The Alternate Lavender Island: Matthew Kresal

[David Flin]

This time, @M_Kresal is our marooned guest.

 

[SpanishSpy]

Wonderful to see Matthew up!

I hate to be a pedant but Martin Harry Greenberg's name is misspelled twice (it's Greenberg not Greenburg)

Also - am I the only one that thinks the cover of that anthology is a reference to TL-191?

 

[David Flin]

I hate to be a pedant but Martin Harry Greenberg's name is misspelled twice (it's Greenberg not Greenburg)

Corrected.

That was an unforgivable mistake on my part. Spelling someone's name wrong is the ultimate sin for a journalist.

 

[Charles EP M.]

The first one of us to realise "well I'd want to write while marooned"!

 

[Jared]

The first one of us to realise "well I'd want to write while marooned"!

I figured it would be too much like Covid lockdowns - plenty of time to write, very little motivation to do so.

 

[M_Kresal]

The first one of us to realise "well I'd want to write while marooned"!

I figured it would be too much like Covid lockdowns - plenty of time to write, very little motivation to do so.

Yeah I was out of work for four and a half months in 2020 when the university all but shut down and the bookstore with it. After the shock of the initial weeks and realizing I had time on my hands, I had one of my most productive writing periods (including penning Moonshot and editing Our Man on the Hill for publication as it happens). Something I felt some guilt about for awhile, given I had this sense of dancing on people’s graves given the circumstances and also when I saw I was in a definite minority. I don’t feel feel that way now, thankfully.