🩸 Vampire Legends & The Future of Horror Writing w/ JD Barker | Writers Drinking Whiskey
Writers Drinking Whiskey | Season 3, Episode 22
Writers Drinking Whiskey is not your granddad’s writers-selling-their-books podcast. It is a celebration of stories and storytellers, and we talk about the unexplained, true crime, history, dealing with adversity, overcoming failure and rejection, how to make a kickass cocktail, and everything else thrice as much as we talk writing craft and publishing. It’s a literary happy hour, and it’s always 5 o’clock somewhere.
You’re not just a reader—you’re a seeker of dark truths. Ever wonder why vampire myths exist in nearly every culture? What if there’s something real behind the legend? Bestselling author JD Barker joins host William R. Hincy to unravel the origins of vampire lore, the hidden secrets in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and the future of horror storytelling. They explore co-writing with James Patterson, the role of AI in publishing, and what makes a truly terrifying tale.
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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.
J.D. Barker (Jonathan Dylan Barker) is a New York Times and international bestselling American author whose work has been broadly described as suspense thrillers, often incorporating elements of horror, crime, mystery, science fiction, and the supernatural.
