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!

"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in the form of novels, short stories, radio and television episodes, movies and scripts, comics, fan-fiction, and unpublished manuscripts.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!

Kevin Thornton is a seven time Arthur Ellis Award Nominee. He is a former director of the local Heritage Society and Library, and he has been a soldier in Africa, a contractor for the Canadian Military in Afghanistan, a newspaper and magazine columnist, a Director of both the Crime Writers of Canada and the Writers' Guild of Alberta, a founding member of Northword Literary Magazine, and is either a current or former member of the Mystery Writers of America, the Crime Writers Association, The Calgary Crime Writers, the International Thriller Writers, the International Association of Crime Writers, the Keys - a Catholic Writers group founded by Monsignor Knox and G.K. Chesterton - as well as, somewhat inexplicably, the Mesdames of Mayhem and Sisters in Crime. If you ask, he will join.

Born in Kenya, Kevin has lived or worked in South Africa, Dubai,England, Afghanistan, New Zealand, Ontario and now Northern Alberta. He lives on his wits and his wit, and is doing better than expected.

He has a not made up his mind about the dangling participle. Having said that, he might.

Visit the author's website on: https://www.jamesmoffettwrites.com

James Moffett discovered his love for reading at a later stage than usual. Since then he has been absorbing all kinds of facts and histories, going as far back as the Roman era and as recent as the Victorian age. During his brief writing career, he has published a collection of short stories and a stand-alone novel on the character of Sherlock Holmes, including short story submissions to two anthologies about the same literary character. He also maintains an online blog on the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien: atolkienistperspective.wordpress.com as well as a YouTube channel: Brewing Books. In his spare time, James engages in copious amounts of reading, tea drinking, and practising archery.

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.