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Once, in the long ago...
...I updated here semi-regularly. I’m going to get back to that. Starting now. With this little tidbit:
You know you are writing a story about Sherlock Holmes when you need to be sure you’ve used the word “suppurating” correctly.
I did, I have. It means forming pus or fester. You’re welcome and I’m sorry.
Michael D. Higgins, president of Ireland folks…
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Ah, in a perfect world I’d get to interview Mr. Higgins, but for now I’m interviewing Irish and Irish Americans living in and visiting New York for my new podcast Irish of New York, premiering in about a week. Come visit the website!
Wait, what? Could these be my two books of other ways John and Sherlock might have met? Yes!
The Night They Met (romance! true love!)
Paperback: Bookdepository (free shipping worldwide) * Improbable Press * AmazonUK * AmazonUS . Ebook: Kindle * Kobo * iTunes * Nook
The Day They Met (best friends 5eva!)
Paperback: Bookdepository (free shipping worldwide) * MX Publishing * AmazonUK * AmazonUS . Ebook: Kindle * Kobo * iTunes * Nook
1k words with inspiration: literally 10 minutes or less of writing. a breeze
1k words without inspiration: i will do it. i will take the ring to mordor
Santa recommends A Murmuring of Beeeees!
Do you want adventure, friendship, and romance between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson? Do you want mystery stories, passion plays, and bees?
Then you may want Improbable Press’ third Sherlock Holmes book, A Murmuring of Bees. While IP is a for-profit press this book is a labour of love, with every writer donating their story so that profits go to the It Gets Better Project. Order Murmuring or our other Sherlock titles from us or from:
AmazonUS
AmazonUK
Bookdepository (free shipping worldwide!)
Barnes & Noble
Ebook (Kindle)
“A Murmuring of Bees” authors include: Amy L Webb (Flawedamythyst), Anarion, Atlin Merrick, Brittany Russ (Kirakira Nanoda), Darcy Lindbergh (Watsonshoneybee), Elinor Gray (Mistyzeo), Hallie Deighton, Jamie Ashbird, Janet A-Nunn, Kerry Greenwood, Kim Le Patourel (Kizzia), Kimber Camacho (Random Nexus), Lucy Jarsdell (Dancinggrimm), Meredith Spies, Morgan Black, Narrelle M Harris (221b_hound), Poppy Alexander, Stacey Albright, Tessa Barding (Lobstergirl), Verena, and Verity Burns
Improbable Press is a for-profit press, publishing Sherlock Holmes romance and erotica and is happy to announce our next book: A Murmuring of Bees, available for pre-order now, out 5 December 2016:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Improbable Press
Ebook & other sites pending!
A labour of love, for this anthology every writer has donated their story so that profits go to the It Gets Better Project. Enjoy stories by:
* Amy L Webb (Flawedamythyst) * Anarion * Atlin Merrick (Wendy C Fries) * Brittany Russ (Kirakira Nanoda) * Darcy Lindbergh (Watsonshoneybee) * Elinor Gray (Mistyzeo) * Hallie Deighton * Jamie Ashbird * Janet A-Nunn * Kerry Greenwood * Kim Le Patourel (Kizzia) * Kimber Camacho (Random Nexus) * Kuuttamo (cover) * Lucy Jarsdell (Dancinggrimm) * Meredith Spies * Morgan Black * Narrelle M Harris (221b_hound) * Poppy Alexander * Stacey Albright * Tessa Barding (Lobstergirl) * Verena * Verity Burns
Think of Sherlock Holmes…
…and you think of mysteries, John Watson, and bees.
While Arthur Conan Doyle sent the great detective to tend hives in retirement, here bees are front and centre in stories of love and romance, war and hope, of honey on the tongue and a sting in the tail.
In tales of secret diaries, rare nectars, and the private language of lovers, bees may be the buzzing heart of the story or as ephemeral as a murmur.
What you’ll find in every tale inside this book are John Watson and Sherlock Holmes helping one another, romancing one another, loving one another.
To encourage a world where such love is seen for the precious thing it is, profits from “A Murmuring of Bees” will be donated to the It Gets Better Project (x).
Buy: Amazon US * Amazon UK * Improbable Press * Ebook & other sites pending!
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BEHIND THE SCENES with Sherlock cinematographer Steve Lawes
“The Great Game Frame by Frame” by Mary Jo Watts @mid0nz and Steve Lawes
I desperately wanted to learn to speak cinematographer. Steve agreed to teach me…
FEATURES
“How to Set Yourself on Fire” by Wendy C. Fries (@atlinmerrick)
Writing about John Watson and Sherlock Holmes in love and lust made me happy. Giddy happy. Excited happy. Run round the room fist-bumping myself happy…
“The Motivating Power of Fannish Love” by Finn Upham @fffinnagain
Fandom inspires us to create. You don’t need to construct replica sets or write fan fiction to be a fan, but many of us take up new projects and learn new skills because of these favorite things. So how does enthusiasm for a show, team, or celebrity push us into action?
