Everly Heights

11/02/2025

A new Dogboy story? Soon. Everly Heights

10/30/2025

The Fakist might be dead, but the team behind the story lives on! Join us for two original stories from our new audio drama Everly Heights Tales, an anthology set in a nostalgic Ohio town called Everly Heights.

10/29/2025

The final “spooky season” episode of Everly Heights Tales is out!

“Angela Craig is back in Everly Heights, and she’s not happy about it. Sleeping in her old room and haunted by a fresh divorce from her gaslighting ex, Travis, her life is a mess. That is, until she has a bizarre run-in with Beatrix Knapp and her old high school bullies, “The Sparkles”. Inside a magical box she’ll discover the ancestral power to make her wishes a reality. But does Angela want recovery, or revenge?”

https://everlyheights.tv/everly-heights-tales/the-quackening-everly-heights-tales-podcast/

10/29/2025

The final "spooky season" episode of Everly Heights Tales is out!

"Angela Craig is back in Everly Heights, and she’s not happy about it. Sleeping in her old room and haunted by a fresh divorce from her gaslighting ex, Travis, her life is a mess. That is, until she has a bizarre run-in with Beatrix Knapp and her old high school bullies, “The Sparkles”. Inside a magical box she’ll discover the ancestral power to make her wishes a reality. But does Angela want recovery, or revenge?"

Angela Craig is back in Everly Heights, and she's not happy about it. That is, until she has a bizarre run-in with Beatrix Knapp and her old high school bullies, "The Sparkles". They offer her a strange inheritance from a dead relative. Inside a magical box she'll discover the ancestral power to mak...

10/22/2025

To celebrate a spooky theatrical episode of Everly Heights Tales this week, I dug up an old episode of Universe Box where I waxed nostalgic about doing theater in college with Jason and Anne Marie. If you were a theater kid you'll probably dig it, especially if you were a theater kid at West Lib.

Bill Meeks sits down with old friends, college collaborators, and forever theater kids Anne Marie DeSimone and Jason George for a nostalgic conversation abou...

10/20/2025

New episode is up! This one features Michael Special himself Sean Siegler as the mysterious Zarvan and features my former Fakist co-star Rebecca Johnson as the protagonist Clara.

*Clara, a devoted usher at the historic Cornerstone Theater, uncovers a chilling secret hidden within its velvet seats: a mysterious power that lets audience members live their best life. When curiosity gets the best of her, Clara is drawn into a fairy tale fantasy that feels more real than her own life. But as the mysterious Zarvan winds her up, she begins to wonder what it will cost to stay in the spotlight forever.*

A devoted usher at the historic Cornerstone Theater, uncovers a chilling secret hidden within its velvet seats: a mysterious power that lets audience members live their best life.

10/13/2025

To kick off spooky season for our anthology podcast, Everly Heights Tales presents "The Case of White Claw," a comedic modern adaptation of Poe's The Cask of Amontillado.

Tonight, my ghoulish guests, we crack open a chilling case of sorority sisterhood gone horribly flat! When Madison invites her frenemy Faith down to the basement for a taste of an exclusive new White Claw flavor, things get bubbly in all the wrong ways. One sip too many, and the claws really come ou...

10/08/2025

In which I talk to Beakman for over an hour.

I talk to an actor I have an awful lot of nostalgia for: Paul Zaloom, best known as Beakman from the hit ’90s educational series Beakman’s World. This hour-long interview traces Zaloom’s journey from his own “Everly Heights,” Garden City in New York state, to his work in avant-garde theate...

10/06/2025

Everly Heights goes edutainment! What started as a challenge for America's Next Top Podcaster is now an official Everly Heights Tale! It always kinda was, but now it's official.

In the spirit of a classic 90s educational science show like Beakman's World or Mr. Wizard, "Hey, Marie Molecule!" follows a young girl named Eliza, who visits the titular scientist with an anxiety-fueled question: "Will my brother become a super-villain from an X-ray?".

10/03/2025

For the next few days, my comedy novella THE FAKIST: BREAKING NEWS is free in the Kindle store.

Paul DaFoe never asked to be adopted by a ruthless banking tycoon. He never asked to inherit a corporate empire. He certainly never asked to be shackled to a life of boardrooms, spreadsheets, and power-hungry oligarchs. But when he turns his back on the family business and sets his sights on television, reporting the news isn’t enough—Paul wants to fake it. Armed with a silver spoon in his back pocket, a newsroom full of fellow troublemakers, and a storyteller’s heart, Paul anchors The Fakist—a fake newscast where spectacle trumps substance, and a well-placed spin cycle keeps the world smelling fresh.

Few can twist the truth to their advantage like Paul DaFoe — but this time, the truth is twisting back. As the world he crafted starts to crack, will he finally face reality, or fake his way through the defining moment of his career? Powerful enemies close in, stolen moments lead to shocking revelations, and a newsman who plays just as dirty as the people he exposes won’t stop until Paul’s name is headline news—for all the wrong reasons. That is, if the truth doesn’t find him first.

But Paul isn’t the only one facing a career-defining moment. LeAnn Snyder always dreamed of delivering the news, not fabricating it. But an on-air slip-up exiles her to a life assembling the news instead of reporting on it. When The Fakist hires her to take on the impossible job of keeping Paul on the air and out of trouble, she quickly learns that reporting the news and making it up require very different skills. Is this her first step toward professional redemption—or will working for The Fakist seal her fate as a fraud?

For fans of The Daily Show, The Onion, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this novel is a biting media farce with a beating heart. The Fakist: Breaking News is a fresh, adapted take on Bill Meeks’ scripted comedy podcast The Fakist, expanding its media critique beyond the podcast feed and onto the page, where at least the ads won’t autoplay at full volume.

Paul DaFoe never asked to be adopted by a ruthless banking tycoon. He never asked to inherit a corporate empire. He certainly never asked to be shackled to a life of boardrooms, spreadsheets, and power-hungry oligarchs. But when he turns his back on the family business and sets his sights on tele...