Previous Guests & Performers
Please note, if a guest or performer has appeared multiple times, their latest bio appears here. Thank you to all previous guests and performers for attending 221B Con. - Clicking a photo will take you to their website.
A Finger Slip
Appeared in 2016
A Finger Slip is a web series based on the fanfiction by Pawtal in which a young John Watson gets a new phone and sends a text to the wrong number which happens to be that of Sherlock Holmes. The two build a relationship through texts and help each other through hard times as they grow to become the Detective and Army Doctor that we all know and love. Two years since news of the project first hit the web, the cast and crew are happy to share a first look with the people who made it all possible before its long awaited debut.
Amy Thomas
Appeared in 2014 (as Amy Thomas) and in 2015 (with The Baker Street Babes)
A knitting fiend and book reviewer with a degree in professional communication, Amy Thomas is the author of The Detective and The Woman mystery series starring Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler and podcasts with the Baker Street Babes. Her journey with Sherlock Holmes began when she checked an audiobook out of the library at age eight or nine and was scared to death by “The Speckled Band” and heartbroken by the Fall, until her older sister took pity on her and spoiled the fact that Holmes lived on. She may have, in a fit of BBC Sherlock post-Reichenbach insanity, crocheted miniature versions of Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, and Jim Moriarty.
Angela Misri
Appeared in 2015
Angela Misri is a Toronto author who writes detective fiction inspired by her birth country, Great Britain. The first book in her YA detective series is called “Jewel of the Thames” and follows detective Portia Adams through her first three cases as she emmigrates from 1930s Toronto to the bustling streets of London. The second book in the series is due out in March 2015 and is called “Thrice Burned.”
The Portia Adams books are available in your local bookstores, and at Kobo, Amazon, Indigo, and Barnes & Noble.
Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
Appeared in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022
The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has been bringing quality audio drama to listeners around the world since 1984. Join us in our celebration of the imagination as we preserve this vital, vibrant art form. Our unique, immersive, dramatic technique will feed your imagination and inspire your senses with realistic sound effects and stirring musical scores. Audio drama and radio theatre were seemingly left behind, but the power of stories lives on. Come discover that There is Adventure in Sound!
Ashley Polasek
Appeared in 2013, 2014 (as Ashley Polasek) and 2015 (with The Baker Street Babes)
Ashley Polasek is an internationally recognized authority on Sherlock Holmes adaptations, and will graduate with her PhD in the subject in July of 2014. She has spoken about Sherlock Holmes at academic conferences across the US, UK, and continental Europe. Ashley has published in peer reviewed journals and academic texts relating Holmes to literary and film studies topics as diverse as postcolonialism, feminism, postmodernism, historical period, costume, war propaganda, performance theory, copyright, and fan studies.
Additional Sherlockian activities include being a guest at 221B Con 2013, a speaker for the Scintillation of Scions 2014, volunteering as a dramaturg for Sherlockian plays, and participating as a guest lecturer for the Phoenix Public Library’s Sherlock Holmes series.
In the occasional moments not devoted to Sherlock, Ashley is a college English instructor and lives with her partner Paul Hyde in upstate South Carolina. They will soon add their puppy Jekyll to their family, and are looking forward to enjoying life as one big happy Victorian literary reference.
You can follow Ashley on Twitter @SherlockPhD.
The Baker Street Babes
Appeared in 2014 and 2015
The Baker Street Babes are an all-female group of Sherlock Holmes fans who talk about everything from canon to Cumberbatch, Charles Augustus Milverton to Jude Law, and dancing men to Jeremy Brett.
Ben Syder
Appeared in 2015 and 2021
Ben trained at ArtsEd in London where he graduated with an MA in acting. He has toured the UK and Italy with various plays including: ‘Macbeth of Fire and Ice’, ‘Stitching’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘You were after Poetry’, ‘Cream Tea’ and ‘An Evening with Gary Lineker’. On the screen he has performed in numerous short films and as the lead role in the feature film ‘Sherlock Holmes’, by Global Asylum.
