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April 4, 2025
Since the troubles started: Friday Update
News:
My flash piece “Turning Tail” is one of the twenty finalists for this month’s Shallow Waters flash fiction contest, theme Old School (creature features), at Crystal Lake’s Patreon ($5/month and up tiers). If everything goes the way it should, it’ll be posted on April 19.
My sweet-and-sour clown story “Exile” is out today in Undertaker Books’ Carnival of Horror. You can purchase it here. There have been a few reviews so far, and “Exile” is reviewing well so far.
I started in the gig economy earlier this week. The first day did not go well. The second day went better. I have things I really do not like about it and things I really do. What is clear is that it’s not a viable long-term option, so I’m continuing to send out resumes. But it should cover health care costs, at least. And the things I do like about it make it worth the while for now.
Works in Progress:
I finished the first publisher’s edit of Tattered & Torn (Meridian Book 6) and sent it in. I’m working on the Tooth & Claw (Meridian Book 7) edits now, but they’re going to be even slower now that I’m gigging. I’ve got to be more efficient with my available time.
Books I’m Reading:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Playlist of the Damned edited by Willow Dawn Becker and Jess Landry
Things I’m Listening To:
Abyss/Ascent playlist
Knowing soundtrack
Top 40 radio
Things I’m Watching:
Wicked
Mystery Island: Winner Takes All
Meltdown: Three Mile Island series (finished)
The Residence series (finished, highly recommended)
The Irrational series (finished)
Reacher series
Watson series
Elsbeth series
Criminal Minds series
S.W.A.T. series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine series
Kitchen Nightmares series
March 28, 2025
All boys, except one, grow up: Friday Update
News:
A reminder that I’ll be participating in a virtual Horror Talent Showcase tomorrow, March 29, 8-10 PM EST, which you can sign up for here. I’ll be reading “Venus,” a narrative poem from the Verdant with Splinter and Thorn vicious spring section of seasonal horror poetry collection A Nightmare for All Seasons. I’ve done a virtual reading before for Queer Saints II, and it was a lot of fun.
Book & Candle (Meridan Book 5) by my other name is out in ebook.
Some good news on the medical front, but I’ll talk about it more when the labs get back. However, due to medical stuff, I’ll have to wait until next week before I start my venture into the gig economy. I’m excited and nervous in turns.
Works in Progress:
I finished the two short stories and decided to save the third for next month, because I had a lot of real-life things distracting me this last week. However, I also received the first edits for Tattered & Torn (Meridian Book 6) from my publisher, so I’m getting on that. I’m hoping to finish by end of the weekend or Monday. Then I’ll turn around and start my double edits on Tooth & Claw (Meridian Book 7).
During a walk, I thought of a juicy concept for a Meridian Book 8 that makes me excited about trying to write in that world again. It may be something I play with after Masque edits. I think eight books in a series feels more complete than seven, and it’ll address an important recurring theme in the other books.
Books I’m Reading:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause (finished)
Playlist of the Damned edited by Willow Dawn Becker and Jess Landry
Things I’m Listening To:
Svrcina
Eurielle
Lily Kershaw
Things I’m Watching:
The Substance
Ma
Twisters
The Twister: Caught in the Storm
Meltdown: Three Mile Island series
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Watson series
Ghosts (US) series
Abbott Elementary series
Elsbeth series
The Hunting Party series
CSI: NY series
CSI series
Criminal Minds series
Spring Baking Championship series
Reacher series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine series
March 21, 2025
Deeper and deeper we go: Friday Update
News:
I had a really excellent phone and in-person interview this week that unfortunately did not yield fruit. So it looks like gig economy starts for me next week. I’m also having some medical issues piling on me all at once, and it’s uncomfortable and embarrassing and frustrating (and hopefully harmless). I could use a break.
I do have a little bit of good news on the publishing front, but I can’t give details at this time.
