Before writing his first novel, Louis Panagotopulos worked over twenty years as an engineer in Boston-area electronics companies.  Small eastern Massachusetts’ towns and the blue-collar and middle-class people residing there serve as the settings and characters for his stories.  His novels written in a fast-paced, economic style include Choir Man, Great Mandala, R. Guy Rules and The Merriweather Quartet, four novellas – R.Guy Rocks, Come Back Come Back Howie Black, Crystal and Joel and Towne Tavern.  Short stories have been published in Solstice Literary Magazine and Husson University’s Crosscut.