Mel Anastasiou

Mel Anastasiou has been longlisted for the prestigious Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, 2018, with her novel Stella Ryman and the Fairmount Manor Mysteries. A big Leacock fan, Mel in her extreme youth would take friends to look at Eric Nicol's house and say, "He won the Leacock three times." Nowadays, Mel says, "I love Stephen Leacock and Eric Nicol, and so does Stella."

Mel loves her writing life in BC and the UK. She is senior acquisitions editor with Pulp Literature Press and writes mysteries starring sleuths who are often fish out of water and gifted amateur detectives. Mel can be found every day writing, walking for miles to look at inspired Victorian architecture, and dreaming up crimes for her octagenarian sleuth, Stella Ryman, to solve .

Mel is the author of two illustrated 30-day workbooks on story structure, the steampunk-themed The Writer’s Boon Companion, and The Writer’s Friend and Confidante. She writes the Hertfordshire Pub Mysteries, the Fairmount Manor Mysteries, and the Monument Studios Mysteries. For news on these series, information about speaking engagements, tips on structure, and keys to time management for writers, visit her website, melanastasiou.wordpress.com.