Sherlock Holmes in the 21st Century -- 99c

[Tony Richards]

Sherlock Holmes in the 21st Century (Immortal Holmes)

Did you know that Sherlock Holmes is immortal? Well he is ... he's still among us to this very day, travelling the world and solving all the most confounding crimes. From the arid deserts of the southwestern United States, to the white, glistening beaches of the Caribbean, even to the seething, humid streets of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Great Detective is still at work and astonishing modern man with his vast powers of deduction. The only problem is, these new mysteries are not simply man-made. Supernatural powers are in play, and Holmes finds himself facing the most baffling cases of his entire extended life ... and the most dangerous.

And here's its first Amazon review: http://amzn.to/ssK2Nm

“I would read an entire novel of modern-day Holmes from Tony Richards” – Flames Rising.
“Richards is a master” - RT Book Reviews.
“A terrific author.  A unique and eloquent voice” - John Pelan.
“One of today’s great masters of dark fiction, a hell of a writer” - Horror World.
“Man, can this guy write. He has the power to introduce you all over again to the pleasures of reading good prose” - Ed Gorman.
“For the sheer pleasure of reading a story by a master of the art, he is hard to beat” - Black Static magazine.
“An amazing voice” - James A. Moore.
“Tony Richards always turns in a first-class story” - Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.

I have 2 novels from HarperCollins on Kindle and 2 collections from Dark Regions Press. I also have more than a dozen self-published ebooks -- fantasy, SF, vampires, mystery, supernatural, horror, and more Sherlock Holmes -- which are all at the sample price of 99c: http://amzn.to/m4ihme

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tony Richards is the author of 7 novels from Harpercollins, Tor, and Pan Macmillan and has seen more than one hundred short stories in print, most of them in magazines like Isaac Asimov's SF, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery, F&SF, Weird Tales and Cemetery Dance. He has been shortlisted for both the HWA Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award.

[Tony Richards]

I think I ought to add a little more, both about myself and this book, since I am fairly new to Kindle. I'm based in London, England, and have been writing imaginative fiction -- supernatural, horror, dark fantasy, sf -- for several decades. Although I'm British, most of my hard-copy books are published in the States these days, either HarperCollins for novels or Dark Regions Press for collections of short stories. And I write what I know -- I didn't learn about the locations mentioned in the above post by reading them up, I've been to all three places.

SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE 21st CENTURY -- at 24,000 words -- is intended as a foretaste of a much larger work. The first Holmes story I wrote is coming out in September in Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes from Edge Publications, and is set in Las Vegas. And I've written other stories setting the Great Detective in San Francisco, New York City, Hong Kong and Paris. Another few more and I'll have the material for a full-sized book. And if things go well on Kindle, then I'll probably publish it here.

[Steve Vernon]

Hey Tony. Glad to meet you. I've had a couple of stories in Edge anthologies myself. Always thought their Sherlock Holmes anthologies looked pretty cool.

If you wrote and released a few more Holmes stories and then re-released them as an e-book collection with a bit of new material you might do all right for yourself...

[Tony Richards]

That thought did occur to me, Steve. Good to meet a fellow Dark Regions author, by the way.

[Tony Richards]

I've a page on The Indie Book Lounge by the way, with a much better outline of all my books on Kindle. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/rsEOwl

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[Tony Richards]

This is easily the best-selling of my books on Kindle, so far.

[Tony Richards]

Ten stories are now complete and with my agent. Here's your chance for a preview.

[Tony Richards]

And you can find out more about my fiction at my website: http://richardsreality.com

[joshtremino]

That idea sounds pretty cool. It also reminds me a lot of Dr. Who. Looks like an interesting read!

[Tony Richards]

I hadn't thought of Doctor Who, but I can see the link. Hope you do enjoy it.

[Tony Richards]

You can get full-sized collections of my work in hard print and on Kindle – and Midnight’s Angels, the latest novel in my Raine’s Landing supernatural thriller series – from Dark Regions Press:
http://www.darkregions.com

[Tony Richards]

Two more of my Dark Regions books will be out on Kindle before too long:
My latest collection of short fiction, Our Lady of the Shadows.
And Midnight’s Angels, the third in my series of supernatural thrillers set in the strange town of Raine’s Landing, Massachusetts, where the real witches of Salem fled.

[Tony Richards]

There's an interview with me in which I talk about my work on Kindle here:
http://www.monsterlibrarian.com/TheCirculationDesk/

[Tony Richards]

Here's the link to my blog, which has news of all my latest publications both in print and on Kindle:
http://raineslanding.blogspot.com

[Tony Richards]

October is turning out to be the best month yet for my ebooks. Thanks to all who've bought them.

[Tony Richards]

My latest collection -- Our Lady of the Shadows -- is getting rave reviews. You can find out more about it on my blog (above). I'll let you know as soon as it is out on Kindle.

[Tony Richards]

And the same goes for my new Raine's Landing novel.

[Tony Richards]

There'll be more Sherlock Holmes stories coming later in the year, two whole books of them most likely.

[Tony Richards]

I now have 11 ebooks on Kindle. The links to the complete list are further up this page.

[Tony Richards]

The second book in my Immortal Holmes series -- More Sherlock Holmes in the 21st Century -- is now available.

[Tony Richards]

There's even an illustrated book on the way.

[Tony Richards]

David Wingrove -- author of the epic Chung Kuo science fiction saga -- is the guest writer on my blog this week: http://raineslanding.blogspot.com

[toadhall]

Tony, have you considered publishing Immortal Holmes books on other services such as Smashwords? I ask because being a Malaysian as well as a bit of a Sherlockian myself, I am quite intrigued with the idea that Holmes would come to the very city I live in!

Unfortunately, the kindle store is not available in Malaysia and I have no way of buying your book at the moment so it would be great if you published it with Smashwords or something.

Thanks!

[Tony Richards]

I'm looking at going onto things like Smashwords and Kobo in the near future, Toadhall. It's largely a case of finding the time to deal with issues like formatting. May I say, by the way, how very much I enjoyed visiting your beautiful country. I was in Kuala Lumpur and then Penang and had an amazing time.