“Wallpaper Made of Light” an interview with Corinne Portman @stepfordgeek and Marcella Kligman @221beemine about their photo series “Projections”
They decided to combine their interests in a photo shoot celebrating the distinctive wallpapers of Sherlock and its innovative cinematography…
“Let’s Start with the Riding Crop” by Penny Armstrong @pennypaperbrain
In the onscreen context of Sherlock the crop can only be used to make coy hints at possible meanings, because of the cultural obligation to present it within a frame of conventional titillation…
“The Adventure of the Desperate Draftsperson” by Anke Eissmann @khorazir
I remember actually yelling at the computer in frustration when the credits of “The Great Game” were rolling. …
“However Improbable” by Atlin Merrick @atlinmerrick
What follows contains no euphemisms. What follows talks about erections, damp knickers, and arousal…
“The Joys of Writing Fan Fiction” by @skyefullofstars | illustration by Helen McIvor
There is a process so completely, devastatingly Real that you have no choice but to begin writing fan fiction and keep on writing for as long as you wish. Trust me; this works. Here it is. Four little words. You fall in love…
“How Dare You Take My Reason?” an interview with Penny Armstrong @pennypaperbrain by Jude Ellison @jumperbisexual about Four Corners of the Western World
“In a way I wanted to make a bipolar Sherlock as a companion for myself. He regards brainfail with absolute disdain, yet absolutely without self-pity. Which is something to aspire to. He was my way of expressing my huge anger against the disease – how dare you take my reason?”…
“Minding the Gaps: Reimagining the Women of Sherlock” by @shinysherlock | illustration by @naturalshocks
Being an ardent fan of Sherlock (or any text) can be like playing a game of deduction; using the data you already have on the characters, you must often extrapolate and theorize if you want to know more about them…
“Setlock: The Scientific Use of the Imagination” by @cupidford | photos by @Copper_Beech221
Setlock. A Sherlockian-style adventure of looking for clues, deductions and mysteries to make even the greatest consulting detective’s head spin. But what actually is it, who takes part, and why?
“Those Were Different Times: The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by @vulgarweed | illustration by @ladymeggieman
…Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were there, in proud X-rated glory, thanks to a California leatherman with a knack for pseudo-Victorian prose…
“Those Misty Centuries: Unfinished Tales of Sherlock Holmes’s Early Life” [An Ode to The Cold Song by @eldritch-horrors] by Mary Jo Watts @mid0nz | illustrations by Kit Mills @kitmillsdraws
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood. - Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Learn about filmmaking, about fandom, find fuel for your creative fire — and more — with this new Sherlockian online magazine! (P.S. I’m in it tooooo!)
Buy The Day They Met from me and, to quote me, “Get some nice wee stuff!”
If you’d like some little bits of London ephemera and mah book (signed), drop me a message here please.
You’ll get a small map of central London, a Union Jack postcard, a tube map, a Sherlock Holmes business card from the Sherlock Holmes museum, and a play card for a Sherlock actor on stage in London—possibly right now!
If you want to order it without shipping charges or as an e-book — do that here.
The Day They Met is Wendy's First Book. In it are 47 brand new stories of how John and Sherlock might have otherwise met. Wendy (that would be me) would be thrilled to at least ten pieces if you wanted it.
Chiara Codecà invited me—indirectly—to Crete with her. What a wonderful creature Chiara is.
Now let’s get in that water, missy!
My landlady and I just discovered we have the same book on elemental poisons. This is the same landlady who calls me to come quick and watch old murder mysteries with her so I can get ideas for stories.
It is comforting to know I am among my people.
This is the pub that’s nearly right next to 221B Baker Street (see that red building at the far right? 221B is right next to it.
Anyway, I would like you to read the chalkboard. Outside the pub. That is near 221B Baker Street.
You’re welcome.
I’ve been devouring E.J. Wagner’s The Science of Sherlock Holmes, which is full of fascinatingly grim and gruesome facts — and sly, amusing asides. Am only 49 pages in but have already boggled at:
* The Witchcraft Act was only repealed in England in 1951.
* You could still buy powdered mummy from a New York City pharmacy as late as 1955 (I have to imagine it does nothing to flavour a good curry and as it was believed to be an antidote to poison, I presume I’m right).
* The hound from the Hound of the Baskervilles was based on long-believed local legends and as late as the 20th Century the gigantic hound’s claws were still raising human hackles.
