Mike Chinn has had short fiction published in DARK HORIZONS, DARK VALENTINE, DOOMOLOGY: THE DAWNING OF DISASTERS, MORPHEUS TALES URBAN HORROR SPECIAL, NULL IMMORTALIS (NEMONYMOUS 10), KZINE and POSTSCRIPTS. As well as scripting comics for DC Thomson (fourteen issues of the black and white SF/fantasy digest STARBLAZER and an eight-week "Billy the Cat" adventure for the BEANO) he has published two books on how to write comics: WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING THE GRAPHIC NOVEL and CREATE YOUR OWN GRAPHIC NOVEL. His monster-hunting Pulp adventure character, Damian Paladin, first appeared in THE PALADIN MANDATES in 1998, and a second Paladin collection, WALKERS IN SHADOW, was published by Pro Se Productions in 2017. The same imprint published a revised and expanded edition of THE PALADIN MANDATES in 2020. 2015 saw the publication of GIVE ME THESE MOMENTS BACK: a collection of 18 short stories from The Alchemy Press, and a Sherlock Holmes Steampunk mashup, VALLIS TIMORIS, from Fringeworks. In 2017 Parallel Universe Publications released his horror collection, RADIX OMNIUM MALUM & OTHER INCURSIONS. His first Western, REVENGE IS A COLD PISTOL, was published by Pro Se in 2018

Steven Philip Jones (1960 - ) was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and has spent most of his life living in eastern Iowa. Steven has written fiction novels for adults and young adults, comic books, graphic novels, radio scripts, non-fiction, and advertising pieces. Steven has also taught courses in comic book writing and enjoys mentoring other writers as well as editing. A graduate of the University of Iowa, he majored in Journalism and Religion and was accepted into Iowa's prestigious Writers' Workshop MFA Program in 1990.

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.

I live close to Harrisburg, PA and have been married since 1990 to a wonderful woman who puts up with me disappearing into my study more often than she would like. I have four children, one of whom is still at home, and two very cute granddaughters.

I am a graduate of Red Land High school in Lewisberry, PA; attended DIckinson College in Carlisle, PA for two years; and am a summa cum laude graduate of Shippensburg University, also in PA, with a BA in English. Shippensburg provided a good education at a reasonable price. For years before my marriage, I performed on stage in area community theaters, directed and music directed stage and musical shows, and otherwise kept myself occupied until, on a blind date, I met my wife. Unlike previous dates where either I or the lady I was a dating knew from the first we weren't a match, I was nearly certain my wife was the woman for me. (She was less certain.) I am very, very glad I waited for the right woman. Who else would tolerate me?

I have had many jobs over the years. I've dug ditches, stocked grocery shelves, tutored for room and board, cleaned restrooms, mopped floors, taught cartooning, worked in a bank, asked if you'd like fries with that (and cooked the fries to boot), ordered carpet for cars, and worked commission sales at Sears. Currently, I am a 34 year veteran of the Federal employee workforce. I consume your tax dollars in a Supply Agency for the Department of Defense, saving you money that will be shamelessly wasted somewhere else.

In addition to my job, I also conduct the Home School Orchestra in our area. I have volunteered as conductor for over 20 years, and I'm told they'll keep me - if for no other reason than I'm willing to do the work for nothing.

I have been writing stories for decades in different genres. I've added spice to my writing life by switching from comedy, science fiction, mystery, and horror as the muse strikes me. I try to keep my stories mature, but not so mature your children couldn't read them. The exception would be "Collisions", which depicts some adult situations. While not graphic by today's standards, adults should use discretion in allowing their children to read it.

My big sellers are my Sherlock Holmes books, "The Darkened Village", "The Leveson-Gower Theft", and "The Medium of Death", and the novelette, "The MelRoy Theatre Ghost."

I've got quite a backlog of books, novellas, and novelettes, some of which have won local awards. And I've got more in my head, waiting to be put down on electronic paper. If you like my work, I promise there will be more of it in the future unless I unexpectedly "shuffle off my mortal coil". Of course, because I can't afford to give up my day job, it might take a while.

I also write non-fiction. I have been a Christian for over 50 years, and I decided to write a book on theology for the layman, "Solid Ground." While written primarily for believers (to provide the grounding in the faith I missed because I was not raised in a Christian home), it also should provide easy access to the unbeliever who wants to know more about how the everyday Christian he may meet approaches his or her faith. You can buy the complete tome, or you can by individual chapters at reduced prices in eBooks and (some) in printed book formats.

Another book, "UnReformed" assembles some of the most popular chapters from "Solid Ground" as well as additional material. This book explains why I evolved from what is called "Reformed Theology" and became "UnReformed." If you don't know what that means, read the book!

My book "Misadventures in Childrearing" describes true (and funny) wife-and-child-approved stories of our family, and "Molded by Humor" is an anthology collecting stories that have been inspired by "actual events."

