What if your ‘disorder’ is actually centuries of adaptation trying to tell its story?
You’ve slipped into no ordinary tale.
You’ve entered a covert operation, where neurodivergent wiring is revealed as encrypted intel.
And the most adventurous mission of all?
Rewriting your own neural narrative.
Hopeful Monster is a rebellious, undercover adventure.
A sanctuary for the neurologically and botanically misunderstood.
A coded tale of flying schools, suspicious parrots, rescue dogs, and unapologetic magic.
Reimagining FND as an encrypted intelligence — not disorder.
READY TO SUSPEND A MASK FOR A BIT OF MISCHIEF?
You’ve slipped through a magical portal into a rather rebellious neurouniverse.
Welcome to Hopeful Monster – mission control for a bold three-book artefact odyssey and a mystical world of contraband intelligence, hidden within rogue dispatches, dossiers, and rebellious prescriptions.
A secret place where rebellion is policy, magic is probably unlicensed, and hope files its reports in triplicate.
For the code-breakers and pattern-seekers.
The hopeful monsters who insist on their own magnificence.
Despite considerable ‘evidence’ to the contrary.
THE HOPEFUL MONSTER TRILOGY
Meet Stella: diagnosed at 56, fluent in expletives, espresso, and freshly out of f#*ks to give. She’s no expert guide – hell, she’s not even sure how she landed here. She’s just an accidental hero stumbling through the chaotic, wild neurospicy multiverse, tripping over her own neurons and cursing every step of the way. ‘Disorder’? Try evolutionary badassery – she just hasn’t read the memo (yet).
See book review for HOPEFUL MONSTER: The Awakening HERE.
THE DAILY TREMOR
Rogue journalism disguised as scandalous gossip, field reports on authenticity, resistance dispatches, and cultural analysis, naturally. The Editor-in-Chief gives witness to the Elusive Author, uncovering shadows lurking in the margins and introduces a suspicious (and devastatingly handsome) parrot called Percy alongside other mysterious neurosverse allies. Experience Lady Hilary’s intuitive wisdom, cloaked as fortune-telling, Agent Mac’s brave shin-level interventions.
THE TRUE MISSION
This journey isn’t about survival. You’re here. You’ve done that. Now it’s about reclamation. Tearing off masks. Burning rulebooks that exclude us. Daring to live magically, messily, and magnificently – whether the world ‘gets’ it or not.
Yes! The narrative has been seized for editorial revision.
RE-INVENT REALITY…
Be aware, The Neurospice Route is not for everyone.
It’s for rebels …for those bold enough to spy on the audacious dismantling of suffocating scaffolding — politeness, performance, quiet compliance — and to riot, fully, on their own terms.
Craving a little mystery, intrigue, and a dash of spicy suspense?
Step into a brazen multi-media adventure — travelling through time, space, and story into a metafictional neuroverse of firing synapses. Here, you’ll bend your neural narrative and see neurodivergence, like FND, as not only as a condition to manage, but as a personal mystery to investigate…
Your people are here. A Neurospicy Odyssey begins…
SPIES SPEAK SEVERAL LANGUAGES – PICK YOURS:
Afrikaans |Français |Italiano |isiXhosa |Nederlands |Deutsch
THREE BOOKS. ONE CONTRABAND BROADCAST. ONE REBELLION.
A journey from Awakening to Reckoning…
Are you ready to join the Neurospice Route?
MEET THE AUTHOR
Spy. Strategist. Storyteller of the strange, sacred, and neurospicy.
Katherine Fouché doesn’t just write – she reclaims.
She tells stories the way she lives: with humour, bravery, and just enough magic to keep it interesting.
The Canadian–South African storyteller and digital strategist spent her life building things: businesses, brands, safe exits, and the perfect toasted cheese and tomato sandwich. None of it came easily. Especially the toasted cheese and tomato.
Behind the sharp humour and creative drive is a woman forged by necessity – someone who once had to “kill the fairy to eat.”
People always thought she was “weird,” even in her most BAFTA-worthy people-pleasing years. Turns out, she was just neurodivergent. Diagnosed with FND at 52, Katherine didn’t plan the plot twist. Her fast-paced marketing world had to slow down, and she found herself on a mountaintop — literally — with a rescue dog named Mac, a playlist prescription pad, and a growing urge to spy on her own survival like a field operative gathering intel for the misunderstood.
