Bob Byrne

Bob Byrne regularly blogs for the World Fantasy Award-winning website, BlackGate.com, where he is ostensibly the in-house mystery guy. However, to his editor's consternation, he keeps spearheading the site's coverage of Robert E. Howard.

He has written for Black Mask Magazine, Sherlock Magazine, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Steeger Books, and the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories (multiple volumes).

He is a (self-declared) leading expert on Solar Pons (the 'Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street') and has also written extensively about Holmes, and Nero Wolfe. Primarily a writer of mystery fiction and nonfiction, he has won two Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards for his work related to the creator of Conan.

Proving that God has a sense of humor, while he loves words and writing and hates math, he is a career budget analyst and fiscal officer in the public and non-profit sectors. He has lived in Colorado Springs, Austin, and (mostly) Columbus (OH). In his long-ago youth, he competed at the Ultimate (Frisbee) World, and National, Championships, and is a life-long Role Playing Gamer.

Search his name at www.BlackGate.com, or read his writings at www.SolarPons.com (the world's leading Solar Pons website), and at his blog, Almost Holmes.