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Melissa Yuan-Innes


Biography

Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency room doctor and writer who lives with her husband, one son, one daughter, two cows, and too many mosquitoes outside of Montreal, Canada.

She writes thrillers and science fiction/fantasy under Melissa Yuan-Innes, mysteries under the name Melissa Yi, romance under Melissa Yin, and children's/YA under Melissa Yuan.

"Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight."
--Alicia Curtis, A&E Editor, The Stormy Petrel

"Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker"
--Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's

"Yuan-Innes employs a fresh use of language to spin a storyline that is at once universally familiar and intriguingly original."
--Brian Agincourt Massey, judge of the 2008 Innermoonlit Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, in awarding first prize to _The Popcorn Girl Meets Darwin Jones_

Where to find Melissa Yuan-Innes online

Website: http://melissayuaninnes.wordpress.com/
Twitter: dr_sassy
    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?editwp=&locale=en_US
    Blog: http://melissayuaninnes.wordpress.com/blog/

    Books

    The Unfeeling Thousandaire: How I Made $10,000 Indie Publishing and You Can, Too!    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $2.99 USD. 9880 words. Published by Olo Books on September 26, 2012. Nonfiction.
    In my first few months of indie publishing, I made zero dollars. That's right. The big donut. But by the end of my first year, I'd grossed over $10,000, making me not a millionaire, but a thousandaire. How? Hard work and a bit of good luck. We can all profit from indie publishing, whether it's a little or a lot. Come join the thousandaires club!
    The Unfeeling Wannabe Surgeon: A Med School Memoir    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $5.99 USD. 44430 words. Published by Olo Books on April 19, 2012. Nonfiction.
    The hours are inhumane. The people are insane. But you literally hold someone's life in your hands. And the one thing that nobody told me before I plunged hands-first into my surgical rotation, the thing I had to discover for myself, was that, compared to anything else in medicine, every blood-spattered second of surgery is so much fun.
    The Unfeeling Doctor Betwixt Birthing Babies: Poems About Love, Loss, and More Love    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $3.99 USD. 26070 words. Published by Olo Books on February 19, 2012. Nonfiction.
    This is the story about a plucky emergency doctor giving birth to two healthy babies—and all the whacked-out stuff that happens in between. Death and disease stalk and smite my family; I'm trying to save lives in the ER and conceive another baby. Warning: this book is less about official doctor-ing and more about my unbalanced life (but funny! And plucky! Did I mention plucky?).
    Beware of the Chinese Mama: Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 7440 words. Published by Olo Books on January 3, 2012. Fiction.
    "Why don't you write about your mother, like Amy Tan?" said a friend. I resisted, but my mother crept into my writing. Is she a tiger mother? Not strict enough. Dragon lady? Too disorganized. Girl yelling "Me love you long time?" Uh, try another era. My mother defies stereotype. For my friend, and for anyone else who likes, or fears, or is a Chinese Mama, read and weep over the Chinese mama-fioso.
    These Delicate Creatures    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 4550 words. Published by Olo Books on December 28, 2011. Fiction.
    When a tyrant overtakes her space colony, Emma Lo strikes back with her art. She employs nanotechnology to transform her nearly century-old body so that she may play Othello in a desperate bid to satirize and overthrow the President—until someone hacks Emma's com link and begins to blackmail her. A cat-and-mouse game where Emma's life and spirit are at stake.
    Piranhas, Pickle Joe, and Me    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 1710 words. Published by Olo Books on December 25, 2011. Fiction.
    What if...your best friend was a long, thin slice of dill pickle and you played with him every night in your dreams? What if...this world became more real than the one you're in right now? What if...Pickle Joe took you swimming up the Amazon River and the piranhas attacked you?
    The Littlest Caregiver    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 3190 words. Published by Olo Books on December 21, 2011. Nonfiction.
    When my father was diagnosed with brain cancer, I could handle the hospital. I'm a doctor. I pushed for faster and better treatment. But the actual caretaking? I fumbled. Luckily, my infant son Max was wiser than me. Here is Max and Dad's story. This essay will also appear in my book, The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged. "Beautiful...one of your best pieces ever."-Medical Post editor David Hodges
    'Buddhish': The Unfeeling Doctor's Freefall into Buddhism, Grief and Grace    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $5.99 USD. 40340 words. Published by Olo Books on December 9, 2011. Nonfiction.
    So how did this agnostic emergency doctor first find Buddhism, or Buddhish-ness? I had started practicing medicine while pregnant with my first child. Then my life shattered. At 20 weeks, I delivered a stillborn baby girl. A local priest said, "You need to forgive yourself, and I can't help you with that." This is the story of Buddhism leading me on my path to forgiveness.
    Waiting for Jenny Rex    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 8130 words. Published by Olo Books on October 30, 2011. Fiction.
    Jenny died of anorexia, but she didn't stay dead. She's back and she's warning the world about her deadly disease. Josh, the media-savvy reporter, helps her get the message out...and falls in love with her drive, her sass, and funny little streaks of innocence. Can Jenny save the world from anorexia? Can Josh save her from herself? Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Science Fiction, 2003
    The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged: More True Tales From Med School and Beyond    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $3.99 USD. 27250 words. Published by Olo Books on October 7, 2011. Nonfiction.
    Was I always The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World? Of course not. I offer you counter-examples from medical school, a time when I was so earnest, I scraped my finger on the mannequin while practicing my digital rectal exam technique (true story). Now I practice emergency medicine in the digital age, where Twitter co-exists with trauma and tendonitis. Come on in.
