HENRIETTA HEX AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK

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HENRIETTA HEX: SHADOWS FROM THE PAST is available in paperback!

Co-created with Komikwerks co-founder Shannon Denton, HENRIETTA HEX is an Actionopolis Middle Grade novel starring Henrietta Hecks, a twelve-year-old girl who discovers she is able to interact with the dead after moving to the small Maine town of Spooks Hollow. Henrietta must learn how to harness her new gift if she is going to have any hope of saving her new town from an evil spirit bent on vengeance. If Henrietta can enlist the aid of the dead she may just save everyone in town from joining the afterlife at once.

Do you love SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?  Do you love THE MONSTER SQUAD? Then you are going to love HENRIETTA HEX!

HENRIETTA HEX: SHADOWS FROM THE PAST is also available in a Kindle edition.

To read more about HENRIETTA HEX and how I modeled the character on my daughter Katie, click here.

Promo photos of Katie Scarlett Jones as Henrietta Hex (all photos by Lisa Jones).

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Happy Memorial Day 2019

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Make it a safe Memorial Day Weekend, everyone, and please take time to say a prayer as well as remember those we’ve lost who sacrificed everything for America.

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The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate & The Art of Sherlock Holmes

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Are you ready for The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate coming up this Saturday May 25? I hope so, because I’ll be defending the classic 1959 Hammer Studios adaptation of The Hounds of the Baskervilles and I could use your support!

Have certain Sherlock Holmes adaptations gone too far? We’ll find out as 25 Sherlockians defend such films and television programs as the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes series, Young Sherlock Holmes, The Great Mouse Detective, Sherlock, and Elementary.

It’s all part of the celebration of the release of the new illustrated anthology The Art of Sherlock Holmes: West Palm Beach from MX Publishing, the world’s largest Sherlock Holmes publisher. This anthology features my Sherlock Holmes pastiche “The Case of the Petty Curses” with an original illustration by Robert St. Croix. (See below for a peak of Robert’s awesome illustration.)

The Debate as wells as the AOFSH book are raising funds for some great causes as well as helping to broaden the appeal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s works to new audiences.

The Event

May 25 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm GMT+1

Join us for a special Sherlock Holmes event being hosted from Undershaw, the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and now the home of Stepping Stones School. One hundred guests will join us in person with 400 additional tickets for fans to join online from around the world – online fans will be able to participate in the debate by live chat.

The event is available through one of its headline sponsors, Zoom, so you can join the Debate from anywhere in the world. Tickets range from £2 (approximately $2.60 USD) to have a go at the Sherlock Holmes raffle (see below), £5 (approximately $6.50 USD) for an online Debate ticket via Zoom, or £10 (approximately $13 USD) for a seat at Undershaw to personally join in all of the action.

All times are Greenwich Mean Time +1:

6.45pm – Welcome and intros
7.00pm – The Art of Sherlock Holmes
Live from the Ann Norton Studios in West Palm Beach. Meet the fifteen artists that created incredible pieces of new Sherlockian art for The Art of Sherlock Holmes anthology and get an exclusive LIVE first look at their art.
7.30pm – The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate 2019 – “Have We Gone Too Far?”
Sherlock Holmes holds the world record for the character portrayed most on the silver screen – but have we gone too far? Sherlockian experts from around the world have 90 seconds to defend a particular Sherlock adaptation. Besides myself there will be Lyndsay Faye, Bonnie MacBird, Amy Thomas, Mattias Bostrom, Jay Ganguly, Mary Platt, Dan Andriacco, Derrick Belanger, Janina Woods and many more.
8:15pm – “The Deductionist” Performing Live
Ben Cardall is the United Kingdom’s leading deductionist and will be performing live. Anyone who has seen Ben in action will know that it is impossible to guess what treat he will have in store for us – except that it will be amazing.
8:30pm – Sherlock Holmes Raffle
Prizes include:
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Steven Philip Jones at MSP Comic Convention 2019!

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I have said it before and I will say it again: I wait all year for this!

It’s time again for MSP ComiCon in Minneapolis/St. Paul!  The dates are May 18th and 19th at the Minneapolis State Fairgrounds.

You don’t want to miss it!

I’ll be selling graphic novels and novels including Comics Writing, Dracula, Heroes & Horrors, Lovecraft, Nightlinger,  Sherlock Holmes, Talismen, and Tatters. I will also have news about the new Art of Sherlock Holmes book.  Hope to see you there!

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Steven Philip Jones at Independent Comix Expo, Cedar Rapids

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Face front, y’all! What better way to celebrate the release of Avengers: Endgame then visiting the Independent Comix Expo in Cedar Rapids on April 27? I’ll be there along with a host of pretty dang nifty area indy creators, including Iowa’s own comic book treasure Phil Hester!

It all takes place at NewBo Market (1100 3rd Street SE, Cedar Rapids, IA  52401), which, for anyone who knows me, knows that’s near my old stomping grounds, so this is going to be a special treat for me! Make it even more special by stopping by and saying, “Howdy!”

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SHERLOCK HOLMES: WEST PALM BEACH

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CLICK HERE TO SEE MY AUTHOR INTERVIEW FOR THE ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!

Fifteen Sherlock Holmes authors meet fifteen artists.

This is the premise for THE ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: WEST PALM BEACH, the first in a series of unique, new illustrated anthologies coming this May from MX Publishing, the world’s largest publisher of Sherlockian books.

