Mystery fans, I have a Christmas treat for you today! In January, 1892, The Strand magazine published Arthur Conan Doyle’s one and only Sherlock Holmes story set at Christmastime. (more…)
#MyrtleMondays: A Sherlockian Christmas
Myrtle Mondays: ‘Tis the Season to be Spooky—the ghost stories of a Victorian Christmas
The experienced reader knows it was Christmas Eve, without my telling him. It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story. …For ghost stories to be told on any other evening than the evening of the twenty-fourth of December would be impossible in English society as at present regulated. –Jerome K. Jerome, “Told After Supper,” 1891
It’s no secret that I love ghosts. In my considered opinion, a ghost can improve pretty much any story. For this reason (along with the whole dressing-up bit), Hallowe’en has always been my favorite holiday. But Victorian England had an entirely different holiday for telling ghost stories, and that holiday was… Christmas! (more…)
#Myrtle Mondays: Myrtle in Translation
I am so excited to share the news that Premeditated Myrtle has been picked up for (so far) two foreign/translation editions: Russian and German. These are my very first foreign sales, so I am doubly doubly excited! (Quadruply excited? Excited squared?)
Here’s last week’s announcement from Publishers Marketplace:
Huge thanks to the fine folks at Rights People for making this possible. I’m thrilled to have Myrtle & Co. in the capable hands of Von Dem Knesebeck and The Five Quarters.
Peony in German is Pfingstrose!!
