Shane Peacock: Hello. My name is Shane Peacock, and I'm not making that up. Now, being a fiction writer who dreams up dramatic stories about Sherlock Holmes as a boy, and high-wire walkers and sumo wrestlers, and all sorts of spectacular characters, I know it would have been both fitting and very clever of me to choose a pen name for myself that began with Shane, the name of one of the most famous cowboys in Hollywood history, and ended with Peacock, the world's most colorful bird, but I didn't. That's my real name. Honestly.