In the year 1998 CRAIG JANACEK took his degree of Doctor of Medicine of Vanderbilt University, and proceeded to Stanford to go through the training prescribed for paediatricians in practice. Having completed his studies there, he was duly attached to the University of California San Francisco as Professor.

The author of over a hundred and fifty medical monographs upon a variety of obscure lesions, his travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of his fictional works. These include several collections of the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (‘Light in the Darkness’, ‘The Gathering Gloom’, ‘The Treasury of Sherlock Holmes’, ‘The Travels of Sherlock Holmes’, & ‘The Assassination of Sherlock Holmes’), two Dr Watson novels (‘The Isle of Devils’ & ‘The Gate of Gold’), the complete and expanded Adventures and Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (‘Set Europe Shaking’ & ‘A Mighty Shadow’), and two non-Holmes novels (‘The Oxford Deception’ & ‘The Anger of Achilles Peterson’).

His short stories have been published in several editions of ‘The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part I: 1881-1889’ (2015), ‘Part IV: 2016 Annual’ (2016), ‘Part VI: 2017 Annual’ (2017), ‘Part VIII: Eliminate the Impossible’ (2017), ‘Part XI: Some Untold Cases’ (2018), ‘Part XVIII: Whatever Remains Must be the Truth’ (2019), and ‘Part XXIII: Some More Untold Cases’ (2020). Other stories have appeared in ‘Holmes Away From Holmes: Tales of the Great Hiatus’ (2016), ‘Tales from the Stranger’s Room 3’ (2017), and ‘Sherlock Holmes: Adventures Beyond the Canon’ (2018).

He lives near San Francisco, California with his wife and two children, where he is at work on his next story. Craig Janacek is a nom-de-plume.

Jan Edwards - author of the Bunch Courtney Investigations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEuKYA53T7o&fbclid=IwAR334iyQEHPW322q-fG-ZWUnm0WXM3Yn4ed9xJlUEmxKL5fH97rZjZ5ZEis

Jan Edwards is a UK author with several novels and many short stories in horror, fantasy, mainstream and crime fiction, including Mammoth Book of Folk Horror as well as various volumes of the MX Books of New Sherlock Holmes Stories. Jan is an editor with the award-winning Alchemy Press (includes The Alchemy Press Books of Horror series. Jan was awarded the Arnold Bennett Book Prize for Winter Downs, the first in her ww2 crime series The Bunch Courtney Investigations.

To read more about Jan go to: https://janedwardsblog.wordpress.com/

Winner of the Arnold Bennett Book Prize; Karl Edward Wagner award; Winchester Slim Volume award (for Sussex Tales). Short listed for both the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction and Best Collection.

Shane Simmons is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and graphic novelist whose work has appeared in international film festivals, museums, and lectures about design and structure. His art has been discussed in multiple books and academic journals about sequential storytelling, and his short stories have been printed in critically praised anthologies of history, crime, and horror. He was born in Lachine, a suburb of Montreal best known for being massacred in 1689 and having a joke name.

Visit Shane's homepage at eyestrainproductions.com and his Patreon page at patreon.com/shanesimmons for more stories, art, and fun stuff!

I grew up in a home bursting with books. My father was in the Royal Australian Air Force – we moved roughly every three years – and my parents were passionate advocates of reading and the importance of access to a library of ideas, no matter where we lived.

Between a childhood spent on the move yet steeped in literature, and a naturally dramatic personality, it’s no surprise I became a storyteller.

At home, and at libraries all over Australia, I read everything from Little Golden Books to The World Book Encyclopaedia. As my family moved so frequently, my companions wherever I went were the Pevensies of Narnia, a horse named Flicka and the Hardy Boys. I grew up with the characters created by Diana Wynne Jones as they too learned independence and responsibility. Miss Marple and the Dragonriders of Pern were always at my side.

Writers like Eric Frank Russell and Lois McMaster Bujold were as influential on my character and my writing as surely as Shakespeare and the Brontes. I’m still always picking up new influences, from modern writers like Emily Larkin and Neil Gaiman as well as classics by PG Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Before you figure I am always and forever reading, I’m a traveller too. My early years spent moving from state to state led to itchy feet. After moving out of the family home, I lived in Perth, then met Tim Richards and we decided to have adventures of our own. We moved to Egypt to teach English as a Foreign Language, then went on to Poland.

After we finished teaching, we kept travelling: we’ve been to the UK and US, to Thailand, Germany, Hungary, Syria, Jordan, France, Italy, Slovenia, Czech, and Canada – and we’re not done travelling yet.

The places I’ve visited – London, Hungary, Canada – often appear in my work, but the home of my heart is the place I write about most often.

