Schedule of author appearances: Aug 2, 2pm, Book Carnival in Orange, CA; Aug 3 Sisters in Crime Panel 2pm at Radford Studio Center, Studio City, CA(must sign up ahead of time); Aug 16, 2pmPacific Live YouTube Launch! (If you miss it live it is recorded for viewing later!); Aug 23, 2pm The Book Jewel in Westchester, CA; Aug 25 Coffee with the Author at the Canyon Lake Library, CA. Please RSVP to jeriwesterson@gmail.com

#OneADayFacts Day20/Last Day #THEMISPLACEDPHYSICIAN #booksky #readersky The book releases tomorrow 1 July!🎉🍾 Get your copy. Or order from Book Carnival in Orange, CA or The Book Jewel in Westchester, CA for a #signedcopy. The #audiobook releases Aug 12. #CozyVictorianMystery #SherlockAdjacent #humor

#OneADayFacts Day19 #THEMISPLACEDPHYSICIAN #booksky #readersky I grew up with the Rathbone/Bruce Holmes films. Fox set them in Victorian England while Universal updated them. Used to hate that, but with time, understood that it was propaganda, that even Holmes was on the case getting Nazis.

#OneADayFacts Day18 #THEMISPLACEDPHYSICIAN #booksky #readersky How to portray #Holmes in one's own pastiche? Carefully, I say. I frame MY Holmes from the books and visually, from the performance of Jeremy Brett, the quintessential Holmes in writing accuracy and in performance books2read.com/u/bPjP0R

These are the original Victorian photos of my characters. Actually, the photos are anonymous, I just thought they looked like the characters I had in mind. It's really wonderful having photos. Not the thing when you are writing medievally. On the left is my image of Ben Watson, a black man with a beard, and standing in a dignified pose with a rather long watch chain from his upper waistcoat down to a lower pocket (It could also just be glasses), and on the right is Tim Badger, a dapper white fella, who looks like he's trying to be the proper gent with a bowler tilted down over one eye, sitting with his hands resting on his cane.

Ad for the Misplaced Physician with a Sherlockian background of a book, a magnifying glass, a pipe, and a deerstalker hat with the words of the blurb for the boo by bestselling Sherlockian author Bonnie MacBird: "Thoroughly Engaging Read! Recommended!"

#OneADayFacts Day17 #THEMISPLACEDPHYSICIAN #booksky #readersky What makes it a #SherlockianPastiche? It's centered on Holmes and his stories. So mine is Holmes *ADJACENT*, because the focus is NOT him, but my own original characters, one of whom was a former #BakerStreetIrregular see alt text below

Engraving of an 1890s steam locomotive (engine)

Cover of my Sherlockian book The Misplaced Physician, golden in color, with a white silhouette of the 1890s London skyline, with a bowler hat as the logo to my series "An Irregular Detective Mystery" and potion bottle for some reason, and the quote from bestselling Sherlockian author Bonnie MacBird: "A thoroughly engaging read"

#OneADayFacts Day16 #THEMISPLACEDPHYSICIAN #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky I really had to delve deep into how to run a locomotive in 1895 England. A steam locomotive in England--the place of their birth--wasn't too different from others in the US, but there are differences (see comments)

#OneADayFacts Day15 #THEMISPLACEDPHYSICIAN #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky 1/2 (see more in the first comment) The blossoming romance between Tim Badger (a Cockney from the East End and the former Baker Street Irregular from the book series title) and...

Victorian illustration of these ragged street urchins with the caption 'It's the Baker Street Division of the detective police force", though it was only Sherlock Holmes who employed them.

#OneADayFacts Day14 #THEMISPLACEDPHYSICIAN #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky 1/2 Who were the Baker Street Irregulars of the series name? Holmes hired street urchins, pretty young boys to do what they did best: scour London for people or things he was looking for having to do with his case...

The Misplaced Physician Check out this great listen on Audible.com. When Doctor John H. Watson is kidnapped while Sherlock Holmes is out of the country, private investigators Timothy Badger and Benjamin Watson must find the ...

