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Currently on Kickstarter, Volumes XIX, XX and XXI of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories will break multiple records when they are published in May. - The largest group of Sherlock Holmes authors in a Holmes collection with over 200 - The most pages with over 10,000 - The most words with over 1 million - The most stories with over 400 and many more. The collection also has the most starred reviews from Publishers Weekly ever received - now into double figures with ten. Originally envisaged as a single volume of thirty stories, the first three volumes launched...

March 8th The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories is the largest collection of new Holmes stories in the world. We're delighted to share that with the release of Volumes XIX, XX, and XXI - the Kickstarter finishing this morning - we have reached 100 stories in the collection written by female Sherlockians. In the latest volumes we've created author profiles for: Susan Knight , Paula Hammond and Brenda Seabrooke. The new volumes are launched on 22nd May but available for pre-order from the MX Publishing site and qualify for our #bookstotrees campaign (you buy a book, we plant a tree).   International...

The starred review from Publishers Weekly for The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Volume XVIII is a record-breaking tenth for the series. There are shout outs for the stories by Craig Janacek, Paul Hiscock and Tom Turley. "The 16 pastiches in Marcum’s splendid 18th Sherlock Holmes anthology prove that creative authors can recapture the essence of Conan Doyle’s characters with an impossible crime or seemingly supernatural angle without relying on vampires or werewolves. Craig Janacek combines the puzzle mystery and the paranormal brilliantly in “The Adventure of the Fair Lad.” While Holmes is on vacation in Ireland, a...

Today's author profile from The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes XIX to XXI (now on Kickstarter) is Richard Radek.   Richard's Favourite quote from The Canon:    "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time."    "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.   From Silver Blaze. Richard has a story in Volume XXI "The Problem of the St. Francis Parish Robbery,"  It is in part reminiscent of the Christmastime spirit to which Holmes speaks...

Today's author profile from The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes XIX to XXI (now on Kickstarter) is Jane Rubino.   Jane's Favourite quote from The Canon:    "... he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop." The Norwood Builder Not only the best quote from the Canon but may well be the pithiest literary observation ever.   Jane has a story in Volume XXI "The Adventure of the Three Fables."   No one can read "The Three Gables" without thinking that both Holmes and Conan Doyle need to be, in the words...