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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Perfect for readers who love lush historical fantasy, sweeping romance, immortal heroes, Egyptian mythology, fated mates, and high-stakes supernatural adventure. #booksky #romancelandia books2read.com/u/4X7yY7

An ad for the Victorian romantasy novella GODDESS OF THE NILE, from the Hidden Empire series by Nicola M. Cameron. Against a background of the desert at dawn, a pair of ancient Egyptians and a pair of Victorians embrace on the edges of the scene, framing the text: "What happens when four immortals are the only things standing between an Egyptian demon and a pair of star-crossed lovers?" with pictures of the print book and an e-reader beneath the text.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Picking up 3D modeling skills. Mainly did it so that I could print miniatures for my dollhouses, but I discovered that I truly enjoy doing design work. Frex, when we needed a bracket to hold a pool pump thermometer, I whomped up this little gem. Fits the thermo like a glove and has a snap-on lid.

A mechanical drawing of a bracket designed to hold a pool pump thermometer in a Hayward timer enclosure.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Okay #Romancelandia and #Booksky -- I'm recovering my Olympic Cove series to match the current visual language for mythological romance, and this is a draft version of the new cover style. Would this make you stop and check out the book on Amazon/B&N/Kobo/et al?

A draft revised cover for the mythological romance novel Storm Season (Olympic Cove Book 1) by Nicola Cameron. A silver trident stands unsupported against a dark teal background of sky and sea, with pale steel grey baroque decorations framing the trident and title.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I'm becoming an ersatz mechanical engineer at the day job, which delights me. 3D Printing: I have been crowned the Print Master (I maintain the two 3D printers, set up the second one, and keep them in filament), I'm learning Blender and FreeCAD, and have designed some prototype elements. 1/

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I put on a video of birds and chipmunks for the J Crew today. They did not seem impressed. Maybe they’re more documentary cats?

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I am so tired. But the tax numbers have been crunched and are off to the accountant, there are clean sheets on the bed, food has been purchased, cats have been fed, dinner is ready, and I don’t have to do anything else today except hang my resin print to drip when it’s finished.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I have managed to write a little over 200 words today. The fact that my sinuses are exploding from grass pollen did not help in this achievement.

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 16/03/2025

If you’re a Kindle Unlimited reader, the whole series is there for one more month before the books start falling out and going wide! So go binge it now! 😄

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I am literally begging for nuance and understanding in this area for authors. Indies have incredibly limited options and KU is exclusive and will ban authors from publishing if their books are found on other websites. For indie authors whose entire income comes from KU, they can't just leave.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

So I've been keeping sane by working on my dollhouse, a Painted Lady Victorian that's been sitting in the craft room since 2010. After the election I kicked into high gear to finish the outside (95% finished—all I need to do is finish shingling the roof and stain the shingles) and wire the inside.

The Painted Lady Victorian dollhouse kit from Real Good Toys. It has three stories and a tower on the left side. The main clapboard walls are lavender, flat walls and window/door trim are white with lavender, moss green, and robin egg blue accents.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I know things are a dumpster fire right now. But remember to drink your water, eat something nutritious, and move your body. Outlive the bastards out of sheer spite.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Phoo. Last Friday I had a CT scan and bloodwork for my jaw. Monday I had a dental cleaning (everything looked great), Tuesday I had my oncologist appointment (everything looked great) and today I had my surgeon's appointment for a scope and X-rays (everything looked great).

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Did I ever tell y'all about my Blues Brothers band? So many, many years ago, I was in my high school symphonic band, which meant I knew kids who played a variety of instruments. Now, the Blues Brothers movie came out in 1980, which was of great import to those of us on the south side of Chicago.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I finally demonstrated the common sense that God gave goats and put the humidifier in the bedroom last night. Woke up feeling 150% better.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It's 50°F here in the clavicle of Texas, and the snow we received on Thursday and Friday is melting in a roar of dripping water and sunshine. Which is good because it'll sink into the ground and buffer the plants against the summer.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Ever have the situation where you've written a story, and it's done, and yet you know you're missing something but you don't know what? In other news I'm poking at an SF short story that refuses to play ball. I think I need to go away and mull over this some more.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

What with the storm, I made some bread on Wednesday. Had a couple of slices in a sandwich today and may I just say that I make damn fine bread. Mm. May go downstairs and toast up a couple of slices, then slather them with butter.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I wanted to take a nap this afternoon because 1) it's cold and 2) it's cold. Instead, I partially disassembled our Neato robot vacuum so I could figure out what was binding the brush, because of course I did. I think I pulled out enough hair/dust/schmutz to make a tribble.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We are about as set as we can get for Winter Storm Cora. All battery banks charged, food stocked up, water shutoff tool available if we lose power and have to drain the pipes. And apparently Cancun Cruz was seen at Hobby Airport so God knows where he's headed.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Someone is missing out on their chance to check in early and choose stateroom stuff for their upcoming cruise. If only they’d used their Gmail addy instead of mine…

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The holiday season has officially begun. Read: today I have hit three stores and am on my way to a fourth, then I go home and put up the tree, then I bake fruitcakes and mince pies, and while those are baking I’ll vacuum and mop the front room floors. So much joy!

