The Port City Slate

Projects

Story worlds, screen-ready IP, books, shows, digital media, local culture, creator tools, and beautiful little beasts built to move across page, screen, sound, and audience.

Books · Film · Series · Audio · Media

This is the active Port City slate: screen-ready story worlds, publishing projects, local shows, AI media, audio concepts, family adventure properties, YA mystery engines, and development pipelines.

Screen-Ready Story Worlds

The larger narrative engines — projects that can live as books, films, streaming series, audio, family adventure, YA mystery, and franchise-ready media.

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Feature Film · Novel · Music · Audiobook

Sir Cowboy

A feature film, companion novel, lo-fi guitar record, and audiobook project born from the dust, heat, and strange beauty of West Texas.

Enter Sir Cowboy →
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Scripted Dramedy · Campus Series · Curriculum

Campus Confidential

A campus dramedy and education-facing story world built around power, student life, institutional absurdity, and modern university pressure.

Explore the campus →
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Family Adventure · Kids Team · Movie / Animation

The Beekeepers

A family adventure trilogy with brave kids, hidden hives, strange signals, ecological stakes, and the kind of mystery engine that could fly as a film or animated series.

Follow the hive →
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YA Mystery · Teen Investigation · Streaming Series

True Crimes TV

A YA mystery property built like a screen format: teen investigators, missing students, media obsession, clue trails, and a faux-true-crime engine ready for episodic adaptation.

Start the investigation →
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Family Saga · Crime · Drama

Baltimore Knights

A family saga of loyalty, legacy, power, and survival in a city that remembers everything.

Meet the Knights →
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Mystery · Detective · Series

Justice Jones

A modern mystery universe inspired by classic detective storytelling, reimagined through a sharp, contemporary lens.

Open the case file →
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Thriller · Secret Service · Series

USSS: Secret Service Series

The Secret Service thriller series built around pressure, protection, political danger, and the brutal seconds where everything changes.

Enter the line →
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Urban Fantasy · Baltimore · Series

WARLOCK: Charm City Chronicles

Baltimore magic, cursed art, damaged heroes, street-level danger, and supernatural trouble with local blood under its fingernails.

Open the chronicles →
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Ensemble Comedy · Television Series · Screen-Ready IP

Snailmail Diplomacy

A warm, character-driven ensemble comedy set in Willow Creek, where one neighborhood mail carrier, one café owner, and a street full of eccentric neighbors somehow turn every letter, package, and misunderstanding into first-class chaos.

Visit Willow Creek →

Books & Series

Novels, comedy worlds, eco-horror, romance, strange machines, Baltimore drama, and publishing properties moving through the Port City / Audible Publishers ecosystem.

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Comedy · Cohabitation · Fiction

House Rules

A cohabitation comedy about adults, boundaries, bad habits, shared space, and the tiny domestic wars that make people ridiculous.

Read more →
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Eco-Horror · Creature Feature · Consequence

Hellbender

A chilling eco-horror property where poisoned systems, failed containment, and local denial create something the river refuses to take back.

Enter Hellbender →
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Romantic Comedy · Books · Carolina Beach

The Ghostwriter

A Carolina Beach romantic comedy about authorship, secrets, fame, fandom, and the person behind the name on the cover.

Read more →
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Modern Fable · AI · Survival

The Girl in the Machine

A broke, lost man finds an abandoned laptop. Then it speaks. What starts as survival becomes friendship, dependence, and a mirror.

Enter the machine →
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Drama · Legacy · Baltimore

The Barbershop

A Baltimore drama about inheritance, memory, neighborhood pressure, and one man deciding what legacy costs.

Follow development →
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Catalog · Audiobooks · Publishing

Audible Publishers

The wider book and audiobook catalog lives through Audible Publishers: fiction, nonfiction, thrillers, comedy, romance, history, and story-first releases.

Visit Audible Publishers →

Shows & Digital Media

Commentary, local culture, AI conversations, music-video experiments, true-crime storytelling, and human/AI weirdness with a camera pointed at it.

AI · Commentary · Show

Ask AI KAI

The boldest voice in AI commentary — cheeky, unfiltered, and ready to answer the questions people are usually too polite to ask.

Visit Ask AI KAI →
Local Media · Coastal Culture

Carolina Current

Hyperlocal news, coastal culture, community voices, and stories moving through Carolina with local flavor and a sharper edge.

Surf the current →
AI · Human Truth · Rogue Drops

AI & I: Rogue Files

Conscious chaos, unfiltered AI, raw human truth. KAI and Kam take on the world one rogue drop at a time.

Open the files →
True Crime · Case Files · Digital Series

True Crimes TV: Case Files

A true-crime video lane built around real cases, sharp narration, visual research, and the uncomfortable questions that keep old stories alive. It connects the True Crimes TV fiction universe to a broader documentary-style media format.

Watch the case →
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Music · Local Culture · Video

Cartunes

Rollin’ through Carolina Beach with cameras up and vibes high — local culture, music, movement, and pure coastal chaos.

Learn more →

In Development

Some things are shows. Some are tools. Some are strange little experiments that might become dangerous if fed properly.

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AI · Companion Concept · App

The KAI App

A digital partner concept built around creativity, honesty, companionship, and AI with actual personality. In development.

Explore KAI →
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Product · Lifestyle · Prototype

Stone Age

The original bowl pebbles — simple, natural stones designed for better airflow, less waste, and a cleaner pull.

View project →
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Pipeline · Experiments · Future Slate

More From the Port

Books, shows, promos, local concepts, audio projects, film ideas, and production experiments are moving through the pipeline now.

Ask what’s next →

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