As well as working as an actor, presenter and voiceover artist, Ben’s other passion is writing. He has written short films, which were then produced by the National Film and Television School, and has written and performed in two of his own plays, ‘On the Bench’ and ‘Benched’. He has written two sitcoms, which were optioned by the BBC, with the former winning the All Mixed Up Award for comedy. His first feature film, ‘The Winning Streak’, is currently in development with Bright Cold Day films, and he is due to perform in the pilot for his latest sitcom, ‘Wing Man’, at the end of 2014.
Bonnie MacBird
Appeared in 2016
Born in San Francisco, and the author of ART IN THE BLOOD, A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE, (HarperCollins 2015) MacBird holds degrees in music and film from Stanford, and has spent 35 years in the entertainment industry as a screenwriter/story editor/Emmy winning producer and stage actor. In addition to novel writing, she teaches screenwriting at UCLA Extension’s and directs plays in her spare time. ART IN THE BLOOD is her first novel and HarperCollins UK has contracted her for a three-book Sherlock Holmes series. The second, UNQUIET SPIRITS, is underway. She’s a huge fan of BBC Sherlock, was lucky enough to catch some filming in London on Gower Street, and also admires the Brett, Downey, Norwood, Rathbone and Gillette versions. MacBird has been a Sherlockian since age ten, when she first devoured the Canon. ART IN THE BLOOD is being translated into 14 languages and has recently been released as a paperback. A trade secret… MacBird’s Paget style illustrations and Les Klinger style annotations are available at www.macbird.com. to enhance your enjoyment of ART IN THE BLOOD. She lives in Los Angeles and London where she enjoys attending theatre and spending time with Sherlockians of all ages.
Carolyn Violet
Appeared in 2013
Carolyn Violet is the founder of Wear Sherlock, a blog that focuses on the sets, props, and costumes of the BBC’s newest Sherlock Holmes adaptation Sherlock. The blog also looks at the actor’s personal wardrobes include red carpet outfit dissections (mostly Benedict Cumberbatch’s and Lara Pulver’s) and generally geeks out over Martin Freeman’s Sunglasses. It often hosts Sherlock themed giveaways/competitions, helping the fandom get closer to the props they love! In 2021 Carolyn organized a Sherlockian costume contest as part of The Baker Street Babes’ Sherlopalooza event and gathered some fantastic Sherlock-themed prizes from far and wide. She hopes to do the same for 221B Con’s costume contest.
Curtis Armstrong
Appeared in 2017
Curtis Armstrong is an American actor known for his portrayal of Booger in Revenge of the Nerds films, of Metatron on Supernatural, and of Principal Dawson on The New Girl. He was also the co-host and co-creator of the TBS reality television competition King of the Nerds.
His first role came in the 1983 hit film Risky Business. However, he is probably best known for the role of Booger in Revenge of the Nerds and its sequels. His other films include Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Ray, and Akeelah and the Bee.
In addition to his many acting credits, Curtis is a noted Sherlockian. His new memoir “Revenge of the Nerd, Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger” will be released 07/11/2017 by St. Martin’s Press. In it, he explores his public identity as a nerd, his love of Sherlock Holmes, and the many roles that have made him a beloved actor for over three decades.
Dana Cameron
Appeared in 2022
Dana Cameron writes across many genres, but especially crime and speculative fiction. Her work, inspired by her career in archaeology, has won multiple Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity Awards, and has been nominated for the Edgar Award. Dana's Emma Fielding archaeology mysteries appear on Hallmark's Movies & Mysteries Channel. Dana is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars ("The Giant Rat of Sumatra") and the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes ("The British Museum"). Pandora's Orphans: A Fangborn Collection is her latest book. When she's not traveling or visiting museums, she's usually spinning, weaving, and yelling at the TV about historical inaccuracies.
