Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

Hi everyone, Belanger Books is accepting submissions for two exciting new anthologies, one will be a collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories and the other is a collection of new Solar Pons stories. Both books will be edited by the great David Marcum the author of The Papers of Solar Pons, New Adventures of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street  and the editor of the Belanger Books anthologies Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street , Holmes Away From Holmes: Adventures from the Great Hiatus Volume 1 , and Holmes Away From Holmes: Adventures from the Great Hiatus Volume 2 .  If you are an author or aspiring author, please consider submitting to either of these anthologies.  See the submission guidelines below. Anthology #1 - Sherlock Holmes: Canonical Sequels Continuing the success of recent Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes anthologies, “Holmes Away from Home” and “Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street”, both edited by David Marcum, stories are now being solicited for...

Hello and Happy Holidays! Over the next few weeks, we'll be spotlighting some of our favorite authors who we've been fortunate enough to work with. First and foremost is our good friend  David Marcum. A few months ago, I was having dinner with a friend and mentioned that Derrick and I were about to launch our Kickstarter campaign for The Papers of Solar Pons . I told him how excited we were to be working with Arkham House on the project, and that all the new stories were written by David Marcum. "YOU KNOW DAVID MARCUM?!?" My friend was shocked. "I love his stuff! He's one of the best Sherlockian writers out there!" David is a well-known Sherlockian author whose pastiches closely mirror the style and tone of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. His passion for the canon and his precise attention to detail made him a natural choice when it came to finding an editor for our anthologies. How passionate, you ask? One time, ...

"Anybody here watching the new Twin Peaks?" --- Dave Vanian of The Damned Paradise Rock Club Boston MA May 24 2017 Apparently, A LOT of people are watching Twin Peaks: The Return!  Our blog series of the Twin Peaks/ Sherlock Holmes connections has been highly successful, and we already have a steady stream of readers for a blog that is not even a month old.. We had been responding to every one or two episodes of the new Twin Peaks with insights on Sherlockian connections; however, we are now far enough along to make broader statements about the show and the Sherlock Holmes canon. The blog series will continue in a slightly different format. We won't comment on every episode, but we will have an entry when we feel we have a Holmesian correlation which cannot be ignored. For today's entry, Brian comments on the Professor Moriarty of Twin Peaks: The Return.  WOW BOB WOW As far as I can tell, Professor James Moriarty is the first example i...

T he Great Hiatus! Those three words conjure wonderful and powerful images in the minds of all Sherlockians. Holmes and Watson’s flight from England and the battle with Professor Moriarty atop Reichenbach Falls. Spending time in Lhasa with the Head Lama. Danger while passing through Persia and Mecca and Khartoum. A stop in Montpellier with those puzzling coal-tar derivatives, before finally returning home by way of an Empty House in Baker Street.  -- David Marcum, from   Holmes Away From Home: Adventures from the Great Hiatus Yes, the Great Hiatus is the time in Holmes's life when it was believed that the Great Detective was deceased having perished by going over the Reichenbach Falls in his final battle with Professor Moriarty.  But Holmes was not dead, just as Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks was not trapped forever in the Black Lodge in his final conflict with Wyndham Earl, his own arch-nemesis.   What clues could this time in Holmes' life have for ...