Excellent! Time to gather all our former #SherlockHolmes folks from Twitter together.

Oh, @stevewood.bsky.social — I’m jealous! 🤗

#Sherlockian Geoff Jeffrey hired a Brit bookbinder. Look at the leather bound copy of classic soft bound work from Julie McKuras Ray Riethmeier Tim Johnson @philbergem.bsky.social. Also, he had custom cases made for his ARC copies of all 3 of Leslie S Klinger's annotated volumes in paperback.

It was 10,000 in the end. I think the readers will like it. On to the next & last story in this collection. I've promised myself I'll finish this manuscript by next Wednesday morning. I've got about 10,000 more words to go. #writing #sherlockholmes #gothic #ArthurConanDoyle

Well, this is an 8,000 word story. #writing #SherlockHolmes pastiche is complicated by my love of #gothic. The story must be atmospheric but still fair to the mystery reader. Sometimes that takes a few words. My readers (thankfully) seem to be patient with such story telling.

I was fortunate to read an ARC awhile ago--the lead character is very interesting, and the noir is just fun. Check it out...

I got mine....did you?? *very delighted*

This is a great episode, as always, but I have to tell you the best part is the bloopers at the end. I was laughing so much.🤭

Thanks @acdsociety.bsky.social for hosting the fun, as always.

Thinking about finding #sherlockholmes in nearly everything I read at #DotingOnDoyle tonight. #writing #reading #ArthurConanDoyle #Gothic margiedeck.blogspot.com/2026/04/when...

OK, @crumpledlinenpress.com -- you have us drooling. Get on with it..... *taps foot impatiently*

I can hardly wait to have this in my hands…

Many thanks to @bradkeefauver.bsky.social for the fun, surprise gift in the mail— The new #Sherlockian Chronologist Guild handbook. What a treat! 💜

I’m apparently very inspired and intrigued by this book. This one ended up with the most ‘thinking flags’ I’ve put in a new-to-me book in quite some time. #reading 💪💪

Oh, grand. I love these people so much. 💞 Wish I could be in Dayton this weekend. *a million sighs*

Bravo @studyinimagination.bsky.social—You always have something interesting to say. I wish you all the luck.

Another social media account deleted. Down to 2. Some fuss at me, saying "How do you expect to sell your books if you don't write content for followers?" Idk, but I'm not interested in writing "content." I love my SH folks and a few of them like what I write. I suppose it will work out, enough.

Many thanks to @mrsherlockholmes.bsky.social for the kind words. So glad you like the story— it was good fun to write. 💜

I've spent an entire week writing and rewriting the same seven introductory paragraphs over and over. I think I'm *finally* ready to go forward with this work. #writing (and rewriting) #reading (aloud, dozens of times) #sherlockholmes (he hasn't even turned up yet) #gothic (the tone is now right)

The ridiculous Words with Friends now considers “sherlock” a non-proper noun. Of course my BSI friend Bob the Nomad had no trouble unscrambling those letters. 🤨

I think Roo has the right idea for this dreary night…

Also fun for me in this issue of @sherlockholmesmag.co.uk : the great interview with artist Jeffrey McKeever includes the art he created for my story "The Adventure of the Irresistible Woman" as published in The Strand Magazine. I'm lucky! #writing #reading #sherlockholmes

My copies finally arrived! Many thanks to @sherlockholmesmag.co.uk for the generous space and terrific art for my story, "The Problem of the Dreaming Man." SO NICE! #writing #reading #sherlockholmes

Yes, @sherlockeditor.bsky.social and @jeffdkr.bsky.social -- I love this book so much.

Thinking about you @jeffdkr.bsky.social and your book group.... 😗

I'm delighted to be a part of this month's issue. Many thanks to @sherlockholmesmag.co.uk. Don't miss out on some wonderful reading, as always. [Ahem...including my short story, "The Problem of the Dreaming Man"...just sayin' 😉]

I'm reading story notes I made before four months of inertia: "Be sure the death is seen as perpendicular rather than horizontal, symbolic and hidden." WTH does that even mean? (I think we can safely scratch it off. 🤨) #writing (sorta) #reading #sherlockholmes #arthurconandoyle #gothic

I decided to turn around. Not only because of the sign— my dog was acting ‘funny.’ She knew something I didn’t.

Im so excited about this! 👏👏

Same @williammeikle.com, same. I had hoped to make it to June...

I finally have the 2026 Doylean Honors hanging in the library. Sadly I couldn't get a matching frame as that specific one isn't available any longer. I had to settle for sorta-close. Having three seems improbable but here I am. I'm so fortunate. Many thanks to @acdsociety.bsky.social.

This is giving me life tonight. How did I not know it existed?! youtu.be/tcOQSk_cMO0?...

#TFW the magazine proof arrives and all is right: a lovely layout, interesting and beautifully drawn illustrations, fun typography, a light touch of copy editing that makes the thing better. I can hardly wait until I can show actual photos. #writing #sherlockholmes #arthurconandoyle #reading

Best thing I read today-- From the 'People Never Change' department: "Also we see religious men that are sour and fanatical, no rare thing in the party that professes godliness." From Andrew Lang's 'Letters to Dead Authors', 1886, letter to Master Isaac Walton. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...

The football firecrackers from the neighbors have started--the mondo booming kind. It is raining like crazy but that doesn't seem to deter any of the noise. My poor dogs are already upset. It is going to be a long game day for some of us. But, anyway....

#SMH An editor changed my story without telling me. The change makes evident he didn't understand the point; he turned a subtle, Hemingway-iceberg-style 2-sentence dialog about #drwatson's acceptance of #sherlockholmes AS IS into a comment on room furnishings. #writing #reading #editing #steaming

Found this @mysteriousbookshop.com last week. I’ve wanted a copy for ages. And the best part: it is signed—which I didnt notice when I bought it. *Yay!* #reading #writing #sherlockholmes #arthurconandoyle

A new bar/restaurant in Seattle inspired by "...the Diogenes Club of the #sherlockholmes books..." Sadly, for me, it is too far away to be a regular haunt.... www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Many thanks to @acdsociety.bsky.social for choosing #sherlockholmes into the Fire for Doylean Honors in Fiction this year. I'm so delighted! 🤩

And I’m in there somewhere receiving a lovely award for ‘Sherlock Holmes into the Fire’ but I’m too self conscious to watch it. ‘Twas a lovely morning. 🤗

I'm just through TSA. I think the inspection lady and I have to get married now after the way she handled me. Apparently my right ASICS shoe 'alarmed.' I frankly find the whole experience alarming. 🤨 Oh, #sherlockholmes, the things I do for you; off to Denver and then on to NYC. #BSIweekend2026.

Well, this made my morning. 😙 #writing #sherlockholmes #strandmagazine

Well, I may still have a massive #writing block, but this bit came together fairly well—-

*Compliments of the Season* to my fun #sherlockholmes nerd friends and creative #writing friends here. You make my life better.

My grandcat is at the ready! #catsrule #merrychristmas

Egad! @lyradora.bsky.social -- I read the prologue of the first book. I don't have enough adjectives to describe how awful the text is. 😑

@sherlockholmesmag.co.uk is always terrific....

Don't miss the Wessex Cup this year---always good fun. acdsociety.com

Holidays have commenced here: some necessary ornaments in place and Julia’s French onion soup under construction. #sherlockholmes #juliachild #reading #writing #cooking

Thanks again @rileyblakebooks.bsky.social for the post and @andrewpeelauthor.bsky.social for the repost. 'Tis a fun little book. :)