Heard it Through the Rosevine

From AWP 2020, Episode #5 features Val Conrad. "Being squeamish is not a good characteristic for anyone outside of emergency services. It's not helpful for thriller writers, either," says Val Conrad. She loves being able to blend the reality of the places she has lived with actual history, adding the complexities of medicine, and setting a story against a background and bone-chilling crime and the challenge of solving it.

Marika Flatt & her husband, Doug, launched PR by the Book in 2002, capitalizing on their love of media & books. Marika is a “connector” by nature, is a past-president of Women Communicators of Austin, serves as an Expert for Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), is listed on Twitter’s Women in Publishing (#womeninpublishing) and has served on the selection committee for the Texas Book Festival. Marika also serves on the advisory board for the San Diego Writers Festival. And she is the proud parent of three kids (none of which love reading as much as she does).

Joe Barrett has spent the past twenty-five years as a chief executive of entrepreneurial organizations ranging from private, venture-funded companies to large publicly-listed multinational corporations. He has been a frequent speaker at National Retail Federation conferences and has sat on the boards of several for-profit and non-profit companies. His first novel, Managed Care, won the Maxy Awards 2019 “Book of the Year” as well as the PenCraft 2019 “Best Fiction Book of the Year” in addition to being a #1 Amazon bestseller in domestic and international markets. His short fiction has been published in Iconoclast, The Storyteller and The Palo Alto Review. His third novel, Unplugged, releases May 7, 2020. He lives with his wife and two children in South Tampa, Florida.

Kristin Sherry is a career consultant, international speaker, trainer and author of Amazon bestseller, YouMap. She is the managing partner of YouMap LLC, which certifies aspiring coaches, recruiters, career services and HR professionals as YouMap® coaches and workshop facilitators. Kristin has been a featured career expert on Wharton Business Radio and has been invited to speak at DisruptHR and numerous conferences, events and radio interviews. She has contributed to Entrepreneur Magazine and Inc.com and her fourth book, Your Team Loves Mondays (...Right?), helps managers become more effective and releases February 20, 2020.

Joe Siple is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride. He has also written, The Town With no Roads, and has a middle grade novel releasing at the end of this month, titled The Last Dogs. He resides in Colorado with his wife and two daughters.

The Black Rose Writing podcast will be launching January 2020.