My fifth Meridian book under my other name is going wide on March 25, but you can pre-order it now. Book & Candle is a witch’s magic shop in mystical hotspot Meridian, TX. Her partner is stolen by succubi unknown, so she hires a dangerous veteran demon hunter to help her go scorched-earth to find him again. If you like tropes, it features enemies to lovers and age gap between older characters. You do not need to have read any of the other Meridian novels; they’re stand-alones. Tattered & Torn (Meridian 6) is also already available for pre-order.
Works in Progress:
I sent Tattered & Torn in to my publisher earlier this week and apologized profusely for being late from what I promised. She should get back to me by end of next week to do the first round of edits from her side. I don’t anticipate that these should take a long time to take care of.
I wrote some flash fiction and am in the middle of writing another short piece. I might write one more before going on to Tooth & Claw (Meridian 7) edits. I’ve also been mulling over a potential new book 8, created wholly from scratch rather than anything in my series notes, although I wouldn’t want to do anything about it until I finished my Masque edits.
Books I’m Reading:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause
Things I’m Listening To:
Svrcina
Singer-songwriter playlist
Things I’m Watching:
Trap
Venom: The Last Dance
Heretic
CSI: NY series
CSI series
Criminal Minds series
Spring Baking Championship series
Slasher: The Executioner series (finished)
Reacher series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
March 14, 2025
From the pollution: Friday Update
News:
I’ll be reading a narrative poem from the Verdant with Splinter and Thorn section of poetry collection A Nightmare for All Seasons, “Venus,” for the Horror Talent Showcase put on by Mae Murray on March 29, 8-10 PM EST. You can purchase your free ticket for this event here.
Undertaker Books has posted their Table of Contents for the Carnival of Horror anthology coming out April 4. My story “Exile,” a sweet-sour tale about a clown who has grown too big for his circus, is part of this one. I was so happy to come up with a story idea for this sub call, so I’m thrilled to be part of the anthology.
I can’t find an article about it, but I’m tentatively happy that Dusty Deevers’ incredibly broad ‘pornography’ bill looks to have not made it out of committee, per Authors Against Book Banning. There’s still the SCREEN Act in the Senate and a few Texas bills that I have an eye on as far as what’s dangerous and paves the way for book banning/book burning, but that it didn’t get far in Oklahoma is a good thing in a sea of bad.
Works in Progress:
I finished the first round of edits for Tattered & Torn (Meridian Book 6) a few days. As anticipated, I cut a lot of words due to overwriting while trying to figure out where the story would go and how to get from one side of dialogue to the other. I cut 25K words from about 111K to 86K words, which is a substantial chunk.
I’m a little less than halfway through the second round, and it’s definitely moving a lot faster, which speaks to my ability to make really good changes, not just cuts, in the first round. I hope to finish by the end of the weekend—by end of Saturday would be ideal, but I’m on my period, and that makes things less certain.
Once I finish, I’ll send it in to my editor, then try to write a few short things before tackling Tooth & Claw (Meridian Book 7) edits.
Books I’m Reading:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause
Things I’m Listening To:
Singer-songwriter playlist
Things I’m Watching:
Twisters
Warlock
Power Rangers (2017)
Thinner
Nosferatu (2024)
CSI: NY series
CSI series
Criminal Minds series
Spring Baking Championship series
Slasher: The Executioner series
Reacher series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
March 7, 2025
Stand your ground: Friday Update
News:
Rescuing Curiosity, a WriteHive anthology, with my story “Marginalia,” came out on Tuesday. You can find it here.
Works in Progress:
In the last few days, I’ve committed to editing more pages of Tattered & Torn (Meridian 6), because I can’t keep going at this slow pace while watching my world burn and accomplish things in a timely fashion. My daily goal is around 20 pages (single-spaced), which isn’t entirely accurate, because I cut a lot of words on the way, so I’m actually editing more pages than that, I’m just editing them down to 20 pages. Aiming to finish the first round by the end of the weekend, then finishing the second round within a week or less. Still puts me about half a month behind, which disappoints me.
