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Mabel Maney is an Americanartist andauthor fromSan Francisco, California known for herlesbian pulp fiction. She is the author of theNancy Clue series, alesbianparody of theNancy Drew,Cherry Ames, andHardy Boys series. More recently, she is the author of the "Jane Bond" novels, a series of parodies ofJames Bond. Mabel's short fiction can also be found in the humoranthology, "May Contain Nuts".

Maney is famous for thequote "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."

Mabel was born inNew Jersey. Her family moved to the midwest where she was educated and permanently scarred by dour nuns. She was one of five children in an Irish Catholic family inAppleton, Wisconsin where she worked in her family's paper hat factory. She graduated fromOhio State University with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and received aMaster of Fine Arts degree fromSan Francisco State University. Her MFA thesis explored the subtext of novels featuring 1940s heroine Nurse Cherry Ames.^[1]

• The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse (Nancy Clue Mysteries) (1992)ISBN 1-57344-226-7;ISBN 978-1-57344-226-8
• The Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend (1994)ISBN 1-57344-227-5;ISBN 978-1-57344-227-5
• A Ghost in the Closet (Hardly Boys Mysteries) (1995)ISBN 1-57344-228-3;ISBN 978-1-57344-228-2
• Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: An Original Jane Bond Parody (2001)ISBN 978-0-380-80310-1;ISBN 0-380-80310-0 (a finalist for aLambda Literary Award)
• The Girl with the Golden Bouffant: An Original Jane Bond Parody (2004)ISBN 0-380-80311-9;ISBN 978-0-380-80311-8
• May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon of American Humor (2004)ISBN 0-06-051626-7;ISBN 978-0-06-051626-0

• Mabel Maney Biography at HarperCollins
• Mabel Maney entry at GLBTQ: Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture] (1995)
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• http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/17552/Mabel_Maney/index.aspx
• https://web.archive.org/web/20120928202202/http://www.glbtq.com/sfeatures/interviewmmaney.html

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