Mark Mower is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association, the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and the Solar Pons Society of London. He writes true crime stories and fictional mysteries. His work includes five volumes of Holmes pastiches, entitled 'A Farewell to Baker Street', 'Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Case-Files', 'Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Legacy', 'Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Epilogue', and 'Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Archive' (all with MX Publishing) and, to date, he has contributed chapters to fifteen parts of the ongoing series 'The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories'.

Mark’s non-fiction works include 'Bloody British History: Norwich' (The History Press, 2014), 'Suffolk Murders' (The History Press, 2011) and 'Zeppelin Over Suffolk' (Pen & Sword Books, 2008).

In the year 1998 CRAIG JANACEK took his degree of Doctor of Medicine of Vanderbilt University, and proceeded to Stanford to go through the training prescribed for paediatricians in practice. Having completed his studies there, he was duly attached to the University of California San Francisco as a Professor.

The author of over a hundred and ninety medical monographs upon a variety of obscure lesions, his travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box is crammed with papers, most of which are records of his fictional works. These include several collections of the ‘Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ – ‘Light in the Darkness’, ‘The Gathering Gloom’, ‘The Treasury of Sherlock Holmes’, ‘The Travels of Sherlock Holmes’, ‘The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘The Histories of Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘The Acts of Sherlock Holmes’ & ‘The Assassination of Sherlock Holmes’ – as well as two Dr Watson novels (‘The Isle of Devils’ & ‘The Gate of Gold’), the complete and expanded Adventures and Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (‘Set Europe Shaking’ & ‘A Mighty Shadow’), and two non-Holmes novels (‘The Oxford Deception’ & ‘The Anger of Achilles Peterson’).

His short stories have been published in several editions of ‘The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part I: 1881-1889’ (2015), ‘Part IV: 2016 Annual’ (2016), ‘Part VI: 2017 Annual’ (2017), ‘Part VIII: Eliminate the Impossible’ (2017), ‘Part XI: Some Untold Cases’ (2018), ‘Part XVIII: Whatever Remains Must be the Truth’ (2019), ‘Part XXIII: Some More Untold Cases’ (2020), ‘Part XXV: 2021 Annual’ (2021), ‘Part XXXII: 2022 Annual’ (2022), and ‘Part XXXVI: However Improbable….’ (2022). Other stories have appeared in ‘Holmes Away From Home: Tales of the Great Hiatus’ (2016), ‘Tales from the Stranger’s Room 3’ (2017), ‘Sherlock Holmes: Adventures Beyond the Canon’ (2018), ‘Sherlock Holmes, A Year of Mysteries – 1881’ (2021), and ‘Sherlock Holmes: Stranger than Fiction’ (2021).

He lives near San Francisco, California with his wife and two children, where he is at work on his next story. Craig Janacek is a nom-de-plume.

Mike's early interest in all things Victorian led to a university degree in English and research on Thomas Carlyle from which he rebounded into writing mostly humour.

His first books were a series of Sherlock Holmes pastiches featuring schoolboy Winston Churchill as the cuckoo in the nest at 221b Baker Street - now available as a box set. A novel and six collections of traditional Sherlock Holmes themed short stories followed, and he is working on further volumes.

His recent novel in which Holmes and Watson are on the trail of the two fiends who stalked London in 1888, Jack the Ripper and the Thames Torso murderer, won second prize in the annual Ripperology Books competition.

His coming-of-age novel set in London in 1963 - Hamlet and Me - is based on his working-class, Anglo-Irish upbringing. A novel set in Rome in 575 AD reflects his interest in early Christianity and all things Roman, and a comedy based on the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election was informed by his annual railroad odyssey around and across the United States on Amtrak.

The 8th in his Sherlock Holmes short story collection, Sherlock Holmes: The Tesla Tele-automaton and other Stories is available on Amazon. For more information on Mike and his books see http://mikehoganauthor.com.

"Marcum could be today's greatest Sherlockian writer, . . . ." Lee Child - New York Times Bestselling Author

"David Marcum is the reigning monarch of all things Sherlockian . . . ." John Lescroart - New York Times Bestselling Author

"Among the best I must number David Marcum, who, by this point has written more Holmes stories than Doyle himself. Characterized by unflagging imagination and ceaseless ingenuity, along with felicitous prose, these tales continue to provide what we all crave: more Sherlock." - Nicholas Meyer - New York Times Bestselling Author

"Marcum himself again demonstrates his gift for emulating the feel of The Canon . . . ." - Publishers Weekly

David Marcum plays The Game with deadly seriousness. He first discovered Sherlock Holmes in 1975 at the age of ten, and since that time, he has collected, read, and chronologicized literally thousands of traditional Holmes pastiches in the form of novels, short stories, radio and television episodes, movies and scripts, comics, fan-fiction, and unpublished manuscripts.

