“Echoes” is coming

This just in from Publishers Weekly about (next month’s!) Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: King and Klinger’s strong third Sherlockian anthology (after 2014’s In the Company of Sherlock Holmes) features 17 stories from leading authors who draw on Conan Doyle’s work for inspiration. The end result is a rich variety of entries, including Tony Lee and Bevis Musson’s “Mrs.…

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Boucher’s Con

As you probably know, every year the Crime World [Fictional Division] gathers to discuss pretty much everything to do with crime & mystery books: from character development to social media, e-books to Hollywood. The conference is named after the editor/reviewer/writer Anthony Boucher and this was Bouchercon’s 46th year. We met in Raleigh, and the fun began.…

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THE ANTHONY!

BoucherCon is fabulous at any time, but when they call your name out for an Anthony, it becomes positively intoxicating. Or maybe stunning: Of course, I can’t help feeling I cheated.  After all, Les and I just had to talk a bunch of first-rate writers into playing in the Sherlock Holmes sandbox and writing a…

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BSI weekend 2015: Brrr

It’s been another fantastic BSI weekend here in ([bloody cold]) New York City.  Thursday after a lunch (French onion soup, nice and hot. Did I mention that it’s been cold here?) with the Random House Team Laurie, including editorial, publicity, and marketing, that was enthusiastic and energetic and warm (sensing a theme here?) the BSI…

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Excerpts, contests, giveaways–and takeoffs

I’m off to New York today, so I, a Central Coast native and weather wimp, would appreciate any warm thoughts you can send that city’s way. And if you’re within striking distance of Manhattan, come out and see me on Saturday when I’ll be signing copies of In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, in, well,…

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Rousing COMPANY!

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as Michael Sims and Cornelia Funke. The Memoirs of Silver Blaze by Michael Sims I shall not soon forget that awful night on the moors. I was happy in King’s Pyland. At the…

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Sherlock & Les & Laurie & COMPANY

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as Andrew Grant and Denise Hamilton: Dr Watson’s Casebook by Andrew Grant Frankland shared links to Frankland v Middleton and Frankland v Fernworth, at Court of Queen’s Bench. Frankland likes this. D1,000 others…

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Sherlock Holmes & COMPANY

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as Jeffrey Deaver and Laura Caldwell: The Adventure of the Laughing Fisherman by Jeffrey Deaver Sometimes it’s overwhelming: the burden of knowing that the man you most admire isn’t real. Then the depression…

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What a COMPANY!

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as Gahan Wilson and Nancy Holder: How I Came to Meet Sherlock Holmes by Gahan Wilson I must confess I do not remember the precise date I first came to meet Sherlock Holmes…

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In the COMPANY

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as… John Lescroart and Michael Dirda: Dunkirk by John Lescroart May, 1940 In full dark and shrouded in fog, the Dover Doll rose and fell in the still waters of the English Channel.…

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