However, I’m sure the second round will be smoother and faster. I’m cutting a lot of words. I remember struggling a bit while writing this one and typing my way out of those struggles, so there’s a lot of extraneous verbiage. I’ve cut about 14K from 111K so far, and I’m only a little over halfway through.
Books I’m Reading:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause
Things I’m Listening To:
Dracula Reborn soundtrack
The Blacklist playlist
Hannibal playlist
Drift playlist
Singer-songwriter playlist
Things I’m Watching:
Lesbian Vampire Killers (Funny story about this one. I saw it in a video store at the mall years and years ago, well before I was old enough to see it. I’d never even imagined watching an R movie at that time, so it intrigued me so much. It’s amusing how cheesy bad fun it is now that I finally watched it.)
To Catch a Killer
Love is Blind series (I tried to watch this for something mindless, but I’m DNFing it at 2.5 episodes. I don’t understand why I’m supposed to care about any of these people or yet another pretty people dating show. Plus, I can’t tell most of them apart.)
Reacher series
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
Watson series
The Hunting Party series
NCIS series
Queer Eye series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine series
March 1, 2025
An Open Letter to the Entertainment Industry
This is an open letter in response to the proposed SCREEN Act and many other efforts to ban LGBTQIA+ content and explicit content as pornographic:
I am a reader, writer, and watcher of a vast variety of entertainment, from classic children’s movies to extreme horror. Please excuse the essay below, but I feel like really important things are happening and going to happen, and we all need to be prepared to protect ourselves now rather than simply waiting for the worst.
It’s so easy to look at market forces in the short term and allow book burners and book banners to decide what content everyone is going to be able to read, write, and watch. There’s small but loud pressure to consider queer content ‘pornographic’ (regardless of actual sexual content, because they are the ones who sexualize queer existence), to declare all sexual content pornographic, and to then declare the distributors of pornographic content sex offenders.
What these people tried to do to LBG people, they’re using the same playbook for trans people, and because they’re such a small subset of the population, they’re a lot easier to target. Compromises are made out of fear rather than principle. They’re winning against trans people, and they’re applying the playbook once more to LBG people. People have already proven willing to throw one subculture under the bus, so why not another?
Amazon made its bones on the backs of indie writers and both small and large publishing companies. It doesn’t necessarily make a profit from us, but it’s still the place for published written content. Whether some people like it or not, the Internet was built on the back of erotic and sometimes queer content. Romance, erotic romance, erotica, romantasy, etc. dominate the top spots. Fifty Shades was a cultural phenomenon, paving the way for Sarah Maas and Colleen Hoover. All of this, and Amazon is making every effort to produce its own prestige content, which often includes queer and/or sexual content.
HBO (WB-Discovery) made its bones on both prestige and trashy sexual content, often with queer content, none so popular as Game of Thrones.
Netflix made its bones on queer and sexual content, coming into its own with Orange is the New Black, eventually hosting everything from the Fear Street trilogy to Stranger Things, Ryan Murphy vehicles, Bridgerton, and other juggernaut feel-good shows like Queer Eye and Great British Baking Show.
Even The Blacklist, which is NBC product but one of the most popular shows on the platform, is a decidedly queer story, to say nothing of the Star Trek series through CBS.
Disney has long capitulated to these loud but small voices, in part to continue to send their movies to highly censored but lucrative markets like China and Russia. Any queerness has been suggested rather than overt, not to mention villainized. Only recently has it been more overtly depicted, but sparingly. However, Disney also has control over content intended for teens and adults through such channels as ABC (Freeform), FX, and Fox Film and Television, hosted on Hulu (and now on Disney+ directly).
When these small but loud forces come for all queer and sexual content, all of your content will be at risk. It is simple enough to proceed with ‘acceptable’ and ‘clean’ content per regulations going forward, maybe, and eliminate all cultural gains made in favor of placid obedience. It will be more difficult to censor back decades of valuable and pervasive queer representation and on-screen sex intended for teen and primetime (adult) audiences.
