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It was no surprise to friends and family of Felicia Carparelli that the main character in her new thriller 'Murder In The Library' is a Sherlock Holmes fan. Felicia has been a big Holmes fan for as far back as she can remember. The book is released on 28th April and was a natural choice for MX Publishing as the UK's main publishers of modern Holmes pastiches. Managing Editor Steve comments: "We rarely publish straight crime fiction (as we mostly do pastiches and historical books), but we couldn't resist Felicia's fun thriller because of it's winding story around Sherlock Holmes....

[caption id="attachment_399" align="alignright" width="97" caption="A Study In Crimson"][/caption] A Study in Crimson is the second adventure of Mrs. Watson and Emily Fanshaw. Already dubbed 'The Female Sherlock Holmes' Molly Carr's character is proving very popular with Holmes fans. Here is the review from the leading Sherlockian Group in Wales - The Deerstalkers of Welshpool. "Molly Carr has produced another book about her two female detectives, mutated from minor characters in the Holmes stories. I think it helps if you have read the first book [The Sign of Fear], as that explains the strange hypothesis that Watson was a fake. The...

As a publisher we have about 100 books and about 60 authors now, and sometimes we publish a book that we use ourselves. That's the case with the new book from Alex Buckley - Ssh! Lose Weight in 20 Minutes. I couldn't help but feel that Alex was talking about me in his description of a 40 year old who spends time commuting, in front of a computer, likes my food and wine and doesn't do enough exercise. Sound familiar? Alex was fat - in fact, he was clinically obese and his GP had told him so. He'd tried every...

I was there when it all started. Colour Print On Demand (POD). In the less than glamorous surroundings of a printing exhibition (IPEX 2002), a groundbreaking machine called the Xerox iGen3 was unveiled - and many others have followed. But in 2011 is colour POD still out of the reach of book publishers?   <<read more>>

First published in 1908, Wheels of Anarchy - The Story of An Assassin was written by Max Pemberton, a friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, from notes of another friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson. Fans of James Bond should take a look at this fascinating novel which makes Bond seem a little tame. Considering it was written at the turn of the last century, the subject of international terrorism is surprisingly modern. A recent review of the reprint is published in this month's District Messenger. "Robinson or Pemberton may have discussed the story with their friend Conan Doyle, but the narrator, Bruce...