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Mabel Maney


Born
New Jersey, The United States

Mabel Maney is an artist and author from San Francisco, California known for her lesbian pulp fiction. She is the author of the Nancy Clue series, a lesbian parody of the Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, and Hardy Boys series. More recently, she is the author of the "Jane Bond" novels, a series of parodies of James Bond. Mabel's short fiction can also be found the humor anthology "May Contain Nuts".

Maney is famous for the quote "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 in New Jersey. Her family moved to the midwest where was educated and permanently scarred by dour nuns. She was one of four children in an Irish Catholic family in Appleton, Wisconsin where she worke ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 1,843 ratings · 234 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors
The Case of the Not-So-Nice...
3.89 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions
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The Case of the Good-for-No...
3.80 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
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Ghost in the Closet: A Nanc...
3.84 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 1995 — 10 editions
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Kiss the Girls and Make The...
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The Girl with the Golden Bo...
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