News — Author Interviews

Throughout the Kickstarter campaign, we will be adding brief interviews highlighting the talented authors who have contributed to the anthology. Today we have the excellent Roger Riccard. How did you first get introduced to Sherlock Holmes? First introduced to Sherlock Holmes via the Book of the Month Club as a teenager in the late ‘60’s. What was the inspiration for your pastiche? After watching the outstanding Sherlock Holmes Granada TV series with Jeremy Brettt and Edward Hardwicke, I felt I now had a real handle on the characters, especially since Watson was no longer portrayed as the buffoon of the Nigel Bruce...

Throughout the Kickstarter campaign, we will be adding brief interviews highlighting the talented authors who have contributed to the anthology. Today we have the excellent David Marcum. David is the creator and editor of the MX anthology series. David lives in eastern Tennessee with his wife and son. He’s a licensed civil engineer, and has been reading, collecting, and chronologicizing traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches since he was ten years old in 1975. Since then, he’s collected literally thousands of pastiches – and that’s nowhere enough! David’s irregular blog, “A Seventeen Step Program”, can be found at: http://17stepprogram.blogspot.com/ His books are available at:...

Throughout the Kickstarter campaign, we will be adding brief interviews highlighting the talented authors who have contributed to the anthology. Today we have the excellent S. Subramanian. How did you first get introduced to Sherlock Holmes? Through a Classics Illustrated version of The Sign of Four at age 9. That was enough to set me off on the originals at age 10. I had the great good fortune of reading the short story collections in their chronological order: The Adventures, The Memoirs, The Return, His Last Bow, and The Case-Book. What was the inspiration for your pastiche? In two words: David Marcum. What is your story about? Where and...

Throughout the Kickstarter campaign, we will be adding brief interviews highlighting the talented authors who have contributed to the anthology. Today we have the excellent Kevin P. Thornton. Kevin is on Twitter and Facebook – and his short stories have found their home in the world of Sherlock Holmes. As well as being in MX Volumes IX, XI, XIII the upcoming XV, and more to come, he has had stories in other anthologies featured here. A seven time finalist in the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards, he will next be in the Mesdames of Mayhem collection due in the fall.  In the key of 13 launches in...

Throughout the Kickstarter campaign, we will be adding brief interviews highlighting the talented authors who have contributed to the anthology. Today we have the excellent Kelvin Jones. How did you first get introduced to Sherlock Holmes? Through my public library in London. ‘I am an omnivorous reader.’ – Holmes What was the inspiration for your pastiche? The true story of Edmund Kelly and Dr John Dee, both Elizabethan necromancers. What is your story about? Where and when does it take place? The story concerns the discovery of an ancient box, which the owner of a large Elizabethan house, discovers. This is tale...