Novelist | Editor | Essayist | Short Fiction Author
An article I wrote about two-and-a-half years back, covering Philip Jose Farmer's lifelong fascination with Sherlock Holmes, and the Sherlockian influence upon his body of work, is now online. "The Farmerian Holmes" originally appeared in Farmerphile no. 12 (April 2008; now out of print) and appears online by special arrangement with the Offficial Philip Jose Farmer Home Page:
Click here to read "The Farmerian Holmes"
Black Coat Press has posted a story from the forthcoming anthology Tales of the Shadowmen: Femmes Fatales, and my short "Nadine's Invitation" has been selected as the teaser. The story is the second in the regencypunk "Road to Would Newton" series, describing how certain illustrious persons came to be at Would Newton,* England, on 13 December 1795. The first in the series, the Scarlet Pimpernel tale "Is He in Hell?" appeared in Tales of the Shadowmen: Grand Guignol (Jan 2010), and then was revised for The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions (Meteor House, June 2010).
* Would is an accurate spelling, appropriate for the time period.
Now testing one-stop posting with posterous.com.
This should feed through to Bogger, Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal, and Tumblr.
We'll see...
Brad Mengel has kindly posted his thoughts about Crossovers 2: A Secret Chronology of the World, which was published a couple months back by Black Coat Press.
... and testing tumblr.com...
Dr. Wesley Britton over at Bookpleasures.com has reviewed The Green Hornet Chronicles!
This weekend I put some other projects aside, temporarily, to begin work in earnest on a short story for Moonstone Books' Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook, edited by Howard Hopkins.
