Mabel Maney is an artist and author from San Francisco, California known for her lesbian pulp fiction. She is the author of the 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 in 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."