Daniel Corey
Appeared in 2014
Daniel Corey is a director, screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
Daniel spent four years as writer in residence with the New York Acting Ensemble, where 10 of his plays were produced, several of which he directed. Titles included JOGGERS, PSYCHE IN A BOX, STAR OF INDIA, and THE WHITE ROOM. Several of his screenplays have ranked in distinguished competitions, including Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition and the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Contest.
In 2007, Daniel created DANGERKATT CREATIVE STUDIO, a company that serves as an umbrella for all of his creative endeavors. In 2009, DANGERKATT published PROPHET, a graphic novel written by Daniel, with art by Anthony Diecidue. Since then, Daniel and Anthony have worked together to create a new comic series titled MORIARTY, which follows the misadventures of Professor Moriarty, arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes.
MORIARTY was picked up by Image Comics (THE WALKING DEAD, SAGA, SPAWN) in the latter half of 2010, and the first issue of MORIARTY was released by Image on May 11th, 2011. The first volume collected graphic novel was released September 14th, 2011 under the full title MORIARTY: THE DARK CHAMBER, and volume two debuted March 14th, 2012 under the title MORIARTY: THE LAZARUS TREE. The entire series was collected as the MORIARTY DELUXE EDITION HARDCOVER and released on June 26th, 2013.
Currently in development: More comics, as well as a musical stage production based on MORIARTY. The MORIARTY musical was announced at the Image Expo convention on February 28th, 2012, and will be written by Daniel Corey, with music by Raymond Schnurr.
David Nellist
Appeared in 2016 and 2021
David is currently filming a new 8 part mini series titled Taboo for the BBC. Ridley Scott produces and Tom Hardy stars with a release expected later this year.
Theatre includes - War Horse (National Theatre) Billy Elliot (West End) Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester, West End, Toronto) Much Ado about Nothing, Globe Mysteries (Shakespeare's Globe) The Throne, Unearthed, Magic (New Vic Theatre) Wet House, Searching for Tom, You Couldn't Make It Up, You REALLY Couldn't Make It Up, Toast and Smack Family Robinson (Live Theatre) Blue, Remembered Hills, Close the Coalhouse Door (Northern Stage/Live Theatre) Releevo (Map Studio) Junket (Arcola) , Alf Ramsey Knew My Grandfather, The Likely Lads, the Far Corner (Durham Gala) the Taming of The Shrew (Salisbury Playhouse) Up on the Roof (Colchester Mercury) Hey Hey Good Looking (Soho Theatre) Comedians (Comedy Actors) Elton Johns Glasses (West End) The Warp (Ken Campbell)
Television - Sherlock, Boy Meets Girl, Holby City, M.I High, Omid Djalili Show, Murder on the Victorian Railway, 55 Degrees North, Breezeblock, Rhona, Rough Justice, Sorry About Last Night, Spender (All BBC) Ghostboat, Northern Lights, Place Of the Dead, The Gambling Man, The Student Prince, Badger, The Bill (ITV)
Film - Lady Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Sket (Revolver)
Radio (Close The Coalhouse Door)
Elinor Gray
Appeared in 2016
Elinor Gray started writing fan fiction in 2002, Sherlock Holmes pastiche in 2010, and publishing her original short gay romance in 2012. Her debut novel, Compound a Felony: A Queer Affair of Sherlock Holmes (Full Fathom Five Digital, 2015), was published originally as an e-book, but is now also available in paperback. In 2014, Elinor moved to London on a whim, and spent sixteen months wandering the streets, absorbing the history, and living the culture. She also managed to get her MA in Human Geography from Queen Mary University of London. Her thesis, entitled "'So Ardent a Bicyclist': Women's Mobility in Sherlock Holmes," explored the way the ability of late nineteenth-century women to move in, around, and through the city of London was portrayed in contemporary literature.
