Garren Waldo is a Contributing Writer at Soap Hub. Based in Tennessee, this Southern Fried Spitfire, and authority on all things soapy, whiles away his time critiquing, recapping, and spoiling. He’s sure that within him exists the next Great American Novel, a sensational stage play, and a noteworthy serial or two.
Title: Contributing Writer, Daytime TV Columnist Location: Spring City, Tennessee
Expertise
Topics of Expertise: Critical Analysis, Critical Reading, Soap History, Turning A Phrase Years in This Expertise: 25+ Shows You Write About: The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless. Bygone soap operas (Edge of Night, Guiding Light, Ryan’s Hope, et al.), Foreign serials.
Education & Certifications
Education: Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Tennessee Wesleyan College Years of Writing:Professionally: 3+, For Pleasure: 25+
A Word from Garren Waldo
Why Author Chose This Career: I’ve been enamored of the soap opera genre for as long as I can remember, and my most fervent desire is to one day have my name mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Irna Phillips, Henry Slesar, Pat Falken Smith, and Douglas Marland, or, barring what may be the impossible, at the very least alongside soap journalist greats such as John Kelly Genovese, P.K. Waddle, Mimi Torchin, and Marlena De Lacroix. How Author Began Career: An editor with a masochistic streak and the patience of a saint saw fit to take pity on me, an untried but promising scribe with extensive knowledge of soap operas and storylines past and the ability to entertain via the written word. Personal Interests: Dissecting film and television; plugging the myriad of gaps in my knowledge; reading; penning the next Great American Novel, a play that would make Tennessee Williams weep, and an original TV serial worthy of note. Small goals, really.
The General Hospital recap for Thursday, September 23, 2021, features Ava Jerome Cassadine making her goodbyes, Trina Robinson putting two and two together and getting…
The Days of our Lives recap for Thursday, September 23, 2021, features EJ DiMera taking center stage, Gwen Rizczech, and Xander Cook kinda sorta deciding…
The General Hospital recap for Wednesday, September 22, 2021, features Sonny Corinthos’s gaggle of offspring learning that he’s cheated death – and not for the…
The General Hospital recap for Tuesday, September 21, 2021, features Anna Devane and Valentin Cassadine’s ineptitude resulting in Peter August’s escape, Sonny Corinthos being welcomed…
The DAYS spoilers for Wednesday, September 22, 2021, tease a totally unnecessary, “I’m sorry,” being uttered, a couple heading to the forest to share a…
The General Hospital recap for Monday, September 20, 2021, features Sonny Corinthos completing his long arduous journey home – but has he arrived far too…
The DAYS spoilers for Tuesday, September 21, 2021, tease a defrocked priest recalling a particularly dark time in his life, a wedding madwoman seeking the…
The Young and the Restless recap for September 13 – September 17, 2021, feature an embattled enigma revealing a long-kept secret, a woman struggling with…
The General Hospital recaps for September 13 – September 17, 2021, feature a storybook wedding bookended by a terrible explosion, a jailbreak, a life’s work…
The General Hospital recap for Friday, September 17, 2021, features yet another event ending with a vehicle exploding, the rebirth of a surly mobster, and…
The DAYS spoilers for Monday, September 20, 2021, tease a number of (not so) closely guarded family secrets coming to light, a past relationship remembered,…
