Neopagan Fantasy in the Pole Barn - author D.C. McElroy

Writers Drinking Whiskey

Welcome to Writers Drinking whiskey, the show where you find more than your next read: you find your next author… along with cocktail recipes, travel advice, life hacks, and a healthy dose of comradery. In this episode our host William R. Hincy shares a drink with author Dan Conover, who writes under the pseudonym D.C. McElroy. We had such a great time chatting we had to break our conversation into two episodes. Hear about the fall of the Newspaper Empire, his beguiling tale of winning Journalist of the Year, and the dream that inspired his slipstream epic-fantasy series, The Darbas Cycle. Neopaganism, reincarnation, the lost city of Atlantis, and the Hollywood business model dooming us all to unending kitsch—oh my!
For video, check out the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dg5QOfzo7zU
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Links:
Dan Conover’s site: https://www.dcmcelroy.com/
William R. Hincy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ
Bios:
Dan: Recovering newspaperman Dan Conover is the author of eight novels, including the first four books in the slipstream epic-fantasy series The Darbas Cycle, written under the name D.C. McElroy (Chene, Llyr and Gwynyr in the prequel trilogy The Goddess Daughter, plus Ta Nupa, the first book in the series' second trilogy, Season of Spies). The series' fifth installment, City of the Dead, will appear in 2023. Raised in North Carolina and a longtime resident of Charleston, SC, he now lives in the Appalachian foothills with his wife, visual artist Janet Edens. His former job titles include tank commander, reporter, city editor, web director, bicycle mechanic, technology consultant, and organic market gardener. These days he keeps up an old family farm and writes fiction.
Two of his novels as Dan Conover -- the erotic paranormal thriller Bokur and the satiric sci-fi romp Another Goddamn Novel About the Collapsing Quantum Multiverse -- are available via Amazon via his Dan Conover author page. His current Darbas Cycle novels are available via his D.C. McElroy author page.
WRH: “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. Hincy has won the American Fiction Award and been named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award and two International Book Awards. Without Expiration, his personal anthology of short fiction, 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 spiced rum.
Interested in being a guest? Have a great cocktail recipe and story to share? Fantastic! Contact WRH at [e-mail]. We’re currently booking for special episodes and season 2.
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