With: Julie Rowe
Congratulations to "Joyce M.", the winner in Julie's giveaway. Please contact JUST ROMANTIC SUSPENSE to claim your prize.
I write romantic thrillers featuring
bioterrorism, so I get a lot of weird looks (okay, okay — horrified looks) and
some variation on this question: How do
you do the research? Often this is accompanied by the questioner backing up
a step or two, as if I’ve got a pathogen in my pocket. Nope.
First, I’m a lab tech and I’ve worked in
microbiology, so I’m familiar with bacteria, the good, the bad, and the very
ugly.
Second, I’ve discovered a whole community
of scientists, researchers, and investigative experts who love to share what
they know about science, crime solving, and yes…pathogens in various podcast series.
I find listening to an hour long podcast with the experts talking in an
interview setting to be much more interesting and engaging than reading about
it from a research paper.
Podcasts have personality.
They’re funny, often weird, and always
informative. They keep me entertained while driving and I never fail to learn
something new.
Check out my list of favorite podcast
series and download an episode or two (most are free):
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Podcast
series - http://bit.ly/2FKkhWW
This Podcast Will Kill You – https://thispodcastwillkillyou.podbean.com/page/2/
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This series is specific to
infectious diseases. The two hosts are hilarious!
Criminal Mischief: The Art & Science of
Crime Fiction - http://www.dplylemd.com/criminal-mischief.html
Criminal: A true crime podcast - https://thisiscriminal.com/about
Casefile: Fact is scarier than fiction - https://casefilepodcast.com/
The Naked Scientists: Science
podcasts and radio shows - https://www.thenakedscientists.com/
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Every topic under the science
umbrella from volcanoes to colonizing Mars.
USF Health ID Podcasts: The University of
South Florida and USF Health’s Division of Infectious Disease’s educational
podcasts - http://idpodcasts.net/
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Another infectious disease
specific series.
Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts - https://podcasts.hopkinsmedicine.org/category/podcasts/
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Covers a broad range of medical
topics.
Giveaway:
To celebrate the release of SLEIGHT OF HAND book 3 of my Outbreak Task Force series I’m giving away an ecopy of one of my books, the winner’s choice!
To celebrate the release of SLEIGHT OF HAND book 3 of my Outbreak Task Force series I’m giving away an ecopy of one of my books, the winner’s choice!
In SLEIGHT OF HAND CDC nurse Joy Oshiro is
stressed to the breaking point. College students are dying and no one knows
why. And her new partner Dr. Gunner Anderson is frustratingly annoying—and
sexy, but mainly just plain annoying—and proving difficult to avoid. He spent
three years with Doctors Without Borders, and disillusioned is just the tip of
his issues.
They’ll need to learn to trust each other
if they have a chance at figuring out who is behind the attacks. She makes him
laugh, makes him forget—for a little while. But each new clue keeps them one
step behind the terrorists, with buildings and evidence being destroyed just as
they near.
Now they’re in a race against time to not
only find a cure, but also to avoid becoming the next targets themselves.
Purchase SLEIGHT OF HAND here:
Julie
Rowe’s first career as a medical lab technologist
in Canada took her to the North West Territories and northern Alberta, where
she still resides. She loves to include medical details in her romance novels,
but admits she’ll never be able to write about all her medical experiences
because, “Fiction has to be believable”. Julie writes romantic suspense and
romantic thrillers. Her most recent titles include SMOKE & MIRRORS book #2 and
SLEIGHT OF HAND book #3 of the Outbreak Taskforce series. You can find her at www.julieroweauthor.com
, on Twitter @julieroweauthor or at her Facebook page: www.facebook.com/JulieRoweAuthor
ohhh, this sounds great!
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ReplyDeleteMany of us have no idea how vulnerable we all are to a biological attack. I am sure you have many tales to tell based on both your experience and research. The podcasts you listed sound quite interesting. Hopefully, I will get time to listen to at least a few of them soon, once I figure out how to do it. Thank you for the giveaway.
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