Another issue of Peter Blau’s Scuttlebutt
Oh I love a fresh copy of Scuttlebutt from Peter Blau because I can add it to my website and look clever …
Anthony Horowitz’s new Sherlock Holmes story
As earlier reported here, Anthony Horowitz (creator of the popular Alex Rider series) was contracted by the Doyle estate to write a …
Blast from the past
I was browsing the forum at the Sherlockian Who’s Who when I saw a posting about The Case of Sherlock Holmes’ Secretary …
Collection about life of Sherlock Holmes author finds a home
Apparently students of Arthur Conan Doyle now have easier access to a substantial collection of Portsmouth, England, where Doyle practiced as a …
Congratulations, Colin Firth!
I felt … not a disturbance in the Force … but a collective sigh from Austen fans everywhere last night and knew …
Daughters given equal rights to British throne under law changes
Thanks to a unanimous agreement by leaders of the 16 nations who consider the monarch of England their head of state, sons …
Doctor Watson’s Neglected Patients meeting
I am a Holmes scion virgin no longer having just attended the May tea for Doctor Watson’s Neglected Patients in Denver.
Downton Abbey wins at Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2011
Making up for it’s loss of Best Drama at the Royal Television Society program awards, Downton Abbey picked up the award for …
Dr Watson’s Neglected Patients Holmes Birthday Party
Dr Watson’s Neglected Patients recently celebrated the birthday of the good doctor’s friend, Sherlock Holmes, the celebrated detective and cause of all …
Edward Hardwicke obituary
It’s hard to take that Edward Hardwicke, who played Watson to Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes, has died. There is a nice obituary …
Elizabeth composer/artist Chris Williams cheats
Don’t ever play twitter poker with Chris Williams, author, composer and vocalist of the album Elizabeth: Songs Based on Pride & Prejudice. He …
Emma and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes complete
I have finally uploaded all three volumes of Emma and all the stories of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes! A pretty daunting …
Emma without all that pesky text
From Marvel Comics: “Award-winning author Nancy Butler, adapter of Marvel’s best-selling Adaptations, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice brings you another …
February 2011 issue of Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press
Please feel free to share it via email, social network, or embed it on your own site. After all, I stole it …
First meeting of Southern Arizona Sherlockian scion society
Be among the founders of a new Sherlock Holmes society by attending this meeting at Bookman’s Entertainment Exchange in Tucson on March …
Forums added
You may have noticed the new Forums link at the top of the pages. I know the site has grown like Topsy, …
From Gillette to Brett III registration has begun
On the weekend of November 11-13, 2011, Wessex Press is sponsoring another blockbuster Sherlockian conference. Devoted to Sherlock Holmes on stage, screen, …
Google custom news engines
I’ve added two Google news search engine for Austen and Holmes, which you’ll find in the sidebar of the diary. It took …
I am so out of the loop: A Study in Sherlock
I just found this tweet from Leslie S. Klinger: More nice news re “A Study in Sherlock”: Random House will pub an …
Indie Jane has grabbed my attention
And not just because of the eye-popping mauve/pink on their site. From their about page: Indie Jane is a new blog and …
It’s new to me: Regency House Party review
If you hate reality television, resent your emotions being manipulated or think you’re already well versed in the Regency, you will probably …
Jane and the Damned review
After reading of Elizabeth Bennet killing zombies and Elinor Dashwood fighting sea monsters and following Queen Victoria as she learned to be …
Jane Austen Made Me Do It Contest voting begins!
It’s time to start reading and voting on the entries to the Jane Austen Made Me Do It contest. Voting continues through …
JASNA Pikes Peak Region meeting
Sunday June 5 I attended my first meeting of the Pikes Peak Regional Group of JASNA and found myself in a great …
Mansfield Park Opera
I think an opera company that would tackle Mansfield Park, which many regard as a … difficult … book, has to be …
Matches & Matrimony
It sounds like a charming idea, an interactive game/novel based on Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility for the Mac and …
New format for links and glossary
The links and references are already outgrowing their space, so I’ve created a new format for the Link/References pages, with subcategories for …
New John Carter of Mars anthology
New York, NY, May 19, 2011 — Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing announced today it will publish a new original anthology called …
Obligatory “Upstairs, Downstairs” post
I felt I should make some mention of the new “Upstairs, Downstairs,” although I feel very unqualified so to do because I …
P&P&Z finally has director
For such a phenomenally successful series, you’d have thought landing a director was a no brainer (sorry). But finally the film adaptation …