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Laptiast Podcast episodes
- Writers are Keeping the Self-Publishing World DownBrooks talks about a lack of interest among self-published authors to promote their work.5 min
- A Great Program Twitter HasBrooks talks about TweetDeck, an easy to use program Twitter has to help a user better navigate their Twitter profile.7 min
- Interview With Fantasy Fiction Author S.C. EstonBrooks reads a text interview conducted with fantasy fiction author S.C. Eston in 2019.15 min
- Audio Interview With Science Fiction Author J.R. Brienza - Recorded November 27, 2018Brooks interviews author J. R. Brienza. Topics include: time spent researching to write a story, the ups and downs of publishing, and taking advice from others.15 min
- Dealing with Bad Book ReviewsThis podcast episode isn't very long, but it has useful information. This is stuff you need to consider when you're starting out self-publishing.7 min
- A House Near Cambridge Road – a Story I Turned into a Screenplay
Brooks talks about a horror/paranormal story he turned into a screenplay.
8 min - Saytion - A Story I Never Finished
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.
17 min - Coma Man – a Story I Wrote about a Professor Who Fell Out of the Ivory Tower
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Blacklist, a book on the 1960s advertising culture, and a story he wrote about a college professor who left behind an unpublished manuscript.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
42 min - The Politics of Self-Publishing
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.
25 min - That Time I Sent My Fiction to Random Strangers
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.
38 min
About Laptiast Podcast
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A podcast about writing life from the perspective of a writer and beta reader.