S:5 E:22 Time travel historical fiction with Mark J. Rose author of Matt Miller in the Colonies Architect

03/15/23 • 32 min

Books That Make You Stand at the Crossroads of God, Science, Technology and History

A scientist who believes in both God and evolution, Mark J. Rose is also an author who whisks readers back in time with his series Matt Miller in the Colonies, a set of historical science-fiction stories. Along with his curiosity and creativity, he carries an adventurous and exploratory spirit, which has him traveling and researching in-person many of the places he writes about.

For Mark, travel enriches his writing. One can Google a place, he says, but physically being there gives off an irreplaceable “vibration” the virtual world can’t duplicatee. For The Virginian, he visited Ben Franklin’s house in London — hardly a big tourist destination there. While writing the series’ most recent book, Architect, he organized a private tour of the Capital building in Colonial Williamsburg.

Mark is a director of research and development at a startup biotech company, and holds a doctorate in pharmaceutical chemistry.

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Books That Make You Stand at the Crossroads of God, Science, Technology and History

Mark is a director of research and development at a startup biotech company, and holds a doctorate in pharmaceutical chemistry.

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S: 5 E: 21 Women In Leadership with Randi Braun, Author Of Something Major: The New Playbook for Women at Work

Books That Make You Succeed in the Workplace, and Avoid Burnout

More and more, it’s becoming important for women in the workplace to recognize that the old rules no longer apply, and to adopt a new playbook.

Women may be natural leaders, but they’re burnt out. Even after playing by the rules, they still don’t achieve their much-deserved leadership roles. Now, with Randi Braun as their coach, they stand on the edge of something major.

Randi addresses subjects such as addiction to perfectionism, the reasons for burnout and unhappiness, what exactly is broken with the old system, the hard process of silencing our inner critic and rising above the quest for external validation.

A sought-after thought leader, speaker, and author of the women’s leadership book Something Major: The New Playbook for Women at Work (New Degree Press, 2023). Randi’s book brims with stories, testimonials, facts and figures. One play at a time, she’s changing women’s lives—all while wearing pink three-inch pumps.

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S:5 E:23 An Inclusive World with Rebecca Inch-Partridge, author of Escaping the Dashia

Books That Make You Go On a Science Fiction Adventure That’s Both Epic and Inclusive

A writer since she was a child, Rebecca Inch-Partridge grew up writing stories about The Bionic Woman meeting, say, Captain Kirk.

Escaping the Dashia, her first novel, is a YA science fantasy that tells the story of young telepath Twyla, abducted by her mother and forced to participate in the criminal organization that comprises the family business. The book was published by Black Rose Writing.

A member of the Editorial Freelancers Association and Broad Universe, Rebecca frequently speaks at writers’ conferences and pop culture conventions. Her writing, both fiction and non, has appeared in several magazines, and she has won Honorable Mention in the likes of Writers of the Future and Writer’s Digest contests. She received her bachelor’s degree from William Jessup University in (and she swears this isn’t an oxymoron) Management and Ethics.

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