My Doctor Watson short list...

IAN HART has already played Doctor John H. Watson(as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) in a couple of Sherlock Holmes productions and in my opinion has been the only actor since either David Burke or Edward Hardwicke who did a really great job in the role.


ROBERT PORTAL is another choice. I've only really seen him in the movie Stiff Upper Lips but I really enjoyed his upper class twit in that movie. I think he'd make a really good Watson.


PAUL McGANN would be good as either Holmes or Watson honestly. Although, I suppose it would be kind of strange pairing him with Withnail and I costar Richard E. Grant. But I think he'd bring a really good emotion to the role.


GARY OLDMAN has that same type of emotion like Paul McGann which I think would really be good in the role of Watson.

Alice Faulkner cover

This is going to be what the cover for Sherlock Holmes: The Painful Predicament of Alice Faulkner will look like. The hardest part was choosing the right font but I'm really happy with this one:

Detour promo

A promo I devised for Detour which will appear in a few of my upcoming books:

My Sherlock Holmes short list...

Here's a list of actors I think would be marvelous if I were either doing a live action or animated Sherlock Holmes movie.


RICHARD E. GRANT is still my top choice. I really think that the 2003 production of The Hound of the Baskervilles completely miscast him as Stapleton and not Sherlock Holmes.


JARVIS COCKER the lead singer for Pulp is another person. I haven't seen him act in much but I love his voice.


RALPH FIENNES was someone I think might make a good Holmes. He has the right look and voice. More along the lines of a Basil Rathbone sounding Sherlock Holmes.


DAVID BOWIE is another choice. The Thin White Duke has proven himself a very good actor as well as musician, has a really great voice...

...and knows a thing or two about addiction ;-)



RUPERT BOOTH is someone you may not have heard of but he's very well-known in the Doctor Who fan community for being part of a series of fan films which he starred as the Doctor. I've gotten a chance to chat with him a couple times online and he's a really great guy with a terrific sense of humor. And another one who has a voice that I think would fit Holmes perfectly.

Hog Bones

About ten years ago I was in my friend Ainsley's student film Hog Bones. She was looking for someone to play the part of Mrs. Bobo and I offered my services. I loved the name of both the film and the character. And as a fan of both Monty Python and Kids in the Hall, I needed very little coaxing to get into a dress and wig.

I also ended up play another quick role in the film as well as doing a little bit of voice over work.

Well, I've never seen my performance as Mrs. Bobo until now and I was thrilled when she sent me a link to it which she included on her website's demo reel. It made me chuckle and brought back a lot of great memories and great times I had with my SCAD buddies.

If you would like to see my performace, just click on the picture of me below. I'm about 3:05 minutes into the reel. And be sure to check out the rest of Ainsly's demo reel. She is a phenomenally talented filmmaker:

The Bat-Man and Robin 1925

Illustrated in Deleter #3 Black Drawing Ink with crow quill pen and brush on Strathmore 9x12 smooth bristol board. Inspired by the new Batman and Robin series by the insanely brilliant Grant Morrison.

In the works

I've taken a bit of time off from working on Romance with a Croquet Mallet to do a little bit of freelance work at the moment. I should be getting back into the swing of things in the next day or so with that. But I've got about three or four projects either in the works or in the planning stage.

One I've been working on is the book based on my friend Josh Stewart's prose poems. The great thing about Josh's poems is they read like a short story. One of which is appearing in an upcoming issue of Detour called Torture Brothers. I've also been working on the plot to my second Polly and Handgraves story. I don't want to call it a sequel to A Sinister Aura because I see Polly and Handgraves as more of an ongoing series like the shows you would see on Mystery! or one of the shows on the USA Network (i.e. Monk or Burn Notice).

I'm getting help from my cousin Jared with working on the script. I'd like to make the story a little bit darker and I have a few plot ideas that I might have run through a couple stories.

I'm also chatting with Rori about doing a second Sherlock Holmes story. This time an original story rather than an adaptation.

And it's been a while since I revamped my website. I don't really update it very much anymore only because I have the web blog. But it's nice to have a sort of home base where people can check out my work. So, I think it might be time to do a little bit of Summer redecorating.