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Author Who Created “Rizzoli & Isles” is Next Husson University Distinguished Business Speaker Series Guest

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Bangor, ME, September 26, 2022 –(CarryOnHarry.com)–ย The seventh installment of Husson Universityโ€™s Distinguished Business Speaker Series will feature international bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Known as a master of mystery and medical suspense novels, Gerritsen will talk about how she transitioned from being a physician to writing fiction and the publishing business.

โ€œI was on maternity leave when I began working on my first novel,โ€ said Gerritsen. โ€œAfter it was published in 1987, I began the slow transition from full-time doctor to full-time writer. The rest is history.โ€

Following the success of her first novel, โ€œCall After Midnight,โ€ Gerritsen wrote eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay called โ€œAdrift.โ€ The options to her screenplay were picked up and the story aired as a CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson of โ€œCharlieโ€™s Angelsโ€ in 1993.

Her books have been top-three sellers in the United States and number one bestsellers abroad. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award for her story โ€œVanish,โ€ and the Rita Award for her story โ€œThe Surgeon.โ€

She is probably best known for her series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. These books inspired the TNT television series “Rizzoli & Isles” starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander. Gerritsenโ€™s newest Rizzoli and Isles book, โ€œListen to Me,โ€ was recently released.

Gerritsen’s first medical thriller, โ€œHarvest,โ€ was released in hardcover in 1996. Book sales for this novel marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list.

In addition, Gerritsen is a filmmaker. She and her son Josh have just completed production of a feature-length documentary called โ€œMagnificent Beast.โ€ Itโ€™s about the ancient origins of the pig taboo. Their previous film, โ€œIsland Zero,โ€ is a feature-length horror movie that was released in 2018. Now retired from medicine, Gerritsen writes full time and lives in Maine.

The seventh installment of the Distinguished Business Speaker Series featuring Tess Gerritsen will take place on September 28, 2022, from 9 a.m. โ€“ 10 a.m. at Husson Universityโ€™s Gracie Theatre.

Alumni and friends of Husson University are asked to register for this upcoming presentation in advance. A link to the online registration form is available at https://www.husson.edu/alumni/events.

Masks are not required on campus except where โ€œclearly marked or communicated otherwise.โ€ While masks are not required to attend this event, all individuals in attendance have the option to continue to wear COVID-19 protective masks if thatโ€™s their preference.



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Ex-XM Executive’s Memoir Recalls Satellite Radio Launch Delayed by 9/11

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Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks postponed its debut, a founding XM executive has released a memoir about the satellite radio company’s launch. "They Pay for Water: Building XM Satellite Radio from a Paper Concept to Millions of Subscribers," by Dan Murphy, went on sale August 17 in ebook, paperback and hardcover, according to the announcement.

The company was set to launch its inaugural U.S. satellite radio service on September 12, 2001, in the Dallas/Fort Worth and San Diego markets. Murphy and the executive team flew out of Washington, D.C. in the early morning hours of September 11, per the announcement. The launch was pushed back, going live September 25 and expanding nationally by that November.

After joining Sony as a 24-year-old with minimal prior experience, Murphy spent 15 years helping to capitalize, build, and launch XM’s satellite infrastructure, create its receivers, and establish distribution channels in retail and automotive sectors., the announcement states. "After Walkman, Discman, I was looking to join the next big audio innovation when a recruiter called," Murphy said. "It sounded perfect. It was going to be radio the way it should be."

The volume addresses the company’s funding rounds, satellite deployment, distribution challenges across retail and automotive channels, programming strategy, customer economics, multiple Chapter 11 threats, and its ultimate acquisition by Sirius., according to the announcement. "We had spent years getting ready for the biggest launch of our careers, and then the country stopped," Murphy said. "For weeks afterward, I did not know whether anyone would still care about satellite radio."

Positioned as both corporate history and personal narrative, the book targets audiences seeking insight into the construction of major consumer-facing ventures requiring substantial capital investment. โ€” a framing the announcement ties to ongoing debates in the audio industry over subscription economics. It is Murphy’s first book and is available now on Amazon.

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‘SALIGIA’ Inverts the Seven Deadly Sins: New Book Explores Virtues Through Mythological Fantasy

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Author Tagore Almeida’s new book, “SALIGIA: The Evil Is Outside. The War Is Within.,” is now available on Amazon, according to the announcement promoting the release.

The title is not invented for the book. SALIGIA is a centuries-old Latin mnemonic device used in Christian theology to remember the seven deadly sins: Superbia (pride), Avaritia (greed), Luxuria (lust), Invidia (envy), Gula (gluttony), Ira (wrath) and Acedia (sloth). The sins themselves never appear as an explicit list in the Bible; the grouping developed within early Christian tradition, drawing on scattered biblical passages, and the acronym became a memory aid for clergy and laypeople alike. The announcement itself does not spell out this connection, though it’s central to how the book’s central conceit works.

Where the traditional mnemonic catalogs vices, Almeida’s book inverts it: according to the announcement, the story is structured as a journey through a symbolic ancestral dwelling with separate rooms, each embodying different virtues rather than sins โ€” courage, compassion, humility, integrity, forgiveness, reverence and love. Other promotional material describes the book as a mythological fantasy following characters named Salem and Medea on a quest against the forces the title names, and credits the release to publisher The Alcove Publishers, which has described the book as blending mythology, self-reflection and mystery.

The announcement frames the project as “a fusion of mythological elements, spiritual themes, philosophical inquiry, and personal exploration,” built around the idea that readers already possess the virtues the book examines, rather than seeking them from external sources.

The book is currently listed for sale on Amazon under Almeida’s author page.

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