Louis Panagotopulos spent over twenty years working as an engineer in electronics companies in Boston before he wrote his first novel. His stories are set in small towns in eastern Massachusetts and feature blue-collar and middle-class characters. His short stories were published in Solstice Literary Magazine and Husson University’s Crosscut. Great Mandala is his fifth novel. Other books include Choir Man, A Midlife Crisis Story and soon to be released R.Guy Rules which includes a soundtrack written and recorded by the author.