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“Grieving mothers do strange things,” author Sue Alcon O’Connor tells us on this episode of WRITERS DRINKING WHISKEY, and we cover the gambit of “strange” things, from the mysteries of grief to UFOs, ghosts, and what you call multiple bigfoots.  

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we do!

Links:

Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/
Sue Alcon O’Connor website: https://www.theboneshelter.com/about 


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What is the nature of evil? Is there such things as Good and Evil, or are matters of good and evil simply constructs of man. Join us for a substantial conversation with returning guest, author T.D. Johnston, as we discuss hopelessness, failure, risks, and still manage to have a great time. 

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we say “evil!”

YouTube video version: https://youtu.be/t6UKex5eJvI

Hincy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ 
Johnston’s books: https://spookeats.com/shop/ 

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William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.

T.D. Johnston won the 2017 International Book Award for Best Short Fiction for his debut collection, Friday Afternoon and Other Stories. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals. The editor of the Short Story America anthology series of contemporary short stories, he lives in Jacksonville, Florida and Beaufort, South Carolina with his wife, Stacey, daughters Brooke and Taylor, and son Nick.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:01:08 Introducing author T.D. Johnston
00:13:16 The Beast of Busco
00:17:34 Writing short stories and transitioning to novels
00:26:48 Economy of words
00:31:07 Handling criticism of your writing
00:58:04 Big risks
01:05:28 Failures
01:11:26 Do you choose the genre or does the genre choose you
01:27:19 On evil
01:33:42 How do you write dread
01:44:47 The muses
01:49:54 Shots - rapid fire questions
02:11:16 Author reading
02:27:24 Last Call
02:30:11 Extra shot

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What do near-death experiences, UFO/UAPs, and short fiction have in common? This episode of Writers Drinking Whiskey features prolific short story writer Niles Reddick! 

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we say UFO!

Links:
Hincy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ 
Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/
Reddick’s website: https://nilesreddick.com/ 

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Have you ever witnessed something you couldn’t explain? Something that changed the way you see the world and your place in it? Join us as we talk to award-winning author Linda Zimmermann about her encounters with UFOs in the Hudson Valley, ghost investigations, and fiction writing. And get ready to laugh at Bad Science, bad jokes, and a heavy pour of bad podcasting. 

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we say UFO!

Links:
William R. Hincy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ 
William R. Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/
Linda Zimmermann books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00JH6OYAK 
Murder in the Hudson Valley (true crime podcast): https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-murder-in-the-hudson-valle-30922454/
UFO Headquarters (podcast): https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-ufo-headquarters-43053326/

Bios: 
William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.

Linda Zimmermann is a research chemist turned award-winning author of 30 books on science, history, the paranormal, and fiction. Her Ghost Investigator series of books led to comic books based on her cases. Her novel HVZA: Hudson Valley Zombie Apocalypse was turned into a graphic novel.

About WDW:
And for our algo-overlords (please introduce us to your friends!)… Welcome to your literary happy hour, Writers Drinking Whiskey, the show where you share a drink with writers from around the globe and you find more than your next read: you find the next AUTHOR you're going to love. Hosted by award-winning author William R. Hincy, the show takes booktube, authortube and booktok to another level with engaging, in-depth, and merrily irreverent conversations with today’s most interesting writers. And for our writers joining us, there's plenty of creative writing tips, fiction writing tricks, and poetry read by the poets.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:00:26 Introducing Linda Zimmermann
00:02:05 Where in the world is Linda Zimmermann
00:05:23 What are we drinkin
00:07:20 Bad Science
00:20:25 Hudson Valley UFOs
00:49:01 Animal reactions to UFOs
01:00:23 Ghost stories as living history
01:10:48 What ghost stories teach about storytelling
01:13:02 Mysterious stone sites
01:21:20 The connection between UFOs and other strange phenomenon
01:25:55 ghost story
01:29:55 Writing process
01:39:49 Shots - Rapid-fire questions
01:47:01 Author reading - Bad Science by Linda Zimmermann
01:53:58 What's next for Linda Zimmermann
02:01:13 Learn more about Linda Zimmermann
02:02:15 Extra Shot - community question

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Why drives mom’s to kill? Join us for a lively conversation as we discuss Amanda R. Woomer’s latest book, KILLER MOMS, along with her extensive travels, funeral practices, grief, what happens when we die, and AWESOME DADS.

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we say “killer!”

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William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.
website: https://williamrhincy.com/

Amanda R. Woomer is the author of nearly 20 books focused on dark history, the paranormal, women's history, and Victoriana, including Harlots & Hauntings, The Art of Grieving: The Beauty Behind Victorian Mourning Customs, and A Mortal's Guide to Cemeteries. She is a featured writer for Haunted Magazine and Troy Taylor's Morbid Curious and is also the creator of the all-female paranormal journal The Feminine Macabre. She currently resides in Buffalo, New York, with her husband and son, their black cat, and her collection of Victorian mourning memorabilia.
website: https://spookeats.com/ 

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Fiction for the modern reader. Life is the accumulation of scars—tell the stories! 

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What is it about crime and the pursuit of justice we find so compelling? Dana King stops by the Writers Drinking Whiskey bar to discuss crime fiction and why it is perhaps the ultimate genre for expressing what ails society. He also downs a “Depth Charge” cocktails and reads from his latest book.

