About Jane

Jane, age six

Melinda Jane Harrison

Oh, well, the required ole bio. Let's see. I am a perpetual artist, student, writer, a widow, and mother of three sons.

Studied Anthropology, Biology, English, and History.

Once Upon a time, I made a living tutoring at-risk youth, worked as a copyeditor, book doctor, ghost writer,  reader, and eventual developmental editor in the NYC publishing industry and published Historical and Regency romance novels for St. Martins, HarperCollins, Kensington, Crown, Dorchester, and others under pen names (many co-authored with friend, writer Virginia Brown). 

At present, I am writing on Bee Fly Crow, a project full of folklore, history, and fairy stories. It's really my love letter to Victorian fantasy, magic, and portal fantasy and has a very feminist but wounded heroine. I am also reworking some of my backlist.

 At present, due to writing full time, I am mainly on Twitter X (due to BlueSky blocking IPs in my state.)  Web version has the links in sidebar.

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