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 Gatesβauthor, broadcaster, and host of The Brown Posey Press Showβfor 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 ποΈThe 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.)
ποΈ Listen to the podcast here:
Part 2, featuring more Pennwriters authors, drops next Tuesday.
WatchΒ 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 β 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.