Just off the top of my head, powerhouse mainstream and legacy shows like Glee, NCIS, American Horror Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SWAT, anything Shondaland (Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, Scandal), anything FX, anything HBO, ER, 9-1-1, Wheel of Time, Star Trek, Matlock (new), Ghosts, The Irrational, Will Trent, Brooklyn Nine-Nine… On the chopping block. That’s not even getting into movies or the decades of novels through publishing arms of these entertainment industries.
As someone who has had very little queer community in real life, queerness in television has been so important to me and to others and has been instrumental in getting mainstream America to see how our existence isn’t a threat to them. But book burners/banners are. They don’t want people to be able to read/write/watch what they want or for people to be responsible for their own content and avoid what they don’t like. They want people to only read/write/watch the things that book burners/banners watch, and they want to criminalize what they don’t like.
We could lose whole swaths of prestige shows and even just plain enjoyable dreck by calling them pornographic. John Waters said pornographers are important to all of us, canaries in the entertainment coal mine, because what they are allowed to do allows the rest of us to do what we want. (See also Evelyn Beatrice Hall summarizing Voltaire: ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’)
American media has been censored and controlled in the past (and now) to certain degrees (see: the Hays Code, the present swath of book bans in schools). However, entertainment is not the same beast it was in the fifties. It has ballooned in size, power, influence, and ubiquity.
Streaming made so much more available to so many more people. I believe that attempts to censor or remove IPs with queer and/or sexual content will remove too much conscientiously created over the last 30 years with deliberate effort to depict queer people as they really are, rather than the terrifying predators that the far right believes us to be.
Religion is no longer the opiate of the masses. Entertainment is. I think if governments seek to control queer and sexual content by forcing censoring/removal of it beyond the merely annoying and oft ridiculed level of ‘edited for television,’ there will be more of a pushback than they are expecting from the general population. A disturbing number of people who enjoy modern romance and romantasy novels, sometimes with queer content, voted red.
I think that if these disappeared, there might be enough of a backlash, but in a theocracy, it’s difficult to say whether that can be depended upon to turn legislative/litigious tides. Netflix, Amazon, Disney, HBO, etc. all have a stake in what book burners/banners are trying to eliminate in books, movies, and television. And they have tremendous economic power. I beg you to refuse to budge. What they’re doing to books matters to you. You’re on the chopping block with us. These policies will affect you, but you have the economic power to resist and effect change. Please do not bow down the easy path now by self-censoring trans experiences. Censors learn what they can do by what you’ve already proven yourself willing to do.
Most big businesses lean conservative in hope of conserving a buck, but I believe supporting creators and your customers will lead to greater gains in the long run and that it’s most cost effective to take the risk of pushing back against book bans/burns as well as efforts to eliminate queerness and sexual elements from more visual media. I understand that these are businesses, but what most businesses forget is that they are also services. You can choose to accept civic duty or ignore it, but your choices have larger cultural consequences than profit, and it’s short-sighted to pretend otherwise.
Freedom of speech and expression is on the docket in this administration and beyond, because Project 2025 was never just about 2025 and has been in motion for decades with concerted and staggeringly successful efforts at banning vitally important books in schools. The book battle is your battle. They will eventually do it to you.
I am begging you, with your tremendous economic influence, to stop waiting to see where the wind will blow so you know which direction to go and instead step into this fight, hand in hand with book publishers and other entertainment companies, to protect speech, expression, cultural memory, the right of information, the right of parents to allow their kids to read, write, and watch according to their own principles rather than someone else’s, and the right for kids to see themselves in the media they consume and for teens to prepare for adulthood in the eminently safe spaces of entertainment. Too much information is less dangerous than too little, and diversity shouldn’t be a reluctant compromise. It literally makes everything better.
If you’ve made it this far, thank you for your time.
(Edited to add: I didn’t just post this here. I sent a version of this letter to the four big entertainment corporations listed above in November.)
