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I feel great when my books are released to the public. Sure, it’s a bit nerve-wracking to send my fledgling child of a manuscript into the hands of complete strangers, but it’s also delightful and invigorating. What could be better than that?

Well, it’s an even greater thrill when my stories become e-books, because they suddenly become accessible to a whole new audience. Knowing that people who love the printed page and people who love e-reader technology can both access what I write is a great feeling.

Imagine my excitement when I found out several months ago that a large print edition of my first book, The Detective and The Woman: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes was going to be printed for those with visual challenges. I was thrilled that yet another audience would have access to my work, an audience that has access to a limited number of printed…

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Posted by mxpublishing on February 22, 2013 in Uncategorized

Top 10 MX Sherlock Holmes books on Nook – 29th January

29 Jan

The Case of the Grave Accusation by Dicky Neely at the top of the top 10 MX Publishing Sherlock Holmes books on Nook Books today.

#576,489 The Case of the Grave Accusation A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

#576,576 Watson’s Afghan Adventure

#611,088 A Case of Witchcraft

#654,767 Barefoot on Baker Street

#736,399 Bertram Fletcher Robinson – a Footnote to the Hound of Baskervilles

#875,157 Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes

#981,618 Baker Street Beat

#1,065,621 Murder In The Library

#1,090,103 Shadowfall a novel of Sherlock Holmes

#1,157,903 In Search of Dr Watson

For a full listing of Nook Holmes books check out the Sherlock Holmes Nook Books page on Pinterest.

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Posted by mxpublishing on January 29, 2013 in ebooks, Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags: nook books, sherlock holmes, sherlock holmes nook books

Review copies of Sherlock Holmes books for fans with iPad

24 Jan

For those lucky fans with iPads, every week MX Publishing gives away 10 review copies of a different Holmes book to fans on their iPad list. This week’s give-away is Holmes Sweet Holmes by Dan Andriacco, the second in the Sebastian McCabe and Jeff Cody series. To get on the reviewers list you can subscribe here http://eepurl.com/rHS_9

Lots of Sherlock Holmes books for the iPad on P interest.

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Posted by mxpublishing on January 24, 2013 in Book Reviews, ebooks, Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags: book review, iPad, sherlock holmes, sherlock holmes ipad books

Top 10 MX Sherlock Holmes books on Nook – 18th January

18 Jan

Watson’s Afghan Adventure by Kieran McMullen at the top of the top 10 MX Publishing Sherlock Holmes books on Nook Books today.

#407,370 Watson’s Afghan Adventure

#557,937 The Case of the Grave Accusation A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

#568,206 Baker Street Beat

#588,073 A Case of Witchcraft

#655,280 Barefoot on Baker Street

#736,252 Bertram Fletcher Robinson – a Footnote to the Hound of Baskervilles

#742,817 Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes

#1,042,261 Murder In The Library

#1,067,008 Shadowfall a novel of Sherlock Holmes

#1,137,739 In Search of Dr Watson

For a full listing of Nook Holmes books check out the Sherlock Holmes Nook Books page on Pinterest.

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Posted by mxpublishing on January 18, 2013 in Book Publishing, ebooks, Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags: dr watson, nook books, sherlock holmes, sherlock holmes nook books

Top 20 Sherlock Holmes Books on Kindle – 11th January

11 Jan

Sherlock Holmes and Young Winston – The Deadwood Stage by Mike Hogan at the top of the top twenty MX Sherlock Holmes books on Amazon Kindle USA today.

#67,916 Sherlock Holmes and Young Winston The Deadwood Stage

#77,521 Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Edinburgh Haunting

#123,259 Baker Street Beat

#124,552 Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Snowman

#169,688 The Untold Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

#189,312 Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Bulgarian Codex

#211,938 Sherlock Holmes and The Peculiar Persecution of John Vincent Harden

#214,743 Sherlock Holmes Have Yourself a Chaotic Little Christmas

#223,167 Shadowfall

#232,688 The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

#248,959 Sherlock Holmes and The Lyme Regis Trials (Lyme Book 3)

#251,527 The Real Sherlock Holmes

#255,299 Holmes Sweet Holmes (Sebastian McCabe novel 2)

#267,044 Holmes and Watson End Peace

#280,473 Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania

#310,682 No Police Like Holmes (Sebastian McCabe novel 1)

#325,230 Murder in the Library

#345,224 The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes

#352,164 Anomalous

#370,879 Sherlock Holmes at The Lyme Regis Legacy (Lyme Book 2)

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Posted by mxpublishing on January 11, 2013 in Book Publishing, Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags: amazon kindle, kindle books, sherlock holmes, sherlock holmes kindle books

Sherlock Holmes Society of London reviews Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus by P C Martin

