Rick Bleiweiss, currently head of new business development at Blackstone Publishing and Audio, has spent most of his career in the music industry as a recording artist, Grammy-nominated producer, recorded songwriter and record label senior executive. His list of partners, collaborators and acts he has worked with is a who’s-who list including Brittney Spears, Kiss, The Bee Gees, Alan Jackson and U2 to name a few. Under a pen name, Rick wrote a book in 2016 that went to #1 on Amazon and won the New Apple Literary Prize as The Best Short General Fiction. Currently, Rick is writing in the fantasy and historical mystery genres and has a Space Opera he is working on that is a mix of Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Star Wars.