The LA Theatre Works 2010-2011 season has just been announced. David Selby is slated to appear in a production of Bram Stoker's Dracula with performances to be held May 18-22. Tickets are on sale now. As with all LATW shows, the cast is subject to change without notice due to professional commitments. LA Theatre Works produces live radio theater style performances for eventual broadcast on public radio and/or sale on compact disc, digital download, etc., so please note that this is not a production with sets, costumes, etc.

The promo blurb: "Before Twilight and True Blood, only one vampire commanded 'the children of the night.' In this blood-thirsty tale of unholy terror, Count Dracula slips into Victorian London with a cargo of his native Transylvanian soil - so he can rest between victims. The city seems helpless against his frightful power, and only one man, Dr. Van Helsing, can stop the carnage. But to do this, he must uncover the vampire’s lair and pierce his heart with a wooden stake."

The LA Theatre Works box office link appears below:

http://www.latw.org/live/boxoffice/boxofficehomeindex.html

David Selby is interviewed in the August 31 issue of Soap Opera Weekly on p. 25. If you can't pick up a copy at your local newsstand, the publication is available digitally from Zinio.

The TV spot for The Social Network has David Selby in the final seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCSRxzPfXI

A short video about My Shadowed Past has been posted on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om1Qpvj3j2k

As I've said, I'm trying to keep an open mind, but I won't really feel completely comfortable until some DS fan whose opinion I trust reads the book and also thinks Grahame-Smith could be capable of coming up with a great script...

Before Grahame-Smith was attached to the DS film, David Selby was asked to write a piece about the book based on his own interest in/writing on Lincoln and I assume also his association with the horror genre through DS. Unfortunately, I don't have the specifics on when and where it will appear.

FWIW, I kind of liked the book, but
[spoiler]I am also a bit uncomfortable with S-G's need to try to make slavery worse somehow for the purposes of his story. The reality was bad enough.[/spoiler]

The premise of the book seems over the top, but he approaches it very seriously, and, when you think about it, isn't that DS in a nutshell?

Just a quick note that David Selby will have two new books at the Festival this weekend. One is a novel. The other is about Dark Shadows. He discusses both of them in the note on the Welcome page of his web site, and there's also a blurb on the News page. If you can't make it to the Fest, both books will be offered through his web site in the near future.

A Q & A with David Selby in advance of his participation in FestivALL later this week in Charleston, West Virginia:

http://wvgazette.com/News/201006210606

But does this mean the dvd I ordered of The Girl In Blue from Amazon a few years back was really a bootleg??? 

This issue came up at the time that DVD version was released. Darren Gross had some useful comments: