by Melissa Jacobson | Sep 3, 2026 | Character Dossiers - The Characters who live in my version of a haunted America
An auctioneer showed up at the Cobweb Palace on Meiggs Wharf and started accepting bids. The San Francisco Chronicle covered it the next day. Thirty-seven years of Abe Werner’s life went on the block: the curiosities, the caged animals, the paintings. A statesman... 
by Melissa Jacobson | May 12, 2026 | Character Dossiers - The Characters who live in my version of a haunted America, Fact or Fantasy?
Necromancers and Navy Grog launches on May 15, 2026 which means I am officially in the final stretch of prelaunch chaos: checking links, refreshing pages I have no business refreshing, and pretending I am not emotionally invested in every tiny detail. Naturally, this... 
by Melissa Jacobson | Jan 20, 2026 | Character Dossiers - The Characters who live in my version of a haunted America, Fact or Fantasy?
Unassuming Middled Aged Spinster? YES AND Bad Ass Union Spy My FAVORITE thing when I write historical fantasy set in the late 19th-century American, is starting with real people and real systems of power. The characters and institutions in Bad Magic and Whiskey are...