At the tender age of six, Melissa Crandall wrote, illustrated, and published her first book, "The Dog and the Fox." As time passed, she continued to produce such earth-shakingly awful tomes as a series of graphic novels detailing the adventures of "Bat Horse" (based loosely on the 1960s "Batman" television show).

High school found Melissa gifted with friends of a likewise imaginative bent with whom she wrote pastiches of Anne McCaffrey's "Pern" series, as well as the television shows "Alias Smith and Jones" and "Here Come the Brides." They also created their own worlds.

Melissa's involvement with fanzines included appearances in Jelly Baby Chronicles (Doctor Who meets Yoda), Last of the Jedi, Great Water Holt's Questings (and the novella "The Wrong Foot"), Fort Weyr's Harper Beat (and the bigzines "Dragonfall" and "In the Shadow of Dragons"), plus one or two other 'zines whose names have also been lost to history. With a friend, Melissa produced the fanzines "Blowing Off Steam" and "Far Eastern Flash." ran Segel Weyr and its publication Far Eastern Flash. Melissa was editor on the single issue of "Promethea One", a fanzine devoted to spotlighting original fan-fic.

In 1992 Melissa collaborated on her first professional endeavor and she hasn't looked back since. Melissa continues to write novels and short stories, dabble a bit in poetry, and doesn't expect things to change until they haul her away, kicking and screaming.