The PHIX Files

COVER STORY ONE DAY AT A TIME DANGEROUS DAWN One Day at a Time  is known for its incredibly intricate and wild storylines that bring nostalgia from the good 'ol days of 1990's daytime & primetime dramas. Those were the empirical days of baby switches, secret identities, mind control evil twins and just about anything under the soap opera sun that would give viewers a thrill. ODAAT has cornered this market, and  so, nothing is off limits in Twin Peaks.  Which leads us to what's going down with Cheresa and Dawn. The couple have been through A LOT and now is no different. As we recall, Cheresa and Dawn’s relationship hit a rough patch when Dawn left town and Cheresa began to see Chantel. Dawn soon returns and Cheresa reunites with her leaving Chantel out of luck. From there Dawn began receiving threatening text messages from what everyone believed was a jilted Chantel only for everyone to discover Chantel was actually missing and possibly dead (they found her severed foo...

COVER The PhixSix WITH Writer/Creator ANDY ECKLES Much like the longed for good-ol-days of televised soap operas (arguably the 80s and early 90s) there was also once a golden age of WebSerials. And one of these series is always at the top of the list of BEST OF THE BEST:  THE BLACKTHORNES ! This iconic serial, filled with delicious Hollywood glamor, desire and every scandal you can think of, kept readers hooked from day one and starting this September, we're lucky enough to get a fantastic reboot and I've been given the incredible privilege of reading the first 2 episodes.  Writer/Creator  Andy Eckles  joined me on THE PHIX SIX to give us all the details of his new series,  L.A. CONNECTIONS .  THE PHIX :  Hi Andy! I have to say this is quite exciting to speak with you about The Blackthornes Universe. Since I discovered the WebSerial community, your series was always top of the list of the best of the best! What's one of your fondest memories of the ori...

WEBSERIAL CELEBRATION! These days the internet has no shortage of real life drama that only serves to send us into doom scrolling and panic tweeting all the day long. But there are places to turn when you need a little escape. That's where WebSeries come into play.  These written serials, stylized as text-based soap operas, are hardly new. They're places for lovers of the soap genre to immerse themselves into old school love stories, mysteries and even a witch's curse or two. It's truly a labor of love by the writers of these works and for any series creator to continue to produce episode after episode, year after year it is no small feat, considering it's all done for free and as a hobby. Case in point, series like FOOTPRINTS and ONE DAY AT A TIME have been in the game more than 20 years. Imagine the challenges in keeping with continuity for that long. Any show with various writers could recognize the magnitude of such a body of work, much less one person doing it...