Don’t Stop Because It’s Hard
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”. Hemingway. A bit harsh, but there are days in a writer’s life when this is absolutely how it feels. Hemingway knew. “Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.” This also rings true for the Sherlock Holmes…
HAPPY HOOOOOUNDAWEEN!!!
I sprang to my feet, my hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralysed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog. A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its…
Trust The Muse
“Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein Recently, a friend who I hadn’t seen in a long while asked how I became an author and how I learned to read my writing dramatically. By trusting my Muse. I learned that imagination expands exponentially when used daily. Championed…
Happy Birthday Watson & Ted
Much of this post is taken from a May 1993 article: “THE CASE OF EDWARD HARDWICKE,” by Kate Tyndall for The Washington Post. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Well, I think he’s the audience. I think he is the, sort of, receptor of the idea. I think Watson really is every-man and one has to remind oneself that…
A Bangingly Good read!
NEW 5-STAR REVIEW for Five Miles of Country Reviewed in the United Kingdom. Altabef triumphantly… brings in new characters… a great sense of period… expanded roles for Mrs Hudson… Irene Adler… Murray… an intriguing murder plot located on the world’s first film set… has the reader eager to turn the page and find out what…
Top 20 MX Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks in June
. . .details which I have to kind of make up to fill this kind of well, that Doyle so brilliantly left out.” Jeremy Brett Thank you all. REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULUS made the cut!!! Enjoy the ride, it is truly remarkable! From Holmes’s reconciliation with Watson in “The Empty House” to the truth about…
Orlando Pearson’s Review of FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY
Orlando Pearson is the author of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Series. Great sense of period in London and on an ocean liner from Liverpool to New York . . . an intriguing murder plot located on the world’s first film set and its twists has the reader eager to turn the page and find out…
Review – A Study In Statecraft: The Memoirs of Mycroft Holmes
Written by Orlando Pearson. Audiobook narrated by Keith Spilsbury. “War, as we have seen in A Modern Odysseus can flare up as if from nowhere, but once men and arms have been staked on a successful outcome, concluding it requires that even the vanquished get something out of the final negotiations, and that even the…
FIVE STARS for FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY!
Review declares my new Novel a MUST READ! The novel offers a fresh take on so many stock Holmes elements that could have been stale; for fans and others it is a pleasurable read. A tightly researched plot. The author’s handling of the real history is impressive. This book steps away from male-dominated sagas where…
REVIEW – A Continuum of Sherlock Holmes Stories by Jay Ganguly
Your morality holds you prisoner,” Holmes observed. When I heard Sherlock Holmes say that to Dr. Watson, I was hooked. Jay Ganguly’s audiobook of Holmes stories is splendid. Each one a jewel for those lucky enough to be aware of the fantastic explosion of new Sherlock Holmes adventures that characterizes some of the world’s best…
David MacGregor is the cure for the pandemic!
You think people want to sit down and read ‘The Adventure of the Sleeping Pussycat’ or ‘The Adventure of the Not Actually Stolen Jewellery?’ No! No, they don’t. I may not know much but I do know the kinds of stories the reading public enjoys! We need something with an edge!”—Dr. John Watson. Sherlock in…
The Norwood Author by Alistair Duncan
Arthur Conan Doyle was a complex and deeply interesting character. May there long be writers around such as, Alistair Duncan, to explore him.” Bill Barnes, Captain, President, The Sidney Passengers. Alistair Duncan’s The Norwood Author: Arthur Conan Doyle & The Norwood Years (1891 – 1894), is filled with new, never before seen, material about Sir…
REVIEW Sherlock Holmes And The Other Woman
Brava, Geri Schear! Let’s see more of this, the world of Sherlock Holmes needs many more truly intelligent novels like this one. Geri Schear’s brilliant novel, Sherlock Holmes And The Other Woman, is the very best of the Sherlock Holmes genre. It ought to be on the New York Times Bestseller list. No one except…
THE ROAD IS LONG: A 4,000 mile run around the United Kingdom by Linda Pritchard
The scenery is truly euphoric … It makes you realize that life didn’t happen by chance and the Earth and Universe wasn’t created by a ‘Big Bang’ alone. There is more to it and the answer lies within us, if we look hard enough. We are all born from the same all powering force of…
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