A bit of somewhat exciting news

I've been sitting on this for months, but now that the contracts are signed, I can FINALLY talk about it.

As some of you know, my agency ICM, has a film and television division out on the west coast.  I've been working hard at refining the pitch for the Simon Canderous series with them, and, well...

It didn't go over so well... at first.  Thanks to the one season wonder of The Dresden Files on SyFy (back then just SciFi) no one wanted to take a chance on another live action paranormal city type show.. THANKS, Jim! 

BUT with some retooling of the pitch and script, I am proud to announce that as of January 2012, the CW is bringing back it's Saturday Morning Animation Action Pack, and leading the line up with be an animated version the Simon Canderous series! 

Now to make it work with the time slot and that demographic, there have been a few small changes that deviate from the series, but I'm told this is a good thing.  Here's a summary from the CW's official news:

Simon & The Bat Pack
Welcome to Spook High, a high school of a different kind where the students are special--recruits, that is.  Teen heartthrob Simon Canderous and his friends have been enlisted in after school activities for paranormal ops training by the Department of Extraordinary Affairs Other  Division- New York's answer to the underfunded world of paranormal investigation.  It’s a school day caught up in hot lunches, study halls where the desks might try to kill you,and schoolyard politics, but its becoming par for the course for new student Simon Canderous.  After a life of reform schools and sixteen years of watching his power of psychometry—the ability to divine information solely by touching an object—destroy his grades and any chance of a getting a girlfriend, he’s joined the high school forces of Good hoping to gain some control.  But when the mysterious hottie ghost of ex-cheerleader Irene shows up at their after school hang out the Lovecraft Café, he and his football buddy Connor must figure out how she fits into a nefarious plot involving a cultist prom committee, learning how to dance while slaying zombies, and the forces of Darkness crushing on him.

I'm terribly thrilled and can't wait to see the show.  I was talking to my fellow writer Amber Benson (of Buffy fame)  and they've already approached her about doing the voice of Jane Clayton-Forrester, the 'mean girl' who heads the cultist prom committee.  Can't wait for you all to see it next year!  Fingers crossed it turns out as good as it sounds!