Halloween may have just ended, but that doesn't mean that we have to put away our imagination until next October.

To coincide with our special giveaway and free downloads of Speakboo's release of General Hospital stars reading their favorite children's stories, I started thinking about my favorite books as a child.

Then it took on a soap angle: what if someone wrote a fairy tale using popular soap opera characters.

So, I am asking for your thoughts on what...

They say that when you become a celebrity you give up your right to privacy. Whether that’s true or not – or should­ be true – is very much up for debate.

Television is flooded with entertainment programs that probe the lives of celebrities, telling you where and what they eat, who they’re sleeping with, and what crimes they’re believed to have committed. There’s even more Internet web sites devoted to the same types of stories.

The rise of the Internet and the...

Everything changes. From time to time, soap operas opt to recast roles whether fans want them to or not.

The reasons for recasts are varied. Sometimes a show wants to move a character in that much-hyped "new direction." Other times, an actor wants out and the show has too much invested in his or her character to merely ditch the character.

Sometimes the recasts work out better than the original, sometimes they don't work at all.

I started watching soaps...

Every soap opera has its "big star" performer. You know, the star that everyone instantly recognizes from the show -- even non-soap fans. For All My Children, it's Erica Kane. Days of our Lives would probably be Marlena Evans. General Hospital would have to be either Luke or Laura Spencer. One Life to Live's pick would more than likely be Viki Buchanan and her many personalities. Passions had the pint-sized doll, Timmy. The Young and the Restless has Victor Newman.

But does having...

This week on my radio show, we’re going to be talking about some of the most drawn-out storylines in soap opera history. I can’t wait for soap fans to call in and share their yawners with me. I’m sure there are many that will come to mind.

For me there are four storylines that come to mind. I won’t share all of the details because it would make this newsletter morph into a short novel. Plus, I don’t want to start repeating myself when the radio show hits. But here are the four snoozers...