MICHAEL CONNELLY - Author
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James Ellis Deakins
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🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 197 Michael Connelly - Author
In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with author Michael Connelly. Michael is best known for the Harry Bosch, Lincoln Lawyer, and Renée Ballard series, and many of his novels have been adapted for film and television. During our conversation, we learn what inspired Michael to become a crime novelist, how the character of Harry Bosch came together, and why he gravitated to television for adapting the bulk of his work for screens. Michael discusses his involvement in his shows, and we discuss the creative and practical decisions behind adapting some novels in the series over others. Michael also spent over a dozen years as a crime reporter in Florida and in Los Angeles, and he shares why he made the career decision and how it helped build the foundation for the crime stories he went on to write. As huge BOSCH fans, we were thrilled to be able to talk to Michael about his work.
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Recommended Viewing: BOSCH
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations |
| 0:10.1 | between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. We never know where the conversation will take us, |
| 0:16.3 | so listen in and see where it goes. |
| 0:24.0 | Today, we have a special treat. |
| 0:26.3 | We're speaking with a writer and producer. |
| 0:32.7 | His novels and television adaptations are well known and include Bosch, Bosch Legacy, |
| 0:35.1 | the Lincoln Lawyer, and Ballard. |
| 0:39.9 | We're pleased to welcome Michael Connolly. Michael, thank you for doing this. So nice of you to join us. Well, thanks for having me. We'd like to start with our usual question, |
| 0:46.5 | which is basically how did you get to where you are today? Is this something you always wanted to be? |
| 0:51.4 | Did you want to be a veterinarian and then find this? What's your path? |
| 0:57.6 | My path started fairly early. I mean, I know a lot of writers who say they knew as soon as they |
| 1:02.9 | were holding a crayon that they wanted to be a writer. I was, I guess, a late bloomer. I was up in a |
| 1:10.1 | university actually pursuing an engineering degree when the moment struck me. |
| 1:16.0 | And I wanted to change directions and wanted to be a novelist and quite specifically a crime novelist. |
| 1:23.9 | So I was about 19. |
| 1:25.7 | And it would be about 16 years before I was actually holding a book that I had written and had gotten published. |
| 1:34.5 | So how I got there, I guess it was a lot of observation, a lot of learning and a lot of hard work. |
| 1:40.0 | What was it at 19 though that made you realize you wanted to be a writer? |
| 1:44.5 | I read somewhere that it was Robert Altman's 1973 film The Long Goodbye. |
| 1:51.1 | Yeah, what happened was I was not doing well in engineering school. |
| 1:55.1 | And so I started going to the student union to watch movies at night, dollar movies. |
| 2:02.4 | And this was, you know, 1974, 1975. |
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