Melody C.

Melody C. wrote her first fan story in 1978.
She started participating fannishly online in the early 90's, briefly as an early member of Virgule Mailing List. 
In addition to her fan fiction, she has written several articles about women in fandom: An Obsession with Homosexuality? published in 2008 uses House, M.D. as an example and discusses "the strong arm of straight male preferences in media and its impact on women and bisexual/gay men. And in Fear of Flying Nuns - a feminist defense of a 1960s girlhood TV hero (2008) she asks "what makes a flying nun any sillier than a flying Kansas farmboy?"
In the mid-90s, she owned and ran a Paul McCartney mailing list MACCA-L , 28 March 1999. (Accessed 18 March 2011) which was founded in 1993 or slightly before. The list was moderated by Melody C beginning in 1996. Starting in May 1997, Melody co-moderated with Cathy Munro until Melody left the list in December of that year. Melody Clark and MACCA-L: A Brief History; archive link by Mark Tovey, posted very early 1998 
Melody, along with Beth Klapper and Monica Ortloff, was co-director of The Grayson Hall International Fan Club, a Dark Shadows fan club during the early 1980s. Melody was MemRep for the Prodigy Dark Shadows forum, something that she commented at length upon at The DS Fandom Chronologues.
As of early 2017, her most recent fandom activity has taken place in Sherlock BBC fandom.Melody's tumblr (Accessed March 26, 2017)
From time to time, Melody has announced her departure from fandom activities. These departures are, to date, not permanent.
==Interviews==
* Author Interview (2014)
==Her Zines==
See List of Zines.
In the early 2000s, she briefly published fanzines under the name The M Press and distributed them via Mysti Frank.
Melody C.'s Blake's 7 and Wiseguy novels were published by Agent With Style. 
Judith Proctor published the Blake's 7 novels that Judith herself reedited and republished as the initial published version was fraught with errors. 
Kathy Resch published Melody's Dark Shadows Grayson Hall zine as well as the award-winning Fire and Ice issue #1 which Melody co-edited with Kathy. 
 
