This is the twenty-fourth episode of "Talking with Authors" by HEC Media and HEC Books. We're a program dedicated to speaking with some of the best selling authors around, covering many different genres.
We’re still back with you after an unplanned hiatus due to the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020. After the initial weeks of the global shutdown, we were able to set up remote video interviews with many authors. And in the coming weeks, we’ll be providing you with the audio of these interviews. Now sound quality may be slightly different than our previous podcasts, but they all still contain the great content that you’ve come to expect.
Today, our author is an award winning, #1 New York Times Bestselling creator of over 20 novels, Chris Bohjalian. We spoke with him via Zoom in April of 2020 about his book “The Red Lotus” by publisher Knopf Doubleday.
This Vermont based writer has been a published novelist since 1995. And like most writers, he gets ideas from his own experiences and hobbies. With the oddly prescient and timely “The Red Lotus”, after he figured out that part of the locale would be in southeast Asia, he turned his one of his past-times into research to help him fill in his story. And he mixed a bike trip with interviews with emergency room doctors and epidemiologists to come up with the thriller that provides mystery in the characters, and a knowing fear for the reader since we are all now in the middle of a global pandemic. Author Chris Bohjalian joins us now on this edition of Talking With Authors from HEC Media and HEC Books.
Our host and interviewer this time is Angie Weidinger.
HEC Media is a production company out of St. Louis, Missouri. With the help of independent bookstore Left Bank Books and St. Louis County Library, we are able to sit down with these amazing writers and thought leaders to discuss their work, their inspiration, and what makes them special. You can watch video versions of most of our interviews at hecmedia.org.
Host and Producer - Angie Weidinger
Video Editor - Greg Kopp
Audio Editor - Ben Smith
Supervising Producer - Julie Winkle
Production Support - Jayne Ballew & Christina Chastain
HEC Media Executive Director - Dennis Riggs
Talking with Authors Podcast Executive Producer - Christina Chastain
Podcast Producer - Rod Milam
Podcast Host - Rod Milam
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