This collection would not exist without the support of a host of people including family, friends, and colleagues. Thank you to our families, Ben and Penelope, Ryan, Gabriel, and Matthias, for their support and patience with our ever-growing preoccupation with all things transmedia Sherlock. We also want to thank Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Avi Santos, and all the folks at MediaCommons for their help and the use of their infrastructure for the peer-to-peer review. Thank you to our external peer reviewers, Jason Mittell and Suzanne Scott, for bringing your outside eye and considerable insight to the project. Thank you to Alexis Lothian, Melanie E.S. Kohnen, and Jennifer Hock for brainstorming, draft-reading, and encouragement. We’re also grateful to all of the collection’s contributing authors, who went far beyond the normal commitment of writing one’s own essay, as they agreed to participate in the peer-to-peer online review process, and spent significant time commenting on each other’s essays and thus contributing to the vision of the collection as a whole. This collection is what it is because of the dedication, passion, and insight each one of you brought to the project.
And finally, thank you to Sherlock and Sherlock Holmes fandom, in all its manifestations, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for gifting us with Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in the first place, and to Steven Moffat and Mark Gattis, Mark Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch, for animating these beloved characters anew.