Melissa Meibos (aka Lysandra James) is a dream-chasing dragon slayer who thinks she’s hilarious (because she is). As a breast cancer survivor, she’s a firm believer in using humor to get through difficult times and that stories are the best way to inspire others to overcome the darkness in their own lives. She loves people and often jokes that she could walk into an empty elevator and come out with a friend. Melissa started writing fantasy to avoid the tedious task of research only to write “displaced history” stories that take people from one time and place and dump them in another just to watch chaos ensue. This involves far more research than she’d ever hoped to do…and she absolutely loves it. Who knew?

Melissa lives in a small town in northern Utah with her handyman husband, three properly geeky sons, a dog who pees when she pets it, a diva house that requires a LOT of attention, and seven typewriters. The typewriters are the least demanding things in her life. Usually.