# Last Transmission, by Patrick Rushbrook Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-the-apocalypse-3453306/last-transmission-by-patrick-rushbrook Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-the-apocalypse-3453306/last-transmission-by-patrick-rushbrook.md Podcast: [After the Apocalypse](https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-the-apocalypse-3453306) Published: 2026-08-01T03:59:14+00:00 Episode link: http://www.oldmanapocalypse.com Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5fc7a5c6c9a8574c3258229f/e/6a6a3f7233878d3ae1a2d570/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/after-the-apocalypse-3453306/episodes/last-transmission-by-patrick-rushbrook Duration seconds: 996 ## Resource OK, my survivor friends, as promised I have news. My summer has been jam-packed. This month has been even jam-packier. Let’s talk about Pat’s story contest story we just listened to. Again, 900 words isn’t a lot to play with and I think he did a good job building a story arc into that space. It’s got a beginning, middle and end. There are clear stakes and a complete character arc. I could see this story as a ClarkesWorld or Dust or Escape Pod offering.  More to come - We both just submitted stories for the summer contest.  The second book of the After the Apocalypse 5 novel series is finished and shipped and available anywhere you buy books. So go get it. Read it. Tell your friends. Leave a review. Let the world know that this is a great series and they won’t regret engaging. But, wait! That’s not all. I also built a commercial proposal in July and submitted it to publisher. The process helped me organize my thoughts and content in a form that I can reuse. So that was cool. Let me know if you’re interested in seeing the proposal. It took me most of July to get the proposal prepared. But, one of the things they ask for is comparison books. Basically what are other book that have been published recently that are representative of how your book might be seen in the market and how did they perform.  My knee jerk reaction was to reach for famous apocalyptic books, like The Stand , or The Road , or The Earth Abides , or The Dog Stars . But I felt like this was lazy and not a true comparison. So, I researched more contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction and found three that I’ll share with you. I listened to them all on audio, because I had a deadline. All of them were available through my library on the… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/after-the-apocalypse-3453306/episodes/last-transmission-by-patrick-rushbrook/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/after-the-apocalypse-3453306/last-transmission-by-patrick-rushbrook.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.