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The Sherlockian Interview - Author Tom Burns from North Carolina talks about his own private investigator series and writing traditional Sherlock Holmes stories for the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories. You can find Tom’s Natalie McMasters series on Amazon USA and you can find his latest Sherlock story in Volume XVII currently on Kickstarter.

  Author Stephen Herczeg talks about horror, fantasy, and writing traditional Sherlock Holmes stories for the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories.

Sherlock Holmes expert Tim Johnson recommends three Holmes' books for your August reading list on this episode of Read This Book! from the University Libraries, hosted by Lisa Von Drasek. The three are:   "Sherlock Holmes: A Biography" by William S. Baring-Gould "The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" by Lindsay Faye, "Medical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Carl Heifetz.   Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries and host of Read This Book! Tim Johnson is Curator of Special Collections and Rare Books and the E. W. McDiarmid...

Now on Kickstarter - Volumes XVI to XVIII     Publishers Weekly - a record nine starred reviews from Publishers Weekly; “More than 300 pastiches later, this MX series shows no sign of running out of steam” Volume XIV review  “Amazingly, Marcum has found 22 superb pastiches, almost all from unknown authors. This is more catnip for fans of stories faithful to Conan Doyle’s originals. Volume XIII review  “Marcum continues to amaze with the number of high-quality pastiches that he has selected” Volume XII review “This is an essential volume for Sherlock Holmes fans” Volume XI review  “Marcum continues to...

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 Steven Philip Jones. How did you first get introduced to Sherlock Holmes? I honestly can’t remember a time when Sherlock Holmes was not one of my favorite fictional characters.  Holmes has become such an intrinsic part of Western society – you hear of him everyone, to paraphrase Mycroft – I imagine I learned about him that way and was just naturally drawn to him. What was the inspiration for your pastiche? “The Case for Which the World...