Melbourne, Australia. The town we chose to live in always. The city I love so much she is practically a character in her own right in books like The Opposite of Life and short stories like Near Miss. I even researched the Marvellous Melbourne of the 1890s for my Holmes♥Watson romance, The Adventure of the Colonial Boy.

Given my background and all my literary influences, it’s hardly astonishing that my storytelling is eclectic: crime, adventure, fantasy, horror and romance – separately or combined.

For all the different genres I write in, everything I write generally includes the same tone and the same type of themes. They are full of the families one is born with and the families we make for ourselves. The protagonists all face challenges they’ve made for themselves as well as external threats that test them. They’re full of people who’ve made mistakes who seek to learn and to make better choices.

Whether you’re reading a vampire adventure in modern Melbourne, a Holmesian mystery in London or a racy lesbian romance in the Middle East, you’ll find humour, heart, friendships and love.

Awards

Jane: In 2017, my ghost/crime story Jane won the Athenaeum Library’s Body in the Library prize at the Scarlet Stiletto Awards, hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia.

Other nominations and shortlistings include:

Fly By Night (nominated for a Ned Kelly Award 2004)

Witch Honour (shortlisted for the George Turner Prize as Witching Ways in 1998)

Witch Faith (shortlisted for the George Turner Prize in 1999)

Walking Shadows (Chronos Awards; Davitt Awards in 2012)

Find out more at http://www.narrellemharris.com/

Nick Cardillo is the author of short stories that have appeared in volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories as wellas Belanger Book’s Sherlock Holmes: Adventures Beyond the Canon. He is also the author of The Feats of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of six traditional Holmes mysteries including three stories appearing for the first time in print. A devotee of Sherlock Holmes since the age of six, Nick is also a lifelong fan of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and Hammer Horror. He is a recent graduate from Susquehanna University and earned his ShD – Doctorate of Sherlockiana – from the Beacon Society in 2019.

Mark Mower is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association, the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and the Solar Pons Society of London. He writes true crime stories and fictional mysteries. His work includes five volumes of Holmes pastiches, entitled 'A Farewell to Baker Street', 'Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Case-Files', 'Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Legacy', 'Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Epilogue', and 'Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Archive' (all with MX Publishing) and, to date, he has contributed chapters to fifteen parts of the ongoing series 'The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories'.

Mark’s non-fiction works include 'Bloody British History: Norwich' (The History Press, 2014), 'Suffolk Murders' (The History Press, 2011) and 'Zeppelin Over Suffolk' (Pen & Sword Books, 2008).

Derrick Belanger, M.A.T.

Derrick Belanger is an author and educator most noted for his books and lectures on Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Both volumes of his two volume anthology A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural were #1 best sellers on the Amazon.com UK Sherlock Holmes book list, and his MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes chapter book, Attack of the Violet Vampire! was also a #1 best selling new release in the UK. Mr. Belanger's academic work has been published in The Colorado Reading Journal and Gifted Child Today. A former instructor at Washington State University, and a current middle school Language Arts teacher at Century Middle School in the Adams 12 School District, Derrick lives in Broomfield, Colorado with his wife Abigail Gosselin and their two daughters, Rhea and Phoebe. Find him at www.belangerbooks.com and on Facebook.

Thomas A. (Tom) Turley has been “hooked on Holmes” since about the age of twelve. He has a Ph.D. in British history but spent most of his career as an archivist with the State of Alabama. Approaching retirement, Tom returned to a youthful hobby: writing fiction. His pastiche “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Tainted Canister” (2014) is available as an e-book and audiobook from MX Publishing. It was also published in The Art of Sherlock Holmes-USA Edition 1 (2019), illustrated by a painting from artist Angela Fegan. Previously, Tom has had stories published in Parts VI, VII, XVIII, XIX, and XXVII of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories. One of them, “A Ghost from Christmas Past,” also appeared in The Art of Sherlock Holmes, West Palm Beach Edition (2019), paired with a painting by artist Nuné Asatryan. Tom’s new collection of historical pastiches, Sherlock Holmes and the Crowned Heads of Europe, was published by MX in 2021. It includes four interrelated stories that involve Holmes and Watson in the events that led to World War I. Tom lives with his wife Paula, along with two new dogs, in Montgomery, Alabama. Interested readers may contact him through MX Publishing or his Goodreads and Amazon author's pages.

In love with life. Worked as a cave tour guide, illustrator, office manager, library clerk, baker, short-order cook, Americorps veteran, writer, photographer, and college student. We learn by doing, and there's always something new to learn. Right now I'm happily wallowing in a 17-hour credit course in Environmental Science and pulling invasive weeds out of a wetlands for work study.