The book is available from your usual purveyors, of course, including Amazon link above and free-shipping anywhere Bookdepository.com here!
Giuomar, may I politely shout that you have THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SMILE IN ALL THE LAND? May I? Because you do. Thank you!
(Book orderin’ info)
Ten authors – in thirteen stories – explore the experiences of GLBTQI people during World War I. In what ways were their lives the same as or different from those of other people?
A London pub, an English village, a shell-hole on the Front, the outskirts of Thai Nguyen city, a ship in heavy weather off Zeebrugge, a civilian internment camp … Loves and griefs that must remain unspoken, unexpected freedoms, the tensions between individuality and duty, and every now and then the relief of recognition. You’ll find both heartaches and joys in this astonishing range of thought-provoking stories.
Quite often the blurb for a book exaggerates, or offers a promise that the words inside simply do not deliver. I am pleased to say that, in the case of A Pride of Poppies, the stories within do much, much more. Each story has clearly been written from the heart and with the heart of the characters in mind. We do not just see the lives of lesbians and gays either, one of my favourites stories of the anthology being that of an intersex character.
What really struck me, as I read each for the first time, was that so much seems to have changed for the LGBTQIA community in the last hundred years in terms of recognition and decriminalisation of their lifestyles and yet the core of each of the stories still holds true today – that being free to be yourself and love who and how you want can still be one of the hardest tasks in the world.
I cannot, hand on heart, say that each story accurately represents every aspect of the war that it includes, but I wouldn’t expect to be able to. In fiction the story is always the most important part and anyone who picks up a work of fiction expecting cold hard fact is always set for disappointment. What I can say is that I was swept up by the emotions of each story, concerned more for the characters than anything else, and I certainly didn’t find myself jolted out of any story thanks to any jarring incorrect portrays of life (whether in the trenches or on the home front) in WWI. Which is as it should be.
Of course, as is the case with any anthology containing stories from a myriad of authors, there are some that I prefer more than others, but I can, hand on heart, say that I didn’t find one that didn’t move me or make me think about some aspect of living at a LGBTQIA person during the war that I hadn’t considered before. This is something that, given my deep and abiding interest in WWI, you should know is no idle praise and I feel quite honoured to have been asked to review the book before its general release.
The UK Amazon link is here and it comes out this Friday. At only £4 I think it is well worth the money, especially when you consider that none of the authors have taken payment for their stories and a minimum of 60% of the sale proceeds are being donated to the Royal British Legion. If you’d like a physical copy to pop on your shelf (like me) then keep an eye on the Manifold Press site to get your paws on one!
I was given the wondrous opportunity to write a story for Manifold Press’ WWI anthology A Pride of Poppies. The wonderful Julie Bozza has brought together 13 touching GLBTQI stories of The Great War, and I’m so proud of what she’s created. More than half the proceeds of each book go to The Royal British Legion.
Thank you for this review Kizzia!
Yes, well, this week I’m afraid you’re just going to get spammed by photos of me, my publisher, and the Sherlocked convention from this weekend. I’m not even sorry.
This here is me buying Steve Emecz and myself deliriously over-priced ice cream cones just outside the con because that is how the British and pretend-British do these things. They walk around with a bunch of other Sherlock-lovers for seven hours, acting like hyper-caffeinated children, then they calm the day down with a stiff shot of sugar.
We then got on the tube and talked about…I don’t even remember, because I was pretty loaded on glee and quite possibly the three atoms of Benedict Cumberbatch’s breath I might have inhaled the two seconds I was close to him.
The glee though, the glee...please may I tell you about the glee?
So many people came up to me at the convention to tell me how they feel about my writing. Please let me tell you something you no doubt already know: Writing can sometimes be a lonesome business. You sit in your metaphorical garrett making stuff up, then you hand it to a publisher or post it online and you hope people like it.
If you’re lucky — and I am, oh how I am — those people send you comments about the stuff they read online or, or, or…they come up to you at a convention for the show that so inspires you all, and they say, “Thank you, thank you for your stories.”
Oh good heavens. Do you see why a person might need a double espresso and a waffle cone to calm the hell down from such wonder?
Thank you.
Thank you.
I believe the words I’m seeking are holy hell in a handbasket someone hold me look at these beautiful people and oh is that my book The Day They Met I’m holding not two feet from Benedict Cumberbatch’s belly region? How interesting.
(Ahem: The Day They Met: Bookdepository.com (free shipping), Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, AmazonUK, and AmazonUS * E-Books: Kindle, Kobo, Nook, iTunes * Or signed and from meeeee)
(Thank you Steve of MX Publishing You Are Made of Fireflies and Gold)
