Writing with audacity in the age of fan fiction

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On this episode of Writers Drinking Whiskey, authors William R. Hincy and Sienna Frost (Faye) discuss their quest to write a masterpiece in a landscape of reboots, rehashes, and AI slop. 

Learn more about Sienna Frost (Faye): https://siennafrost.com/ 

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Bios:
Sienna Frost is the pen name of a Thai fantasy author who left home at fourteen, lived on her own on four continents, and has spent more than two decades writing fantasy, tragic love stories, and fan fiction to keep herself company in a world she finds herself unwilling to fit in. While most of her stories have been kept for her eyes only, the few she has shared on the internet have been widely read by fans around the world, some translated by fans into French, Spanish, Vietnamese, German, Russian, Polish and Chinese. She lives in Bangkok with her husband, two children, and her growing population of cats. An avid traveler first and foremost, her travel experience and exposure to cultures around the world has inspired many of her stories. When she doesn’t write you will find her exploring the underwater world, trekking the Himalayas, riding with nomads, sipping wine by the beach, or chasing penguins somewhere with no phone signals.

William: “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. 

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