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C. Edward Davis is the author of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The White Bird, published in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories (Part III: 1896-1929) by MX Publishing (2015), The Oceans of the Sky; Aviation and The Horror of the Heights (A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural, Volume 1, MX Publishing, 2014), The Voyage of the Lunar Schooner (Belanger Books, 2015) and the co-author of Phantoms of the Skies: The Lost History of Aviation from Antiquity to the Wright Brothers (J. Allan Danelek, co-author; Adventures Unlimited Press, 2011).

Mr. Davis is a former technical illustrator and writer for various government agencies with over 40 years’ experience and, upon his recent retirement, has embarked upon his life-long passion of aviation and space history, steampunk science fiction, aviation historical fiction and exciting adventures in alternate history. He also dabbles in historical subjects. Recently he has started a new appreciation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger stories. He currently resides outside Denver, Colorado with his beloved wife, Claudia.

Robert is a writer and librarian living on the Palouse in northern Idaho. He writes across the pulpy genres but is especially fond of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Deanna Baran lives in Texas and is a librarian and former museum curator. She writes in between cups of tea and trading postcards with people around the world.

Bob Byrne regularly blogs for the World Fantasy Award-winning website, BlackGate.com, where he is ostensibly the in-house mystery guy. However, to his editor's consternation, he keeps spearheading the site's coverage of Robert E. Howard.

He has written for Black Mask Magazine, Sherlock Magazine, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories (multiple volumes).

He is a (self-declared) leading expert on Solar Pons (the 'Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street') and has also written extensively about Holmes, and Nero Wolfe. Primarily a writer of mystery fiction and nonfiction, he won a 2018 Robert E. Howard Foundation Award for his work related to the creator of Conan.

Proving that God has a sense of humor, while he loves words and writing and hates math, he is a career budget analyst and fiscal officer in the public and non-profit sectors. He has lived in Colorado Springs, Austin, and (mostly) Columbus (OH). In his long-ago youth, he competed at the Ultimate (Frisbee) World, and National, Championships, and is a life-long Role Playing Gamer.

Search his name at www.BlackGate.com, or read his writings at www.SolarPons.com (the world's leading Solar Pons website), and at his blog, Almost Holmes.

"Marcum could be today's greatest Sherlockian writer, . . . ." Lee Child - New York Times Bestselling Author

"David Marcum is the reigning monarch of all things Sherlockian . . . ." John Lescroart - New York Times Bestselling Author

"Among the best I must number David Marcum, who, by this point has written more Holmes stories than Doyle himself. Characterized by unflagging imagination and ceaseless ingenuity, along with felicitous prose, these tales continue to provide what we all crave: more Sherlock." - Nicholas Meyer - New York Times Bestselling Author

"Marcum himself again demonstrates his gift for emulating the feel of The Canon . . . ." - Publishers Weekly

David Marcum plays The Game with deadly seriousness. He first discovered Sherlock Holmes in 1975 at the age of ten, and since that time, he has collected, read, and chronologicized literally thousands of traditional Holmes pastiches in the form of novels, short stories, radio and television episodes, movies and scripts, comics, fan-fiction, and unpublished manuscripts.

He has edited over sixty books, most Sherlockian-related anthologies, and is the author of nearly 90 Sherlockian pastiches (so far), some published in anthologies and others collected in his own books, "The Papers of Sherlock Holmes", "Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt", and "Sherlock Holmes – Tangled Skeins". He has edited over 800 Holmes pastiches and over sixty books, including several dozen traditional Sherlockian anthologies, including the ongoing series "The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories", which he created in 2015. This collection is now up to 30 volumes, with several more in preparation.

He was responsible for bringing back August Derleth’s Solar Pons for a new generation, first with his collection of authorized Pons stories, "The Papers of Solar Pons", and then by editing the reissued authorized versions of the original Pons books. He is now doing the same for the adventures of Dr. Thorndyke.

He has contributed numerous essays to various publications, and is a member of a number of Sherlockian groups and Scions. He is a licensed Civil Engineer, living in Tennessee with his wife and son. His irregular Sherlockian blog, "A Seventeen Step Program", addresses various topics related to his favorite book friends (as his son used to call them when he was small), and can be found at http://17stepprogram.blogspot.com/

Since the age of nineteen, he has worn a deerstalker as his regular-and-only hat from autumn to spring, and often summer as well. In 2013, he and his deerstalker were finally able make his first trip-of-a-lifetime Holmes Pilgrimage to England, with return Pilgrimages in 2015 and 2016, where you may have spotted him. If you ever run into him and his deerstalker out and about, feel free to say hello!