Check out my latest blog post below with links to 4 free eBooks, the latest Kiickstarter Holmes project and my Backerkit project, Sherlock Holmes: Mistletoe Mysteries!
Exciting News! The writing phase for Sherlock Holmes: Mistletoe Mysteries is complete! We are now in the editing phase. I am having my regular editor as well as beta readers provide feedback. By the end of August, the book will be fully edited, revised, and ready to go to print. That means once the Backerkit campaign ends on October 1st, we will get the books to you as soon as possible. Everyone should get their print copies by December 1st, in time for the start of the advent.
If you haven't followed the project yet, please do so by CLICKING HERE! We launch on September 10th!
Cover Reveal
For the cover of Sherlock Holmes: Mistletoe Mysteries, the artist, Praneeth, has outdone himself again. This time, he's provided two covers. One is similar to the style of the previous two Sherlock Holmes Christmas books in the series. the other is more realistic. Please vote in the poll below to let me know which version you prefer.
Cover #1 (realistic)
The photo realistic cover, created by hand (no AI) by Praneeth
Cover #2 (similar style as previous covers)
The cover with a more hand painted look, created by hand (no AI) by Praneeth
Please answer the poll below! The poll closes on July 25th. Don't forget, if you haven't followed the project yet, do so by CLICKING HERE!
First, the big news is that my next Sherlock Holmes Christmas collection is launching on Backerkit on September 10th!!! The book will be part of Printopia 2!
Sherlock Holmes Mistletoe Mysteries will follow the same format as Sherlock Holmes Crimes for Christmas and Sherlock Holmes: Holiday Whodunnits. The one big change is that for this anthology, Sherlock Holmes will team up with another detective from the Victorian era.
I'll have updates about the book and Printopia soon. For now, I invite you to follow the campaign by CLICKING HERE!
Also, in honor of the 4th of July, Belanger Books has four free Kindle editions of our eBooks available this weekend. Three books are Sherlock Holmes and one is a horror collection. The links to the books as well as information on our latest Kickstarter project is in our latest blog post. You can read the blog and download the Kindle books by CLICKING HERE!
Please note that the free Kindle editions are available from Amazon.com and may not be available in every country.
Lastly, our friends at MX Publishing have a new Sherlock Holmes locked room mystery from the great Paula Hammond. You can get A World of Wolves - A Sherlock Holmes Mystery on Kickstarter by CLICKING HERE!
I wanted to give you a quick update with more good news. I am currently more than halfway done my work on the next Sherlock Holmes holiday collection. sherlock Holmes and the great Detectives: Mistletoe and Mysteries will be crowdfunded in August! My goal is to have all the rewards, including the print editions, went out no later than the end of September. That will give everyone a chance to read the advent calendar of mysteries in print or digital editions starting on December first!
This one will be a crossover collection where Holmes collaborates with a different great detective in each adventure. Please vote in the poll to let me know which great detective you'd like to see Holmes work with in the book.
I also wanted to let you know about my current Sherlock Holmes Kickstarter publishing project as well as two projects from our friends at MX Publishing.
"Harding was a junior member of staff at the Tankerville Club. That’s where he was found early this morning, just as you saw him, laid out in the Trophy Room with that tiger lying at his side, and the both of them covered in blood.”
Before Watson. Before 221B Baker Street. Before the stories of the Great Detective became legend... there was SHERLOCK HOLMES, a recent college graduate forced to seek charity from his disapproving brother while struggling to build his career as a consulting detective.
A man is found murdered in an exclusive gentlemen's club... and the main suspect is a tiger-skin rug! Inspector Lestrade calls on amateur sleuth Sherlock Holmes to see if he can offer any insights into this baffling case. Holmes soon learns that the members of the club can hardly be said to act like gentlemen. Murder, theft, and thrashing the staff are all de rigueur, but cheating at cards is simply scandalous! As Holmes uncovers more of the perplexing plot, he receives unlikely assistance from an irregular urchin, a canine companion... and club member Sebastian Moran. The game is afoot!
Get this wonderful new Sherlock Holmes novel by CLICKING HERE!
I wanted to give you an update on the next advent calendar book. As I've been working on the stories, I've brought in other Victorian era detectives to work alongside Holmes. Thus, the next Holmes advent calendar book will be titled: Sherlock Holmes and the great Detectives: Mistletoe Mysteries. Solve mysteries with Holmes and Watson as well as Father Brown, The Old Man in the Corner, Lois Cayley, and many more! More details about the book are coming soon!
And if you're looking for more Holmes, here's our latest Kickstarter. We're almost at the STRETCH GOAL!
How do you cancel an assassin's contract –– that you took out on yourself? Alton Hughes is desperate to do so, but has no way to call off the killer, and time is running out! Sherlock Holmes swears to protect his client, but how can he locate an anonymous assassin amongst the teeming millions of London?
Thaddeus Tuffentsamer's new novella provides a tense, gripping tale, challenging the Great Detective to save a life hanging in the balance!
Stretch Goals!!!
If the campaign reaches $1,500, this volume will include Thaddeus Tuffentsamer's classic novella "SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA"!
In 1881, Professor Moriarty is determined to become the Napoleon of Crime. To finance his expanding criminal empire, he unleashes a vile, villainous vermin on London! As the body count rises as quickly as his extorted gains, the professor finds himself checked by a certain amateur sleuth and his companion. No matter... two more bodies will make no difference...
If the campaign reaches $2,000, we'll also include Thad's classic novella "SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE TIGER'S BLOOD"!
Mr. Blanchard has inherited the estate of his late uncle, including a menagerie of rare and exotic animals. Try as he might, his servants will not discuss the circumstances surrounding his uncle's death, only that "...the tiger's blood is on your uncle's hands!" But Mr. Blanchard's uncle never owned a tiger! Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel a most perplexing, peculiar problem...
Help us reach the stretch goals and make the book TRIPLE in size! Back the project by CLICKING HERE!
