Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!   For this holiday of giving thanks, we wanted to highlight some Belanger Books publications and some publications from our friends at MX publishing where the proceeds of the books are donated to charitable causes.  As you start your holiday shopping, please consider these books as gifts. You will be buying excellent story collections and also helping children, schools, and other worthy causes throughout the world. Belanger Books for a Cause - The Beacon Society We donate the proceeds from the following books to The Beacon Society , a Sherlock Holmes Scion Society which gives grants to teachers, libraries, and Sherlock Holmes organizations to help introduce students to Sherlock Holmes. The New Adventures of Solar Pons In the 1920's, college student August Derleth wrote to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking if any more Sherlock Holmes adventures were going to be published. Upon receiving a negative reply, Derleth decided to prov

Free eBooks for Veteran's Day Hi everyone,  In honor of Veteran's Day in America, Belanger Books always donates a portion of our sales to  The Fisher House Foundation . The Fisher House Foundation is a nonprofit which builds comfort homes where military & veterans families can stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital. Belanger Books has now donated hundreds of dollars to their cause. What we do: For Veteran's Day, we donate a portion of our royalties to The Fisher House Foundation from all of our book sales (ebook, paperback, and hard cover).  To help the Fisher House, please consider purchasing one of our books, or donating directly to The Fisher House Foundation at this  link . This year, we are offering a select few of our eBook editions for free. Why would we give away our books? We find that by giving away free ebooks, people often come back and either buy the paperback version of the book or purchase additional eBooks.  This i

Belanger Books  is excited to bring you a new anthology of mystery short stories for student readers inspired by the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The anthology is titled In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and will feature stories by student writers as well as professional authors. Net proceeds will go to the Beacon Society to help them expose more students to the original Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as well as newer stories about the great detective. Requirements:  All entries must be mysteries inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories. The mysteries can be traditional Sherlock Holmes stories, modern versions of Sherlock Holmes, original detective stories with characters similar to Holmes and Watson, or anything in between. The stories just need to clearly be inspired by the Sherlock Holmes canon. Each submission should be at least 1,000 words in length , and be rated "PG" (i.e. suitable for a school librar