Melissa James is a member of Watson's Tin Box, a Maryland-based Sherlock Holmes club. She is also one of The Denebian Slime Devils, a Baltimore-based filk group that's been writing and performing sci-fi, media and pop-culture song parodies since the late 1970's. The group also consists of Regina DeSimone, Cathy Dougherty, Denise Masters, and Kathy Scrimger. Melissa and Kathy were recently profiled in The Fandom Fifty,edited by Diane Lee Baron. The book features people active in Maryland science fiction conventions.