Melanie Fletcher is a woman of simple tastes—she likes to write, preferably for money. Her fiction includes “Star Quality” (Selling Venus, Circlet Press), “Hermaphrodite” (Crossing the Border, Indigo/Gollancz), “Bartok and the Unicorn” (Quantum Muse, July 2002), “The Female of the Species” (Quantum Muse, April 2003) and “A Rose By Any Other Name” (The Four Bubbas of the Apocolypse, Yard Dog Press). She has also produced the chapbooks The Stories That Would Not Die! and Dark Matter—Erotica SF and Fantasy (Belaurient Press).