Drew Melbourne
@drewmelbourne.com
Neurodivergent geek author of A DARK HOLE DARKLY, the Percival Gynt space-fantasy series, and the graphic novel ARCHENEMIES.
www.drewmelbourne.com
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Drew Melbourne
@drewmelbourne.com
· Sep 18
A Dark Hole Darkly
Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much SHITTIER detective.
www.drewmelbourne.com
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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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
💙📚⚡️
Linus is SO EXCITED to see the Great Circulatory System!
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Linus is SO EXCITED to see the Great Circulatory System!
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Oh hello! It’s Not a Bloody Trend is a 99p Kindle deal if a book on ADHD sounds up your street. (And it’s available to order from your local bookshop and library) amzn.eu/d/1IFRdXy
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Oh hello! It’s Not a Bloody Trend is a 99p Kindle deal if a book on ADHD sounds up your street. (And it’s available to order from your local bookshop and library) amzn.eu/d/1IFRdXy
Happy Monday, Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Happy Monday, Democrats!
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The biggest lessons I learned about tabling at cons:
* bring more books than you think you need (I brought 68 and sold out in 2 days; wish I'd brought 100!)
* have signage that starts conversations
* have freebies to get people closer
* have pitches ready
* make friends with your booth neighbors
* bring more books than you think you need (I brought 68 and sold out in 2 days; wish I'd brought 100!)
* have signage that starts conversations
* have freebies to get people closer
* have pitches ready
* make friends with your booth neighbors
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The biggest lessons I learned about tabling at cons:
* bring more books than you think you need (I brought 68 and sold out in 2 days; wish I'd brought 100!)
* have signage that starts conversations
* have freebies to get people closer
* have pitches ready
* make friends with your booth neighbors
* bring more books than you think you need (I brought 68 and sold out in 2 days; wish I'd brought 100!)
* have signage that starts conversations
* have freebies to get people closer
* have pitches ready
* make friends with your booth neighbors
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Here's some unsolicited book promo for DUCKETT & DYER: DICKS FOR HIRE - my #scifi #mystery #comedy novel about two friends who aren't detectives, but become detectives to figure out who's telling people they're detectives.
Available wherever terrible books are sold!
books2read.com/u/bOe0DE
Available wherever terrible books are sold!
books2read.com/u/bOe0DE
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Here's some unsolicited book promo for DUCKETT & DYER: DICKS FOR HIRE - my #scifi #mystery #comedy novel about two friends who aren't detectives, but become detectives to figure out who's telling people they're detectives.
Available wherever terrible books are sold!
books2read.com/u/bOe0DE
Available wherever terrible books are sold!
books2read.com/u/bOe0DE
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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One reason so many Democratic *voters* are mad at their party leadership right now:
Unlike Republicans, Democrats prioritize electability over ideology. And well, Democrats lost to Trump 2/3 times with the “safe” choice and the “safe” choice in 2020 cost them in 2024
Unlike Republicans, Democrats prioritize electability over ideology. And well, Democrats lost to Trump 2/3 times with the “safe” choice and the “safe” choice in 2020 cost them in 2024
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
One reason so many Democratic *voters* are mad at their party leadership right now:
Unlike Republicans, Democrats prioritize electability over ideology. And well, Democrats lost to Trump 2/3 times with the “safe” choice and the “safe” choice in 2020 cost them in 2024
Unlike Republicans, Democrats prioritize electability over ideology. And well, Democrats lost to Trump 2/3 times with the “safe” choice and the “safe” choice in 2020 cost them in 2024
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Support neurodivergent indie authors with this TINY TINY ITCH BUNDLE!!!
(It's just my awesome ADHD detective novel A DARK HOLE DARKLY for $2.99.)
(It's just my awesome ADHD detective novel A DARK HOLE DARKLY for $2.99.)
A Dark Hole Darkly by Drew Melbourne
Don't believe the lies your TV tells you: Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much shittier detective.
drewmelbourne.itch.io
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Support neurodivergent indie authors with this TINY TINY ITCH BUNDLE!!!
(It's just my awesome ADHD detective novel A DARK HOLE DARKLY for $2.99.)
(It's just my awesome ADHD detective novel A DARK HOLE DARKLY for $2.99.)
Any sufficiently advanced technological eight ball is indistinguishable from a magic eight ball.
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Any sufficiently advanced technological eight ball is indistinguishable from a magic eight ball.
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Nominations are open for this year's #IndieInkAwards until the end of November.
Please nominate books from The Augment Saga!
Just go to indiestorygeek.com/u..., click on the book you want to nominate (you do have to make a free Indie Story Geek account).
📢📚🪐 💙📚 #SFF
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Please nominate books from The Augment Saga!
