A graphic novel. Ashley thought that moving to a new city meant she could leave all the drama of her childhood behind--but in New Orleans, drama's always a streetcar stop away. After being abandoned by her gambler father and working at a backwoods bayou strip club, sixteen year-old Ashley moves in with her rich New Orleans cousin Zack, thinking her life can only get better. That is until she meets Zack's mean Aunt Dee who convices Zack he's going broke and will have to sell the old Uptown homeplace or else end up living on "rice and reminiscence." Dee has a hidden agenda and more than one skeleton in her closet however as she tries to get Zack married off to debutante Mary-Elizabeth. As Zack's world falls apart, he finds himself drawn closer to Ashley, never expecting to have competition from Mary-Elizabeth, who tries to woo Ashley with extravagant shopping sprees and spa visits. Eventually, Ashley, Zack and Mary-Elizabeth join forces to try and stop Dee and her shady lawyer- sidekick Martin from following through on their devious plans--but a couple of unexpected twists mean none of them will ever look at freezers nor flowerbeds the same way again!

Uptowners

Comics & Graphic Novels

McPherson, Nevada

Graphic Novels

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Junior Jordan has a talent for shooting at targets and a mad crush on his new piano teacher, Conrad. In Junior's rural southern 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.

Piano Lessons

Literature & Fiction

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." He falls for her immediately but is mystified by her unwillingness to share her reasons for leaving friends back in Paris to strike out all on her own. Clayton invites her to stay in his guest bedroom while she maps out her plans, which he's thrilled to discover seem to include him. Clayton's own plans for the two of them seem to collapse however when a young man named Zack shows up out of nowhere, begging Ashley to return to Paris.Part One of Nevada McPherson's latest graphic novel based on the award-winning screenplay* kicks off a story of romance, jealousy, secrets & lies. Winner: Best New ScreenplayBritish Independent Film Festival 2016

Queensgate: Part 1

Ambrose, a failed Bay Area drug dealer, is at the end of his rope after running afoul of his wicked connection one too many times. A friend suggests he hide out at her sister's guest house in Palo Alto by posing as a Stanford grad student. There, Ambrose settles into upscale suburban life and finds himself falling for Jessica, a lonely housewife with the soul of an artist. Disruptor to this new existence is Jessica's husband, Mike, a tech tycoon whose path crossed with Ambrose on a drug-fueled night at a club. When Ambrose's cover is blown, all hell breaks loose as secrets are spilled and lies shatter on a posh, limestone patio deep in the heart of this California dreamscape.\nPoser, the first novel in the Eucalyptus Lane series, offers a class-conscious, peeping tom gaze into Silicon Valley's bedrooms and back-alleys, where dreams really do come true and unlikely, life-altering connections are made, for better-or worse.

Poser: A Eucalyptus Lane Novel, Book 1

Literary

Outcast Press

Cracker: A Eucalyptus Lane Novel, Book 2

Dramas & Plays