Written & Received: Unsent Letters

As usual, I'm running a bit behind on properly posting updates; that said, I am really pleased with this exchange - not just my part of it, but the whole epistolary enchilada - which I believe is new this year.

Written for me: an excellent and scarily plausible narrative that reminds me entirely too much of the state of my own office (you do not want to see pictures, and the Zoom camera is carefully pointed at a neutral wall).

Nuts and Bolts (Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle)
Author: derwent
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: ~1500
Characters: John Watson, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Writing & Publishing, 1890s

The practical side of writing and publishing.

My own contribution: my first visit in way, way too long to classic Star Trek territory, supplying additional context for Lt. Uhura's miraculous recovery from NOMAD's shenanigans in the relevant second-season episode.

Lions and Sehlats and Bears ( Star Trek: The Original Series)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: ~3200
Characters: Spock (Star Trek), Nyota Uhura, Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Additional Tags: Vulcan Mind Melds, Episode: s02e08 The Changeling, Epistolary

Lieutenant Uhura's recovery from her contact with NOMAD is going less well than it should. Logic dictates intervention is required.

 

Holmestice 2021: Recorded for Me!!!!!!!!

You may be looking a trifle askance at the number of exclamation points in that header, but I'm here to tell you that every one of them is deserved. I got a podfic rather than a fic - and it is a gorgeous, skillfully read, delightfully soundtracked version of the story I wrote just last round, in which Enola Holmes and Mary Russell join forces with sometime jungle princess Nell Watson, née Nylephtha Goode Curtis of the Zu-Vendi, to finally defeat the schemes of Von Bork, villainous German spymaster - with, of course, appropriate support from Sherlock Holmes.

To say I am delighted is several orders of understatement. The Women in the Case is fairly close to 7,000 words - it's a 43-minute audio - and between the length and the considerable dialogue (featuring the voices of three different women born on three different continents), creating any podcast at all amounts to a considerable effort on someone's part. Creating one this well-executed is a feat of impressive skill and reflects a high degree of dedication, and I can't begin to thank my anonymous creator sufficiently for having devoted that much work to my words. Here is your link; don't hesitate to go forth and listen!

The Women in the Case - Podfic
(Enola Holmes Series - Nancy Springer, Mary Russell - Laurie R. King, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer - Philip Jose Farmer)
Author (text): graycardinal
Producer/Narrator (Podfic): oldshrewsburyian
Rating: General Audiences
Length: ~43 minutes
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Enola Holmes & Mary Russell
Characters: Enola Holmes, Mary Russell, Original Moriarty Character(s), Sherlock Holmes, Nylepthah Watson, Von Bork
Additional Tags: Podfic & Podficced Works, Podfic Length: 30-45 Minutes, Bechdel Test Pass, Community: holmestice