Welcome to the Drew's Letter!
Whether you’re my mother and taking pity of me, a fan of my books, or just someone who stumbled onto my social media feed and felt like you needed some more chaos in your life:
Thank you for subscribing and welcome!
I’m Drew Melbourne, the neurodivergent geek author of the ArchEnemies graphic novel, the Percival Gynt book series, and the upcoming (as I write this*) comic mystery novel A Dark Hole Darkly.
*NOTE TO SELF: Update this welcome email someday**.
**NOTE TO SELF: He never did.
Keep reading to find out a little bit more about me and about this newsletter that you have for some reason signed up for:
MORE ABOUT ME
I mentioned that I’m neurodivergent. Specifically I have inattentive-type ADHD (diagnosed) and maybe a sprinkling of autism (entirely speculative). Why do I call that out when introducing myself?
I grew up not understanding what the deal was with how my brain worked, and that led to a lot of anxiety and depression and (for one particular semester of college in particular) minesweeper. I was only properly diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago and it’s really been a game-changer, in terms of self-awareness/acceptance/care/management.
All of my work is infused with the idiosyncratic way I view and experience the world, but nowhere more so than my upcoming (?) novel A Dark Hole Darkly, where that subtext becomes text! More on that in the regular newsletter.
MORE ABOUT THE NEWSLETTER
Grappling with ADHD is one of the reasons that my creative output has sometimes been very slow and one of the reasons why the schedule for these newsletters might be a little…
…erratic?
At the absolute minimum, you should expect updates once or twice a year, ahead of book releases. Hopefully you’ll be hearing from me more often, with updates on my writing, interesting digressions about my process, bad dad jokes (the jokes are good, the dads are bad), and some fun bonus content.
For example: Alongside the release of Percival Gynt and the Inevitability of Fire, we’ll be doing (or did***?) a playthrough of the “choose your own adventure”-style central novella, with readers voting on which choice to make.
***NOTE TO SELF: Seriously. Make sure this welcome email is up-to-date.
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