In addition to the books and stories you will see on Amazon, I've written four musicals (two of which were performed locally to good reviews), three piano sonatas, one etude, ten works for Christian choirs and ensembles, over 40 works for young orchestra, and even have a passel of cartoons I drew when I was a working level employee.

In my spare time, I play piano, am a chain reader, and work around my house which, while smaller than the house in the movie "The Money Pit", consumes nearly as much of our resources.

And like almost everyone else, I have friends, too!

I.A. Watson is an adventure, fantasy, and SF author from Yorkshire, England. Since his fiction debut in 2010 he's won several awards for writing in the pulp genre although he's still not sure what that genre actually is. He just likes to write and he likes people to read the stories he's told. The fact people pay for this sometimes is a lovely bonus.

His works include:

The World War II supernatural Saturday matinee action adventure SIR MUMPHREY WILTON AND THE LOST CITY OF MYSTERY.

The weird science exploits of THE TRANSDIMENSIONAL TRAVEL COMPANY and PREMIUM DELIVERY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH.

The historical adventure ROBIN HOOD series, KING OF SHERWOOD, ARROW OF JUSTICE, FREEDOM’S OUTLAW and FORBIDDEN LEGEND, and the collected and expanded giant compilation THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD.

Contemporary action in the modern-day retelling of BULLDOG DRUMMOND: ON POISONED GROUND.

The SF novel BLACKTHORN: DYNASTY OF MARS and the upcoming SPIRES OF MARS, and contribution to the anthology BLACKTHORN: THUNDER ON MARS

The non-fiction collection of eccentric articles and essays WHERE STORIES DWELL, and contributions to the superhero commentary volumes ASSEMBLED! and ASSEMBLED 2!

Mythological fantasy in LABOURS of HERCULES, ST GEORGE AND THE DRAGON volumes 1 and 2, and the anthology WOMEN OF MYTH.

The BYZANTIUM fantasy novella series DEAD MEN’S ROAD, STONE AND FIRE, REBEL’S RUN, GHOST ARMIES, and SHATTERED BONDS.

Action-adventure novellas THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT vol 2: RACE WITH HELL and vol 3.

Award-winning contributions to SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE volumes 1-14. also collected in SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES volumes 1 and 2, and other Sherlock Holmes tales in THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XIV and Part XIV, and in the novel HOLMES AND HOUDINI.

Anthology contributions to ZEPPELIN TALES, GIDEON CAIN, DEMON HUNTER, BLACKTHORN: THUNDER ON MARS, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT vol 1, ARMLESS O’NEIL: BLOOD-PRICE OF THE MISSIONARY’S GOLD, SINBAD: THE NEW VOYAGES vol 1 & 4, MONSTER EARTH, GRAND CENTRAL NOIR, THE SPIDER: EXTREME PREJUDICE, THE MANY WORLDS OF ULYSSES KING, PRIDE OF THE MOHICANS, LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION, THE AMAZING HARRY HOUDINI, OCCULT DETECTIVE MONSTER HUNTER: A GRIMOIRE OF ELDRITCH INQUESTS, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SEMI DUAL, ALL THESE SHINY WORLDS II, OCCULT DETECTIVE #5 AND 6, COSY AND STRANGE, SHADMOCKS & SHIVERS, SHERLOCK HOLMES & DR WAS NOT and SENTINELS: ALTERNATE VISIONS.

Other upcoming publications include the novel SIR MUMPHREY WILTON AND THE LAST PAGE and the anthology BULLDOG DRUMMOND: DISASTER ZONES.

I.A. Watson's author homepage, with some free stories and sample chapters, is at http://www.chillwater.org.uk/writing/iawatsonhome.htm

"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!

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!

Exeter-based family man. Writing is my passion, my escapism from the whirlwind of everyday life. That, and the beauty of Devon, which never fails to take my breath away.

My loves and influences are many. The list grows the older I get, as I continue to learn and discover more that life, society, the media and culture have to offer.

I have a wife and two young boys. Plus three cats. And some hens in the garden. Kids are often inspirational. Pets are very therapeutic. I challenge anyone to sit with a group of hens and not be thoroughly relaxed by their gentle clucking.

Paul Hiscock is an author of crime, fantasy, horror, and science fiction tales. His short stories have appeared in a variety of anthologies, and include a seventeenth century whodunnit, a science fiction western, a clockpunk fairytale, and numerous Sherlock Holmes pastiches.

Find out more at www.detectivesanddragons.uk.

Jan van Koningsveld, born 1969, has a great passion for numbers as well as Sherlock Holmes. The multiple World Champion and World Record Holder in Mental Calculation has been organizing lots of events for students as well as adults, from local competitions to world championships. Making no secret of his methods, he gladly shares them in his books.