About the graphic novels: All this started years ago when I story-boarded my first short film, “Route of All Evil,” based on a short screenplay I’d written. My storyboard was mostly stick figures, but I enjoyed creating it, and wanted to continue learning to draw well enough that I could direct some of my screenplays on paper, which are these graphic novels.

None of these were done on computer, but strictly hand-drawn, pencil & pen, and like my screenplays & other stories (and me), they’re quirky & eccentric, imperfect and even a bit odd.

They’re homemade, kitchen-sink, book-length comics featuring lonely, obsessed, obscure, broken and/ or transgressive characters (and for now, at least, they most assuredly are not AI).

Anyway, I guess this is my way of saying that all the time spent on visual representations of these stories and all the details that go into how the people look, what they wear and their surroundings was a labor of love.

One thing I noticed as I was working on these books was that it made me notice much more closely the details of real life, which has influenced me in my fiction writing, and all for the better.

Oh—And they make great coloring books! :-)

UPTOWNERS

“Uptown is not a place. It’s an attitude.”

Ashley thought that moving to a new city meant she could leave all the drama of her childhood behind--but in New Orleans, drama is always a streetcar stop away.

Available wherever books are sold.

QUEENSGATE: Part 1

On the way home from a bad date one night, London bachelor Clayton Roberts meets Ashley DuPre, a young woman visiting the city "from New Orleans, by way of Paris."

His own plans for the two of them collapse however when a young man named Zack shows up out of nowhere, begging Ashley to leave with him, and kicking off a “bad romance” spiked with jealousy, secrets & lies.

Part One in a new series, continuing from Uptowners. Available wherever books are sold.

Queensgate, Book 2

When her cousin Zack shows up demanding Ashley return to Paris with him, Clayton suspects that they just may be on the lam, running from something that happened involving Zack's eccentric New Orleans family. Clayton and Zack despise each other, but Zack, watching Clayton and Ashley fall deeper in love, becomes resigned that he'll have to figure out how to put his fractured life back together for himself. Clayton meanwhile decides he has to get to the truth about Ashley's past before he can ask her to marry him, no matter what it takes, nor what it reveals.

Available in e-book only.

PIANO LESSONS

Sixteen year-old Junior Jordan has a talent for shooting at targets and a mad crush on his new piano teacher, Conrad. In Junior's hometown, that's enough to get a boy into trouble.

Piano Lessons is a gay teen romance set in the rural south of the 1950's, wherein Junior gets the boy (judge's son, pillar of the community with high ambitions), loses him to the girl ( a hot yet deadly homecoming queen), then finds the boy of his dreams: the moonshining son of a preacher who gives Junior the courage to truly be himself.

Based on the multiple award-winning screenplay. Available wherever books are sold.