Hoot Brooks Books
What they’re saying about Plumb Forgotten Lore :
“That reassuring tone is still there. Telling me, yes, the world is odd
and unexpected and all the more interesting for it.”
-Julia R, script reader, writer
“He has an amazing gift for explaining things,
sometimes in the most unusual ways.”
-Shelley S, educator
“If [Hoot] wrote US history textbooks,
it would become students’ favorite subject.
(I was an eager student and still wanted to put
my history texts through the woodchipper.)”
– Amanda C, editor
“Amazing writing as always and thanks for sharing.”
– Jon C, comedian, broadcaster
“These are great stories with terrific twists. As I read,
I could imagine them being narrated over simple animation…”
-Blair R, attorney once hugged by Conan O’Brien
What they’re saying about
Plumb Foregotten Lore :
“That reassuring tone is still there. Telling me, yes, the world is odd and unexpected and all the more interesting for it.”
– Julia R, script reader, writer
“He has an amazing gift for explaining things, sometimes in the most unusual ways.”
– Shelley S, educator
“If [Hoot] wrote US history textbooks,
it would become students’ favorite subject. (I was an eager student and still wanted to put my history texts through the woodchipper.)”
– Amanda C, editor
“Amazing writing as always and thanks for sharing.”
– Jon C, comedian, broadcaster
“These are great stories with terrific twists. As I read, I could imagine them being narrated over simple animation…”
– Blair R, attorney once hugged by Conan O’Brien
Storyteller “Hoot Brooks” is a former data professional who escaped from a three-letter-acronym company. He is the author of Plumb Forgotten Lore. He creates an occasional substack column Hoot Brooks’s Hoots and another substack page Double Secret which highlights history that certain people would rather leave untold.