Al chats with the Creators of Restless Shores - Comic Crusaders Podcast #61

“Scandal, intrigue and salaciousness fifteen minutes at a time!”

“Scandal, intrigue and salaciousness – fifteen minutes at a time!” A recipe for some juicy stories from a creative mind.

Restless Shores, a podcast that explores the intrigue surrounding Roupp Pharmaceuticals, a billion-dollar enterprise located in the coastal city of Gamote Point. At one time or another, we all find ourselves walking along Restless Shores.

Tune in as Al chats with Greg Tulonen, Thom Hinton, Marla Cukor and Marsha Hinton, the folks behind the FIRST Podcast Soap Opera. How do you take creative writing and adapt it to audio format? What inspires this team to go forward? Let’s dive in and learn more!

In this episode:

[00:01 – 07:29] Meet the Minds Behind Restless Shores

I welcome Restless Shores Crew to the show
- Meet the crew
A bit of history on Restless Shores
- Inspiration
- Building the team
- Finding ‘spicy’ scripts
Greg’s creative background and experience with the story

[07:30 – 20:46] The Making of Restless Shores

How writing translates to audio format
- The challenges
- Working with the actors
- The benefits of audio
Marla talks about her experience working with the team
- The excitement behind the project
- Screenwriter by trade
Inspiration for the material
- Influenced by old-school serials
- The current state of Soap Operas
The crew’s personal favorite moments
The learning curve behind dealing with the Pandemic
- A team of volunteers

[20:47 – 28:06] Keeping the Dream Alive

Marsha on getting onto social platforms
The trick to memorization
- A hard drive you never delete
Getting into Greg’s ‘geekdom’
- Other works
Marla’s thoughts on the RS fandom
What to look forward to
- Writing done for the rest of the year – till Ep. 150
- The future for Greg

[28:07 – 38:00] Closing Segment

What to look forward to
- Writing done for the rest of the year – till Ep. 150
- The future for Greg
How to connect with the team
- Links below
Some insider info on more work from Marsha…
Final words

Resources Mentioned:

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Greg Tulonen, lead writer Greg Tulonen writes novels and screenplays, short stories and comic books, web series and audio dramas, and an occasional play. His projects include the serialized adventure novel Dr. Xivray and the Presidential Peril, the vampire graphic novel Night Is Falling, the mystery-suspense web series Ragged Isle, the non-fiction webcomic Actual Conversations With My Sons, the one-act plays How Grandma Met the Rat Pack and Just Before the War with the Robots, and the short films On a Country Road, Sui Generis, and Derrick and Boyd. He lives in Auburn, Maine with his wife Kate and their two sons.

Thom Hinton, director With a brain that has amassed factoids you never wanted to know, don’t play Trivial Pursuit with Thom. His Navy career has left his photograph memorialized in a bar in Oman and his inclusion in military training manuals. He can also tell you to the day (give him a minute and he can tell you how many hours) how long he’s been married. Now retired, Thom directs the Restless Shores cast that they engage in shenanigans.

Marla Cukor, onboarding lead writer Marla Cukor, a creative consultant at Restless Shores, is a professional screenwriter who has collaborated on hundreds of media projects ranging from TV pilots, book-to-screen adaptions, to produced feature films. She began her career as an entertainment journalist, and spent over 10 years as the senior editor of Soap Opera Update. During this time, when she wasn’t interviewing daytime celebrities such as Kelly Ripa, Susan Lucci, Lisa Rinna, Sarah Michelle Gellar – she spent several hours a day watching daytime soaps, studying storylines, and writing spec episodes for the shows. In the process, she learned the daytime business inside and out, and transitioned to a career as a screenwriter. Fun fact: While she has yet to receive a Daytime Emmy for her work, Ms. Cukor did have the honor of attending the Daytime Emmy’s awards ceremony for 12 years in a row, and once, she even sat next to Oprah during a long commercial break. View more on her website at http://marlacukor.weebly.com/

Marsha Hinton – Marsha has proved that she has epic creative talents besides being the mother of the man who invented cheese. She has breathed life into the first-ever podcast soap opera, Restless Shores, now in its third season. Defying conventional wisdom, Marsha did what a bunch of guys in suits said she couldn’t do and launched a worldwide phenomenon. She also sucks at parallel parking.

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Al Mega

I'm Al Mega the CEO of Comic Crusaders, CEO of the Undercover Capes Podcast Network, CEO of Geekery Magazine & Owner of Splintered Press (coming soon). I'm a fan of comics, cartoons and old school video games. Make sure to check out our podcasts/vidcasts and more!