society, an international group of shared-world authors and writers. In 2009, he was a finalist in the YouWriteOn Book Awards . His books include The A-Men (Matador, 2010), The A-Men Return (Matador, 2011) and Forever A-Men (which is due out from Matador in 2012). A full and unabridged podcast of The A-Men is available from libsyn and iTunes . In this interview, John Trevillian talks about his writing: When did you start writing? My mother was given a Smith-Corona typewriter and she let me play on it from the time I was four. By six I’d typed my first (four-page) novel based on the adventures of a crazy professor (more than a little stolen from the Professor Branestawm books by Norman Hunter ). I’d even left spaces for illustrations that I coloured in afterwards. No wonder I ended up with a career in...