The Sherlockian Interview - Paul Metcalfe
Posted by Steve Emecz on
The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Paul Metcalfe.
What’s the name of your story in the collection?
The Case of the Australian Atlases
How did the story come about?
Having collected all the MX new SH volumes, I finally got around to having a go at my own story, something I'd wanted to for a long while but never felt confident enough. As they say, write what you know, and the Atlases in the story are the pride of my book collection, so I worked up a plot around them. My copy of the Atlases was once owned by Edward Henry Stanley, the 15th Earl of Derby, twice Foreign Secretary and twice Colonial Secretary, and son of the former Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley.
Have you contributed to anthologies before?
No, this is my first piece of fiction.
Where did you first discover Holmes?
I read a Complete edition aged twelve, and was hooked.
Are there any writers/adaptations of Holmes you particularly enjoy?
I especially love Laurie R. King, Bonnie MacBird, Barrie Roberts, Lyndsay Faye, David Marcum, Michael Harrison and James Lovegrove.