February 28, 2025
Lasso the moon: Friday Update
News:
My horror story “Weed Killer,” about a large weed growing outside a downtown donut shop, is free to read at Horrific Scribes for their Horrific Scribblings program, which is more like a series of curated exhibits rather than anthologies or individual pieces. “Weed Killer” is one of their first pieces; they’re just getting started. It’ll be interesting to see where this goes.
Signed a few more contracts, received a few honorariums, edited another short story for publication.
Works in Progress:
Tattered & Torn (Meridian 6) edits are still slow going, but I think I’m gaining a little momentum. It’s hard when I’m afraid that these books and others are going to become verboten soon (in my state and country), but I’ve got to proceed as though we still have freedom of speech and expression. As though reason will prevail. God, it’s such a precarious place to be.
Books I’m Reading:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause
Things I’m Listening To:
The Blacklist playlist
Things I’m Watching:
Cuckoo
Nightbitch
White Collar series (finished)
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
The Irrational series
Will Trent series
Ghosts series
Home Town series
Watson series
The Hunting Party series
NCIS series
Queer Eye series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine series
February 21, 2025
Cat hair: Friday Update
News:
Nothing to report, other than that I’ve been house-sitting two cats for a few weeks, which ends today. Being alone for long stretches of time during a coup isn’t the most fun, so I struggled at first, but it’s been years since I’ve lived with cats, and I’ve really missed it. It was nice to learn that I haven’t lost my touch. My personality is very catlike, which lends itself to good practices. I’ll miss getting to know them and gaining their tiny trust.
Works in Progress:
I wrote/edited those two short stories and submitted them, then edited one of my accepted stories for publication.
I’ve started working on Tattered & Torn (Meridian 6) now. Still hard to focus, but I think I’ll enjoy the slash-and-burn of the first editing round. It’s a longer initial draft and probably needs to lose about 15K in the first pass.
Books I’m Reading:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause
Things I’m Listening To:
Pop music playlist (Listening to sad ladies was representative of my feelings, but it wasn’t helping me; pop has been a little better for the moment right now. A lot of it is recession pop, so that makes sense.)
Things I’m Watching:
The Princess Bride
The Lost City of D
Conclave
The Watchers
Fear Street trilogy (finished)
Two-Sentence Horror Stories series (finished)
Columbo series (finished)
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
The Irrational series
Will Trent series
Abbott Elementary series
Ghosts series
Home Town series
Watson series
The Hunting Party series
NCIS series
February 14, 2025
Cold fingers: Friday Update
News:
I have some news, but nothing that’s been made public yet.
Works in progress:
Cut down the synopsis for the Dracula reimagining, then wrote the query pitch and the short pitches. So everything’s good to go there, if sanity eventually prevails. As much as I don’t like writing synopses, it’s an important part of the process (and thus important for an author to do it themselves rather than have some LLM do it for them). You’re distilling your work down to a few pages, then trimming the fat to two pages, then a page, so you have a better idea of the essence of the story, perhaps more than you might have to begin with. That sets you up for writing a query/back cover copy, which in turn helps you come up with what is essentially your novel thesis statement in a short pitch or elevator pitch. Even the annoying parts of publishing are part of the process. The better you know your book, the better you can defend or sell it.
I’ve been trying to write two quite short stories before getting started on Tattered & Torn (Meridian 6) edits. I’m almost done writing one of them, but it’s hard to convince myself to write instead of immerse myself in the mess we’re in, looking for more than pinprick light of hope.
I’m furiously applying for jobs again, and although I planned to join the gig economy as a stopgap, I’m on a wait list, which I didn’t know was a thing. There were several things, actually, that came up while signing up that wasn’t in any the copy or discussions I read about it, which is frustrating, because I planned based on the incomplete information I had. Six days psyching myself up to call my car insurance provider was not on my list, either.
In retrospect, there’s a lot of things I would have changed over the last few years, which I know is easy to say in hindsight, but knowing that makes me feel like even more of a failure, even though I accomplished huge things that matter to me (and only me, at this point). For a different future. Sigh.
