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Annual Veteran's Day Fundraiser for the Fisher Foundation featuring two FREE Sherlock Holmes eBooks, Three-Pipe Christmas Campaign Continues on Kickstarter, Submit to Upcoming Belanger Books Anthologies

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  Hi everyone, Every year for Veteran's Day we always have a fundraiser to benefit  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 push sales, a select number of our ebooks are FREE for Veteran's Day!  To help the Fisher House, please consider purchasing one of our books , or donating directly to The Fisher House Foundation at this  link . Free Books The Necronomicon of Solar Pons From Sherlock Holmes to the Cthulhu Mythos August Derleth introduced the world to Solar Pons and Dr. Lyndon Parker in the 1920's. Pons, like Sherlock Holmes, solved crimes using deduction and ratiocin...

Call for Submissions to Upcoming Sherlock Holmes Anthologies from Belanger Books, A New MX Book of Sherlock Holmes on Kickstarter, Plus the Return of Solar Pons Scholarship

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Hello everyone, We've got quite a few exciting projects to share with you.  First, I want to thank everyone who backed Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk on Kickstarter.  The two volume anthology of stories where the traditional Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in a world of technological advancements was one of our biggest Kickstarters to date. For those of you who missed the Kickstarter the books will be available on Amazon in May. Stay tuned for more details! MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Vols XIII, XIV, XV And speaking of Kickstarters, our friends at MX publishing have a set of books that every Sherlock Holmes fan needs! The MX Books of New Sherlock Holmes Stories have been called the best collections of Sherlock Holmes stories since Watson penned the original canon.  Thanks to the editorial skills of David Marcum and the sheer number of excellent pastiche authors in the world, this year's entry contains a ...

Could Sherlock Holmes, Franz Kafka, and H.P. Lovecraft Make Sense of Twin Peaks: The Return Episode 8?

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DERRICK:  Okay, in our last article I had said that this entry in our Sherlock Holmes/ Twin Peaks blog series would compare the errors of Twin Peaks to Doyle's errors in the original Sherlock Holmes canon. However, after Twin Peaks episode 8 that entry will have to wait. There's just too much to discuss in episode 8 to let this one go by without a blog response. Be forewarned that, as always, there are spoilers ahead. Whether anything we write could spoil episode 8 is its own topic for debate. Depending on who you ask, episode 8 was either a clear explanation to much of the mystery of Twin Peaks (perhaps too much of an explanation), pure unadulterated madness upon the screen, or some degree in the middle.  What is our opinion of the episode? We used the Sherlockian approach to observe, analyze and deduce. Observe This was easy enough to do as the episode was one of the most captivating hours in the history of television. We saw: *Doppelganger Cooper gets shot...