Melanie Fletcher

Melanie Fletcher is a science fiction and fantasy writer in Plano, Texas. She specializes in humorous fiction, and her work can be found in anthologies from Circlet Press, Yard Dog Press and DAW Books, as well as online zines such as Quantum Muse and Helix SF. With regards to novel-length work, she is currently finishing her YA fantasy novel Undercover Godmother and editing her SF novel White Knight, Queen Alice.

In related activities, she fences with the SFWA Musketeers and performs with the Feral Chihuahuas in Yard Dog Road Shows at SF conventions around the country.

Bibliography

Short Stories

• "Star Quality" (Selling Venus, ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press, 1995)

• "Heramaphrodite" (Genderflex, ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press, 1996)
  

Reprinted, Crossing the Border (ed. Lisa Tuttle, Indigo, 1998)

Translated, der Heimliche Spiegel (ed. Lisa Tuttle, DTV, 2000)

• "Bartok and the Unicorn" (Quantum Muse, July 2002)

• "Female of the Species" (Quantum Muse, April 2003)

• "A Rose By Any Other Name" (The Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse, ed. Selina Rosen, Yard Dog Press, 2003)
  

Reprinted (Best of Bubbas of the Apocalypse, BenBella Books, 2008)

• "Happily Ever After" (Quantum Muse, October 2003)

• "That Time of the Month" (Fundamentally Challenged, ed. Jeff Turner, Pi In The Sky Press, 2004)

• "Hell of a Note" (The Anthology from Hell -- Humorous Stories from WAY Down Under, ed. Julia Mandala, TBA)

• "Lurleen Terwilliger and the Swedish Bubba Balls" (International House of Bubbas, ed. Selina Rosen, Yard Dog Press, 2005)

• "Tides" (Quantum Muse, July 2005)

• "The Padre, the Rabbi, and the Devil His Own Self" (Helix SF, Issue #2, October 2006)

• "Lost in Whitby" (Fabulous Whitby, ed. Sue Thomason and Liz Williams, Shrew Press, 2007)

• "Earl Ray and the Dusky Amazons o' the Lake" (Houston, We've Got Bubbas!, ed. Selina Rosen, Yard Dog Press, 2007)

• "Think Small" (Enchantment Place, ed. Denise Little, DAW Books, 2008)

Novellas

• Sabre Dance (ed. Selina Rosen, Yard Dog Press, September 2007)

Nonfiction

• "Yasureyoubetcha: SF-Speak That Doesn't Make Your Ears Bleed" (Stepping Through the Stargate : Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate SG-1, Benbella Books, 2004)

• "Baby, My Well-Established Female Ass" (Editorial, Helix SF, July 2007)

• "Designing Online Zines for Fun and Profit" (Writers Plot, October 2007)

External Links

http://www.melaniefletcher.com