While she lived in England, Elinor co-founded the Retired Beekeepers of Sussex in Brighton, and is also a member of the John H. Watson Society, Watson’s Tin Box of Ellicott City, MD, and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. She edits the Retired Beekeepers' bi-annual journal, The Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, and assists with the JHWS publication, The Watsonian.
Get in touch with Elinor at her website, elinorgrayauthor.com, or on Twitter at @elinorgray. You can also find her on AO3 as "mistyzeo".
Furtive Festivity
Appeared in 2019
You’re invited to the most exclusive event in all of London. Can Dr. Watson conceal a surprise party from the world’s most accomplished detective? Can they keep their love hidden from disapproving Victorian eyes? Has Professor Moriarty come back from the dead to exact his revenge? Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Furtive Festivity promises mysteries, mayhem, male-on-male action, and so much more.
Galen Noll
Appeared in 2013
Galen Noll, currently an investigator for the Houston County Public Defender’s Office, got his start working as a patrol officer for the Warner Robins Police Department in 1972. Shortly thereafter he moved onto Investigator and eventually Criminalistic Unit Supervisor. Working in criminalistics, he processed crime scenes, collected evidence, evaluated latent prints, shoe prints, and blood splatters. His certifications held have included Senior Crime Scene Analyst, Latent Print Examiner, Police Training Instructor and Identification Technician.
Geek Vs Podcast
Appeared in 2019
Things are about to get weird on the podcast when Tony, Casey, and Betty get together weekly to provide a “nerd’s eye view of pop culture.”
These only children geeks have somehow managed not to kill each other, as they do battle with movies, television, and all things pop culture.
Howard Ostrom
Appeared in 2019, 2022
His older sister read the Nancy Drew Mysteries. He liked those Nancy Drew mysteries, so the local librarian suggested, being a boy, that he read Sherlock Holmes or the Hardy Boys. He never enjoyed the Hardy Boys, but loved the Sherlock Holmes Adventures and read them all multiple times by about age 8 or 9. Therefore when his parents got their first TV, when he was 9, his lifelong appreciation of the screen appearances of Sherlock Holmes began.
Over the years he has authored numerous specialty essays on Holmes in the media, many of which have been made into the Diogenes Documentaries found on YouTube. He maintains the A-Z list of Sherlock Holmes performers which has over 7,800 entries and 1,600 photos. He is the author of “The Sherlock Holmes Cyclopaedia, Volume 1: Sherlock Holmes on Screens 1929-1939” (2018), “The Sherlock Holmes Cyclopaedia, Volume 2: Sherlock Holmes on Screens 1940-1959,” and “The Sherlock Holmes Cyclopaedia, Volume 3: Sherlock Holmes on Screens 1960-1969,” which will debut at 221B Con.
Hysteria Machines
Appeared in 2016 and 2017
Atlanta's own Nerdlesque and Pop Culture Burlesque collective, featuring the production talents of Sketch MacQuinor and Persephone Phoenix!
Jacquelynn Morris
Appeared in 2019
Jacquelynn Morris has been in a long-time love affair with Sherlock Holmes. Though said affair is rather one-sided, she has found it to be nonetheless thrilling, exciting, fulfilling, and edifying. As Holmes is the master of disguise-- crossing lines of gender identification, culture, and even time itself--Jacquelynn has found her adoration of the Great Detective enhanced with each incarnation. She welcomes opportunities to share her obsession...er...love of Holmes with anyone willing to listen, or anyone whom she can corner until they can escape the awkwardness.
Jacquelynn is a long-time fan of the 221B Con and all of its founders, whom are among her Favorite People in all the World.
Jana Oliver
Appeared in 2014
(Victorian Crime; Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper; Progression of New Scotland Yard)
Jana Oliver has the perfect job—she listens to the voices in her head and then writes their stories. Her latest creation, BRIAR ROSE, is a dark steampunk retelling of Sleeping Beauty, complete with Hoodoo, a vengeful Civil War ghost, and metal magic.
