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Greetings and salutations!
My name is Stephanie Osborn, and I'm a writer. I do science fiction mysteries, in particular the Displaced Detective series, which is how I come to be here - I had done some search engine optimization on my website and wanted to check its success and the link to a post here showed up! I love the BBC Sherlock series! This should be fun!
Now, off to actually put some things into my profile!
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Nice to have you here, Stephanie, welcome! 
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Joining us? Good idea. Welcome and have fun!
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Welcome, Stephanie, nice to have a writer here. Hope you'll have fun.
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Hello and welcome Stephanie.
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... and we've got another one! 
Welcome here and enjoy yourself!
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Ahh, brilliant! Yeah, I posted a link to your books a while back. They look pretty interesting although I haven't got round to reading any yet. Nice to have a famous person in our midsts! 
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Well thank you all very kindly! I know the rules are not to promote here, and I won't. But should anyone want to ask questions, I am more than willing to answer. And if you want a book or a link to order, ping me on PM or something. That's as much as I'll say, and we'll move on.
Oh, and I'm on...um, Facebook (Novelist Stephanie Osborn), Twitter (@WriterSteph), LinkedIn (Stephanie Osborn), MySpace (Novelist Stephanie Osborn), Google+ (Stephanie Osborn), Tumblr (steph-osborn), and Formspring (AlienChangeling).
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I didn't feel like I had a whole lot to add, but just throwing in another 'hi' too! When the title was first mentioned on here, just wanted to say the idea /did/ sound neat... must have been interesting tackling! Already in the middle of reading King's pastiche series... another neat look of after-the-stories Holmes, and if weren't so swamped by a gazillion other books and movies that are my addiction, might get to it sooner! (although props to amazon for letting me sample a bit of it...) ;)) What other pastiches did you like, too, that maybe led to you doing your own?
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Have only read maybe 1-2 of Ms. King's books. Did not contain enough Holmes to suit me, personally. But that's just me.
Well, seeing as how my pastiche series is a science fiction mystery set, I'd have to say that there are some interesting works out there that place Holmes in an SF setting. The first one I encountered was the one about Sherlock Holmes And The War of the Worlds, or something like that. H.G. Wells being one of the authors that SF writers teethe to anyway, LOL. And shortly before I started writing the first book, I devoured a Holmes SF anthology. I can't remember its name now and there is no telling where in my personal library it has got to. (My husband has a tendency to file things in a "what do I lay hands on first" manner, whereas I tend to go with library groupings. But he often takes my stacks and files them away when I am out of town, so...) I do remember that one of the stories was a supposed murder - rather violent - in which an inventor trying to develop anti-gravity was killed, and it turned out that he was NOT murdered, but killed by his own invention, as Holmes proved when he pointed out that the blood spatters all ran the wrong way on the inside of the ship.
And I thought, "Hm. Other people are doing it. Maybe I could have some fun with this." At that time I had no idea that anyone else had made Holmes a time-traveler, but I still ended up putting my own little twist on the concept. (Well, of course Rathbone's Holmes was set in WWII, but it still kinda wasn't TIME-TRAVEL as such. And this was before the BBC's Sherlock was even a concept.) So I'm pretty pleased with it.
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I am sick. Not a Dying Novelist, by any means, and actually getting well. But I am Bored, Bored, Bored. So I am going to add onto the above.
So anyway, I mulled over this idea of Holmes in an SF mystery, what my husband now calls "Sherlock Holmes meets the X-Files," and the first thing I had to do was to get around Holmes as a fictional character. What's funny is that all along there have been discoveries that end up justifying my scientific extrapolations in the books, right down to a demonstration of alternate realities in Houston about a year or so ago. And then the "plot bunny" bit, and hard. How hard?
Well, the average novel is about 80,000-110,000 words, with the average being about 100K.
My first draft came in at 215,000 words.
In two months.
And then I started the next story. Oy.
Yeah, I love Holmes, I love the world(s) I created, and I found the series of books that I can write in for the rest of my life.
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“It is patently obvious that this equipment is far more advanced than anything in my brother’s accounting office…”
~Sherlock Holmes, The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival
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