{"id":2913,"date":"2015-02-17T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T10:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:06:04","slug":"tess-gerritsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/tess-gerritsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 121: Internationally best-selling author of \u201cRizzoli & Isles\u201d Tess Gerritsen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong> 121
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0February 14
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Tess Gerritsen
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tess Gerritsen <\/a>grew up in San Diego, California and graduated from Stanford University with a\u00a0bachelor’s degree\u00a0in anthropology, and then went on to study medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. After receiving her medical degree she started work as a physician in Honolulu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) welcomed internally best-selling author Tess Gerristsen (right) to the studio.<\/p><\/div>\n

Inspired by the romance novels she enjoyed reading while working as a doctor, in 1987, her first novel was published. \u201cCall After Midnight\u201d, a romantic thriller.\u00a0 She followed this by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, \u201cAdrift\u201d, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.<\/p>\n

Gerritsen\u2019s 25 novels have produced top-3 bestsellers in the United States and number one bestsellers abroad. Her books are translated into 40 languages and more than 30 million copies have been sold.\u00a0 She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon). Critics around the world have praised her novels as \u201cPulse-pounding fun\u201d (Philadelphia Inquirer), \u201cScary and brilliant\u201d (Toronto Globe and Mail), and \u201cPolished, riveting prose\u201d (Chicago Tribune). Publisher Weekly has dubbed her the \u201cmedical suspense queen\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the TNT television series \u201cRizzoli & Isles\u201d starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.\u00a0 The show premiered on July 12, 2010, with 7.55 million viewers tune in for the premiere. The show set the record as the highest-rated debut for a commercial-supported cable series, and it was the second-highest debut ever for a basic cable TV series. On December 9, 2014, TNT renewed \u201cRizzoli & Isles\u201d for an 18-episode sixth season to begin in mid-2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods was joined in the studio by internationally best-selling author of \u201cRizzoli & Isles\u201d Tess Gerritsen. Stevoe and Gerritsen discussed how as a child she always had a passion for writing, but her family encouraged her to pursue a career in medicine. The two also talked about her writing process, as well as that Maine has more writers per capita than any other state. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}