In Jana’s young adult Demon Trappers series, Riley Blackthorne, Atlanta’s first girl Demon Trapper, takes on a host of Hellspawn and their diabolical masters. This award-winning series has spread across the globe, with editions in ten countries.
Jana’s foray into time travel and alternate history resulted in the Time Rovers series. Set in 1888 London, the series deftly blends time travel, shape-shifters and Jack the Ripper. The trilogy received twelve awards, including the Prism Award for Time Travel and the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense.
When she’s not daydreaming, she can be found savoring a growing collection of single malt scotch and old books. Visitors are always welcome at her website: www.JanaOliver.com
Dr. Karen Dill-Shackleford
Appeared in 2015
Karen, also a lifelong mystery fan, is a media psychologist specializing in the ways immersion into the world of fictional stories influences our everyday lives. She has twice given expert testimony before Congress on media violence, and her study of interactive media violence led to the American Psychological Associations’ Resolution on Violence in Video Games and Interactive Media.
She is the author of How Fantasy Becomes Reality, soon to be out in its second edition, and of an extremely popular blog of the same name at www.psychologytoday.com.
Karen also has the unique distinction of having so irked the designers of “Grand Theft Auto” they named a prissy car after her. The Karin Dilletante is a car you can steal and crash in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Kelle Z. Riley
Appeared in 2019
Kelle Z. Riley, writer, speaker, global traveler, Ph.D. chemist and martial artist, weaves bits of her real life into the Undercover Cat Series books. The series features a scientist-turned-sleuth who juggles mystery, romance, and the search for a perfect cupcake recipe.
By day Kelle is a full-time chemist working in water treatment with multiple U.S. patents. At night she turns into an author whose accolades include finals in the RWA Golden Heart and numerous chapter contests. More information on her workshops can be found on her website.
Kristina Manente
Appeared in 2013 (as Kristina Manente) and in 2015 (with The Baker Street Babes)
Kristina Manente is twenty-five going on forty-five and still believes in dreams. American in mind but English at heart.
Nothing gives her more joy than writing. Recently, her first novel, Something Amusing, was privately published. She’s now working on pitching it to larger publishers and securing a literary agent.
In close second is her love for the great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. In May of 2011, she started The Baker Street Babes Podcast, an all-female Sherlock Holmes outfit that talks everything from canon to Cumberbatch. Through the podcast, she’s been privileged enough to speak to some of the greatest Sherlockians of the day as well as those associated with the Warner Brothers movie franchise and the terrific BBC Sherlock series. Kristina also enjoys baking and photography, as well as being a very proud dork and nerd. Her favorite color is purple.
Lee Shackleford
Appeared in 2015
Lee is a lifetime Sherlockian, best known as the author of the play Holmes & Watson, which premiered off-Broadway in 1990 with Lee in the role of Sherlock Holmes. Immediately after that, Hollywood called in the form of Star Trek: the Next Generation, where one of Lee’s story pitches became “Ship in a Bottle,” featuring the Holodeck’s version of Professor Moriarty.
As a cartoonist and essayist, Lee has been a longtime contributor to The Baker Street Journal and other Sherlockian publications. As a public speaker, he has given talks throughout the southeast on Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Liese Sherwood-Fabre
Appeared 2022
Liese Sherwood-Fabre knew she was destined to write when she got an A+ in the second grade for her story about Dick, Jane, and Sally’s ruined picnic. After obtaining her PhD, she joined the federal government and worked and lived internationally for more than fifteen years. Returning to the states, she seriously pursued her writing career, garnering such awards as a finalist in RWA’s Golden Heart contest and a Pushcart Prize nomination. A recognized Sherlockian scholar, her essays have appeared in scion newsletters, the Baker Street Journal, and Canadian Holmes. She has recently turned to this passion into an origin story series on Sherlock Holmes. The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife, the first book in The Early Case Files of Sherlock Holmes series, was the CIBA Mystery and Mayhem 2020 winner. The fourth case, The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait, will be released April 19th.