In 2009, Melody created the Media Fen website with the goal of offering fanzine publishers a location to advertise their zines. That site went offline early 2010.Media Fen (accessed on 4 Jan 2010, but was offline on 8 Jan 2010)
In 2011, Melody wrote: 
==Some of Melody's Comments on Fan Writing==
===2002 or 2003===
Mel's Guide to Fan Fiction Writing.
===2008===
===2009===
===2014===
===2019===
==Reactions and Reviews: From Others==
Regarding her Blake's 7 story "In Another Time", published in the zine Resistance, a fan writes: 
==List of Zines==
In alphabetical order:
*Already Spring (2008). A slash House novel.
*Black and White (2004). A slash Law & Order: SVU novel. It is the sequel to Love is the Law. 
*Bread and Butter (2003). A gen Monk anthology edited, has a cover by and contains stories by Melody C. Fanfiction: Touch, The Truth About Lois Lane, One Foot Out of Hell, A Perfect Love. 
*The Circle Drawn (2003). A gen Bonanza novel.
*Concupiscence #1 (1991). A slash mutlifandom anthology, includes the Wiseguy story To Those Who Wait.
*A Consortium of Light (1992). A slash Wiseguy novel and sequel to A River That Runs Both Ways.
*The Cure (2005/2006). A The Fugitive two-volume slash novel.
*Different Destinies (2004). A gen Flying Nun anthology written by Melody C.
*Dyad #9 (1991), Dyad #23 (2006) A slash multifandom anthology, includes the Dark Shadows story The China Sea and the Altered States story Transitory Matters.
*The Eagle and the Raven (2002). A het Northern Exposure novel.
*Echoes (1983) A gen anthology with fiction by Melody C.
*The Fear of Flying Nuns (2000-2003?). A het Flying Nun anthology edited by Melody C., also includes fiction written by her.
*Fire and Ice (1990). A Blake’s 7 slash anthology edited by Kathy Resch and Melody C. The 1991 edition won a Fan Q Award. Fire and Ice #1 contains the story Remember the Dream by Melody C.
*A Gift of Memory: The Grayson Hall Memorial Collection (year?). A gen anthology of Dark Shadows fiction edited by Melody C. and Beth Klapper. It contains three stories by Melody: The Life of Grayson Hall, Child of Dark, On the Matter of Marriage. 
*Homosapien #1 (1991). A slash multifandom anthology, includes the Wiseguy story The Nature of the Game.
*The Last, Best Hope (1988). A preslash Blake’s 7 novel. The sequel is The Long Way Back. 
*The Long Way Back (1989). A slash Blake’s 7 novel. It is a sequel to The Last, Best Hope.
*Love is the Law (2003). A Law and Order: SVU slash novel.
*McPikus Interruptus #1 (1992). A slash Wiseguy anthology, includes the story At the Heart of a Quiet Man.
*No Holds Barred #1 (1992). A slash multimedia anthology, includes the Wiseguy story Smoke and Mirrors and the Sherlock Holmes story Akin to Love.
*A Real Good Life (2006). A slash Brokeback Mountain novel with an alternative ending to the book and movie.
*A River That Runs Both Ways (1991). A a slash Wiseguy novel. The Sequel is A Consortium of Light. 
*Sculldoggery (2003). An X-Files het anthology with a cover by Melody C., includes the story Mixed Signals on the Rocks.
*Two Spirit (2008). A slash Sentinel novel.
* The Vampire John Lennon (2005). Beatles RPF
==Online Presence==
Over the years, Melody has frequently changed both her level of participation in fandom as well as how much of her fan fiction and vids have been available online. 
As a result of Melody's changes in access and presence in fandom, many online links may be outdated. 
===2007===
In August 2007, Melody posted: 
===2009===
In June 2009, Toft, a fic writer, posted a rec/review of Melody's Holmes/Watson story Akin to Love which had in the print zine No Holds Barred #1. Some of that comment: 
In reaction to these comments, Melody announced she would no longer be publishing her fan fiction on the Internet for free, choosing instead to work with print fanzines exclusively. Melody later explained her reaction:
 
The original exchange between Melody and Toft was linked in the comments to an unrelated Fandom Wank post six months later.
Another early July 2009 post by Melody is My mini-Declaration of Fan Independence: 
Melody briefly re-posted some of her zine fic in August 2011, but deleted it again when it was linked from Fanlore.Melonetics, posted August 19, 2011, accessed 9.11.2011, "I give you what I said I'd never put back on the web. Don't know how long it'll be there, but here it is. Just the slash for now."Melody says, "It was not intended to be a public site. Due to publicity here, it was deleted." deletion log page In October, she created an anti-fan-history-site LiveJournal community., Created on 2011-10-11. "For discussion of problems with personal privacy relative to fan history sites." (accessed 14 October 2011). She posted her own fan history Mel's fan history (now offline), Melody Clark Books and Bloggery, accessed October 20, 2011. Note: Melody has substantially changed the text of the page from what was first posted. "as a response to fan gossip going around the grapevine".Melody Clark's edit, 16 October 2011 Another 2011 statement regarding the removal of two of her zines: 
===2012===
In 2012, she gave an account on her website explaining why she had left several fandoms. It began with "I’ve realized now that my trolls are sharing information. As such, I’m going to set down concisely my reasons for leaving various fandoms, so that I may link to it from fan history sites." accessed 14 October 2011. Note: Melody has substantially changed the text of the page from what was first posted. As of 28 June 2012, she notes, "I have had to change URLs to keep fan history sites from picking up links they weren’t intended to index." 
That same year, on December 4thMessage to trolls, readers, and all folks by Melody C., she again tackled trolls on her website:
===2019===
In 2019, Melody looked back on her departure from fandom during a discussion on the Fan Flak podcast: 
==Notes and References==
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