http://www.petitiononline.com/aapc2011/petition.html

Please sign and feel free to share it. I’ll be sending a letter to The Online Television Network tomorrow.  It would be great if others would write letters to The Online Television Network expressing support for Port Charles.

The address to write to is as follows:

Prospect Park
2049 Century Park East # 2550
Century City, CA 90067
Phone: 310-746-4900

http://popconfidential.zap2it.com/2011/10/04/got-blood-10-fictional-vampires-wed-offer-our-necks-to

In case you can’t access the link for some reason, here’s the picture and text of the Caleb portion of the article:

• Vampires descended on Port Charles in the arc “Tainted Love” and the town was never the same. Thanks in large part to the smoldering, psychosexual love story between fanger Caleb Morley (Michael Easton) and Livvie Locke (Kelly Monaco), PC began generating much needed buzz — if not ratings. The character of Caleb proved so popular the show kept bringing him back from the dead over and over again. Okay, so you don’t necessarily have to be a vampire for that to happen in soaps, but at least for once we got a plausible explanation! While going all gothic telenovela style didn’t save Port Charles from cancellation, it definitely gave us one of the sexiest vampires in pop culture history.”

So here’s the structure I had in mind:

Message of support for Michael, including what you will remember or what
you love about his characters John McBain (can also include Caleb
Morley). Try to include both, if possible. Then you can say what role
you would like to see him in for the future–it can be something you
would see as his ideal role.

We want to keep these messages positive, of course.  You can post the messages here or send it to me via e-mail:  akaains@horrorvacui.us

Birthday projects to celebrate Michael Easton’s birthday Feb. 15, 2011:

1.  Donation to the American Cancer Society:

Click here to view the TEAM page for 2011 Michael Easton Birthday Fundraiser
If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can visit the web address:
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?team_id=835825&pg=team&fr_id=27330&fl=en_US&et=uAhIhlfd4-wxA2zRQR7hjA..&s_tafId=508654

2.  Michael’s birthday project gifting copies of his Soul Stealer books to libraries for his 2/15/11 birthday gift (project initiated by Tina Payne, with her description of it, as follows:

“Michael’s Soul Stealer trilogy is now on sale for $33 total.  One book is $23 total.  Again this year, we are getting fans of his to join together buying 1, 2, or 3 Soul Stealer Books for his birthday to take or mail to an accepting public or university library.  Last year we picked some key libraries like Michael’s alma mater, his birth town, his book release town, or one near to our own heart where we wanted Michael’s work.  I will copy the list below as well as Michael’s public response.

Just go order your desired books at : Artemis Publishing: Soul Stealer 3

www.artemisperfecteditions.com

If you want to deliver them yourself to your chosen library, just order, take them, and let me know you did.  My email address is tedpayne@msn.com.  If you don’t want to deliver or mail them to a library yourself, you may put my home address as your ship to address and I will gladly deliver them to the great libraries in my area as I did last year and got receipts and photos for the fans who had me donate theirs.  I’d rather you order them, but if you would rather I do it, just let me know what you want.  The trilogy set is on sale $33 with shipping, add $1 for the Paypal, so it’s $34 for me to get them for you; and 1 book is $20 + shipping +$1 for Paypal so $24 for me to get one for you.  For $10 more dollars, you can get 2 more books!  Fans can go in together, you can combine funds to get the trilogy with the books being $11 each, and add a buck for Paypal.  Last year a book costs us $27+ with shipping, so it is much more affordable this year and that would help more of us be able to do it.  Also, they appear to be out of hard cover copies.

Please review last year’s gift and library list and let us know asap if you are participating.  Michael’s 2-15-2011 birthday is only a month away so we need to move quickly on this.  If you donated SS1 last year, you can donate SS2 this year, if you did SS1 and SS2 last year, you can donate SS3 this year or just send the whole set of 3 for $33-$34.  Please let me know asap if you plan to participate.  Thanks!

Final 2010 birthday letter to Michael:

Michael,

 In honor of your birthday February 15, 2010, we bought copies of your graphic novels “Soul Stealer: Books 1 & 2″ and donated them to the following libraries:

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Lupton Library:

Tina Payne donated Soul Stealer 1

Gina Zarola donated Soul Stealer 2

Cammie Byrd donated Soul Stealer 1

Jossie Hernandez donated Soul Stealer 1 & 2

New Orleans Public Library:

Alison Armstrong donated Soul Stealer 1

University of California, Los Angeles Library:

Amy Atchley donated Soul Stealer 1 & 2

Long Beach California Public Library:

Lori Avila donated Soul Stealer 1 & 2

Clarksville Montgomery County Library in Tennessee:

Merca Carter donated Soul Stealer 1

San Francisco Public Library in California:

Erica Langdon donated Soul Stealer 1 & 2

Fairwood Library in Renton, Washington:

Shannon Fuentes donated Soul Stealer 1

Park Ridge Library in Illinois Chicago Area:

Mary Gabanski donated Soul Stealer 1

Mari Alex donated Soul Stealer 2

Chattanooga Hamilton County Bicentennial Library in Tennessee:

Naomi Hardy donated Soul Stealer 1 & 2

Union Township Library in New Jersey:

Marian Hunt donated Soul Stealer 1 & 2

We are all very proud of you and your success as a writer and we look forward to all the new fans who we will introduce to you and your brilliant writing by gifting these books. This is a project we plan to keep ongoing so that we may share your Soul Stealer 3 after it’s released, as well as more of the first two. You are very much loved, respected, and appreciated. Happy birthday, Michael. May it be one of your best yet!”

Michael’s thanks:

“Michael Easton UPDATE: All the cards and gifts I received for my Birthday were both wonderful and unexpected. I would like to add an additional personal acknowledgement for the wonderful generosity of Tina, Gina, Cammie, Jossie, Alison, Amy, Lori, Merca, Erica, Shannon, Mary, Mari, Naomi, and Marian for their SOUL STEALER book donations to their local libraries. Love you guys. Michael”

With the approach of the holidays, show your love for Port Charles and your wish for its return by sending a holiday-themed postcard, such as the above, to soap magazines and ABC executives.

Soap Opera Weekly—New York
261 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016

Soap Opera Digest–Sound Off
261 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016

ABC Soaps In Depth
What’s On Your Mind
270 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

Anne Sweeney
President, ABC Entertainment
ABC, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4551

Brian Frons
President, ABC Daytime
brian.frons@abc.com
Disney-ABC Television Group
ABC, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4551
brian.fron@abc.com

ABC, Inc.
Attn:  Audience Relations Dept.
500 S. Buena  Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-4551

Soap Magazine addresses:

Soap Opera Digest–Sound Off
261 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016

Soap Opera Weekly—New York
261 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016

ABC Soaps In Depth
What’s On Your Mind
270 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

Caleb Morley and Livvie Locke Morley, I have created a Happy Halloween page featuring postcards by Juliet and

a poem by Lois:

http://horrorvacui.us/HalloweenPCcelebration.html

I encourage all Port Charles fans to send postcards, especially Halloween-themed ones, urging the revival of Port Charles.

Oct. 15, 2010

In response to the excellent editorial by Mala Bhattacharjee editorial urging the revival of Port Charles (Soap Opera Weekly Oct. 5, 2010 ), there is a letter to the editor (Oct. 26, 2010 Soap Opera Weekly) also supporting the return of Port Charles. Thanks, Wendy Weidman, for your letter in response!

To highlight the Revive Port Charles campagin and press supporting a revival of Port Charles, I have created an online scrapbook page:

http://horrorvacui.us/revivePcampaignarticles.html