And I am proud to say that one of those writers is me.
The brainchild of noted Sherlockian author Phil Growick (The Secret Journal of Dr. Watson), THE ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: WEST PALM BEACH presents original works by some of the finest artists from one of the world’s most vibrant creative communities, such as political cartoonist Pat Crowley, muralist Eddie Mendieta, landscapist Lupe Lawrence, and collagist Bruce Helander. These works reflect a story by a leading Sherlock Holmes writer like Mark Mower (A Farewell to Baker Street), David Marcum (Sherlock Holmes – Tangled Skeins: Stories from the Notebooks of Dr. John H. Watson), Mike Hogan (Sherlock Holmes & Young Winston: The Deadwood Stage) and Nick Cardillo (The Feats of Sherlock Holmes).

Each volume of THE ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES will be a full color hardcover coffee table book available in a standard edition with a standard grade of paper and a special edition with ultra-grade of paper. It will also be available as an e-book.

The release date for the standard edition of THE ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: WEST PALM BEACH is May 22 and the special edition is May 25.

Both editions are now available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Sherlockholmesbooks.com:

Amazon Standard Edition     Amazon Special Edition

Barnes & Noble Standard Edition     Barnes & Noble Special Edition

Sherlockholmesbooks.com Standard Edition     Sherlockholmesbooks.com Special Edition

Ten percent of the net profits of THE ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES will be donated to the following charities:

Happy Life, Nairobi, Kenya
http://happylifechildrenshome.com

Stepping Stones School, Surrey, England
http://www.steppingstones.org.uk/Stepping-Stones-is-growing/

The American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org

Activities promoting the release of THE ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: WEST PALM BEACH begin May 10 with a gallery exhibition of the anthology’s art pieces at the Ann Norton Sculptor Gardens in West Palm Beach, Florida. More activities follow on May 25 that include a launch party at Undershaw (former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – now Stepping Stones School) and a live feed to the gallery exhibition to see the art and meet the artists.

Want to keep up with these and future events for THE ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES? That’s easy! You can follow along on Twitter at @ArtofSherlock or at The Art of Sherlock Holmes Facebook Page where you can read the latest posts, sign up for the AOSH newsletter, watch creator interviews, and more.

Finally, if you are an artist who thinks this sounds like the kind of project you would like to join, there is still time to make a submission for the second anthology:

Future anthologies will feature artists from art communities throughout the world, and you can find out more by clicking here.

That’s all for now, but stay tune for more news about THE ART OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!

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Where’s Jones?

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Wow, is it 2019 already?

I would like to apologize for not posting much on the website lately, and to let you know that it may be a little while before my next post, which hopefully will be news about a project that I’ve been working of since late spring of 2017, one I think a lot of you will enjoy. I’m afraid that’s all I can say for now. Until later, have a great start to the new year and be good to each other.

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STEVEN PHILIP JONES AT M AND M BOOKS!!!

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I’m going to be at M and M Books helping them celebrate Small Business Saturday this Saturday, November 24, from 3 to 5 PM! There’s no better way to wind down from a weekend of early Christmas shopping than checking out the fine books to be had at this great shop … oh, and dropping by and saying howdy to yours truly!

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Harlan Ellison Schools Your Host

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Amazing what you find when you Google yourself.

For over thirty-five years I’ve told the story about how Harlan Ellison took me to task in print for mistaking one of his short stories in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as an autobiographical reminiscence about a writer friend from the early days of sci-fi fandom. This story concludes with this writer friend passing away and earmarking some of his estate to Ellison to create a retreat for struggling writers in the process of launching their careers. Or something like that. Anyway, I wrote Ellison to inquire how to apply and he rebuked me in the January 1981 installment of a column he was writing for Future Life. To say I was surprised to see my name pop up is an understatement. The rebuke is understandable and far less acerbic than might be expected from Ellison. It also made for a cool although trivial story, but I have never been able to find my copy of that article again to show people, leaving some to ask, “Are you sure you really saw that?”

Turns out this problem was rectified for me with the 2009 publication of An Edge in My Voice, a collection of Ellison’s essays from 1980 to 1982. Ellison isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I would argue he was one of the most entertaining authors of essays and introductions as well as one of the most vociferous champions of the comics medium from the middle to late 20th Century.  I heartily recommend this collection, and, if you do peruse it, you’ll find this snippet:

See.  I told you. 😉

I’m tempted to do a little creative editing to transform some of Ellison’s words into a blurb for my next book: “Sincere and talented and wonderful!” But I won’t. Ellison, who, in a now famous 1979 Comics Journal interview, confessed that he saw himself as a cross between Jiminy Cricket and Zorro, may be gone, but I’ve a feeling his gargoyles are still lurking out there somewhere.

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Veterans Day 2018

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Thank you to all our Veterans on this very special Veterans Day celebrating 100 years since the Armistice of 11 November 1918 ending the First World War.

“In Flanders fields, the poppies blow,
Between the crosses, row on row”

In 1966, French President Charles De Gaulle instructed Secretary of State Dean Rusk that all foreign troops–including American–should be evacuated from his country after De Gaulle ended France’s military participation in NATO.  President Lyndon Johnson instructed Rusk to inquire during his next meeting with De Gaulle about the over 60,000 Americans buried there from World War I and World War II.  When Rusk asked, De Gaulle reportedly said nothing, got up, and left the room.

“Lest we forget” is more than just a phrase, so, again, thank you Veterans.

 

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