David Marcum plays The Game with deadly seriousness. He first discovered Sherlock Holmes at age ten in 1975. Since then he has collected, read, and chronicled literally thousands of Canonical Holmes adventures. In 2008 he began writing them and has since produced over forty well-regarded short stories and novels, as well as a number of essays about the worlds greatest detective. In 2015, he conceived the idea of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, now at twelve massive volumes and still going strong. Counting these books, he has now edited over two-dozen anthologies, as well as re-issues of the Solar Pons and Dr. Thorndyke books, while continuing to write new Holmes stories. He is a licensed civil engineer living in Tennessee with his wife and son. Bruce Helander is an artist, writer and critic. He received a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he later served as the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He studied at Yale University for journalism and storytelling, as well as at Harvard, and is a former White House Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts. He recently received the First Annual Professional Achievement in the Arts Award from Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary and is a member of the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Helander is a past recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortiums award for Professional Achievement in the Arts and has won four separate grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work in represented in over fifty permanent public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As a critic, he regularly writes for numerous publications such as The Huffington Post, Sculpture magazine, Art Hive magazine and One Art Nation, among others. His illustrations have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker magazine. His most recent books include Chihuly: An Artist Collects (Harry Abrams, Inc.) and Bunnies (Glitterati Press). He is a seasoned juror and curator of museum exhibitions and serves on the board of the Center for Creative Education.