Katherine’s voice is raw, funny, and gloriously unfiltered — a lifeline for quiet rebels, the beautifully weird, the neurospicy, and the misunderstood.
And maybe, just maybe, the kind of weird friend you want at your side when the journey feels insurmountable.
ALAS! Sledgehammer Season Is Upon Us
When the Department of Festive Destruction declares the season open, even the compliant should duck. The Daily Tremor investigates The Grand Wrecking Ball, Katniss-style invitations, and the joy of polite demolition.
AIU Confirm: Parisienne Pigeon Party Behind Wing-Rights Revolt
The missing jewels were merely the spark. Now the pigeons take flight. After the Louvre scandal, the Parisienne Pigeon Party launch a neurospicy revolt against wing-clipping — a rebellion for every creature trimmed to fit.
OPA! FND And The Sound of a Breaking Soul
A wry, elegiac editorial from The Daily Tremor on what it means to live as an unfired plate — unfinished, fragile, and somehow still standing. Filed under the Kiln Repairs and Firepit Failure Division.
NONNA OPS! How Italy Accidentally Raised An Elusive Author
New evidence uncovered: Our Elusive Author was domesticated by Italians, trained in the art of sugo, shouting, and emotional warfare. The table broke, so she built her own. Love remains holy even when incompatible.
VIVA! Neurospicy Revolution – French Embrace Brain Couture!
Champagne, parrot, and couture cognition. The French take the neurospicy uprising with style, naturally. The French Embassy for ‘Trouble Neurologique Fonctionnel’ is officially activated. Italy contests.
HEAR YE! Recovered Partial Grimoire Artifact of Nero Sangue
A partial copy of the fabled neurodivergent Grimoire has surfaced. Risky to read. Riskier to ignore. Proceed with curiosity – and perhaps a cup of tea. Navigate the neurospicy life with FND, rewrite your story.
Under the Amalfi Sky: Mac’s Bold Bite
Operative Mac, black-helmeted, was last seen tearing down the Amalfi road after biting a NERO SANGUE on the shin. Witnesses report he briefly considered circling back for another strike – but supper and walkies prevailed, leaving chaos in his wake.
HARK! FND in South Africa: The Offramp Is Marked
A contraband Daily Tremor dispatch on the Neurospicy Route’s FND Offramp in South Africa—long present, long erased. Percy is tactically absent; Hilary (Hierophant Reversed) files her rebellion – with Good Things Guy link!
SEE NOW! Society’s Hypocrisy! Fame is Worshipped, FND Ignored
A tip from Lady Hilary’s soiree reveals another Elusive Author artefact — an incantation disguised as a cassette tape. Pharma shows its hand: it will not see FND, but it will worship the famous. Very well then — let’s seize the stage, light the match, and let the masquerade begin.
DISCLAIMER
All characters in this book are fictional – even if they feel as real as your next-door neighbour who insists on mowing cliffs at the crack of dawn. Any resemblance to actual persons, living, dead, or somewhere in between, is purely coincidental. It isn’t a medical textbook. It’s also not a pity party. It’s a fictional journey through one neurodivergent lens. It is important to keep in mind that neurodiversity, such as FND, presents differently in people. Some lose speech, some collapse, some find their legs no longer listening to their brain, and others experience a surreal mix of neurological misfires that defy tidy definition.
Think of Hopeful Monster as more a friend sharing their experience over coffee—an immersive companion piece for the misunderstood or marginalised individuals living with FND or other forms of neurodiversity — comforting and sometimes entertaining — but not qualified to give medical advice. If you’re looking for clinical advice, please consult a healthcare professional, or contact fndwhatnow@gmail.com, not an Elusive Author or a morally ambiguous parrot(regardless of how adorable he is..
Fair warning: The characters in this story have been known to use some colourful language. If you’re easily offended by expletives, you might want to cover your eyes (or ears, if you’re listening to the audiobook) from time to time.
Remember: Your journey is unique. This story isn’t a roadmap; it’s a friend saying, “I get it, it’s weird out here, you are not alone.”