The new serialisers

If Arthur Conan Doyle was with us today, Sherlock Holmes would be on Substack

When she spread the cards across the felt cloth and finally whispered, I could hardly hear what I wasn't believing. I'd not read much, after all. At that age, the two most memorable authors in my life were Robert Heinlein and Michael Moorcock.

The clairvoyant called it right. I became a best-selling author a quarter of a century after her prediction. (St…