Books I’m Reading:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause
Things I’m Listening To:
Pop music playlist
Things I’m Watching:
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo 2
Space Jam
The Menu
Blue Ribbon Baking Championship series (finished)
The Nailed It Baking Challenge series (finished)
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
The Irrational series
Abbott Elementary series
Home Town series
NCIS series
February 8, 2025
Awake: Friday Update (late)
I have not come to peace with what’s happening, but if the worst is coming, and I suspect it is, what’s helping me arrive at a kind of grief-based acceptance is knowing that we are reaping what we sowed. I think of children in Gaza, how much worse they had it than even we will, and the fact that we didn’t rise up enough then (the ‘we’ here is general). We didn’t rise up enough for anything, because at least we were comfortable when it was happening elsewhere; we didn’t want to be inconvenienced. And now it’s here, and maybe we deserve that, even those who never actively chose it, because we passively accepted it. It’s the imperial boomerang: what they do to others, they will absolutely do to you. If you think you’re in the safe group, think again.
I’m continuing to fight in the only way I know how, and it is so small and nominal and discouraging. But I’m not convinced that justice, kindness, and reason will prevail over cruelty, bluster, and bigotry, at least not for a long while.
News:
None
Works in progress:
I finished the second round of edits for the Dracula reimagining, bringing the total word count from around 94K to 92K. I’m very pleased with it. However, I don’t think anything’s going to come of it for a long time. I can’t get excited by publication if I’m not sure the publication is going to stick. By the time I’m ready, if I’m able, I’ll probably have to retool it as a period piece or bring it into what will then be the modern world. But the bucket-list novel has been finished, so I guess that’s something.
I’m working on cutting down the synopsis. Who would have thought that a reasonably sized novel would yield such a long synopsis? I usually write the synopsis during my second edit, because I don’t like writing synopses and it helps to cut it down into manageable parts as I work through the novel, and I forgot to this time, so maybe that’s part of the problem. Once I have the synopsis, though, I have the essence of the story, which helps me then put together the pitch.
Once I’m finished with the Dracula reimagining, I’ll start editing Tattered & Torn (Meridian 6); I have a contract to continue working on the series as able. After that, I’ll probably go ahead and edit Tooth & Claw (Meridian 7) to finish out the series, even though I had an inkling of an idea for an eighth novel.
I might not even edit Masque for a second time, because like I said, I’m feeling no joy toward publication at the moment. The last three weeks have felt like three years; I’m unable to look away. I don’t know what the next few months hold, but until my joy returns, I may not be in the best position to write. I am, at heart, a Romantic. Wordsworth described the Romantic approach thus: “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” The relevant part here is, of course, ‘recollected in tranquility.’
That’s what I mean when I say my future is gone. Recall Emmy Rossum’s character in The Day After Tomorrow: “How am I supposed to adjust, Sam? Everything I’ve ever cared about, everything I’ve worked for… has all been preparation for a future that no longer exists.” My whole life has been about writing, but if speech and expression become no longer free (and there are many bills in the works on the state and federal level that will make that so, and a judiciary branch that we can’t depend upon to stop them), what has it all been for?
I prepared for the possibility that a stroke or traumatic brain injury might steal writing from me. I didn’t see this coming. Not really.
But I can try and make similar adjustments that I was planning if those things ever happened. Should I survive. The usual entertainment comfort food isn’t working, because most of it was shot and set in what seems like another world, and in most of them, wrongs are righted and monsters can be defeated. It’ll be interesting to see how art, high and low, treats the world we’re in now.
Books I’m Reading:
The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause
Things I’m Listening To:
Agnes Obel
Fleurie
Joy Oladokun
Lily Kershaw
Odessa
Patty Griffin
Ruelle
Sarah McLachlan
Sea Stars
Soren Bryce
Things I’m Watching:
Hannibal series
Will Trent series
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
Found series
The Irrational series
Abbott Elementary series
Home Town series
White Collar series
NCIS series
Columbo series
