This year’s Boskone was virtual, but we are once again going to act — as we did during the previous episode with Zig Zag Claybourne — as if we got the real-world Boskone we wish we’d had, and after watching a couple of panels and wandering the dealers room, did head out for a meal with a guest. So please join me and A. T. Greenblatt as we nibble pizza we baked ourselves while pretending we were dining in one of Boston’s famed pizzerias.

A. T. Greenblatt’s short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Fireside, Lightspeed, and other magazines. She won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Short Story for “Give the Family My Love,” and is also on the current Nebula Awards ballot for her novelette “Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super.” She was also a Nebula finalist for 2018. She has also been a Theodore Sturgeon Award finalist as well as a Parsec Award finalist. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise and Clarion West workshops, and has been an editorial assistant at the flash fiction magazines Every Day Fiction and Flash Fiction Online.

We discussed the writing workshop-induced panic which caused her to begin writing her latest Nebula Award-nominated story, how the Viable Paradise workshop helped kick her writing up a notch, why she prefers Batman to Superman, the importance of revisions, critique groups, and community, what’s to be learned from rereading one’s older work, why she’s a total pantser, her love of Roald Dahl, something she wishes she’d known earlier about the endings of stories, how much of writing is being able to keep secrets and not explode, and much more.

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Here’s what we chewed on while we chatted —

A. T. Greenblatt’s Pizza
fresh garlic, black olives, and red pepper flakes

Scott Edelman’s Pizzas
diced pork, garlic, and peppers/pepperoni and onion

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