George Mann - Associates of Sherlock Holmes

London grinds on in their absence, though it has no shortage of monsters still and horrors to spare, I am sure.

George Mannis the author of the Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box, Sherlock Holmes: The Will of the Dead , the Newbury and Hobbes and The Ghost series of novels, as well as numerous short stories, novellas and audiobooks. He has written fiction and audio scripts for the BBC’s Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes. He is also a respected anthologist and has edited Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy . He lives near Grantham, UK.

Jonathan Barnesis the author of three novels: The Somnambulist, The Domino Men and Cannonbridge . He contributes regularly to the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review . He has written numerous audio dramas for Big Finish Productions, including a cycle of new Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Nicholas Briggs and Richard Earl.

Simon Bucher-Jones, like Mycroft, is a civil servant. Unlike Mycroft, he has permitted his well of intellect to be befouled with the creation of fiction. He’s written or co-written five novels relating to or spinning off from Doctor Who, two books of poetry, a cursed verse play, a novel concerning Dickens’ trip to Mars in 1842, and a steampunk version of A Christmas Carol . This is his first piece of Sherlockiana.

Kara Dennisonis a writer, editor and illustrator born and bred by the Chesapeake Bay. A graduate of the College of William & Mary, Kara began her career as a journalist and localisation expert, serving as a feature writer for Otaku USA magazine, Crunchyroll News and others. Her work can be seen in the Obverse Books anthology The Perennial Miss Wildthyme , multiple volumes of the You and Who line, and the upcoming light novel series Owl’s Flower , illustrated by Ginger Hoesly. She lives with four guinea pigs, whom she occasionally upsets when she leaves home to serve as a host and interviewer at (Re)Generation Who, Intervention and other conventions in the eastern US.

Ian Edgintonis a New York Times bestselling author and Eisner Award nominee. He is currently writing Batman ’66 meets The Avengers (Steed and Mrs Peel, not the other ones!) for DC Comics as well as Judge Dredd, Stickleback, Helium, Kingmaker and Brass Sun for 2000AD .

Other titles include such iconic characters as Wolverine, Batman and the X-Men. He has also worked on a number of film and television properties including Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Predator, Terminator, and Planet of the Apes. In addition, he has written the audio adventures of Doctor Who: Shield of the Jotunn and Torchwood: Army of One.

He has adapted into graphic novels works by bestselling Young Adult novelists Robert Muchamore, Malorie Blackman and Anthony Horowitz as well as literary classics, Pride and Prejudice, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Princess of Mars and the complete canon of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels. He has also written several volumes of Holmes apocrypha, The Victorian Undead , has adapted H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds and written several sequels, Scarlet Traces, Scarlet Traces: The Great Game and Scarlet Traces: Cold War .

He lives and works in Birmingham, England.

Lyndsay Fayeis the internationally bestselling author of five novels. Her latest, Jane Steele , reimagines Jane Eyre as a heroic vigilante killer. The Gods of Gotham , the first book in the Timothy Wilde trilogy, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel and translated into fourteen languages. She is the author of numerous Sherlock Holmes pastiches, including the critically acclaimed Dust and Shadow and the forthcoming short story collection The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes.

Jaine Fennis the author of numerous short stories in various genres and of the Hidden Empire series of character-driven space opera, published by Gollancz.

Nick Kymeis an author and editor who lives and works in Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He has written over fifteen novels and novellas based in the fantasy and science fiction worlds of Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battles, published through the Games Workshop imprint, the Black Library. His novella Feat of Iron featured in the New York Times bestselling novel The Primarchs for The Horus Heresy series, for which he has also edited several collections. He has written many short stories, one of which, “Forgotten Sons”, was part of the New York Times bestselling anthology Age of Darkness , and his short story “Tempest” featured in the Sabbat Crusade anthology edited by Dan Abnett.

Regarding Sherlock Holmes, he wrote the short story “The Post Modern Prometheus” as part of the Encounters of Sherlock Holmes collection, published by Titan Books.

As well as novels and short stories, he also has worked in the video games industry and consulted on the acclaimed Freeblade by Pixel Toys.

Andrew Laneis the author of some thirty-three books ranging across fiction & non-fiction, adult & young adult, historical & contemporary and crime & science fiction. He has been occupied recently with a series of YA novels investigating Sherlock Holmes as a teenager and with building up enough Conan Doyle pastiches to eventually fill his own anthology.

James Lovegrovewas born on Christmas Eve 1965 and is the author of more than fifty books. His novels include The Hope, Days, Untied Kingdom, Provender Gleed , the New York Times bestselling Pantheon series – so far The Age Of Ra, The Age Of Zeus, The Age Of Odin, Age Of Aztec, Age Of Voodoo and Age Of Shiva , plus a collection of three novellas, Age Of Godpunk – and Redlaw and Redlaw: Red Eye , two novels about a policeman charged with protecting humans from vampires and vice versa. He has written three Sherlock Holmes novels, The Stuff Of Nightmares, Gods Of War and The Thinking Engine for Titan Books, and a Holmes/Cthulhu mashup trilogy; the first volume – Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows – is due out in November 2016. His latest series is the Dev Harmer Missions, an outer-space action-adventure series, beginning with World Of Fire and World Of Water .

James has sold well over forty short stories, the majority of them gathered in two collections, Imagined Slights and Diversifications . He has written a four-volume fantasy saga for teenagers, The Clouded World (under the pseudonym Jay Amory), and has produced a dozen short books for readers with reading difficulties, including Wings, Kill Swap, Free Runner, Dead Brigade , and the 5 Lords Of Pain series.

James has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Society Award and the Manchester Book Award. His short story “Carry The Moon In My Pocket” won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Translated Short Story.

James’s work has been translated into twelve languages. His journalism has appeared in periodicals as diverse as Literary Review, Interzone and BBC MindGames , and he is a regular reviewer of fiction for the Financial Times and contributes features and reviews about comic books to Comic Heroes magazine.