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NICOLE MELLO
queer storyteller, dark comedian, emotional writer, hopeless romantic, cheerful publisher, horror obsessor, atavistic cryptid, humanity lover, excited creator, chaos advocate, constant learner, everyday appreciator, mistake maker, art enjoyer, professional pretender, and dream weaver, by trade.
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author by profession.
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BOOKS
everything available
from me right now
IT'LL LAST LONGER
a poetry collection
a raw, hungry, desperate collection of poems exploring the body, the self, and the animal that lives inside of all of us. author and poet nicole mello explores what makes us us, what is left when the trappings are stripped away, and what matters most to our cores and hearts of hearts.
DECOMMISSIONED
a horror
Life isn't fair. Why would death be any different?
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Blaine Goodwin moves into the Lighthouse on Skyreef Refuge to save the old place. Their husband, Harvey, restores places to their former glory; Blaine is the one who preserves them, revitalizes them, bringing them into the light once again. There's something special about coming to an old home nobody's lived in for years and making it feel human again.
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The longer they reside in the Skylight, though, the stranger things become. Words whisper on the winds; storms batter the island; saltwaters consume them in living rot; the day-to-day of their lives becomes swallowed by the something that never left the old decommissioned lighthouse. Uncovering the spirit won't satisfy her, however. She wants something more from them; she wants something she lost herself, long ago. Blaine's quest of restoration instead becomes one of searching, understanding, and reaching through the veil to the hands clawing out from the other side.
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A ghost story like no other, decommissioned: a horror will take audiences on a tense, terrifying journey through the haunted saltscape of New England. In exploring the cursed nightmare that is Blaine's life on Skyreef Refuge, author Nicole Mello gives readers an ethereal, evocative story of horror, home, and humanity that is cinematic, intimate, and will leave you questioning what matters, what doesn't, and what it truly means to be alive.
HONEYBLOOD
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Change is both impossible and necessary.
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This morning truly could be like any other. The day could continue as every day here does, an endless misery, a prison of torment. It could be the same as it is always, each day before this one and likely each day after, the continuing pattern that will drag inexorably towards death, or worse. Or: today could be the day things change.
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francis taylor moves to the middle of nowhere to find himself. along the way, he also finds love, revenge, and a bloodthirsty new way of living that's more in line with the world he'd like to live in. a lush, gothic queer vampire romance.
WE MEET THEM
a novella
Kim checks in to the Denholm Square Inn on less than a whim.
When she thinks about things that people need most — things like food, and a roof, and a bed, and a bathroom, and someone they can trust — she knows she can get all of that at a hotel. She can’t always trust motels, and people who run bed-and-breakfasts are just people. People can be cruel, and make mistakes, and people have their own rules.
But a big old hotel, run by some guy with money who never even sees the place? Functioning thanks to a staff that’s paid well enough to give a shit? Kim loves those places.
WHEN SHE SAW WHAT SHE HAD DONE
The Ballad of Lizzie Borden
A series of narrative poems detailing Lizzie Borden's life, her spiral into madness, the murder of her father and stepmother, and her life after the murders.
In a series of thirty-five poems, Nicole Mello cleverly and vividly tells the story of a young woman whose life falls apart around her head and whose idea of a deep, true love is a hard, gruesome violence.
PHANTASMAGORIA
a collection of short stories
This is gonna be the strangest fucking day of your life. There's a lot of chaos in this world. There's a lot of terrible things and horrible people and you have to confront that.
It's easier when you can fight back.
Join the characters in PHANTASMAGORIA, a collection of short stories about taking back what's yours. Each story features characters during the strangest day of their life. Serial killers, ghosts, vampires, murderers, werewolves, cults, witches, bitches, and so much more await you within the pages of this assemblage of dark comedies.
SWEETHEART
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Blair Moreau is an assistant librarian helping to put on a speed-dating event at Montwater Public Library when she meets Lauren Jacobs. One thing leads to another, and the two of them unexpectedly end up having a baby together.
Lauren's excited to be involved in the baby's life, but Blair isn't sure if she's ready for that kind of change — or even ready to love someone else, when she's barely ready to love herself and this baby. She's hoping for a happy ending, but afraid of her vulnerability being met with hurt.
THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
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Dr. Roberta Walton’s newest patient is assigned to her on March 15 — a presumed murder who suffered a psychotic break. Dr. Walton recognizes quickly that there has more to this story, so she interrogates him, a man by the name of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Her interviews are collected here, in the form of a narrative composed by Dr. Walton.
Frankenstein describes his history in detail — his unfortunate childhood, his horrible experiments, and the fallout of decisions he could never fully understand. A tragedy of his own making, Frankenstein tells the story of his own life as it fell apart at the hands of the life he created.
VENUS
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Juliet Alva had lived in Big Bay, Michigan since the day she was born - until the very January that she decided to change everything. She liked to think she had bigger aspirations, dreams that could only flourish outside of Big Bay - but, when one hit twenty-four years old and one had never left their home state before, one began to wonder about their aspirations and dreams.
Luckily, nomadic Daksha Paracha was on her way to Big Bay to change everything.