The Bellport Theater

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Hello from out here on the Thames Delta. It’s all getting a bit #1000mphclub around here, so let’s not bury the lede:

Bellport Theater On The Air is the company producing my audio drama THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT.

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THE BELLPORT THEATER ON THE AIR

So, during the week, The Bellport Theater On The Air was announced. This is the company my friends created to produce THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT. And, with luck, much more:

And four other great actors to be announced in due course.

And yes, that American spelling of theatre gives me pain, but the name means something special to co-producer Fred Seibert, who is American. Remember “I Want My MTV”? That was Fred. He has had an insane career that you should read about. The other co-founder and producer of Bellport Theater is Kevin Kolde, my co-conspirator and mentor on the original CASTLEVANIA series and still my great friend despite his having already worked with me for several years.

So, yes, more to come on that. But, as you can see, we have a date, finally.

As each episode comes out, I will do show notes here.

Filed the script for the first issue of PROJECT NONESUCH this week, I’m in the middle of the first issue of PROJECT BORLEY as I write this letter, I have art pages from PROJECT EXPLOITS RIVER and am expecting pages from PROJECT LOST SIERRA next week, and the DESOLATION JONES: BIOHAZARD EDITION reprint (previously PROJECT TRIFORIUM) is now in the publishing system.

With my other hand, I’m into the second episode of UNCODENAMED SIDE PROJECT, which I am now officially christening PROJECT ROANOKE. And which I have to change the actual title of, as I discovered it’s been used in comics recently. It’s a sod, but what’re you going to do?

That sort of thing happens all the time, by the way - titles you thought of that someone else got to first, ideas you’ve had that someone else got to print first. Pointless to get upset about it. File them, move on, think of something else.

I also got notification this week that FELL: FERAL CITY is being reprinted. Did you know you can still read the first, self-contained chapter of that book online? I didn’t until just now.

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The great crime novelist Duane Swierczynski just told me that his very first novel, SECRET DEAD MEN, is being republished by Titan Books, and there’s a copy winging its way to me as I type.

That’s something you want to read, right? I know I do.

Starr Mignon and Gavriel Discordia wrote to me and said: remember when you mentioned our agitprop sticker agency Psychological industries on your blog?

Well, they asked me to mention to you that they’re kickstarting the reprint of an underground comic called DEMI THE DEMONESS, which I’ve never heard of before, but Starr and Gavriel think some of you might like it because it seems to be Awfully Dirty.

The Kickstarter has various levels of rewards, including, for one dollar, Buying Your Soul Back:

Time was, you’d discover this sort of thing in the underground section of your local comics shop. But times are tight for comics shops, and they won’t always have the spare cash to stock a copy of something like this, or the time and space to dig through catalogues to find it. So now places like Kickstarter or Zoop are the places for these things, but discoverability gets lost, and they don’t get to be out in the world’s marketplaces where they can be found by the people who need to find them. I know people who have produced magnificent work released only via Kickstarter, by some combination of desire and need, that have never seemed to me to have entered the broader cultural conversation where they belong.

So, yeah, I always like to know about crowdfunded books. It’s the equivalent of someone writing me a letter to tell me that Re/Search book I wanted to look at was hiding in the back of a bin in that bookshop on the Charing Cross Road. Back when people wrote letters and that bookshop was still there.

I love the Sound Mapping Project, which picks a place and does a deep dive on its fringe musics. I did not ever expect to see an “Experimental Music From Canada,” but so far it’s a really interesting listen. 

I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big admirer of Laura Cannell’s music, and that she’s so insanely productive it makes me feel like a dying sloth. In the last four weeks alone:

Inspirational. In fact, this is something I’ve been thinking about really hard lately. I haven’t self-published in ten years, since my Brain Thing hospitalisation put paid to a big project of monthly ebooks, two editions in.

Anyway. You may want to give those a listen. Free to stream.

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