Posted this on the Rumor Mill, figured I'd post it here as well:
Well, a bit of bad news. My baby Faster Than Light is no more. This is a rather astounding development considering that I began this week finalizing a new script with Rob Sawyer and we were all set to go into the studio today with it. It all happened swiftly and has left me stunned and disappointed, considering that I've spent the last two years of my life thinking about it constantly, nurturing it, developing it.
But it's not all bad news. It happens that Rob and I have been working simultaneously on another science fiction radio show called Emanations which is more of a straight up dramatic science fiction show, written by Rob and Michael Lennick. It is every bit as good as Faster Than Light, albeit a different sort of beast.
So the decision was made to concentrate on one or the other. Emanations got the green light and FTL did not. Rob and Michael are currently working on a second draft and we are going into production with it in March.
Also mitigating the loss of Faster Than Light is another drama I'm producing called Worms For Sale, written by Stacy Gardner. It's not SF... today we started calling it a "warmedy." 'Cause it's warm and fuzzy and funny, and set in Newfoundland, and it's really charming, Stacy has such an excellent ear for the dialect.
The upshot is last summer I would have been devasted by the loss of Faster Than Light. But now I have other projects to look forward to. I'm about to turn forty and I feel like there's a division happening... before forty and after forty.
Maybe some things need to be left behind, while I start afresh with others.
10:31:01 PM 
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