“THE NOODLE INCIDENT”: BRAND-NEW “THE NOODLE MAN” SERIES LAUNCHES WITH EXCLUSIVE ARCBEATLE PRESS CROSSOVER SERIAL ON APRIL 1ST

“THE NOODLE INCIDENT”: BRAND-NEW “THE NOODLE MAN” SERIES LAUNCHES WITH EXCLUSIVE ARCBEATLE PRESS CROSSOVER SERIAL ON APRIL 1ST
By Aristide Twain
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In recent years, Arcbeatle Press has continued to blaze a trail for independent science-fiction and fantasy publishing, launching multiple new projects spanning a variety of universes. In line with our commitment to quality over quantity, we have naturally decided that the optimal thing to do at this time is to launch yet another one. 
As soon as we decided to add even more prose to our editors’ workload, it became obvious that there could only be one focus character worthy of the endeavour: we speak of course of the Noodle Man, created by Plum Pudding and memorably used in such notorious successes as “that time they joked about him with friends once”. 
Some might believe that anchoring a long-running book series on an untested, unpublished character whose premise begins and ends with “he’s a man made of noodles who hums to himself a lot” is, to name a few, “insane”, “a really bad idea”, or “an April Fools’ joke… gotta be… right? right?!”. If you recognise yourself or a family member in one or more of these statements, we can only recommend therapy, meditation, and of course a healthy diet of noodles and chocolate eggs.
The rest of you can look forward to “The Noodle Incident”, an exclusive crossover serial featuring such Arcbeatle hallmarks as 10,000 Dawns, Auteur, Dionus, SIGNET, Starlight Endeavours, Coloth, and many more. The Noodle Man deserved an introduction in style, and we could think of nothing better than a clipshow-style compilation of disparate vignettes held together with the barest excuse for a connective thread. 
“You might think that we’re using these established series with crass, cynical commercialism,” says The Noodle Incident editor Aristide Twain, “that we’re exploiting their existing fanbases to forcibly establish the largely unknown Noodle Man as a central character within the worlds of Arcbeatle Press overnight. It’s certainly always a risk, with big corporate-driven crossover events, that you lose sight of the artistic integrity of each individual project, in favour of the entire cosmos bending around the new guy with something to sell. That’s certainly been known to happen, so I understand why people would be concerned that it might occur with The Noodle Incident. It’s a very sensible fear to have. But, on the other hand, I seem to have forgotten what I was going to say after the ‘but’.”
“The Noodle Incident” will be released today, April 1st, 2024, on the present website as an exclusive ebook. In addition, the first book of “The Noodle Man: Arc 1: The Book of the Noodle Man”, provisionally entitled “Book 1: A Really Incredible Character’s Kaleidoscopically Reimagined, Out-there Lasagna Life”, is now available for preorder.
Inquiries may be sent to [email protected]

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