Drew Melbourne
@drewmelbourne.com
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Neurodivergent geek author of A DARK HOLE DARKLY, the Percival Gynt space-fantasy series, and the graphic novel ARCHENEMIES. www.drewmelbourne.com (he/him)
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His girlfriend says he doesn't have the temperament to solve his mom's murder.

She's probably right.

Don't believe the lies your TV tells you: Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much SHITTIER detective.

A DARK HOLE DARKLY
A Detective's Story

Out now in ebook and paperback.

#ADHDetective
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A Dark Hole Darkly
Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much SHITTIER detective.
www.drewmelbourne.com
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Welcome to The 90s Never Happened podcast!

Follow along for nostalgia anti-venom for all those 90s comic books we don’t like to admit happened. Join Daniel Aegan, Jude Graves, and Brynn Rose as they discuss, dissect, and deliberate “classic” Marvel storylines and events.

You’ve been warned.
And that's it!!! I think our winners are gonna be these (mine, wife's, kiddo's).

What are yours???

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Stitch ate a cantaloupe?!? Also: Really good Minecraft Chicken Jockey.

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Nice use of plants/flowers on the owl, but don't think it all comes together.

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Or Daniel Tiger! Go @pbs.org kids!!!

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Ooh. K-Pop Demon Hunter petz may be our winner...

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Lorax was maybe (?) donated by the coal industry.

(No, I checked. They're an energy company but they're at least ostensibly pro-environmentally friendly energy solutions.)

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Cat and the Hat is well-executed, but feels a little soulless.

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(Technically that last one isn't one of the criteria, but I know my family.)

Anyway, here are some scarecrows:

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My family has arbitrarily decided that our judging criteria will be:

1. Use of Materials
2. Emotional Resonance
3. Overall Effect
4. Is from a Miyazaki movie
Every year for ADHD Awareness Month (or possibly Halloween?!?) @morrisarboretum.bsky.social hosts a scarecrow contest and visitors vote for the winners.

This year the theme is "cartoons."

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Google sucks now and ChatGPT makes shit up, so I'm not sure if this is true BUT...

I think my novel A DARK HOLE DARKLY might be the world's first ADHD Detective novel?!?

But.

If it's not...?

It lays out a great case for why it should be THE LAST.

Buy your copy today.

Judge for yourself.

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A Dark Hole Darkly
Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much SHITTIER detective.
www.drewmelbourne.com
Reposted by Drew Melbourne
Time for the most fraught part of prepping for a book fair: the outfit. How to strike the right balance between "professional you would give money to" and "memorably goofy weirdo"?
(If I'm wrong, I would be *very excited* to be corrected.)
Google sucks now and ChatGPT makes shit up, so I'm not sure if this is true BUT...

I think my novel A DARK HOLE DARKLY might be the world's first ADHD Detective novel?!?

But.

If it's not...?

It lays out a great case for why it should be THE LAST.

Buy your copy today.

Judge for yourself.

💙📚⚡️
A Dark Hole Darkly
Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much SHITTIER detective.
www.drewmelbourne.com
How else could he have thought to ask about the thing that people were talking about ahead of time?!?
Yeah. We've done a few years of made-at-home now (including Sans from Undertale and the, uh, "square" from Geometry Dash) so I don't feel guilty about "this year we're just going to buy you a thing."
For the longest time, our kiddo wanted to be the boss with a TV for a head!!!

(But seems to have moved on to Darth Vader in the final stretch.)
Sounds like nervous laughter + sarcasm, so I'm going to guess "peed on new boss' shoes."

Back-up guess: Child alien trying out new meat puppet for first time.
This calls for a third party plugin that you prepay that can can send aggregate payments to participating news sites on a regular basis. So you might pay a nickel or a dime per article, but no one is actually transferring amounts that small.
Oh gosh. I just assumed the beret was superglued to his head at some point!
Suggested follow-up: "Can you point to a specific example of that?"

^^^Works across many, many, many topics.
First: Audio Book

Then: Braille

Then: Only Smells

Then: Sandwich

Only Then: Paperback