The internet isn’t terrible when you ask people to be creative! Chris gives examples of how he has reached out to his social media community and incorporated their feedback into his creative processes.

Chris asked the social media hive-mind to help:

• Come up with the name of a job in the Universe of his latest book.
• Believably describe how mushrooms could make vaccines
• Help make the disease, scab, a believable pathogen in Host

Christy talks about doing research at the Nut Cracker every year. And Chris talks about other things he does that technically qualify as research.

Shout Outs:

• Chris’ readers and followers and Facebook
• Gigi the governess / dog sitter
• Amy Lodwig, Chris’ Wonderful wife and collaborator
• Yogaesh Ramasundaram (Though he didn’t actually give the shout out because this was recorded before Yogaesh’s idea won the day!)
• Mark Hill
• Bethany Kurihara-Olson
• Shannon O'Meara Hamilton
• Christy’s friend Dianna
• Rick Scheuer
• Trevor Scheuer

Links and such:

• Link to Chris' Novels: Systemic and Host: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BP9VDQ8C ⁠
• Christina's website: ⁠https://www.christinascheuer.com⁠
• Chris' Author Website: ⁠https://chrislodwigauthor.com⁠
• Christina's Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ashmeadowedits⁠
• Chris' Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/ChrisLodwigAuthor⁠
• Christina's email: cscheuer@gmail.com
• Chris' email: ChrisLodwig@gmail.com