30 Day Zombie Challenge

15/02/2022

Funny enough, one of my Sherlock Holmes stories actually contains zombies.
Stephen Herczeg

08/07/2021

Who's a happy, proud author today?
Me, that's who.
After the Fall has finally dropped. Probably the best thing, in my world, to come out of lockdown last year. Not really influenced by the virus, I've had the idea for quite a while, but there are a couple of sly little lockdown digs in there.
If you pick up a copy in Canberra and hunt me down, I'd be more than happy to sign it for you.

AFTER THE FALL by Stephen Herczeg - Author
OUT IN 9th JULY - https://books2read.com/after-the-fall-herczeg
INTERVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/INT-AFTERTHEFALL
Knocked out of orbit by a rogue comet, the asteroid Vesta rockets towards Earth, to pass by in a heavenly display of fire. Dubbed the party of the century by the media across the planet, thousands gather in cities to watch the spectacle and party until dawn.
A miscalculation sees Vesta crash into Earth and vaporise the Greenland and Arctic ice sheets.
The world is devastated.
A wall of water smashes its way through low-lying coastal cities, while a sonic blast of wind destroys almost everything in its path. Mankind is plunged into the stone-age as the power grid collapses with the onslaught of nature.
With the devastation, a new terror emerges. Awakened from their centuries long slumber, an ancient species of humanoid stalks the abandoned transport network beneath the streets of London.
Lexi Keely—an Australian traveller and survivor—is captured.
Armed with the barest of weapons, and a group of other captives, she enacts a plan that will save all—or leave them for dead—in the obsidian darkness below the great capital.

If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be? FINISH IT. Don’t give up, don’t stop creating. And stay away from so much beer.

18/03/2021

Hey all,
I've been a bit slack on this page, as I have so many other projects, but thought I'd finally post some exciting news.
I've been working with a UK based publisher on my first collection of short stories, to be released as "The Curious Cases of Sherlock Holmes."

We have 70 contributors, with over $2000 raised, blowing the goal out of the water.
Thank you to everyone that has contributed, I am truly humbled by the response.

With five days to go, I'm hoping we can reach the stretch goal of 75 contributors.
If we do the publisher will donate $100USD to their campaign which aims to raise $5000USD to buy 1000 books for the Happy Life Children's Home project, which supports orphans and abandoned kids in Kenya. A worthy cause in anyone's language.

Note: There is a zombie connection. My story "The Adventure of the Sugar Merchant" has actual zombies in it, and a shocking ending that had my editor on the edge of his seat.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/curioussherlock/the-curious-cases-of-sherlock-holmes-volumes-1-and-2

Fifteen traditional Sherlock Holmes cases spread across two volumes from master Holmes author Stephen Herczeg.

15/08/2019

14/01/2019

I've been a bit slack on the zombie front of late as I've been concentrating on my writing, but how cool is this?

The Kickstarter campaign has started for this anthology of Solar Pons stories. Pons is a pastiche of Sherlock Holmes (read about it at the Kickstarter site).
The collection contains two of my stories, "The Adventure of the Yorkshire Girl" and "The Adventure of the Scottish Rite".

All proceeds go to the charity (yes, I don't get paid for these) that provides scholarships to schools, etc, to allow them to purchase Sherlock Holmes books, etc, to bring youngsters into the world of Sherlock Holmes.
I love working with the editors behind these volumes and am proud of the work they are doing.

Already it's going gangbusters. At the time of posting they were after $700 and had already raised over $2000. The world loves new Sherlockian style tales.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1306925656/the-new-adventures-of-solar-pons-praed-st-sherlock/description

In the 1920's, college student August Derleth wrote to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking if any more Sherlock Holmes adventures were going to be published. Upon receiving a negative reply, Derleth decided to provide some of his own. However, rather than relating more tales of Holmes and Dr. Watson, he....

31/10/2018

Happy Halloween.

01/08/2018

Sweet. The Kickstarter campaign to raise funds and awareness of the anthology that features my story "The Adventure in Nancy" has just launched.
This three volume anthology features sequels to some of the most famous Sherlock Holmes adventures.

The rewards on offer include the books in this anthology, plus other works from Belanger Books who specialise in Sherlockian stories.

You can even pick up a copy of "Sherlock Holmes: In the Realms of H.G. Wells" which features my story "The Curious Case of the Sleeper."

Enjoy, you know you want to.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1306925656/sherlock-holmes-adventures-beyond-the-canon #

A three volume collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories by today's best pastiche authors and inspired by Doyle's original tales.