Skulduggery!

Hello everyone and hope you’re all well.

Alas not more examples of con artists today but thievery of the strangest kind.

Some miscreant has been stealing skulls and bones from a local crypt and ace reporter Paton Patel is on the trail to find out who the culprit is.

Paton Investigates was cancelled by the TV station two years ago after he failed to capture The Beast of Romney Marsh. If you didn’t see it, then you can watch it here. The short comedy won and was commended in several international film festivals and was short listed for a British Comedy Guide award.

We’re planning to bring Paton back to your screens - well, You Tube - this Autumn as a mini series and have just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise £1500.

The money will be used to pay for production costs like permission fees and insurance, and a small fee for each of the 13 actors and crew, who hail mostly from Folkestone and Dover.

They say that truth is stranger than fiction and this episode is based on real events. Around 21 skulls were stolen from the crypt of St Leonard’s in 2018. No was ever caught but police suspect they were stolen for black magic purposes.

It’s a very disturbing thought that someone would do this and I much prefer our narrative involving an eccentric bonologist at Folkestone's famous Fishing, Bone, Hair and Biscuit Museum; a scary vicar; a retired detective; a creepy caretaker; three witches and some suspicious skateboarders and their very confused youth worker.

If you’d like to help get Paton back on the screen to investigate Skulduggery then we’d be very grateful for any donation, however small. You can find the campaign video here.

The campaign runs until June 25 and there are some great rewards including the chance to style Paton’s moustache; provide weird props; walk on parts to annoy Paton; two public speaking coaching sessions with actor Sarah Thurston; a drama class with Theresa Cole; a wonderful Elizabethan poodle in a gallery and ten cards created by artist and actor Sasha Ravencroft and any of my books including The Macaw of Doom, signed.

Although we can’t promise Skulduggery will heat your homes, we hope it will, at the very least, make you laugh and distract you from the cost of living crisis.

Thank you for reading and I hope you all have a great rest of the week.