08 Jan

“Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus by P C Martin. I suppose the combination of Sherlock Holmes and Steampunk was inevitable. Guy Ritchie’s first Holmes film had elements of Victorian super science, but the true hybrid flowering is in Steampunk Holmes. Full details are at www.steampunkholmes.com, but for the less elaborately electronically enabled, such as me, the first adventure is now available in its most accessible form: i.e. a book. Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus places Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in a world where electricity has yet to be developed, the internal combustion engine is irrelevant, and steam power has been developed to the highest degree. Holmes’s favoured transport is a powerful motorcycle. Watson sports a mechanical right arm. And Mycroft Holmes is Sherlock’s beautiful, devastatingly intelligent sister. The story, as you’d expect, involves Captain Nemo and his famous submarine, cleverly working them into a reimagining of ‘The Bruce-Partington Plans’. With character portraits by Daniel Cortes and a superb cover by John Coulthart, it’s very stylish – though for the best of Mr Cortes’s illustrations you’ll need to check the website. “

Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of The Nautilus is available from all good bookstores including in the USA Barnes and Noble, Amazon and in the UK Amazon and Waterstones. For elsewhere Book Depository offer free delivery worldwide. Also available on Kindle.

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Posted by mxpublishing on January 8, 2013 in Book Reviews, Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags: book review, sherlock holmes, sherlock holmes society of london, steampunk holmes

Sherlock Holmes Society of London reviews The Hound of Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Play by Simon Corble

04 Jan

“The Hound of Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Play by Simon Corble. The Hound of Baskervilles doesn’t easily lend itself to the theatre, but dramatists seem unable to resist the challenge. I’ve not had the chance to see it performed, but Simon Corble’s play is pretty close to the top of my list of favourites. It was written to be performed out of doors, with the audience following the actors from place to place. Mr Corble boldly adapts the story rather than simply dramatising, and the result is clever, witty, exciting – and refreshingly intelligent. David Stuart Davies contributes an appreciative foreword, and the text is enhanced by a dozen photographs and superb atmospheric cover, using photos taken during a production at Brimham Rocks in North Yorkshire.”

Hound of The Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Play is available from all good bookstores including in the USA Amazon and Barnes and Noble, in the UK Waterstones, Amazon and Book Depository (free worldwide delivery).

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Posted by mxpublishing on January 4, 2013 in Book Reviews, Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags: book review, sherlock holmes, sherlock holmes play, sherlock holmes society of london

Review of Rugby World Cup Argentina 2023 by The Buenos Aires Herald

29 Dec

Rugby column
By Frankie Deges

“The second book is the labour of love of a Kiwi-born, Brazilian resident Paul Tait. For reasons that beat me, he has written, in English, the very interesting “Rugby World Cup Argentina 2023” in which he analyses the many reasons why after the England (2015) and Japan (2019) World Cups, the following should come our way. He sounds like a lunatic, but some of the ideas he puts across are interesting.

Not that the Argentina Rugby Union have already taken notice of this book, but he has done a lot of research on what makes rugby in our country tick and how to best distribute such a tournament. I’d love to go with him on this one…the current national scenario makes me sceptic to say the least. But he has a dream and he’s put it over 286 pages of compelling reading.”

Rugby World Cup Argentina 2023 is available from all good bookstores including in the USAAmazon and Barnes and Noble, in the UK Amazon and Waterstones. For other countries Book Depository offer free delivery worldwide.

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Posted by mxpublishing on December 29, 2012 in Book Reviews, Rugby History, Sport

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Sherlock Holmes Society of London reviews 56 Sherlock Holmes Stories in 56 Days by Charlotte Anne Walters

26 Dec

“56 Sherlock Holmes Stories in 56 Days by Charlotte Anne Walters. After submitting her novel Barefoot on Baker Street, Charlotte Anne Walters set herself the task of re-reading all the short stories in the Canon, one a day, and writing about each of them on the same day for her blog at http://barefootonbakerstreet.wordpress.com/. For the book publication she has added her observations on the four long stories. Her remarks are often amusing, occasionally thought-provoking (why so little protest about the uncanonical back-story for Mary Morstan in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes? I suspect it’s because so much else in the film is defiantly uncanonical), and always personal and entertaining. She seems unaware that the text in the Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes is American, and differs in several instances from what was (and ought still to be) the standard British text. And I can assure her that marriage between first cousins was and is perfectly acceptable in British law – and church law, if it comes to that. Royalties from the book go to the Undershaw Preservation Trust. “

Roger Johnson

56 Sherlock Holmes Stories in 56 Days is available from all good bookstores including in the USA Barnes and Noble, Amazon, in the UK Amazon and Waterstones. For elsewhere Book Depository offer free delivery worldwide. In ebook format there is Amazon Kindle,Nook and iPad format.