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July 1, 2025

Another Book, Darkly

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Hey folks!

As promised (or threatened?!?), I have a second book coming out this year. One that I am extremely excited about. (You know I’m excited, because I used italics. Italics!)

I’ve mentioned this one before, but now I have the facts! A release date, pre-order details, and even a cover reveal!


What the Book?!?

I’ve mentioned A Dark Hole Darkly in previous newsletters, but here, for the first time, is the full blurb:

Patrick Hinkle’s mom is dead. Murdered.

And maybe he could find her killer if his brain weren’t for shit. Or if her whole stupid life wasn’t as big a mystery to him as her death? If he understood her last words. If he knew who his dad was! If he knew what it all had to do with an obscure British sci-fi show from the 1980s…

Before he can solve his mom’s murder, Patrick Hinkle will have to solve her. And to do that? He’ll have to solve himself.

Don't listen to the lies your TV tells you:

Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much shittier detective.


A Dark Hole Darkly is a postmodern comic mystery novel about family, fandom, who we are…

…and who gets to write the endings to our stories.

When the Book???

A Dark Hole Darkly will go on sale August 25th and, like my other books, it’ll be available from Bookshop.org, Amazon, and wherever you buy your ebooks. (Unless you buy your ebooks on the Dark Web. Don’t buy your ebooks on the Dark Web.)

Cover: REVEAL YOURSELF!

Here now is the exclusive cover reveal for A Dark Hole Darkly!

Like all my books, there are little clues and easter eggs hidden in the design. (And even more on the back cover, which you’ll have to wait for!)

Faux Black Leather Journal Cover with an elastric strap. Circular cut-out of outer space (photo-copied?) is taped to the cover, with the words "A DARK HOLE DARKLY" written on it. First letter of each word highlighted in yellow. A little green glow seeps out from behind the cut-out. Banners read (white on black, upside down, at the top) "A DETECTIVE'S STORY" and (white on green, at the bottom) "BY DREW MELBOURNE." I think that about covers it?


NOW the Book?

No, header. August 25th the book.

BUT.

You can pre-order the EBOOK starting today. You can find links to all your favorite ebook stores here. Or you can just go there and type in the name of a book like a book-name-typing-type-typer.

The paperback should be available for pre-order in the next few weeks. Will let folks know.

NOW. The. Book.

Um. Weirdly forceful, header, but okay.

If you’re a book reviewer/blogger/interviewer-type person, and you want an advance review copy for…

…any of those things…

…let me know and I’ll hook you up!

(Orrr… “BOOK you up”? Amirite, amirite?!? THAT LADY in the back knows what I’m talking about!!!)

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(It is possible that I am NOT rite.)

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