Title: "The Children of Sherlock Holmes" Author: Dr. Ben F. Eller Publisher: Pendium Publishing House ISBN # 978-0-9816883-0-5
TItle "The Children of Sherlock Holmes" - Dr. Ben F. Eller
Synopsis The novel is a Sherlock Holmes mystery set against the backdrop of 1890's England . . . one of the most intriguing and contradictory eras in human history. Their nation's scholars produced literature, art, and music to the wonderment of humankind as twenty thousand abandoned homeless children roamed their nation's capitol. Ten thousand more toiled fourteen-hour days in wretched factories. Seven hundred of one thousand poor children died before the age of five.
In such an unjust society Holmes confronts the exploitation, enslavement and murder of children in an underworld of perverse corruption that extends from unimaginable working conditions in factories to flesh merchants of the Middle East to the highest levels of English government. Holmes is driven to the edge of madness as he examines the desperate lives of factory children attempting to survive a web of corrupt politicians, factory owners and an indifferent society.
Bio Ben Eller currently resides in Cullowhee, North Carolina. HIs professional career has been primarily in academe . . . Associate Professor of Psychology, East Tennessee State University and Professor/Program Chair (Professor Emeritus), Educational Technology, University of Alabama. He earned a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Milligan College and MS and doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Tennessee. He worked with the Atomic Energy Commission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee while attending graduate school.
Ben has published in the areas of child abuse, autism, disruptive children and adolescents, and ecucational technology. He published a textbook with Wadsworth Publishing and has written two novels and two movie scripts. "The Children of Sherlock Holmes" (historical fiction) and "The Cleansing" (science fiction). He has two children, a daughter Elizabeth and a son Todd. His hobbies include running, tennis, biking, frequent trips to Vegas and of course his love of writing.
Last night I returned to North Carolina from a much-needed long weekend, and I’m back at my desk this morning.
I will, however, be out of the office again today for anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours, as I hope all of you will be today, too - unless you voted early.
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Don’t forget that the 2008 Induction Ceremony for the NC Literary Hall of Fame will be this Sunday, October 19, at 2 p.m., at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
James Applewhite, William S. Powell, and Lee Smith are this year’s inductees. [...]
I’ve found, or been sent, so many good links and other tidbits of interest to writers, I hardly know where to start.
Let’s begin with an interview with Ron Rash, the keynote speaker at the 2008 Fall Conference and author of the new novel Serena, from today’s Shelf Awareness:
Book Brahmins: Ron Rash
Ron Rash is the author [...]
Hat's Off!
...to Charles Blackburn, Jr., of Raleigh, NC. a Former Writers' Network board president, received the 2008 Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award for Literature from St. Andrews Presbyterian College. His band, When Cousins Marry, performed as part of the this reading at the event. The group recently released their debut CD, Shotgun Wedding , featuring 13 original songs. Visit whencousinsmarry.com for related details.