    Dancers With Red Shoes    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 4130 words. Published by Olo Books on July 20, 2011. Fiction.
    When magical creatures need a cure, they journey to the Wizard's Hospital. On a sweltering day in July, a pair of red shoes dance in the tower of the Wizard's Hospital. Leah Chang, the wizard's apprentice, brings the shoes to audition for the Royal Academy of Magical Ballet. Chaos ensues.
    A Pain in the Toenails    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: Free! 1840 words. Published by Olo Books on July 15, 2011. Nonfiction.
    Ah, the innocence of medical school. This is a story from my third year of clinical clerkship, when I started rotating through the hospital wards. One patient taught me about ulcerative colitis...and a few other things. You can also find this essay in my book, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales from the Emergency Room.
    Skin Song    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 5430 words. Published by Olo Books on July 6, 2011. Fiction.
    "[A] medical student who is anything but ordinary... Kyla has a strange gift: she can hear skin songs. To her, a person's skin has a song and each person sounds differently. On arriving at med school she finds herself in a quandary: does the skin song continue after death? Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight." -Alicia Curtis
    Restless    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 3040 words. Published by Olo Books on July 6, 2011. Fiction.
    When magical creatures need a cure, they journey to the Wizard's Hospital. On a cold day in December, a mysterious man makes a pilgrimage to a hidden corner of Montreal, Canada. He has been walking for almost 2000 years and must negotiate a dwarf, a three-headed dog, and worse yet, pesky apprentices before reaching the poutine-loving wizard named Noah who might be able to help him.
    Mrs. Marigold's House    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 5600 words. Published by Olo Books on July 6, 2011. Fiction.
    Every Hallowe'en, Mrs. Marigold invites only six children to her mansion. One boy, Adam, warns Ashley away, but her parents, desperate to get in good with the richest woman in town, force her to go. Trick or treat? Trick. Definitely trick. The question is if Ashley can get out alive. "Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker in 'Mrs. Marigold's House'.....Highly recommended."-Paul Di Filippo
    Iron Monk    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 5000 words. Published by Olo Books on July 6, 2011. Fiction.
    Two Shaolin monks exiled to outer space try to keep up their traditions, including kung fu, on their way to answer an alien communication signal. But when Little Tiger falls ill, they must reinvent their approach in order to survive. "[A]n intriguing story of a group of Chinese dissidents sent on a treacherous space mission to contact aliens in the outer Solar System..." D. Douglas Fratz, sfsite
    Red    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 1590 words. Published by Olo Books on July 6, 2011. Fiction.
    (5.00 from 1 review)
    A pregnant teenager donates her embryo to a recipient mother who wants red-haired children. The doctor who pioneered the technology performs the microsurgery exquisitely. Everyone should live happily ever after. Except this isn't a fairy tale. "Red," a short story originally published in Nature's Future science fiction section.
    The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $3.99 USD. 23140 words. Published by Olo Books on June 29, 2011. Nonfiction.
    Life as an emergency doctor. That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring out of a terrified pregnant woman? Call me. Plus the patient who no longer has a nosebleed screaming at me across the department, "You. Are. The Most. Unfeeling doctor. I have ever met!" Come on in. Nominated for the Top 50 Must-Read Books for Nurses in 2012.
    Space and Time Books    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 1360 words. Published by Olo Books on June 16, 2011. Fiction.
    "Anyone who loves bookstores will enjoy "Space and Time Books" by Melissa Yuan-Innes, a lyrical tale with a very different central character." --sfrevu.com In a world where two independent bookshops close every week, Space and Time Books takes its fate into its own hands. Well, it's a bookstore. It doesn't actually have hands. But it does have a Book of Spells that grants it three wishes...
    Embryos in Space    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $3.99 USD. 10120 words. Published by Olo Books on June 16, 2011. Fiction.
    Award-winning author and physician, Melissa Yuan-Innes, explores the strange new worlds of embryo transplantation ("Red"), human-ape genetic engineering ("Growing Up Sam"), and exile (two Shaolin monks banished to outer space in "Iron Monk") in an exclusive collection of her science fiction stories.
    Growing Up Sam    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 3860 words. Published by Olo Books on June 15, 2011. Fiction.
    Hi. I Sam. I half bonobo, half human. That make people want to kill me. I not care. I play in my steel room. But then something go very wrong. Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection "affecting"-- SF Site "strong...In tone the story resembles Flowers for Algernon.... Yuan-Innes pulls off quite a difficult balancing act." --Challenging Destiny
    Little Box of Horror    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $3.99 USD. 15330 words. Published by Olo Books on June 15, 2011. Fiction.
    Award-winning author Melissa Yuan-Innes gathers three of her most disquieting tales, "Skin Song," "The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls," and "Mrs. Marigold's House" for your reading (dis)pleasure. From a medical student rightfully afraid of dissecting a cadaver to sadistic nuns and vampire schoolgirls, come in and open this little box of horror.
    The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
    Price: $1.99 USD. 4310 words. Published by Olo Books on January 6, 2011. Fiction.
    When Melanie's mother dumps her at the Little Flower Preparatory College for Girls, Melanie can handle the uniforms and the 6 a.m. wake-up calls. But when the nuns' discipline turns savage and Melanie discovers that the parents have essentially abandoned them, Melanie must save herself and her best friend, even if it means consorting with a vampire.

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