Melanie Nashland Warren was born in Portland, Oregon, and lived her early years in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from the 8th grade in Redondo Beach, California, her family moved back to Portland, where she attended James Madison High School and Western Business College.

Her interest in writing started in early childhood when she created intricate stories for her dolls. When she neared her teens the dolls were put away and she began to write stories in small spiral-bound notebooks during  study hall periods at school, rather than doing homework, because, "It was a lot more interesting."

In the late 1980s she started to form an idea for another world, which originally took place on a mythical continent called Mu. By her own admission, "it was a crude and somewhat corny start to what eventually evolved into the Pangaean saga."

After reading a Time-Life book about continental drift, a theory that all the continents on Earth had at one time been joined together as one super-continent called Pangaea (a name coined by German meteorologist Alfred Wegner in 1912, which means "all lands."), and then watching a TV show on PBS about Pangaea (pronounced pan-JEE-ah), she started developing an idea about what kind of world that might have been.

If this theory held any credibility, what would a world like this have been like if it still existed? Taking revised versions of her characters of Mu, she started to develop the Pangaean Chronicles.

Melanie's Pangaea is purely fictional. It has taken more than 20 years to develop the stories that are now presented in her books. The characters have come a long way from their inception back in Mu.

These Pangaean adventures will take you on a long journey of excitement, suspense, and danger. See the Book Descriptions page for links to the books.