Author: Michael Merriam

I’ll be back at the Twin Cities Book Festival this year, once again as guest author with Queen of Swords Press. I’ll be helping them sell books and will also be selling all three books in my Grimoires and Gunfights Steampunk/Weird West series. Located in the Progress Center at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, Rain Taxi’s… Continue reading Next Event: Twin Cities Book Festival

Come out and have a beer with me this Sunday!

Cover for the upcoming anthology SCOURGE OF THE SEAS OF TIME (AND SPACE) from Queen of Swords Press edited by Catherine Lundoff. My space opera pirate story TENARI will appear alongside other fantastic tales! Due out in December of this year. Opening line: “The thing that surprised Captain Kathleen Reed the most about commanding a pirate… Continue reading Coming in December: Scourge Of The Seas Of Time (And Space)

Uncanny Magazine Issue 24- Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Coming September 4th, THE 24th ISSUE OF THE 2016, 2017, & 2018 HUGO AWARD-WINNING UNCANNY MAGAZINE, the Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction special issue!!! Includes my personal essay WE ARE NOT DAREDEVIL, EXCEPT WHEN WE ARE DAREDEVIL All of the content will be available in the… Continue reading Uncanny Magazine #24

The contracts are signed, so – Sold reprint rights for short story “Tenari” to Queen of Swords Press for their upcoming anthology SCOURGE OF THE SEAS OF TIME (AND SPACE). Sold reprint rights for short story “Fast Gliding Down the Rails” to new magazine THE UNFIT for their debut issues.

So when my friends start asking me what I want for my birthday next year, I am going to tell them they should pool their money and send me off on a writing retreat so I can have some focused time alone to finish a few projects. And when I say writing retreat, I’m not… Continue reading Next Year’s Birthday

I will tell you this thing: Everything Anthony Bourdain wrote and said about being a line cook is true and if you listened to him closely enough, you know that was where his heart was; on the line. Everything he left out about working on the line is true as well, but unless you’ve worked… Continue reading On the Line

My latest reading at DreamHaven Books. We had just been in a motor vehicle accident and I probably should have been at urgent care, but the show must go on, right? I may sound a little addled, because concussion.

Honestly, who needs to remember words – like that stuff you drink at Christmas. You know, you put nutmeg on it. Sometimes bourbon Numbers are overrated. Sure, I have a date of birth a zip code a bar code. Somewhere. Five five blah blah numbers numbers Staggering around as the world wobbles And cancelling all… Continue reading Concussion

I will at Planetfest on Saturday the 17th for the 7pm showing. I am very pleased to have collaborated on one of the short plays with the fantastic Fox B. Barrett. Come out and see our radio play within a stage play, “The Cursed Script.” From the Website: Have you ever imagined a world whose… Continue reading PlanetFest Theatre Festival