Collection: Brooks Wachtel

Brooks Wachtel’s first novel, but he is no stranger to crafting compelling stories. He is an Emmy Award-winning writer with a long resume in TV and film. Wachtel has written more than 100 produced episodes of television fiction, including Young Hercules, Spider-Man, X-Men, Heavy Gear, Robo-Cop, Beast Machines: Transformers, and PBS’ Liberty’s Kids, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Rainbow Fish. Wachtel’s episode, “I Did it My Way,” for Tutenstein won an Emmy Award. He co-created, co-wrote and executive produced many episodes of the hit series DogFights. Wachtel also wrote and produced episodes of Defending America: National Guard and The Coast Guard. Additionally, he wrote The Great Ships, Search and Rescue, The Royal Navy, and Fly Past, which won the Cine Golden Eagle Award. Wachtel co-wrote and co-produced Silver Tsunami, an award-winning independent theatrical documentary. When not writing, Wachtel serves on the Steering Committee of the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild of America, West; and teaches screenwriting at UCLA Extension.