The Adventures of Polly and Handgraves comes to Facebook!!

Have a Facebook account? If not create one and join my brand new Polly and Handgraves page by clicking on the link below:

From there you can keep up with any future Polly and Handgraves tales, facts and places which inspired their stories as well as places you can pick up there current adventure A Sinister Aura!!

Bid on Polly and Handgraves

To celebrate the release of my latest graphic novel The Adventures of Polly and Handgraves: A Sinister Aura this April, I have currently posted a copy of the book on E-Bay!! The winning bidder of the auction will receive a copy of the book SIGNED PERSONALLY to them as well as some Polly and Handgraves art.

To start bidding, click on the banner below:

Polly and Handgraves out this month!!

I'm still working on the second story and my hopes is for it to become a series. But in the meantime, you can purchase your copy by clicking on the cover.

Written and Illustrated by BRET M. HERHOLZ graytones by Rori Shapiro Lettered and edited by Peter Simeti

Loosely based on a true crime that occurred in Spencer, Massachusetts in 1889, "A Sinister Aura" is a mystery story in the tradition of Agatha Christie, brought to you by Spencer, MA native Bret M. Herholz (Diary of the Black Widow).

Heavy rains force Polly Plum and her valet Montgolfier Handgraves to seek lodging in a small town on their way back to Worcester, Massachusetts. Soon Polly discovers she has arrived on the night of young socialite Lionel Hampstead's apparent suicide. Guided by troubled dreams and haunted by Hampstead's spectre, Polly and Handgraves soon discover that there's something sinister lurking in the past of Hampstead himself and his bride to be, Ivy Proust.

Polly and Handgraves

Richard Caldwell also wrote a really nice review for Polly and Handgraves as well. For those Spencerites out there, this is the graphic novel I wrote loosely based on the Hammond/Prouty Murder in 1899. It will be available in print next month. Read the review by clicking on the link below:

Polly and Handgraves available for download

The Adventures of Polly and Handgraves: A Sinister Aura is available for download. Get yours at:

http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=5177

The book itself will be available in the Fall. So, stay tuned!!

More progress on Polly and Handgraves

Here's the first two pages of Polly and Handgraves lettered by Alterna Comics editor and chief Peter Simeti.

As much as I liked the old typewriter text for the lettering, I ultimately decided against it. I wanted to denote that this story is different from my past graphic novels and comic stories. So, I decided to go with the standard comic book lettering as opposed to something somewhat artsy fartsy.

The book itself should be out in the Fall sometime. And this coming after several years of research and gathering reference material for the story. I even used my room at the Bishopsgate Inn out in East Haddam as reference for the inn Polly and Handgraves stay in as well as Ryders Tavern out in Charlton as the exterior for the Inn. Getting the book together itself has been several months in the making. I started penciling and inking the pages last Fall and it's taken quite a while since then for everything to come together.

With all that said, I am so happy with the progress of the book and that Polly and Handgraves will finally see the light of day.