He has edited over sixty books, most Sherlockian-related anthologies, and is the author of nearly 90 Sherlockian pastiches (so far), some published in anthologies and others collected in his own books, "The Papers of Sherlock Holmes", "Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt", and "Sherlock Holmes – Tangled Skeins". He has edited over 800 Holmes pastiches and over sixty books, including several dozen traditional Sherlockian anthologies, including the ongoing series "The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories", which he created in 2015. This collection is now up to 30 volumes, with several more in preparation.

He was responsible for bringing back August Derleth’s Solar Pons for a new generation, first with his collection of authorized Pons stories, "The Papers of Solar Pons", and then by editing the reissued authorized versions of the original Pons books. He is now doing the same for the adventures of Dr. Thorndyke.

He has contributed numerous essays to various publications, and is a member of a number of Sherlockian groups and Scions. He is a licensed Civil Engineer, living in Tennessee with his wife and son. His irregular Sherlockian blog, "A Seventeen Step Program", addresses various topics related to his favorite book friends (as his son used to call them when he was small), and can be found at http://17stepprogram.blogspot.com/

Since the age of nineteen, he has worn a deerstalker as his regular-and-only hat from autumn to spring, and often summer as well. In 2013, he and his deerstalker were finally able make his first trip-of-a-lifetime Holmes Pilgrimage to England, with return Pilgrimages in 2015 and 2016, where you may have spotted him. If you ever run into him and his deerstalker out and about, feel free to say hello!

Thomas Fortenberry is an American author, editor, reviewer, and publisher. A Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and history teacher, he has also judged many literary contests, including The Georgia Author of the Year Awards and The Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction.

For more info and a detailed literary biography, see www.thomasfortenberry.net

Original writings have appeared in English and in translations worldwide in publications such as Amelia, Cicada, Maelstrom, Contemporary Southern Poets, Poetry Magazine, Writer’s Choice, Media Critics Magazine, Fiction Network, Aristokratia, Soul Unmade, Poetry Superhighway, Ariga, Eternity, Gravity, Uno, Lower Than the Angels, Wooden Head Review, Ectopia, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Lumi Virtuale, Storytellers, Left Bank Review, Prairie Poetry, Biblioteca di Babele, Painted Poetry, Main Street Rag, Independence Boulevard, Coast Business Journal, Midwest Book Review, Fait Accomplit, The European Legacy, Poets4Peace, RAWA, EnterText, The World Book of Healing, Haiku Hut, Symbiotic, Verse Libre Quarterly, Taj Mahal Review, Slate & Style, Ya’Sou, Dew-on-line, Saathee, IPM, The Internet Poetry Anthology, Lynx, Peshekee River, Babel Magazine, Reading Matrix, Listening to the Birth of Crystals, The Book of Remembrance, nth Position, Mickle Street Review, Poetrystory, Annetna Nepo, El Nuevo Malcriado, Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts, An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The MX Anthology of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Volume VII, Sherlock Holmes: Some Untold Cases, Sherlock Holmes: Adventures Beyond the Canon, The Sherlock Holmes 2019 Annual, Sherlock Holmes in the Realm of Steampunk, The Art of Sherlock Holmes, The New Adventures of Solar Pons, Mirrormaze, Once More Into the Breach: Atomic Gods and Monsters, Tiger By the Tail: Atomic Gods and Monsters, The Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, and as introduction to books such as Calamity’s Quilt (by Janet Buck), A River Transformed (Wang Wei’s Chinese Poetry Reenvisioned in Modern English, by Gary Blankenship), Face of the Screaming Werewolf (by Ken Gage), Life (by Alice Shapiro), Azsacramerica: The Future of Rebellion and Rebellion of the Future (by Andrei Azsacra), and The Outline of History (by H. G. Wells).

John Linwood Grant lives in Yorkshire with a pack of lurchers and a beard. He may also have a family. When he's not chronicling the adventures of Mr Bubbles, the slightly psychotic pony, he writes a range of supernatural, horror and speculative tales, some of which are actually published. You can find him every week on greydogtales.com, often with his dogs.