The first time I came across the name Cay Van Ash was as the author of a novel entitled Ten Years Beyond Baker Street. The book was published in 1984 and, as the title implies, it was a fanciful addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon. It dealt with an imaginary encounter between Arthur Conan Doyle's super-sleuth Holmes and Doctor Fu Manchu,
With a four-year-old daughter and a full-time day job, I’ve resigned myself to writing on the go a great deal of the time: perched atop a barn rail while my daughter trots her horse around the ring for her weekly lesson, on my lunchbreak, in various waiting rooms, airports, or train stations, or at the coffee shop down the street from my daughter’s school.