An Important Project Update: Ted’s Life, Jack and Butch, Cowboys vs. Zombies, and Talking Eagles Have Been Officially Canceled

After careful consideration, I have decided to cancel four long-developed projects: Ted’s Life, Jack and Butch, Cowboys vs. Zombies, and Talking Eagles.

Some of these projects were announced years ago. Others, like Talking Eagles, had not yet been formally revealed to the public. Each of them had a different history, a different development path, and a different reason for existing, but they all came from a very real creative place.

These were not small ideas to me. Some of them go back many years, with early planning stretching as far back as the late 2010s. They were part of an earlier creative era, before some of the current structure around my work existed, and before Carson Kelly Publishing became what it is today.

But over time, it became clear that these projects were not coming together in the way I had hoped.

The truth is simple: I am not confident releasing them to the world in their current form. Whether creatively, structurally, financially, or personally, they no longer feel like the right projects to move forward with at this stage of the journey.

That is never an easy thing to admit.

When you spend years developing an idea, it becomes part of your creative history. You remember the early versions, the plans, the excitement, the possibilities, and the future you once imagined for it. But sometimes the most responsible decision is not to force something forward just because it has been around for a long time.

Sometimes a project has to be let go so the stronger work can rise.

With that being said, Ted’s Life, Jack and Butch, Cowboys vs. Zombies, and Talking Eagles will now officially join the list of canceled projects. They are no longer planned for release.

Could pieces of these ideas return someday in a different form? Maybe. I never like to fully close the door on creativity. But as of now, these specific projects are canceled and will not be part of the active release slate moving forward.

This was a tough decision, but it is the right one for the future.

I want the projects I release to feel strong, focused, meaningful, and worthy of the people who choose to support my work. If I am not fully confident in something, I would rather be honest about it than release it just to say it came out.

To anyone who followed, supported, or remembered any of these projects over the years, thank you.

Even canceled projects leave something behind. They teach lessons. They shape the next chapter. They help define what matters, what works, and what needs to be left in the past.

This is the closing of one creative chapter, but not the end of the larger journey.

More work is still coming. Stronger work is still ahead.

- Carson Kelly