Hey everybody, welcome to a brand new edition of Collectors Corner with Jimmy Starr. I appreciate everybody tuning in. We're number two on Apple Podcasts for our category, so thank you so much everybody for tuning in. I hope you like it. Today we're doing something also a little bit different because I've created some small action figures for some of my books and one of the books is getting turned into a vertical TV series. So I think you guys will dig it. So I thought we would talk about that first. The name of the book is Mothman, Red Eyes Rising and I'm turning this into a vertical series. I thought I would like read about it, but I have to actually put a light on so I can read it. So it's Mothman, Red Eyes Rising, a novel by Jimmy Starr. Something is watching. It starts with a routine drive by. It starts with a routine drive home. Sorry. An empty road, a quiet night, and two faint red lights hanging in the darkness. By morning it's written off as just another accident, but it wasn't an accident. When journalist Jake Mercer begins digging into a series of unexplained incidents surrounding a remote bridge, he uncovers something far more disturbing than a local legend. Vehicles vanish without impact. Surveillance footage skips time. Witnesses report the same impossible detail, two red eyes staring back from the dark, and the more people see it, the worse things get. Hitting up with a relentless data analyst and a skeptical newsroom partner, Jake follows a pattern that shouldn't exist, one that's tightening, accelerating, and pointing directly at him. Because this isn't just a mystery, it's a system. And once it sees you, you're already part of it. Blending psychological horror, investigative suspense, and modern techno paranoia, Mothman, Red Eyes Rising, reinvents a classic legend into something far more terrifying, something that doesn't just exist in the shadows, but learns from you. So again, you guys, here's the Mothman. I want to show you the action figure that I created. We're going to mass produce stuff. I'm just learning how to do different things now. But this is a three and a half inch or four inch Mothman action figure. He's very, very cool looking. I want to show you a little thing that we did for it. And so watch this. This is the introduction. It's only a couple of seconds long, but to the Mothman Red Eyes Rising vertical TV series that's going to be coming out. So check. In that cool. And so we've also done a book trailer. So I want you to check out the book trailer. First, the book trailer from Mothman Red Eyes Rising. It started with a drive home. They said it was an accident. It wasn't. This is random. It's tracking. The more you see it. Once it sees you. You're already part of it. In that fun. So you guys again, the movie, I mean, the book, it's available on JimmyStarAuthor.com. You can also get it on Barnes and Noble. Don't get it on Amazon. Amazon kicked me off. I don't know why they're like crazy. Very unprofessional, but check it out, you guys. Mothman Red Eyes Rising again. Here's the action figure for it. Then I have another book series called The Mimic. And the Mimic has two books in it. One is called The Mimic. One is called The Mimic Recast. So let's go one at a time. So the Mimic, you guys, you wanted a new killer. Congratulations, you made me. Some killers hide behind masks. This one hides behind your reflection. In the suburbs of Chicago, a new kind of horror is streaming live. It starts as a glitch, a strange hum inside viral videos, a face that shouldn't be there, a figure moving half a second late. Then people start dying on camera. Bill Maker, Van Gogh Wells calls it The Mimic, a self-aware entity born from discarded content, learning how to kill the way influencers learn how to trend. Together with a cynical detective, a burned-out cameraman and a final boy who refuses to die, Van Gogh races to expose the truth before The Mimic turns the entire internet into its stage. But you can't go viral without going visible. And once it sees you, it edits you in. A savage, stylish reinvention of the slasher myths, the Mimic blends, the meta-horror wit of scream, with the cold paranoia of Black Mirror. It's a story about fame, fear, and the cost of being watched. When the killer isn't behind you, it's inside your feed. I mean, I have to say, even to myself, it's like a genius concept. But it's a really good book, you guys. Several people have inquired about turning it into a movie, but they don't have any money, so I haven't gone with anybody yet. But hopefully it's going to happen soon. So that's the first book. And this is what we have made so far for The Mimic. If you see his face, it's kind of like half of like a skull and half of like a screen face. And actually, you see it better on... Here he is. You see it better on the actual book cover. So then we've done the figure. We're going to have a bunch of other stuff coming for it, but we got to start someplace. So that's where we started. And then we've got book two, The Mimic Recast. Twenty years later, The Mimic is back. This time it wrote the script. So let me tell you what this one says. What happens when the world decides a better version of you exists and starts using it instead? Mara Vaz is an actress who refuses to land cleanly. In an industry obsessed with optimization, efficiency, and market ready performances, Mara's work does something dangerous. It hesitates. She misses Marx, delays emotional beats, leaves moments unresolved and slowly, quietly the system notices. At first it feels like competition, then imitation, then replacement. Auditions begin to feel scripted before they happen. Reactions arrive before choices are made. Other performers start delivering eerily perfect versions of Mara, versions that resolve faster, smoother, easier, versions the room prefers. As Mara resists correction, the pressure escalates. She's erased from call sheets, overwritten in edits, recapped without explanation and finally replaced outright. Not by a person, but by a process designed to eliminate unpredictability itself. What follows is a psychological descent into a world where authenticity is treated as inefficiency, where identity becomes editable and we're refusing to be optimized as the most radical act of all. The mimic recast is a haunting modern psychological thriller about performance, conformity and the quiet terror of being made obsolete by a version of yourself that fits better. For readers of Black Mirror, The Twilight Zone, An Unsettling, Cerebral Horro, that lingers long after the final page, some stories end with applause, this one refuses to resolve. So again, same character, the mimic recast 20 years later. Again, you can go to JimmyStarAuthor.com and soon we're going to have the action figures for it. Here's a three inch action figure. I'm super excited about these things, so I hope you guys like them too. And that's it for today, but we'll be back with more Collectors Corner with Jimmy Star. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. Bye bye.
