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).

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 a Professor.

The author of over a hundred and ninety medical monographs upon a variety of obscure lesions, his travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box is crammed with papers, most 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 Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘The Histories of Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘The Acts of Sherlock Holmes’ & ‘The Assassination of Sherlock Holmes’ – as well as 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), ‘Part XXIII: Some More Untold Cases’ (2020), ‘Part XXV: 2021 Annual’ (2021), ‘Part XXXII: 2022 Annual’ (2022), and ‘Part XXXVI: However Improbable….’ (2022). Other stories have appeared in ‘Holmes Away From Home: Tales of the Great Hiatus’ (2016), ‘Tales from the Stranger’s Room 3’ (2017), ‘Sherlock Holmes: Adventures Beyond the Canon’ (2018), ‘Sherlock Holmes, A Year of Mysteries – 1881’ (2021), and ‘Sherlock Holmes: Stranger than Fiction’ (2021).

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.

Luke Kuhns is an international crime writer and reviewer. His is a master storyteller with a wonderful sense of the macabre which has captivated audiences around the world. His two best selling novellas Sherlock Holmes Studies in Legacy and The Scarlet Thread of Murder have been praised by critics and fans of Sherlock Holmes. Luke has also authored two graphic novels including Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Crystal Blue Bottle and the critically acclaimed bone chilling horror Sherlock Holmes & The Horror of Frankenstein, the world’s first Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein graphic novel.

He has contributed to several crime fiction and academic collections inducing Beyond Watson, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Vol 1, and Fan Phenomena Sherlock Holmes.

His latest title, Welcome to Undershaw: A Brief History of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes, is a move into biographies. Luke has written a wonderful and unique history about Conan Doyle, his writings and his time living at his Surrey home, Undershaw.

Luke has spoken at the University College London’s Past and Present Conference, debated in the Great Sherlock Holmes Debate 3 and 4, and has been featured on Japanese TV Network NHK. Luke’s official website is a multimedia platform where he releases exclusive short stories and reviews popular tv series, films, books and more.

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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!

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.

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.

Martin Rosenstock studied modern literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After job hopping around the colder latitudes of the U.S., he decided to return to warmer climes and took a teaching position in Kuwait. When not brooding over plot twists, he spends too much time traveling.

Spencer Perkins has loved writing since they were old enough to hold a pencil. They've always been fascinated by the creation of stories and the ways in which different eras are able to shape characters.

They first discovered their passion for the world of Sherlock Holmes while watching the BBC’s miniseries adaptation nearly a decade ago. Since then, they have enjoyed delving into the original source material and writing their own works set in Arthur Conan Doyle’s universe.

They currently reside in Portland, Oregon.