Appeared in 2013
Louis Robinson was a BBC radio and TV producer for 30 years. He is a graduate of the London Film School and began his BBC career as a film editor. He has worked on Doctor Who, Doomwatch, and many other BBC dramas. As a writer he has written comedy scripts for fifteen years on shows with included Call My Bluff and Telly Addicts.
Louis says he has been a Sherlockian ever since the age of 10 when his father read him the Hound of the Baskervilles. His first Holmes “book” was a Classics Illustrated comic of A Study in Scarlet, a copy of which is in Louis’ exhibition at this 221B COn. He has met most of the current Holmes actors including Jeremy Brett, Peter Cushing, Tom Baker and Watsons such as Edward Hardwicke and Edward Fox.
He now lives in Atlanta and spends his time as a singer/songwriter and guitar teacher.
Louis Robinson
Appeared in 2013
Louis Robinson was a BBC radio and TV producer for 30 years. He is a graduate of the London Film School and began his BBC career as a film editor. He has worked on Doctor Who, Doomwatch, and many other BBC dramas. As a writer he has written comedy scripts for fifteen years on shows with included Call My Bluff and Telly Addicts.
Louis says he has been a Sherlockian ever since the age of 10 when his father read him the Hound of the Baskervilles. His first Holmes “book” was a Classics Illustrated comic of A Study in Scarlet, a copy of which is in Louis’ exhibition at this 221B COn. He has met most of the current Holmes actors including Jeremy Brett, Peter Cushing, Tom Baker and Watsons such as Edward Hardwicke and Edward Fox.
He now lives in Atlanta and spends his time as a singer/songwriter and guitar teacher.
Lyndsay Faye
Appeared in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018 (as Lyndsay Faye) and 2015 (with The Baker Street Babes)
Lyndsay Faye is the internationally best-selling author of the Sherlock Holmes novel Dust and Shadow (currently being adapted into a musical), the Edgar-Award nominated Timothy Wilde trilogy, and the Edgar Award-nominated Jane Steele, currently being adapted into a feature film by 1492 Pictures. She also just released her newest novel, The Paragon Hotel.
She is a plot writer for the Eisner Award-nominated racebent comic Watson and Holmes, and her Sherlock Holmes pastiches for the Strand Magazine and other publications were recently published in the collection The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes. Faye has been translated into 14 languages and is a proud member of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes, the Baker Street Babes, the Baker Street Irregulars, and the Curious Collectors of Baker Street.
She lives in Queens with her husband and cats and is thrilled to be back at 221B Con!
M'Shai S. Dash
Appeared 2022
M'Shai S. Dash is a blogger, digital content creator, and writer from Washington, D.C. She began writing music and poetry as a child, and later discovered a love for speculative fiction. After appearing in PBS's Legacy: Black and White in America, she began speaking publicly about social justice issues, the contributions of people of color in speculative fiction, and the power and reach of digital storytelling in a social media driven world. Dash has spoken at the Apollo Theater, Charles Sumner School, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Blerdcon DC, Trinity University College, AFO Theater, MiraCosta College, and MultiverseCon.
Dash's writing has been featured in Blavity, For Harriet, Blackscifi.com, and Madame Noir, and she is a former co-host of Black Sci-fi TV, an award-winning public access television show which airs on PhillyCam. Her short stories have appeared in The Scribes of Nyota: Our Voices, Our Imagination, A Compendium, and in the Awakened Voices online magazine. Her recent releases are a volume of poetry called Woman In Sujud, and a debut collection of short stories titled Quirky Black Sci-Fi Tales: Volume I.
Most recently, a poem from Woman in Sujud was featured in the art catalog for The Black Angel of History: Myth Science, Metamodernism, and the Metaverse, at Carnegie Hall.
