Belanger Books Sherlock Holmes and Other Readings Blog

Belanger Books continues to offer free weekly eBooks during the month of April to provide reading material for those of you currently under lock down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. For this week, we have both a free Sherlock Holmes children's eBook and a free Solar Pons eBook . This is alo the last week for students (and adults) to submit a story for In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (details below). This Week's Free eBooks The Reminiscences of Solar Pons Once more the most successful of pastiche-detectives, Solar Pons, walks on stage with a new sequence of adventures. In this fourth major collection, Solar Pons is engaged with an intriguing variety of problems — the curious puzzle of the antique sovereign boxes narrated in the novelette, "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"; the sanguine riddle of the body in the thirteenth coffin told in "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"; the perplexing matter of the man devoted t...

Hi everyone, Belanger Books is excited to announce calls for more publications in 2019 and 2020!  Authors, there are plenty of anthologies out there to choose from involving Sherlock Holmes, Solar Pons, and other great detectives!  Our publications will range from the traditional ( The Early Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ) to another Realms collection ( Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Edgar Allan Poe ) to more sequels ( Beyond the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ). We will also have a Solar Pons horror collection entitled, The Necronomicon of Solar Pons .  See submission guidelines for all of our upcoming anthologies below. Announcing "The Great Detective Universe" What if Sherlock Holmes Wasn't Alone? While Sherlock Holmes is the best remembered detective from the Victorian and Edwardian periods, there was a rich plethora of other sleuths solving crimes throughout the world at the same time. The Great Detective Series from Belan...

Attention authors and prospective authors!!! Belanger Books has a call for submissions for three upcoming anthologies!  See requirements and deadlines below!! First up, we have an anthology for those who like to mix science fiction with Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk Like Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells , this collection will feature all new traditional Sherlock Holmes adventures with a science-fiction edge. Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk will feature Holmes in a futuristic Victorian setting.  See him deal with airship pirates and steam powered robots. Maybe he’ll even deal with a time traveler or with alien invaders.   Belanger Books is calling for submissions from writers, new or established, which are between 5,000 - 10,000 words (it is okay to be over or under some).  Requirements: The stories must feel like traditional Holmes just with...