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Oct 28, 2023Liked by Cole Haddon

Because you had a suburb cast, I never thought of any of the nuances while watching. I don't blame you for feeling all that you did, because as a fellow writer, I'd react the same way too.

If anything, Dracula gave us fans a beautiful escape from real life and new friends around the world. ❤️

It's given my inner muse inspiration to fix what's broken. Writing fanfic is very therapeutic for me, and a lot of fanfic writers have gone on to be published.

Damn Mr. Smiley. Talk about a Van Helsing of the tv production world. If only he hadn't been involved, maybe things would've been different.

From my marketing perspective, I think NBC did a terrible job with show promo. Sky Living far outperforms them in that department.

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Thank you for your continuing support of the show! As for Mr. Smiley, the irony is that "DRACULA" wouldn't have happened without him. Because of him, my career transformed. I'm still feeding (pun intended) off that series all these years later. But the experience was a nightmare, and a large part of that was the head writer whom I don't think was remotely well-suited to the series I created.

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Oct 28, 2023Liked by Cole Haddon

Little did I know that Dracula needed more saving than just a second season! 😉

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I have enjoyed these articles immensely, and not just because I’m a sadist. There’s always more to be learned from failure (“here’s what went wrong”) than success (“who knows what we did right?”) and your honesty is so insightful.

You’ve written eloquently on how your experiences on Dracula have informed your later career choices, but did any of them also inspire your fiction?

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