Preamble…
Writers Drinking Whiskey is not your granddad’s writers-selling-their-books podcast. It is a celebration of stories and storytellers, and we probably talk about life, dealing with adversity, overcoming failure and rejection, how to make a kickass cocktail, pet peeves, guilty pleasures, and everything else thrice as much as we talk writing craft and publishing. If I’m trying to sell anything, it’s the author, and if you watch an episode and fall in love with a guest, there’s a GREAT chance they’ll show up again and again.
About this episode…
After dying twice on his job as a cop, Mark Bergin retired from the force and transitioned to a new career: writing. Join us for a drink as we discuss high-speed chases, his time as a reporter prior to joining law enforcement, what happens when we die, and Mark reads from his upcoming novel.
Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we say “cop!”
Learn more about guest Mark Bergin: https://markberginwriter.com/
Hincy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ
Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/
Bios:
“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.
Mark Bergin retired from the Alexandria, Virginia Police Department as a Lieutenant in 2014 after 28 years and, in the end, two heart attacks. (He died both times. See April 2015 blog). He was twice named Police Officer of the Year, for drug and robbery investigations, and served in most of the posts described in his 2019 debut novel APPREHENSION. Prior to police service he was a newspaper reporter in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Northern Virginia, where he earned the Virginia Press Association Award for General News Reporting. APPREHENSION won an award in 2022 from the Public Safety Writers Association and was a finalist for the Silver Falchion Award at the Killer Nashville conference in 2021. A graduate of Boston University, he splits his time between Alexandria and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with his wife and a not-so new dog.
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Life is the accumulation of scars—tell the stories!
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