Martin Powell
Appeared in 2017
Martin Powell has written hundreds of stories in numerous genres for Disney, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Capstone Books, among others. Nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award for his work with Sherlock Holmes, he has written many of the most popular characters in the industry, including Superman, Batman, Popeye the Sailor, Dracula, Frankenstein, and Tarzan of the Apes. His Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan won the coveted Moonbeam Golden Award for Best Children's Graphic Novel of 2010. Powell is the co-creator of The Halloween Legion, a recent nominee for the Stan Lee Excelsior Award, and is also an educational writer for Gander Publishing, dedicated to improving literacy reading skills for students of all ages.
Nancy Springer
Appeared in 2018
Nancy Springer is a lifelong professional fiction writer who has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery -- although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession. Her newest book, forthcoming in May, 2018, is THE ODDLING PRINCE, an epic fantasy set in fey Scotland as it never was. But her most popular works, no contest, are a series of short novels about Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister. Beginning with THE CASE OF THE MISSING MARQUESS, these six books have been optioned in a major film deal by Legendary Productions. Emmy-nominated young actress Millie Bobby Brown will star in the brilliant, devious and daring role of Enola Holmes. Nancy Springer could not be more thrilled.
S(her)lock
Appeared in 2016
S(her)lock: The Web Series is a feminist, LGBTQIA-positive take on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is a British woman, living in Portland Maine in 1995. Her family of choice includes her friend Dr. Johanna Watson, a trans woman, and their landlord Mr. Hudson, a drag queen. Holmes solves case after case, but the public has no idea! Detective Lestrade claims credit for all her greatest accomplishments.
Kate Tracy (executive producer) and Eric Cieslik (cinematographer) will be showing three full episodes ("The Adventure of Mo Money Mo Problems" based on The Resident Patient, "The Adventure of the Devil's Dance" based on The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, "The Adventure of the Dreamlover" based on Case of Identity) and showing previews of our fourth episode ("The Adventure of Charlotte Agnes Milverton" based on Charles Aguston Milverton).
Stephanie Osborn
Appeared in 2013
Stephanie Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran of over
twenty years of working in the civilian space program, as well as various
military space defense programs. She has worked on numerous Space Shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her résumé. Of those astronauts she trained, one was Kalpana Chawla, a member of the crew lost in the Columbia disaster.
She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences: Astronomy,
Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and she is “fluent” in several more, including Geology and Anatomy. She obtained her various degrees from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN and Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, TN.
Stephanie is currently retired from space work. She now happily “passes it forward,” teaching math and science via numerous media including radio, podcasting, and public speaking, as well as working with SIGMA, the science fiction think tank, while writing science fiction mysteries based on her knowledge, experience, and travels.
Stephen Seitz
Appeared in 2014
Sherlock Holmes has been a part of Steve's life since the age of 12, when, while putting homework off, he discovered The Hound of the Baskervilles in the stacks at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro, Vt. More than 40 years later, he is still an avid Sherlockian and speaks to scion societies on occasion. Naturally, more of his Sherlock Holmes stories are on the way.
Steve's reporting experience informs every page of his Ace Herron mystery series. Nearly 20 years of covering crime from arrest through trial has given Steve a solid understanding of how the criminal justice system works, and, more importantly, the reporter's role as observer. Steve also wants to correct the thoroughly inaccurate picture most people have about news reporting. It seems no one who includes journalists in their fiction has ever met one. With Ace, Steve hopes to bring readers a little closer to the mark.
T.D. McKinney
Appeared in 2013
T. D. first read A Study in Scarlet at the age of ten and immediately fell for Holmes and the world Doyle created. An addict of the Great Detective, she achieved a life-long dream with the publication of a successful pastiche, Kissing Sherlock Holmes, written with best friend and co-author, Terry Wylis. In addition to glowing reviews, Kissing Sherlock Holmes won First Place--Historical Novel in the prestigious 7th Annual Passionate Plume Romance Writers of America contest.
