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Jun. 10th, 2008 07:53 amLast night, while ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
careswen and I were in the process of doing the final layout of Shimmers & Shadows, my lovely wife turned to me and said she thought it might be a good idea if I posted my "About the Author" bit and asked for feedback from my flist. Because she is wise (and because I hate talking about myself in the third-person), I agreed. So here it is, and I am requesting your input.
About the Author
Michael Merriam was born in Michigan, in 1965, but spent most of his life in Oklahoma and Texas, moving to Minnesota in 1999.
Like most writers, Michael has worked a variety of odd jobs over the years, including musician, short order cook, and freight logistics manager. In 2003, after being laid off and declared legally blind, Michael began writing again, rekindling a passion he had set aside nearly two decades earlier.
Michael has sold science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction to a variety of magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fictitious Force, From the Asylum, and The Harrow. He was nominated for the James B. Baker Award in 2007 and Preditors and Editors Reader's Choice Awards in 2006 and 2007, and he has been a semi-finalist twice in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.
Michael is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Twin Cities Speculative Fiction Writers Network. He lives in Hopkins, Minnesota, with his wife and an ordained cat.
Visit Michael's homepage at www.michaelmerriam.net.
How could this be improved? What could be taken out? What would you like added? Does anyone even read the "About the Author" page? All ideas and suggestions welcome!
careswen and I were in the process of doing the final layout of Shimmers & Shadows, my lovely wife turned to me and said she thought it might be a good idea if I posted my "About the Author" bit and asked for feedback from my flist. Because she is wise (and because I hate talking about myself in the third-person), I agreed. So here it is, and I am requesting your input. About the Author
Michael Merriam was born in Michigan, in 1965, but spent most of his life in Oklahoma and Texas, moving to Minnesota in 1999.
Like most writers, Michael has worked a variety of odd jobs over the years, including musician, short order cook, and freight logistics manager. In 2003, after being laid off and declared legally blind, Michael began writing again, rekindling a passion he had set aside nearly two decades earlier.
Michael has sold science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction to a variety of magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fictitious Force, From the Asylum, and The Harrow. He was nominated for the James B. Baker Award in 2007 and Preditors and Editors Reader's Choice Awards in 2006 and 2007, and he has been a semi-finalist twice in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.
Michael is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Twin Cities Speculative Fiction Writers Network. He lives in Hopkins, Minnesota, with his wife and an ordained cat.
Visit Michael's homepage at www.michaelmerriam.net.
How could this be improved? What could be taken out? What would you like added? Does anyone even read the "About the Author" page? All ideas and suggestions welcome!
