About

My name is Mel. I enjoy sunsets, adventure novels, and jokes about pants. I've been writing stories essentially since I learned the alphabet. It's about time I finally do something with them, and thus began my long, long journey to becoming a "real" writer.

My writing inspiration comes from everything from music and myths to random phrases and overheard conversations. I make inside jokes that only I get and obscure references with no explanations. There are a lot of labyrinthine thought processes and non-intuitive logical leaps, which lead to stories that, in the end, have nothing to do with what inspired the idea in the first place.



Frequently Asked Questions:

So you're a writer? Are you published?
Not yet. I'm working on it.

What's taking so long?
I have a job and not a ton of free time.

What kind of stories do you write?
That's a good question. I've been trying to pin it down to a single genre, but that doesn't seem likely. In broadest terms, perhaps "supernatural fiction" would cover most of my projects. The world in which you find these characters is not the world you are familiar with. And something terrible is going to happen to them.

Will you write my life story?
Are you a vampire dealing with a serial killer, a Victorian Era clairvoyant, or stuck in a time loop/hell dimension/post-apocalyptic world? Then no. I don't write nonfiction. Nothing against it, it's just not in my wheelhouse.

Will you put me in your book?
No. I'm not going to risk writing someone's character in a way they don't like. If you keep asking, I may highlight all your worst characteristics and then kill you off. In fiction, of course.


Most Frequently Asked Question:

Is that short for Melanie?
No.