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 little 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.

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.

Based on the feature-length screenplay QUEENSGATE, winner, Best New Screenplay, British Independent Film Festival

Available wherever books are sold.

QUEENSGATE: Part 2

Just when he thought it couldn’t get any worse.

Terrified of being alone, Zack tries to find out the dirt on Ashley’s new beau from Clayton’s old roommate, Ravi. Ravi and Zack strike up a friendship, which intensifies just as Mary-Elizabeth (debutante friend from Uptowners) and her Parisian girlfriend Lola arrive. They can see right away that Ashley and Clayton are destined to be together and that Zack is headed for heartbreak.

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.

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