The Temple Grandin Award and The Autistic Sleuth!
I have two big announcements. On Wednesday, I received a letter from Future Horizons, Inc. It’s an organization that helps people who have autism. The letter informed me that I was a winner of the 2023 Temple Grandin Awards!
According to Dr. Grandin’s blog:
Future Horizons, Inc. gives a monetary award annually through the Temple Grandin Award to persons diagnosed with autism who have made individual achievements of any kind.
The Temple Grandin Award is given to individuals with autism, who have made a major accomplishment in the past year. Every accomplishment is worthy of nomination and every nominee is a winner.
The past couple of years there have been four or five winners from around the world. Dr. Grandin apparently donated the money for the awards, and my godmother sponsored the nomination.
This is incredible news, and I’m deeply honored by it. Many thanks to Dr. Grandin and Future Horizons, Inc.!
This ties in perfectly my other announcement. MX Publishing will be publishing my latest book, The Autistic Sleuth, in September! This is a critical analysis of a 21st-century phenomenon: movies and TV shows creating detectives who exhibit many characteristics of being on the autism spectrum, but who (until a few years ago) were never actually diagnosed. The full title is The Autistic Sleuth: Screen Portrayals of Detectives on the Spectrum in Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, The Millennium Trilogy, The Bridge, Death Note, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and Other Productions. In addition to these franchises, I’m also covering shows like Bones, Murdoch Mysteries, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, and many other popular– and some lesser-known– shows and movies, all of which have a major character who fans often suspect of being on the autism spectrum. I’ll be talking more about it in the months to come.
And we’re starting another Kickstarter campaign for The Autistic Sleuth! Please take a look! We’ll be launching it next week, on the evening of April 10th (Central Time Zone).
If you have any questions about this project, please let me know!
–Chris Chan
Chris Chan’s second Funderburke and Kaiming novel, She Ruined Our Lives, was released on February 6th. His sequel to Sherlock’s Secretary, Nessie’s Nemesis, was published on September 3rd by MX Publishing. His novel Ghosting My Friend was released by Level Best Books on March 28th. His first novel, Sherlock’s Secretary, was released by MX Publishing, as was his anthology Of Course He Pushed Him and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes 1 & 2. His Agatha-nominated book Murder Most Grotesque: The Comedic Crime Fiction of Joyce Porter was published by Level Best Books. His first non-fiction book, Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia” is available for sale at Amazon.com and the MX Publishing website, as well as at Book Depository (with free worldwide shipping there). It is also available in a Kindle edition.
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