Atlin Merrick writes a great deal of happily pornographic fan fiction about John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. She has sneakily managed to turn this passion into essays for publications like Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, and the wonderful magazine you’re reading now. Atlin also writes books, including Sherlock Holmes and John Watson: The Night They Met for Improbable Press, and the upcoming The Six Secret Loves of Sherlock Holmes. When Atlin's not over-caffeinating, she sometimes writes and publishes as Wendy C. Fries.