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

There are times when I really wish I had access to an alternate timeline where I could disappear for a month or so, write a Nicola book, then come back and write a Melanie book. Yeah, yeah, I know I'd wind up dying of old age in, like, five years, but think of the backlist I'd leave.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The problem about this time of year is, what do I want to bake/make next? Italian Christmas cookies? Peppermint bark ice cream? Peppermint dips? Cherry cordial kiss cookies? The fruitcake is a given, of course.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

For lo, today I have baked bread, made candied citron, and will be prepping fruit later for fruitcakes. Look upon me, Paul Hollywood, and say, "Yeah, all right, you can come on GBBO."

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I may have gone a little overboard with the 3D printer. But it’s so much fun printing dollhouse furniture!

1:12 dollhouse scale shower stall with working plexiglass doors. Printed on a Creality printer.

1:12 dollhouse scale bookcase with working drawers. Printed on a Creality printer.

1:12 dollhouse scale 40-drawer apothecary cabinet with working drawers. Printed on a Creality printer.

1:12 dollhouse scale rounded top bookcase. Printed on a Creality printer.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

As of today I have lost 68 pounds (approximately the weight of a Labrador retriever) from my highest weight, which is nice. Still have 96 pounds to go, but I'll get there.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My cousins had the best toys. A fantastic pool, a really cool cowboy and cowgirl action figure with tons of accessories, and Astrolite. If there was ever a toy that made me want to become a science fiction writer, Astrolite was it. I would spend hours at their house making futuristic cities with it.

A complete set of Hasbro Astrolite. Released in the 1970s, Astrolite was a set of clear building components that you could use to build futuristic sculptures, cities, or structures. It was one of the best toys ever.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

So I've been working on the dollhouse this week and I've got a lot of stuff done on it. 1) Got e-slots cut for the electrical wiring and installed the main loop that will receice extensions to the rest of the house. 2) Glued on kneewalls and the main/gable roofs. 3) Glued on the tower walls.

The front of the Real Good Toys Painted Lady dollhouse in mid-construction. Walls are lavender, and trim is sky blue and light green with cream woodwork.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The husband said he’s happy to see me working on this dollhouse again. So am I, to be honest.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

That cancelled tv show that you’ll never stop thinking about.

Poster for HBO original SF series The Nevers, aka the show with a stupid name, an amazing cast and plot, and the ill fortune to have started filming right before COVID. *sigh*

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I decided to relax tonight by working on the dollhouse that I started *checks notes* in 2009. Um. But it’ll be nice when it’s done!

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Looks like I'll be calling Cruz and Cornyn's offices tomorrow.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I had no idea there were so many different sizes and gauges of pet insulin needles. In other news I think I finally ordered the correct needles on the third try from Chewy, and tomorrow I'm going to ask my vet to sell me some to tide me over until the Amazon order arrives. *SMH*

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

*opens Bluesky* Ah. People. Heya—I'm Melanie Fletcher, I write primarily SF, my first book is an alternate history mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll called A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER, and I like cheese. I also write romantasy as Nicola M. Cameron because hey, who needs sleep?

The cover for Melanie Fletcher's alternate history mystery A MOST MALICIOUS MURDER, starring Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll. Two shadowed Victorian figures walk down a row of mausoleums while a raven flies overhead. Tagline: Not all monsters are fictional...

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Seriously, why did no one tell me that cyberpunk was still popular as hell? *busily loading my ancient cyberpunk story into Scrivener and blocking out chapters*

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Wait, we’re going to be able to do threads here soon? WOOHOO! Thank you, programmers, for making it easier for the more wordy among us!

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Over 30 years ago I was kindasorta writing something with a friend. It was cyberpunk, and we came up with our own characters and sent each other vignettes for fun. I am now thinking of resurrecting that story using my own parts and excising his character. Because, ya know, ain't my IP. 1/

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

A busy day of vet visits, coffee with my editor, and writing. Which is good because it keeps my mind off things. Hope y'all are doing well.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

I want to start making and selling jewelry again, but I loathe the idea of going back to Etsy. Anyone have any recommendations for website hosts with shopping functionality?

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

The weather has finally cooled off, we have rain, and all I really want to do is make a Storm at Sea quilt and maybe some soup. I do love Fall.

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a painting of a road lined with trees and leaves

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

I have officially submitted my first SF story since, oh, 2017. That felt good. i should do that again.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Had my writer's group meeting tonight via Zoom. Told them about a rather grim short story that's kicking around in my back brain (not solid enough to write yet).   Bill: Wow. That's dark.   Me: Yeah, apparently I turn into Michelle (Muenzler) when I get sick.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Because my brain will not let me sleep if I know I need to get up relatively early for an appointment (like I did this morning—had to take Jessie to the vet), I am currently shambling around like a zombie and waiting for 10 PM to come so that I can crash.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Sooo *touches fingertips* is it wrong that I have the first chapter done for the last book in a series while I'm still working on the second-to-last book? Asking for a friend. It's me. I'm the friend.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Best: Jeffrey Combs. Talked to me for almost an hour after I gave him a shadowbox commemorating his one man play NEVERMORE, plus I got the fake nose he wore as Edgar Allan Poe. Complete gentleman. Worst: English actor/game show host. I still cringe when I see him.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Apparently Mercury is no longer in retrograde, seeing as I sold five books today and one was a print copy of my Esposito County Shifters compendium. I are a happy writer.

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Melanie Fletcher 📚🐈🧢 @melaniefletcher.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

I do love the serotonin hit I get when I finish a project. In associated news a freshly washed crochet doily is current blocking in the laundry room. Only took me three years to finish, tra la.

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