Having been encouraged for quite a while to create a blog, I finally did so, with some trepidation. Here it is, then, a work in progress, a steep learning curve on public display, a location to pass on news, and also a place to let me, on an irregular basis, review and comment on life and the things that entertain or distress me.
If you’re looking for a Seventeen Step Program to cure you of anything, then I’m afraid that this is the wrong place. However, if you know anything about Sherlock Holmes, you’ll recall that his rooms at 221b Baker Street were reached by climbing seventeen steps. Many a client climbed that narrow stairway, seeking assistance and guidance from the Great Detective. Hopefully people will find something of use here.
My name is David Marcum, and the primary purpose of this blog will be to relate thoughts about my interest in things related to the traditional and Canonical stories of Sherlock Holmes. At other times – and don’t expect something every day or even every week – I may comment on other interests as well. (People who know how much time I spend reading and writing about Holmes may find this hard to believe, but I’m actually interested in many other things.)
In the past, I’ve produced several books that relate new adventures of Mr. Holmes. Currently, I’m in the last stages of editing and completing a new and massive Holmes-related project, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, to be published in the autumn of 2015 by MX Publishing. It’s not too late to get on board by supporting the effort through Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1229605719/the-worlds-largest-new-sherlock-holmes-story-colle/description
The three-volume hardcover set will have a total of nearly 1,300 pages, and features participation by over 60 of today’s finest Sherlockian writers, both best-selling and up-and-coming. The royalties from the project will be used to benefit the Stepping Stones School at Undershaw, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s former residences that has a strong association with the Holmes stories.
More information about this collection can be found at these links:
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-07-15/largest-ever-collection-of-new-sherlock-holmes-stories-will-raise-money-to-restore-conan-doyles-house
http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/07/behind-worlds-largest-new-sherlock.html
http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/08/authors-reflect-on-part-1-of-worlds.html#more
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tech-giant-donates-stunning-venue-sherlock-launch-steve-emecz
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conan-doyle-estate-backs-record-breaking-collection-steve-emecz
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_16/275-6827942-2232911?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=mx+book+of+new+sherlock+holmes+stories&sprefix=mx+book+of+new+sherlock+holmes+stories%2Cstripbooks%2C708
I will be back with more information about the anthology, along with other future projects, as it becomes available.
It’s been crazy up to now for me to think about blogging, but now that I’m here, let’s see what happens . . . .
©David Marcum 2015 – All Rights Reserved
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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 is the author of over sixty Sherlockian pastiches, some published in anthologies and magazines such as The Strand, 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 fifty books, including several dozen traditional Sherlockian anthologies, such as the ongoing series The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, which he created in 2015. This collection is now up to 21 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. 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!
His Amazon Author Page can be found at:
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B00K1IKA92?_encoding=UTF8&node=283155&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=author-sidecar-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader
and at MX Publishing:
https://mxpublishing.com/search?type=product&q=marcum&fbclid=IwAR12tH4SUvE9nmEnnuqeI5GC7Tv69-NagPgmAZlxcz0vr2Ihza5_6jP-fXM
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