#OneADayFacts Day13 #AnIrregularDetectiveMystery #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky Print releases 1 July, #audiobook releases Aug 12. My narrator is a true performer. He creates the voices I hear in my head. Great characterizations, great performance, fun listen. tinyurl.com/3eyrjb7y

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes looks out his window to Baker Street below and sees...a giant cover of THE MISPLACED PHYSICIAN. The caption says: "Well, well! Badger & Watson at last."

#OneADayFacts Day12 #AnIrregularDetectiveMysteries #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky For much of the period that #ConanDoyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories (1887-1927) readers thought he was a real person. They wrote to him. They still do. #theBakerStreetMuseum answers the letters now...

Three photos of late Victorian women in all their corseted finery, with wide-brimmed hat and lots of feathers.

A fancy Victorian gentlemen photographed in his pin-striped suit, homberg hat, with beard and moustache.

A cluttered Victorian drawing room with wallpaper even on the ceiling, tchotchkes everywhere, rugs, stuffed chairs and a decorative sideboard with mirror and shelves for more tchotchkes.

A Victorian bedroom with flowered wallpaper, pictures in rectangular and oval frames, fireplace with arched opening, desk and chair, tchotchkes on low tables, and a brass candle chandelier hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the room.

#OneADayFacts Day11 #AnIrregularDetectiveMysteries #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky I love the mores and culture of this late #Victorian period. The look of the Victorian living spaces is a reflection of the formality with which they deal with one another. Formal homes, formal internalizing.

#OneADayFacts Day10 #AnIrregularDetectiveMysteries #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky I delve into all the Doyle stories many times, finding something new with each read that only the most rabid fan will recall. Even if YOU miss it in the book, it still informs the work books2read.com/u/bPjP0R

#OneADayFacts Day9 #AnIrregularDetectiveMystery series. #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky Ellsie Moira Littleton is based on real female reporters of the day. It might interest you to know that by the 1890s it was a common thing to have female reporters on staff in all the major newspapers.

#OneADayFacts Day8 #AnIrregularDetectiveMystery series. #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky Speaking Victorian English isn't too far from modern English, except for fewer contractions for the upper class, lower class contract all they want. Swearing, too, is reduced to ruddy, bloomin', dash it!

#OneADayFacts Day7 #AnIrregularDetectiveMystery series. #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky #railways #EnglandsRailways #traintravel I researched train travel & fell down the rabbit hole of when trains were invented in England. They started in 1825 as coal delivery from the mine to the coast...

#OneADayFacts Day6 #AnIrregularDetectiveMystery series. #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky #railways #EnglandsRailways #traintravel It's Badger and Watson's first foray out of the city they've both lived in all their lives, and into the country...and they are fish out of water...

#OneADayFacts Day5 #AnIrregularDetectiveMystery series. #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky I like to show how different Badger & Watson's life was before Holmes stepped in with financial help. They'd never been on a train before, and having your Bradshaw guide was essential. More in comments

#OneADayFacts Day4 #AnIrregularDetectiveMystery series. #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky In 1895 London, you got mail delivered 12 times a day! That was better than sending a telegram. Maybe even better than texting since people don't always respond to texts right away. #readersky #booksky

#OneADayFacts Day3 #AnIrregularDetectiveMystery series. #Sherlockianpastiche #booksky #readersky I purposely bring diversity to my books. Black people were in England since the Tudor times, but especially the Victorian period. Ben Watson (R) is a thoughtful man/compliment to action-man Tim Badger.

#OneADayFacts Day2 If you are looking at my week of #gaslamp/steampunk series posts, that's where my sudden romance with the Victorian came from. I used that research to begin writing my #AnIrregularDetectiveMystery series. Who doesn't love a #Sherlockianpastiche? #booksky #readersky

#book drops 1July. #OneADayFacts Day1: I keep the books canon/true to the Holmes stories. I consider the #HolmesCanon as historical documents and don't deviate from them with a wife, daughter, son, dog for Holmes, because none of that makes sense given the characters as written. #booksky #readersky