Pod#189 - Jatin Bhasin - Viral Horror Tweets to Bestselling Book and Podcast!

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We first had Jatin on the show way back in Pod 66 for a Jinn Stories episode right after his horror story tweets had gone viral. In just two short years, he's gone from there to having an excellent book out as well as an extremely well done horror podcast. We had to get him on and talk about that journey. Things discussed in this episode: 00:00 Super quick recap on how we crossed paths with Jatin 02:00 How he started writing horror stories on Twitter and how they went viral 06:16 How viral tweets caught the attention of Bollywood and landed him a book deal 11:23 How the essential partnership with his wife allowed the book to be written 19:47 How the culture of community and storytelling in the Delhi of his youth lead here 28:21 How improving finances might reduce your connection to a city 33:53 The actual process of writing his book & how it was working with his wife on it 40:18 The book release experience and how social media can sometimes be great 47:45 How did the podcast happen and how he wanted something different 53:59 From tweeting solo to collaborating on projects, how have things changed? 58:44 Pitching to streaming services and Instagram vs Twitter 1:02:33 Plans for the future, more books, different stories3 1:10:27 Outro LINKS: His book!: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunting-Delhi-City-Tales-Supernatural/dp/9356294550 His podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bhoot-bhulaiya-a-horror-podcast/id1670292920 His Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDilliMirror Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)! Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below! SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupper Rizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkhar Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan

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