Mabel Maney

Mabel Maney is an artist and author from San Francisco, California known for her lesbian pulp fiction. She is the author of the Nancy Clue series, a lesbian parody of the Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, and Hardy Boys series. More recently, she is the author of the "Jane Bond" novels, a series of parodies of James Bond.

Maney is famous for the quote "For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian."

Bibliography

* "The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse" (Nancy Clue Mysteries) (1992)
* "The Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend" (1994)
* "A Ghost in the Closet" (Hardly Boys Mysteries) (1995)
* "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: An Original Jane Bond Parody" (2001) ISBN 9780380803101; ISBN 0380803100 (a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award)
* "The Girl with the Golden Bouffant: An Original Jane Bond Parody" (2004) ISBN 0380803119
* Short fiction

References

* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/17552/Mabel_Maney/index.aspx Mabel Maney Biography at HarperCollins]
* [http://www.glbtq.com/literature/maney_m.html Mabel Maney entry] at GLBTQ: Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture] (1995)

External links

* [http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/6.2/nancyclue/nancyclue.html The Nancy Clue series]