

Now, the minute I say this I will, but up to this point, no.” “I have a really good reading audience,” says Brooks, “and I’ve never, ever had a problem with them.


It was very gangland-like.”īut as strange as publishing can sometimes be, Brooks has nothing but good things to say about his readers. “One car left and then the other came up. “I was taken to a parking lot in an industrial area and dropped,” says Brooks in this week’s episode of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. And Brooks once found himself caught between feuding bookstores who refused to transport him from one to the other. His first editor, Lester Del Rey, talked to stuffed animals, constantly lied about his background, and sometimes introduced himself as “Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heartcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez del Rey y de los Uerdes” (his real name was Leonard Knapp).
