Carol Roth helps businesses grow and make more money. An investment banker, deal maker, and business strategist, she has helped her clients—who’ve ranged from “solopreneurs” to multinational corporations—raise more than $1 billion in capital, complete hundreds of millions of dollars in mergers and acquisitions transactions, secure high-profile licensing and partnership deals, create brand enthusiast programs, and more.
Carol is a frequent radio, television, and print media contributor on the topics of business and entrepreneurship, having appeared on Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Fox Business Network, WGN-TV Chicago, among others. Her blog Unsolicited Business Advice at CarolRoth.com was recently named as one of the Top 10 small business blogs online. Carol holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated magna cum laude. She currently resides in the Chicagoland area with her husband, Kurt, who is also an investment banker (and her former business partner). They have no children, pets, or plants, and are avid sports fans (particularly of NFL football). Carol is also a recovering toy collector, recently trading in a portion of her collection for a more sophisticated toy (a Simpsons pinball machine). For more information on Carol, visit CarolRoth.com.
Award-winning author Stephanie Rowe writes paranormal romance for Warner Books. She also writes teen fiction for girls under the name of Stephie Davis. For more information, visit Stephanie on the Web at www.stephanierowe.com or www.stephiedavis.com.
Russell Rowland’s first novel, In Open Spaces (HarperCollins, 2002), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, which called it “an outstanding debut.” It made the San Francisco Chronicle’s bestseller list and was named among the Best of the West by the Salt Lake City Tribune. Russell recently completed The Watershed Years, a sequel to In Open Spaces. One of Russell’s stories was chosen as one of the notable stories of 2005 by the Million Writers Award, and he was a MacDowell Fellow in 2005. Russell is currently co-producing a feature film with his brother and consulting with several writers on their own projects. He lives in San Francisco.
In addition to condensing other people’s novels, Brenda Scott Royce has written one of her own—Monkey Love, which Janet Evanovich hailed as “Delicious as a jelly doughnut!” Like Stephanie Plum, Holly Heckerling, the plucky heroine of Monkey Love, juggles romantic entanglements, career disasters and wacky relatives—but at least nobody shoots at her! (The most menacing character in Monkey Love is a mischievous monkey with a mad crush on Regis Philbin.) Not surprisingly, given her love of all things monkey, Brenda is director of publications for the Los Angeles Zoo. She has completed Monkey Star, the sequel to Monkey Love, and is contemplating more monkey adventures.
Jonna Rubin spends her days writing, child-wrangling, and drinking far too much caffeine while daydreaming of a world where vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures actually exist. A former newspaper editor and publicist, she developed an unhealthy obsession with vampires at the age of thirteen, when she began checking out books about Vlad Tepes and Elizabeth Bathory from the local library; surprisingly, her mother did not send her into counseling. Since departing the high-powered world of small-town community journalism, she ekes out a living writing and blogging about motherhood, pop culture, and life in New England at www.jonniker.com.
Steven Rubio has never been cornered by a mountain lion. His writing has been featured in several books in the Smart Pop series.
Alyssa Ruderman is a Campaigns Manager at DoSomething.org, where she conducts research, formulates strategy, and project manages the execution of cause campaigns that give young people the tools to take action. Prior to joining DoSomething.org, Alyssa studied Public Relations, Business, and Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University. She is an Americorp alumna and worked as a job counselor for New York City’s homeless population.
Amanda Ruggeri is a multi-award-winning journalist who covers the science, history and culture of the ideas we take for granted. Her reporting has taken her around the world, from the mountains of Tajikistan to rainforests of Guatemala, and been recognized by associations including the Association of British Science Writers, Society of American Travel Writers and Medical Journalists’ Association. A former senior journalist and editor for the BBC’s science and health section, she also writes for outlets including New Scientist, The Atlantic, and Scientific American. After living in the U.S., Italy, and U.K., she resides in Switzerland with her husband and daughter. She is a graduate of Yale and Cambridge universities.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes mystery novels about 1960s black detective Smokey Dalton under the name Kris Nelscott. Those novels have been nominated for the Edgar, the Shamus and several other awards. As Kristine Kathryn Rusch, she writes science fiction and fantasy. While most readers ask Nelscott how she can write from the perspective of a black man, no one asks Rusch how she can write from the point of view of an elf.
Ken Rusk is the founder of Rusk Industries, a growing portfolio of construction companies located in Northern Ohio with revenue of more than $100 million. He’s the author of the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Blue-Collar Cash, where he first wrote about a hidden sector of the employment economy—blue-collar workers—and the key role they play in small-business success. Since publishing Blue-Collar Cash, he has been a guest on over 300 podcasts to promote the message of the book.
For the past five years, Ken has been a Fox News contributor and has developed strong ties with on-air personalities such as Steve and Peter Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Tucker Carlson, and Dana Perino.
