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Sherlock Holmes news: an audiobook and a Kickstarter

I have two excellent bits of news about some of my Sherlock Holmes short fiction!

An audiobook of a recent anthology is now out and a different anthology is launching through Kickstarter in August!

Audiobook

A while ago, the anthology Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot was published, featuring stories about Holmes and Watson in alternative universe settings. My story, ‘The Problem of the Three Journals’ puts them in contemporary Melbourne – they run a cafe called The Sign of Four, where John is a barista and he helps Sherlock, a perpetual science student, solve mysteries for their customers!

The audiobook of that anthology, which I wrote about in April, is now out through Audible and Audiobooks.com. I’m delighted that ‘Three Journals’ is being read by a New York-based Australian actor, Jamie Jackson.

(I’ve listened to Mr Jackson’s reading of my story and I can’t tell you how delightful it is to hear my words brought to life! Sherlock hilariously ruining a nasty bloke’s love life at the start is my jam!)

If audiobooks are your jam, you can get it here:

Kickstarter

In the meantime, Belanger books is releasing an anthology of stories that are sequels to original Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories.

I’ve written a sequel to ‘The Blue Carbuncle’ – I was never terribly happy that Holmes and Watson were sitting down to dinner while they knew an innocent man was still held in prison.

The three-volume anthology, Sherlock Holmes: Adventures Beyond the Canon, is being funded through a Kickstarter campaign that will go live in August.

My story, ‘A Gentleman’s Disagreement’, will appear in the first volume. I’ll post again when the Kickstarter launches, so this is just waving hello to people who like to support books through them.

For more information on the other stories and authors from the anthology, there’s a blogpost on Belanger‘s site.

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Audiobook coming for Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot

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Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot is the second volume of an anthology series that places Sherlock Holmes (and often John Watson) in various alternative realities.

The first volume included versions where Holmes was a nun, a dog-like alien and even a parrot!

My story in this new volume, ‘The Problem of the Three Journals’, recasts Holmes and Watson as contemporary Australian hipsters! John’s a barista in the cafe they co-own and they still solve crimes together.

The book is due out on 24 April, which is not far away now – and the publisher has just announced that actors have been engaged to read the audiobook!

I’m absolutely thrilled to find that New-York-based Australian actor, Jamie Jackson, will be reading ‘The Problem of the Three Journals’, and thereby getting the accent right!

The other performers on the upcoming audiobook are Korey Jackson, Karen Chilton and Jonathan Todd Ross.

The full table of contents, and the actors who’ll be reading each story, are:

  • ‘The Problem of the Three Journals’ by Narrelle M Harris –Jamie Jackson
  • ‘Six Red Dragons’ by Keith RA De Candido– Korey Jackson
  • ‘The Adventure of the Diode Detective’ by Jody Lynne Nye –Karen Chilton
  • ‘Investigations Upon Taxonomy of Venomous Squamates’ by R Rozakis –Korey Jackson
  • ‘Papyrus’ by Sarah Stegall –Jonathan Todd Ross
  • ‘My Dear Wa’ats’ by Hildy Silverman – Karen Chilton
  • ‘A Scandal in Chelm’ by Daniel M Kimmel –Jonathan Todd Ross
  • ‘The Affair of the Green Crayon’ by Stephanie M McPherson –Jonathan Todd Ross
  • ‘A Study in Space’ by Derek Beebe –Korey Jackson
  • ‘Sin Eater and the Adventure of Ginger Mary’ by Gordon Linzner –Karen Chilton
  • ‘The Adventure of the Double-Sized Final Issue’ by Mike Strauss –Jamie Jackson
  • ‘A Very Important Nobody’ by Chuck Regan –Jamie Jackson
  • ‘Ho Ho Holmes’ by Nat Gertler –Jonathan Todd Ross

I don’t know yet when the audiobook will be out, but in the meantime you can pre-order Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot from Amazon, ready for delivery on 24 April!