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Jim Nelson
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Writer, coder, pedestrian. Author of A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE (MX Publishing), ACCORDING TO CAIN, and more. I blog about books, film & writing.

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It's here!

"A Man Named Baskerville" now available on audiobook, narrated by the one and only Michael Langan.

"A very original, sometimes dark, page-turner of an addition to new Holmes fiction." – Janetility

www.audible.com/pd/A-Man-Nam...

#SherlockHolmes #Audiobook #booksky💙📚
A Man Named Baskerville
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. He took on Sherlock Holmes and lost. Now he wants revenge. In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, laying to rest t...
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Free Sherlock Holmes audiobooks - did you know that from our 450+ audiobooks, we give away codes to about 40 every week? mxpublishing.com/pages/free-a...
September 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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August 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Only in San Francisco: Local paper does blind taste tests of connoisseur bagels using a blindfold *delivered* from a local fetish shop.

Still flying the freak flag, folks.

Winner: Wise Sons bakery. I'm partial to Schlok's.

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#SanFrancisco #Food #Baking
We blind-tasted bagels from five of SF’s best shops. Here’s what won.
We put some of San Francisco’s best bagels — Boichik, Laundromat, Schlock’s, Wise Sons, and Bones — in a head-to-head contest. Here are the results.
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July 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Recently learned that the audiobook of "A Man Named Baskerville" is available over at Apple Books. A preview is available—

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#BookSky #SherlockHolmes #CrimeFiction
‎A Man Named Baskerville: The Sherlock Holmes Classic Retold (Unabridged)
‎Mysteries & Thrillers · 2025
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July 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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"Blade Runner" got it backwards. Instead of Voight-Kampff tests to prove artificiality, we're building Kampff-Voight tests to prove humanness.

#AI #SciFi #Booksky
July 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
First wrote about this in December 2002, looks like it's happening after all. I might have to subscribe to AppleTV after all.

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#Neuromancer #AppleTV
July 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Scott Andrew started a text adventure 40 years ago. Now it's finished for anyone to play.

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#InteractiveFiction #VideoGames
You can now play "The Plot of the Phantom," the text adventure game that took me 40 years to finish | Scott Andrew
Gnarled JavaScript warlock, musician, cartoonist, dilettante.
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June 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Hey, 497 reviews of my books on #Goodreads, think I can make it to 500 in short order?

goodreads.com/_jimnelson_

#booksky
June 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Readers are finding AI prompts in fiction, mistakenly left behind by authors in their rush to publish.

One writer has pub'd over 170 books. Another puts out a novel a month.

This isn't writing. This is microwaving lasagna and calling it haute cuisine.

#BookSky

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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style
A scammer was caught red-handed after publishing an AI-generated book on Amazon. The novel, titled "Darkhollow Academy : Year 2," was penned by an author, who goes by Lena McDonald, and falls under a ...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Three-for-two sale on MX Publishing's latest books, including mine, "A Man Named Baskerville"—

"A fine addition to the ever growing Sherlockian universe" – Paul Bishop, Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Great deal for fans of Sherlock Holmes and crime & historical fiction

#BookSky #Fiction #SherlockHolmes
3 for 2 on all our 2025 books - many pre-publication titles too mxpublishing.com/collections/new-books...
May 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Some time back, I wrote about how to mix things up with writing workshops, and how to (hopefully) improve the experience.

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#writing #writingcommunity #workshops
Three alternatives to the Iowa writing workshop format
Liz Lerman The workshop is so pervasive in the writing world it's been converted to a verb: workshopping.  Although workshops occur in disparate settings (academic, informal, living-room writing group...
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May 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Reedsy reviews - A Man Named Baskerville "Apart from crime and mystery lovers, this book is for all SH fans." reedsy.com/discovery/bo...
A Man Name Baskerville by MX Publishing - Reviewed by Raju Chacko
Review: Revisiting Baskerville: A case for the dissatisfied, notorious Jack Stapleton?
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April 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"A Man Named Baskerville" placed fourth on the MX list in its debut month, and currently has six 5-star reviews on Audible!

