With the cast I want in play and some final story kinks worked out, I'm pleased to announce that RETURN TO SANTA BARBARA will be premiering on Monday, November 6th, 2006. What you can expect:

-Originally I was going to do weekly summaries rather than daily episodes. I have since decided to sort of merge those ideas together a bit and do Monday, Wednesday, Friday episodes, though much story will be covered each day. I may eventually expand to daily episodes, but for right now, I'm going with this schedule & see how it works. If the format needs tinkering, I'll address that as I go along. Any feedback will of course be appreciated, especially in the early weeks.

As far as what is planned for the show and for the first week, I'm keeping all of my stories hush hush. The first week, however, will be about re-establishing the old characters & establishing the new ones. I will say that much of the action of the week involves the anticipation of and preparation for the wedding of Ted Capwell to Lily Blake. The marriage has implications for many of the characters in the cast and their points of view on the union will be used to re-establish the relationships this canvas of people have with one another.

A major character, who has thusfar not been announced, will return to the canvas. Sorry, no hints.

Pamela will be seen, but she won't be in Santa Barbara.......... yet.

My goal is for the first week to be a treat to the fans who miss the original SB so much and help readers who are unexposed to SB relate to these characters and understand their histories with one another. I think the wedding will be lots of fun, as I'm having a ball writing it. Hopefully, those who decide to check it out will think so as well.