One of the highlights of this year’s Pennwriters Conference in Lancaster, PA, was recording a special podcast episode for the BookSpeak Network. I was thrilled to sit down with podcaster Tory Gates—author, broadcaster, and host of The Brown Posey Press Show—for an all-Pennwriters edition of the podcast. Tory is a veteran of nearly four decades in broadcast radio, currently an anchor for NBC News Radio, and a producer of multiple shows across Central Pennsylvania. He’s also a Sunbury Press author whose work spans young adult fiction, time travel, and literary crossover … and he’s as easy to talk to as you’d hope someone with that much mic time would be 🎙️The episode, The Voices of the Pennwriters Conference, Part 1, dropped yesterday and features a fantastic group of conference authors. (My segment begins at 13:50.)
🎙️ Listen to the podcast here:
Part 2, featuring more Pennwriters authors, drops next Tuesday.
Watch a Video Clip of the Podcast Recording
Thank You!
Thanks to Tory and the BookSpeak Network for featuring my fellow Pennwriters authors and me… I look forward to chatting with Tory again!
And if you’re curious about how the rest of the conference went, including my True Crime Uncovered workshop presentation (spoiler: folks said it was terrific!), you can catch my recap of the conference here.
Recap of the 39th Annual Pennwriters Conference — Lancaster, PA | May 
Carla Conti is a journalist and the award-winning author of Chained Birds: A Crimemoir. Her next true crime book, The Jacklighter, is set for release in 2026. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, who supports her true crime habit.