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The Top 24 Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks in February - Short Story Collections Dominate mxpublishing.com/blogs/news/the-top-24-sh...
The Top 24 Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks in February
Short story collections dominate once again forming four out of the top five collections (and eight of the top ten). Caiden Cooper Myles has both of his collections doing very well. Steve Herczeg has two more volumes in production at the moment too.   1.   The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Book II – Caiden Cooper Myles and Luke Barton 2.   The Crimson Trail and Other Stories – Brenda Seabrooke and Kevin E Green 3.   The Six-Thirteen from Fairfield Junction and Other Cases of Sherlock Holmes – Denis O Smith and Kevin E Green 4.   A Man Named Baskerville – Jim Nelson and Michael Langan 5.   The Improbable Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Nick Cardillo and Rob Sogomonian 6.   The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Caiden Cooper Myles and Luke Barton 7.   The Additional Investigations of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Hall and Michael Langan 8.   The Rediscovered Annals of Sherlock Holmes – Terry Golledge and Michael Langan 9.   Beasts of London – Janina Woods and Daisy Plant 10. The Selected Cases of Doctor Watson – Martin Daley and Kevin E Green 11. Sherlock Holmes and the Affair of the Contentious Contralto – Fiona-Jane Brown and Steve White 12. Sherlock Holmes and the Folk Tale Mysteries, Volume 2 – Gayle Lange Puhl and Kevin E Green 13. Tales of Light – Tracy Revels and Michael Langan 14. The Curious Cases of Sherlock Holmes – Volume Two – Stephen Herczeg and Michael Langan 15. The Demon of the Dusk – Arthur Hall and Nick Crosby 16. The Adventure of the Inconvenient Heir-Apparent – Tom Turley and Keith Spilsbury 17. The Curious Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Volume One – Stephen Herczeg and Michael Langan 18. Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Metropolis – Allan Mitchell and Steve White 19. Sherlock Holmes Investigates – Susan Knight and Michael Langan 20. Tales of Shadow – Tracy Revels and Michael Langan 21. Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Heka – David Marcum and Luke Barton 22. A Most Diabolical Plot – Tim Symonds and Time Winters 23. Sherlock Holmes – Eliminate the Impossible – Paula Hammond and Michael Langan 24. The Further Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes – Volume 1 – Denis O. Smith and Kevin E Green For more audiobooks click here.
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March 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Releasing Monday - a special hardcover edition of 'A Man Named Baskerville' www.amazon.com/Man-Named-Baskerville-Jim-... He took on Sherlock Holmes and lost. Now he wants revenge.
A Man Named Baskerville
A Man Named Baskerville [Nelson, Jim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Man Named Baskerville
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March 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Reminder that Standard Ebooks has so many great high-quality books free for download. They stay on top of the latest work released to the public domain, so you'll find things you may not realize are freely available. Too much good stuff.

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#BookSky
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February 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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It's here!

"A Man Named Baskerville" now available on audiobook, narrated by the one and only Michael Langan.

"A very original, sometimes dark, page-turner of an addition to new Holmes fiction." – Janetility

www.audible.com/pd/A-Man-Nam...

#SherlockHolmes #Audiobook #booksky💙📚
A Man Named Baskerville
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. He took on Sherlock Holmes and lost. Now he wants revenge. In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, laying to rest t...
www.audible.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
It's here!

"A Man Named Baskerville" now available on audiobook, narrated by the one and only Michael Langan.

"A very original, sometimes dark, page-turner of an addition to new Holmes fiction." – Janetility

www.audible.com/pd/A-Man-Nam...

#SherlockHolmes #Audiobook #booksky💙📚
A Man Named Baskerville
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. He took on Sherlock Holmes and lost. Now he wants revenge. In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, laying to rest t...
www.audible.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Reminder that Standard Ebooks has so many great high-quality books free for download. They stay on top of the latest work released to the public domain, so you'll find things you may not realize are freely available. Too much good stuff.

standardebooks.org

#BookSky
Standard Ebooks
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.
standardebooks.org
February 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Oh, that crawly sensation you get when you’ve sent your manuscript to the copy editor for proofreading, and you realize you have more story to tell.
February 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Readers & friends from Canada and New Zealand have asked why my books aren't available on Kobo. It's something I've been meaning to do and have put it off.

Over the next few months, I'll be moving my back catalog to Kobo, one by one. Watch this space for developments…
February 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Hashes at the Internet Archive

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Hashes at the Internet Archive (And System-Generated Files in General)
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February 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Unboxing the proof for the hardcover special edition of A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE from @mxpublishing.bsky.social

Very excited! Cover and layout looks superb. Will soon be signing copies for Kickstarter donor gifts.

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February 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM