Mallory O'Meara

O'Meara is the author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon (2019), which serves as a biography of make-up artist Milicent Patrick as well as a chronicle of O'Meara's search for information about Patrick.{{cite news |last=Booth |first=Philip |title=A woman who created a monster, a legend and a path for women in Hollywood |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 22, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-woman-who-created-a-monster-a-legend-and-a-path-for-women-in-hollywood/2019/03/22/57b2b37a-3ad4-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html |accessdate=August 18, 2020}}

The book includes evidence that Patrick designed the iconic{{cite web |author1=Meagan Navarro |title=The Enduring Terror of the Gill Man: 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' Turns 65 |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3548677/enduring-terror-gill-man-creature-black-lagoon-turns-65/ |website=Bloody Disgusting |access-date=22 January 2023 |date=5 March 2019}} Gill-man from Creature from the Black Lagoon, and that Bud Westmore, a member of the influential Westmore family of Hollywood make-up artists, worked to deny her credit for this achievement.{{cite web |title=The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781335937803 |website=Publishers Weekly |access-date=22 January 2023 |date=19 November 2018}} The book was nominated for Hugo and Locus awards, and won the 2019 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Book of the Year.{{cite news |last=Carlson |first=Greg |title=Collecting Movies with Mallory O'Meara |work=High Plains Reader |date=July 19, 2020 |url=https://hpr1.com/index.php/arts-entertainment/cinema/collecting-movies-with-mallory-omeara/ |accessdate=August 18, 2020}}

O'Meara's second book, Girly Drinks, about the history of women making and drinking alcohol throughout the world, was published in 2021 by Hanover Square Press.{{cite news |last=Wieberg |first=Steve |title=Hollywood horror story: For years woman got no credit for designing famous Creature |work=The Kansas City Star |date=August 17, 2019 |url=https://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/books/article234078937.html |accessdate=August 18, 2020}}{{Cite web |last=O’Meara |first=Mallory |date=2022-08-21 |title=Women were the first brewers, yet the history of alcohol comes with a double shot of sexism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/21/women-were-the-very-first-brewers-yet-the-history-of-alcohol-comes-with-a-double-shot-of-sexism |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} Girly Drinks won a 2022 James Beard Foundation Award.{{cite web |title=The 2022 James Beard Media Award Winners |url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/index.php/blog/the-2022-james-beard-media-award-winners |website=James Beard Foundation |access-date=22 January 2023 |date=11 June 2022}}

O'Meara's third book, Girls Make Movies: A Follow-Your-Own-Path Guide for Aspiring Young Filmmakers, was published by Running Press on May 23, 2023.{{cite book |title=Girls Make Movies by Mallory O'Meara |url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mallory-omeara/girls-make-movies/9780762478989/ |date=6 June 2022 |isbn=9780762478989 |access-date=22 January 2023 |last1=O'Meara |first1=Mallory |publisher=Running Press }} Girls Make Movies is illustrated by comic book creator Jen Vaughn.

Since 2017 O'Meara has co-hosted Reading Glasses, a weekly podcast about reading and books, with filmmaker Brea Grant.{{cite web |title=Episode 1: Book Slumps with Sara Benincasa |url=https://maximumfun.org/episodes/reading-glasses/reading-glasses-episode-1-book-slumps-sara-benincasa/ |website=Maximum Fun |access-date=22 January 2023 |date=8 June 2017}} Reading Glasses is part of the Maximum Fun network.{{cite web |title=Page Advice with Mallory O'Meara and Brea Grant |work=Apex Magazine |url=https://apex-magazine.com/page-advice/ |accessdate=August 18, 2020}}

Brea Grant and O'Meara published The No-Pressure Book Journal: A No-Guilt, No-Shame, No-Stress Journal to Help You Read Better and Enjoy Books Again through the Weldon Owen imprint of Simon & Schuster on February 4, 2025. Rebecca Santo illustrated The No-Pressure Book Journal.{{Cite book |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-No-Pressure-Book-Journal/Brea-Grant/9798886741940 |title=The No-Pressure Book Journal |date=2025-02-04 |isbn=979-8-88674-194-0 |language=en}}

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman was published by Hanover Square Press, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, on February 18, 2025. Daughter of Daring chronicles the life of Helen Gibson, who excelled "in the early days of the twentieth-century silent film scene as a rodeo rider, background actor, stunt double, and eventually one of the era’s biggest action stars."{{Cite web |title=Daughter of Daring |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/daughter-of-daring-mallory-omeara?variant=42563327590434 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=HarperCollins |language=en}}

From 2013 to 2019, O'Meara also worked as a writer and producer for Dark Dunes Productions in Los Angeles.{{cite news |last=Arreola |first=Cristina |title=Milicent Patrick Designed One Of The Most Iconic Monsters Of All Time. Then She Was Forgotten. |work=Bustle |date=October 18, 2018 |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/the-lady-from-the-black-lagoon-tells-the-forgotten-story-of-the-only-woman-to-have-ever-designed-iconic-movie-monster-12604006 |accessdate=August 18, 2020}}{{cite web |title=About Dark Dunes Productions |url=https://darkdunesproductions.com/about/ |website=Dark Dunes Productions |access-date=22 January 2023 |quote="Imbued with a lifelong love of the strange, horror and monsters are Mallory’s passion. She has been with Dark Dunes Productions since the summer of 2013."}}{{Cite tweet |last=O'Meara |first=Mallory |user=malloryomeara |number=1154794140837666818 |title=✨Okay, folks. I am thrilled/terrified to announce that after Halloween, I'm going full time as a writer.✨}}{{Cite tweet |last=O'Meara |first=Mallory |user=malloryomeara |number=1154794260866015232 |title=No more Dark Dunes! I'll be stepping away from producing and moving to writing full time. I'll be working on GIRLY DRINKS and an unannounced book!}}

• The Lady from the Black Lagoon (2019, Hanover Square Press; {{ISBN|9781335010131}}) {{Cite web|title=SPINE-Mallory O'Meara on the Process of Writing The Lady From The Black Lagoon|url=https://spinemagazine.co/articles/mallory-omeara|access-date=2020-09-09|website=SPINE|date=9 May 2019 |language=en-US}}
• Girly Drinks: A Women's History of Drinking (2021, Hanover Square Press; {{ISBN|9781335282408}})
• Girls Make Movies: A Follow-Your-Own-Path Guide for Aspiring Young Filmmakers (2023, Running Press; {{ISBN|9780762478989}})
• The No-Pressure Book Journal: A No-Guilt, No-Shame, No-Stress Journal to Help You Read Better and Enjoy Books Again (2025, Weldon Owen; {{ISBN|979-8-88674-194-0}})
• Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman (2025, Hanover Square Press; {{ISBN|978-1-335-00793-3}})

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