In May of 2014 the Sherlock Holmes Society of Canada - better known as The Bootmakers (www.torontobootmakers.com) - announced a contest for a new Sherlock Holmes story. Although he had no experience writing fiction, the author submitted a short Sherlock Holmes mystery and was blessed to be declared one of the winners. Thus inspired, he has continued to write new Sherlock Holmes Mysteries since and is on a mission to write a new Sherlock Holmes mystery inspired by each of the sixty stories in the original canon. In real life he writes about and serves as a consultant for political campaigns in Canada and the USA, but would abandon that pursuit if he could possibly earn a decent living writing about Sherlock Holmes. He currently writes from Toronto, Tokyo, and Manhattan. Fellow Sherlockians should feel free to contact him at Sherlock75Holmes@aol.com.