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we say “crime.”

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Links:
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William R. Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/
Dana’s website: https://danakingauthor.com/ 

Bios: 
William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.

Dana King: Hi. I’m Dana King, and this is my writing biography. Most websites use the third person for the bios, but that strikes me as pretentious, and I’m way too old for pretention.

I am the author of eight novels in the Penns River series of police procedurals, six Nick Forte private investigator novels, and one standalone crime novel. Two of the Forte books received Shamus Award nominations from the Private Eye Writers of America (A Small Sacrifice for Best First PI Novel and The Man in the Window for Best Paperback Original). As of July 2023, I am working on a Western, with another Forte book primed for release.

My short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and websites. Anthologies include The Eviction of Hope, The Black Car Business, Unloaded 2, Down to the River, Shamus Sampler 2, Dark Yonder, and Blood, Guts, and Whiskey. Web sites and periodicals include Thuglit, Dark Yonder, Mystery Tribune, Spinetingler, Mysterical-E, Shotgun Honey, Powder Burn Flash, and others.

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What do punk rock, the cult classic buddy flick ROADSIDE PROPHETS, and law enforcement have in common? The answer: author David Swinson. From his time booking and promoting punk rock and alternative legends like the Violent Femmes, Social Distortion, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, to his relationships with Hunter S. Thompson and Timothy Leary that helped birth the spoken-word record, SOUND BITES FROM THE COUNTER CULTURE, all the way through his time as a detective in Washington, DC to his acclaimed novels, we learn that some of us are just attracted to troublemakers. Join us. 

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we say “counter-culture!”

Links:
William R. Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/
David Swinson’s website: https://davidswinson.com/ 

Bios: 
William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards and an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.

David Swinson is the author of the critically acclaimed Frank Marr trilogy, The Second Girl, Crime Song, and Trigger. He is also the author of City on the Edge. He began his career at the height of the punk rock movement in the early 1980s. After attending California State University as a film major, he booked and promoted punk rock and alternative music at Fender’s Ballroom and Bogart’s Nightclub in Long Beach. 

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Would you kill a bigfoot to prove its existence? Author Matt Pruitt stops by to discuss his new book The Phenomenal Sasquatch: Seeking the Natural Origins of a Cultural Icon. We dive deep into the mystery, discussing what makes the iconic footprints so compelling, the infamous Patterson-Gimlin film, and the morality of killing a Sasquatch to obtain a type specimen. The big question: is Sasquatch a physical reality or a product of the human mind? 

Today’s drinking game: drink every time we say Sasquatch

Links:
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William R. Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/
The Phenomenal Sasquatch ordering link: https://www.amazon.com/Phenomenal-Sas...
Matt's website: https://mattpruittonline.com/
Bigfoot & Beyond pod: https://www.bigfootandbeyondpodcast.com/
Beyond Yacht Rock pod: https://open.spotify.com/show/0mYti5k... 

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We live our legacies long before we leave them behind. Join authors John Engell and William R. Hincy as we discuss life, heart-stopping health scares (literally), and John's short story collection. And we get two readings from one of the very best readers in the business.  

Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:00:19 Introducing author John Engell
00:04:29 Best place to get a drink in San Francisco
00:06:03 Author Reading of "Bridal Bouquet"
00:17:19 What are we drinking?
00:21:02 Writers Grotto of SF
00:26:55 How stage of life affect your writing
00:30:34 John's heart-stopping TWICE
00:33:28 Writing legacy
00:38:27 Writing tips
00:45:14 SHOTS! rapid fire questions
00:52:42 Author reading "Party on the Point"

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Are author’s heroes? Join us as we examine award-winning author and superstar fantasy writer Ken Liu’s journey via the beats of the Hero’s Journey. We also discuss dealing with failure and how AI affects writing and what role it might play in assisting writers (and readers!) in the future.   

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever the audio gets garbled!

Links:
William R. Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/
Ken Liu’s website: https://kenliu.name/ 

Bios: 
William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.

Ken Liu is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he wrote the Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series (starting with The Grace of Kings), as well as short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He also penned the Star Wars novel The Legends of Luke Skywalker.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Liu worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. Liu frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, machine-augmented creativity, history of technology, bookmaking, and the mathematics of origami.

About WDW:
And for our algo-overlords (please introduce us to your friends!)… Welcome to your literary happy hour, Writers Drinking Whiskey, the show where you share a drink with writers from around the globe and you find more than your next read: you find the next AUTHOR you're going to love. Hosted by award-winning author William R. Hincy, the show takes booktube, authortube and booktok to another level with engaging, in-depth, and merrily irreverent conversations with today’s most interesting writers. And for our writers joining us, there's plenty of creative writing tips, fiction writing tricks, and poetry read by the poets.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:00:26 Introducing Ken Liu
00:01:51 Where in the world is Ken Liu
00:03:36 The Hero's Journey - author style
00:14:23 The call to action
00:24:00 On failure
00:30:14 Author tips with Ken Liu
00:35:07 Artificial Intelligence and writing
00:50:35 What would you tell the younger you
00:51:52 Learn more about Ken Liu
00:52:17 Community question

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Pick up a book here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ

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