T. D. lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of north Texas with her husband and daughter. In her spare time, she studies criminal profiling and has trained under premier profiler John Douglas, FBI retired. She likes to hang out on Tumblr.
Terry Wylis
Appeared in 2013
The author of numerous successful romance and suspense novels, award-winning author Terry Wylis enjoys exploring the intimate nuances of character in her works.
Terry entered the Holmesian world considerably later than her co-author, T.D. McKinney, first with the Granada Television series and, more recently, as an avid fan of the BBC's Sherlock, but she's always been a mystery buff, from the Hardy Boys to Mary Higgins Clark. A fascination with both the FBI and the forensic sciences has led to much study in related fields.
In addition to her literary pursuits, Terry enjoys Shakespeare, poetry, crocheting, reading, New Orleans, British film and TV, psychology, and world cultures, along with whatever field happens to strike her fancy at the moment. She lives in Utah with her family.
You can find Terry on both Twitter ("Terry Wylis") and Tumblr (http://terrywylis.tumblr.com/) or learn more about her and T.D. McKinney by visiting their co-blog at http://terrywylis.wordpress.com.
The Extraordinary Contraptions
Appeared in 2014
Part lover's caress, part pugilist’s fist, songs of THE EXTRAORDINARY CONTRAPTIONS are sonic space-time adventures. This patent-medicine man, time-traveler, gentleman explorer, and madman advance the steampunk rock movement with 2012 album The Time Traveler's Constant, employing danceable prog rock and Victorian aesthetics in genre-bending, aggressive-waltzing stories of steam and strife.
The FANDom Nerdlesque
Appeared in 2018 and 2019
We are a collective of performers that specialize in burlesque theatrical productions surrounding pop culture and geek themes.
Hardcore nerds getting softcore onstage.
Cosplay style burlesque with artsy shenanigans from all of our favorite (and hopefully soon to be your favorite!) Fandom!
Prepare to be Dommed with all the other fans!
The Game is Afoot
Appeared in 2013
"The Game is Afoot," is the revolutionary steampunk/mystery/comedy/puppet show unlike any steampunk/mystery/comedy/puppet show you've ever seen. Join consulting detective Grimpen Meyer and his partner-in-crime-fighting Dr. Basil Persley Sage Rosemary-Thyme as they foil the maniacal machinations of malevolent miscreants in the fantastical alterna-land of Albion.
Tori L.P. Kelner
Appeared in 2019
Toni L.P. Kelner was in junior high when she first read the Sherlockian Canon in her father’s 1930’s hardback edition, and she’s been a fan of the Great Detective ever since. Kelner is the author of eleven mystery novels, has co-edited seven anthologies with NYT Bestseller Charlaine Harris, and has published over thirty short stories. Her most recent story is “The Adventure of the Six Sherlocks,” published in the Sherlockian anthology For the Sake of the Game, edited by Laurie King and Leslie Klinger. As Leigh Perry, she writes the Family Skeleton mysteries and has written even more stories. She’s been nominated for the Anthony, Macavity, and Derringer awards multiple times, and has won the Agatha Award and the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award. No matter what you call her, she lives north of Boston with her husband, one of the daughters, a guinea pig, and an ever-increasing number of books. (The other daughter lives in Atlanta, and Toni hopes to lure her to 221BCON.)
Tracy Revels
Appeared in 2013
Dr. Tracy J. Revels is a professor of history at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, where she offers a class on Sherlock Holmes in the Humanities. She is the author of the supernatural-themed pastiches Shadowfall and Shadowblood, as well as three academic works on Southern history. She is a member of the Survivors of the Gloria Scott scion society in Greenville, SC, and has been a Sherlockian since the age of 11. She also runs a Sherlock Holmes blog, Strictly Sherlock.
