The Journal of Michael Merriam

is now available in a Kindle edition.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003TQKVJ2

I love living in the future!

I have new story, "By Moonlight," out right now in the current issue of Aoife's Kiss, which you can purchase from the Genre Mall here.

This is the story that, when I sold it, I wrote: "proving there is a market for a story featuring a middle-aged lesbian mage-detective protagonist who is also blind."

Sold my 20,000 words novella "Should We Drown in Feathered Sleep," aka The Loon Story, to Carina Press, a SF/F e-book imprint of Harlequin.

Sold a reprint of my story "Jenny's Magic" to a new magazine called Hazard Cat.

After a couple of rounds of rewrites, "Starry Night" goes to Golden Vision Magazine.

My little magical realism piece, "A Hot Cup At The Last Station," goes to Bards and Sages Quarterly.

In the icon, I'm reading this story at Minicon. It made Laurel Winter cry, in a good way.

At the Edge of Twilight, Melissa Remembers Flight, a little story about super heroes, disability, government plots, and finding love, is live in the new issue of Three Crow Press. This story is one of my favorites among my own pieces, and I have to thank xjenavivex for asking me to write the story in the first place.

I am pleased to find myself sharing a ToC with marshallpayne1, (Molkar's Curse), kmarkhoover, (Tryst),
and southernweirdo, (Stagehands), as well as other talented writers.

Seriously, go read the whole magazine, it's well worth it.

My story Fey Child Fair, in which I am a Wicked Fairy Apologist, is live in the final issue of From the Asylum.

I'm sad to see this e-zine--which has been around for a long time--close shop, but I am pleased to find myself once again sharing a ToC with ckastens. Make sure you read his poem as well.

The grant is sent and out of my hands. Now off to Diversicon this weekend. Yeah, I've been doing a lot of conventions this year.

Saturday:

Disabilities in Science Fiction: 1:00-1:55 pm Krushenko's Annex (Northern Pacific)
On the differently-abled in SF, from Wells' "The Country of the Blind" to Daniel Keyes' "Flowers for Algernon," John Varley's "The Persistence of Vision," and Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan saga. Geordi La Forge is blind without his visor; so are many without glasses. Well also talk about the challenges and solutions, technological and otherwise--encountered by SF writers with disabilities.
Michael Merriam, mod.; Roy C. Booth, Emma Hawkes

Genres and Subgenres: 3:00-3:55 pm Krushenko's Annex (Northern Pacific)
What is a genre? Who came up with these classifications and are they useful? What purpose do they serve? What's a subgenre? What makes it "hard SF?" What is "science fantasy?" What subgenres are currently recognized in speculative fiction? What are the rules/tropes/expectations of these various subgenres?
S.N. Arly, mod.; Dana M. Baird, Janice Bogstad, Tyree Campbell, Michael Merriam

Massive Autographing: 5:00-5:30 PM SF Minnesota Table (Lobby, by Registration)
Kay Kenyon, Michael Levy, Sandra Lindow, Michael Merriam, et al.