Just go to indiestorygeek.com/u..., click on the book you want to nominate (you do have to make a free Indie Story Geek account).
📢📚🪐 💙📚 #SFF
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November 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Nominations are open for this year's #IndieInkAwards until the end of November.
Please nominate books from The Augment Saga!
Just go to indiestorygeek.com/u..., click on the book you want to nominate (you do have to make a free Indie Story Geek account).
📢📚🪐 💙📚 #SFF
1/2
Please nominate books from The Augment Saga!
Just go to indiestorygeek.com/u..., click on the book you want to nominate (you do have to make a free Indie Story Geek account).
📢📚🪐 💙📚 #SFF
1/2
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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I am honestly not a huge fan of vampires. I like Dracula, of course, as well as Let the Right One In, and Anno Dracula (which is really just a love letter to Victorian weird fiction).
And yet, somehow, I wrote a vampire novella? 🤨 A Victorian one, nonetheless!
share.google/4ycFCZU9Mefv...
And yet, somehow, I wrote a vampire novella? 🤨 A Victorian one, nonetheless!
share.google/4ycFCZU9Mefv...
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I am honestly not a huge fan of vampires. I like Dracula, of course, as well as Let the Right One In, and Anno Dracula (which is really just a love letter to Victorian weird fiction).
And yet, somehow, I wrote a vampire novella? 🤨 A Victorian one, nonetheless!
share.google/4ycFCZU9Mefv...
And yet, somehow, I wrote a vampire novella? 🤨 A Victorian one, nonetheless!
share.google/4ycFCZU9Mefv...
Reposted by Drew Melbourne
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
nbcnews.to
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
Reposted by Drew Melbourne
Uh…so my 7 year old just called the wind a wretched jackanapes, which made me choke on my dinner laughing.
I was a precocious little sass but come on now
I was a precocious little sass but come on now
November 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Uh…so my 7 year old just called the wind a wretched jackanapes, which made me choke on my dinner laughing.
I was a precocious little sass but come on now
I was a precocious little sass but come on now
Look, there are a lot of people coming in and out.
Possibly I told a dog, "Thank you for voting!"
Possibly I told a dog, "Thank you for voting!"
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Look, there are a lot of people coming in and out.
Possibly I told a dog, "Thank you for voting!"
Possibly I told a dog, "Thank you for voting!"
Turnout in my little corner of Purplevania is solid this morning.
Not gangbusters, but respectable for an off-year.
Not gangbusters, but respectable for an off-year.
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Turnout in my little corner of Purplevania is solid this morning.
Not gangbusters, but respectable for an off-year.
Not gangbusters, but respectable for an off-year.
Reposted by Drew Melbourne
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Reposted by Drew Melbourne
You know what, this is the size bundle I can handle, this tagline made me laugh, and I'm a sucker for a redundant title
Support neurodivergent indie authors with this TINY TINY ITCH BUNDLE!!!
(It's just my awesome ADHD detective novel A DARK HOLE DARKLY for $2.99.)
(It's just my awesome ADHD detective novel A DARK HOLE DARKLY for $2.99.)
A Dark Hole Darkly by Drew Melbourne
Don't believe the lies your TV tells you: Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much shittier detective.
drewmelbourne.itch.io
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM
You know what, this is the size bundle I can handle, this tagline made me laugh, and I'm a sucker for a redundant title
Reposted by Drew Melbourne
Congratulations to @alexgino.bsky.social, the author of the groundbreaking middle grade novel, MELISSA on the release of their latest middle grade title, CHRIS MAKES A FRIEND. Happy book birthday and welcome to the world!
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Congratulations to @alexgino.bsky.social, the author of the groundbreaking middle grade novel, MELISSA on the release of their latest middle grade title, CHRIS MAKES A FRIEND. Happy book birthday and welcome to the world!
Reposted by Drew Melbourne
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
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Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
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Pennsylvania is a state that has really diverse & high stakes, up and down the ballot tomorrow.
—control of state supreme court
—lower state court races
—Philly DA: Krasner's reelect
—important, heated school boards
—partisan battles for county execs in swing counties
—Bucks County at a crossroads
—control of state supreme court
—lower state court races
—Philly DA: Krasner's reelect
—important, heated school boards
—partisan battles for county execs in swing counties
—Bucks County at a crossroads
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Pennsylvania is a state that has really diverse & high stakes, up and down the ballot tomorrow.
—control of state supreme court
—lower state court races
—Philly DA: Krasner's reelect
—important, heated school boards
—partisan battles for county execs in swing counties
—Bucks County at a crossroads
—control of state supreme court
—lower state court races
—Philly DA: Krasner's reelect
—important, heated school boards
—partisan battles for county execs in swing counties
—Bucks County at a crossroads