Mystery, architecture, and fiction writing - authors SJ Rozan & William R. Hincy

Send us Fan MailWhat do police stations, firehouses, and zoo have in common? Join bestselling author and Edgar Allen Poe Award-Winner SJ Rozan for a glass of vodka and a wide-ranging chat on your work, her travels, her time as an architect, and her books, The Murder of Mr. Ma and Mayors of New York. Oh, and she reads one of the most fantastic fight scenes you'll ever hear!Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we do!Links:William R. Hincy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ William R. Hincy’s website: https://williamrhincy.com/SJ Rozan's website: http://sjrozan.net/Mayors of New York: https://www.amazon.com/Mayors-New-York-Mystery-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BV1CYL47/The Murder of Mr. Ma: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mr-Ma-SJ-Rozan/dp/164129549X/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.SJ Rozan, a native New Yorker, is the author of eighteen novels and six dozen short stories.  Her work has won the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity awards for Best Novel and the Edgar for Best Short Story. She’s also the recipient of the Japanese Maltese Falcon Award and recently received the Life Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. BRONX NOIR, a short story anthology SJ edited, was chosen NAIBA “Notable Book of the Year.” She also co-edited, with Jonathan Santlofer, the anthology DARK END OF THE STREET. Spring 2022 will see CRIME HITS HOME, the Mystery Writers of America anthology, edited by SJ,SJ has served on the National Boards of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and is ex-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. She speaks, lectures and teaches, and she runs a summer writing workshop at the Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy.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 Start00:00:30 Introducing SJ Rozan00:02:17 Where to get a drink in lower Manhattan00:03:57 Vodka talk00:05:49 Writing as architecture00:19:08 Travel advice00:24:40 Writing Talk: writing like an architect00:33:06 Collaborative writing00:48:29 Biggest risk SJ Rozan has ever taken00:50:10 Worst advice SJ Rozan ever received00:53:49 What drew SJ Rozan to mystery and crime fiction00:56:05 Writing tips_how to wrap up a mystery00:59:03 Rapid fire questions01:07:46 Author reading MAYORS OF NEW YORK01:18:12 Last CallBrought to you by Whiskey-Winged LitFiction for the modern reader. Life is the accumulation of scars—tell the stories! Here we go!#booktube #books #authorThanks for tuning in! If you’d like to support the show, please consider joining us on Substack or picking up a book (or two). Links below!For exclusive perks and free fiction, join the crew on Substack. All of these WDW episodes are there, as well as host William R. Hincy's bonkers, rock-n-roll satire, PIRATES OF APPALACHIA: https://wrhincy.substack.com/ Pick up a book here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZFinally, shoot your feedback, suggestions, and guest requests to [email protected] less