Brooks talks about a horror/paranormal story he turned into a screenplay.

After years of writing short stories, Brooks tries to write longer works of fiction only to run into snags. Sometimes you gotta call it quits, but the lesson learned helps you move forward.

In this podcast episode, Brooks talks about the following: the Hollywood Blacklist, a book on the 1960s advertising culture, and a story he wrote about a college professor who left behind an unpublished manuscript.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/pw-select/article/84287-indie-success-world-of-wonder.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_by_Suspicion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Della_Femina

https://archive.org/details/ComaManByBrooksKohler2016

September 9, 2020. In this podcast episode, Brooks talks about a professor who confessed, a politician who authored a self-published book, another person in politics who authored a self-published book, an author who wrote a book about outhouses, and Brooks examines his own attempt to write a social commentary inspired by life events and his father who had an amazing sense of humor.

Imagine writing short stories and sending them off to random strangers. In this podcast episode, Brooks talks about recording some of his stories into audio and sending them off to addresses without knowing if they arrived or not. He also talks about a collection of stories by Lawrence Block.

Link to Brooks's audio fiction on the Internet Archive.