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To celebrate the Kickstarter for Volumes 46-48 of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories we're interview the contributors. Today it's editor and author David Marcum. We've also had the great news that Kickstarter has selected the campaign as "a “Project We Love,” which is our way of highlighting brilliant examples of creativity."   Tell us a little about yourself – Where you live and your main hobbies. I’m the senior civil engineer for my hometown, in Eastern Tennessee in the United States. I enjoy reading and music – I’ve been a piano player since 1973 – and getting outside – especially...

To celebrate the Kickstarter for Volumes 46-48 of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories we're interview the contributors.   Today it's David MacGregor.   Tell us a little about yourself – Where you live and your main hobbies. I live in Michigan and teach English classes at Wayne State University in Detroit. Hobbies include soccer, golf, and searching out new restaurants to try.    What’s the name of your story in this collection, and what is it about (with no spoilers)? The name of my story in this collection is "The Adventure of the Scottish Coffins," in which...

Another very strong month for short story collections with Denis Smith and Caiden Cooper Myles taking the top two slots once again. Harry DeMaio makes the top five with the third collected of Glamorous Ghost stories. 1.   The Six-Thirteen from Fairfield Junction and Other Cases of Sherlock Holmes – Denis O Smith and Kevin E Green 2.   The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Caiden Cooper Myles and Luke Barton 3.   The Egyptian Curse – Dan Andriacco, Kieran McMullen and Michael Langan 4.   The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Glamorous Ghost, Book 3 – Harry DeMaio and Jacqueline de Boer 5.   The Woman Returns – Richard Paolinelli and Michael...

For fans new to your work, tell us a little about your writing styleThe time, the place, the moment dictate my writing style. The minute I sit down at my computer to start a new Holmes story, I step into that world of fog, candlelight, horse-drawn conveyances, the language, sights and smells of that bygone world and become Dr. John Watson observing and writing the adventures of the world’s first consulting detective. It is as if I’m in a movie that I’m writing the story for, word by word and I don’t know what will happen until I type it....

Orlando Pearson is the author of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes series which presents works too scandalous to publish in the lifetime of the Great Detective. Volume VI of the series includes The Sorceress and the Sea-Lord which features Sir Joseph Porter from HMS Pinafore and real-life French composer Augusta Holmès who lived from 1846 to 1903. She wrote a thousand works including three operas and one-hundred-and thirty songs mostly setting her own texts. Orlando will be giving a talk in French about her and her music to the Ewell and Epsom French Club on the 17th December (link below) in...