Michael Merriam
@mmerriam.bsky.social
Blind. Author. Performer. Playwright. Screenwriter. Posts about artist life, disability, cute animals, and living in Minneapolis, MN. He/Him. #SFWA
I just realized that the core of Watership Down - "All the world will be your enemy....And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you,..." is the actual core of the Pony Express story I'm writing.
December 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I just realized that the core of Watership Down - "All the world will be your enemy....And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you,..." is the actual core of the Pony Express story I'm writing.
Today and Tomorrow!
Next Up: I'll be there along with my publisher, Queen of Swords Press, both Saturday and Sunday. Books make fantastic holiday gifts!
December 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today and Tomorrow!
Next Up: I'll be there along with my publisher, Queen of Swords Press, both Saturday and Sunday. Books make fantastic holiday gifts!
December 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Next Up: I'll be there along with my publisher, Queen of Swords Press, both Saturday and Sunday. Books make fantastic holiday gifts!
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🚨 New scam alert 🚨
Scammers are now impersonating representatives of Silent Book Club to target authors by pretending they've been nominated for a reader award. The screencapped email here was followed up by a request for a video, press materials... and a "submission fee."
Scammers are now impersonating representatives of Silent Book Club to target authors by pretending they've been nominated for a reader award. The screencapped email here was followed up by a request for a video, press materials... and a "submission fee."
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🚨 New scam alert 🚨
Scammers are now impersonating representatives of Silent Book Club to target authors by pretending they've been nominated for a reader award. The screencapped email here was followed up by a request for a video, press materials... and a "submission fee."
Scammers are now impersonating representatives of Silent Book Club to target authors by pretending they've been nominated for a reader award. The screencapped email here was followed up by a request for a video, press materials... and a "submission fee."
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#Booksky TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE is a finalist in the Horror category for the Small Spec Book Awards! Big congratulatory shoutout to author @mmerriam.bsky.social and the other finalists and winners for the @specawards.bsky.social! And a big thank you to all the folks working on this! You rock! 💖
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#Booksky TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE is a finalist in the Horror category for the Small Spec Book Awards! Big congratulatory shoutout to author @mmerriam.bsky.social and the other finalists and winners for the @specawards.bsky.social! And a big thank you to all the folks working on this! You rock! 💖
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#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1
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#Booksky #8 Have you read author/playwright/poet Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social’s books yet? We publish two of them: Minneapolis sapphic urban fantasy, LAST CAR TO ANNWN STATION and Weird West TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE, both terrific reads - queenofswordspress.com/product-cate...
Michael Merriam
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November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#Booksky #8 Have you read author/playwright/poet Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social’s books yet? We publish two of them: Minneapolis sapphic urban fantasy, LAST CAR TO ANNWN STATION and Weird West TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE, both terrific reads - queenofswordspress.com/product-cate...
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This Story Hour, Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers took us back—and forward—in time. When you watch and listen, you may feel time stand still. A very warm and human hour of stories for you to relive—or watch for the first time! @mmerriam.bsky.social @lrb.bsky.social youtu.be/jaFx_qHS4xg
November 19, 2025: Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers
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November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This Story Hour, Michael Merriam and Laurence Raphael Brothers took us back—and forward—in time. When you watch and listen, you may feel time stand still. A very warm and human hour of stories for you to relive—or watch for the first time! @mmerriam.bsky.social @lrb.bsky.social youtu.be/jaFx_qHS4xg
Tonight! 9:00 pm Central Time / 7:00 Pacific. Give us a listen!
Tomorrow night, I will be reading "Now Arriving on Track Four," a little story about tangled timelines, during Story Hour at 9:00 pm Central Time / 7:00 p.m. Pacific. Come out and listen! www.storyhour2020.com
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November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Tonight! 9:00 pm Central Time / 7:00 Pacific. Give us a listen!
Tomorrow night, I will be reading "Now Arriving on Track Four," a little story about tangled timelines, during Story Hour at 9:00 pm Central Time / 7:00 p.m. Pacific. Come out and listen! www.storyhour2020.com
Home | Story Hour
www.storyhour2020.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Tomorrow night, I will be reading "Now Arriving on Track Four," a little story about tangled timelines, during Story Hour at 9:00 pm Central Time / 7:00 p.m. Pacific. Come out and listen! www.storyhour2020.com
I finished a short screenplay. Worked on it tonight, using my writing group's notes. Should have something to submit by next season. I might need to try finding funding and shoot it myself, which I don't love, but that might be my only option.
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I finished a short screenplay. Worked on it tonight, using my writing group's notes. Should have something to submit by next season. I might need to try finding funding and shoot it myself, which I don't love, but that might be my only option.
Watching the beacon lighting ceremony in honor of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald at Split Rock Lighthouse here in Minnesota. Touching and beautiful. I hope Minnesotans realize what an absolute gem this lighthouse is.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Watching the beacon lighting ceremony in honor of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald at Split Rock Lighthouse here in Minnesota. Touching and beautiful. I hope Minnesotans realize what an absolute gem this lighthouse is.
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oh my god they actually did it lmao
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
oh my god they actually did it lmao
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#Booksky Are TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE by @mmerriam.bsky.social, THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES by @heatherrosejones.bsky.social, LITTLE NOTHING by @deeholloway.bsky.social and POINT OF KNIVES by @blueterraplane.bsky.social are your TBR for #Novellavember? @greeniezona.bsky.social has great taste!
My final* #Novellavember TBR! I had a bunch of plans for tomorrow just get cancelled, so I may split the day Catching Up on All The Things and having a mini novella readathon.
Who's in, and what are you reading?
Who's in, and what are you reading?
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
#Booksky Are TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE by @mmerriam.bsky.social, THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES by @heatherrosejones.bsky.social, LITTLE NOTHING by @deeholloway.bsky.social and POINT OF KNIVES by @blueterraplane.bsky.social are your TBR for #Novellavember? @greeniezona.bsky.social has great taste!
The corpse of Halloween isn't even cold yet, and Thanksgiving hasn't had a chance to put on its boots, and Macy's is hitting me with a fucking Christmas commercial.
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The corpse of Halloween isn't even cold yet, and Thanksgiving hasn't had a chance to put on its boots, and Macy's is hitting me with a fucking Christmas commercial.
It has now been nearly a month since I wrote anything on the Weird West Pony Express story. In that time, I've done a bunch of outlining and brainstorming on the story. I can see the shape of the thing in my head, but I can't seem to get the actual words to come. 1/2
October 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It has now been nearly a month since I wrote anything on the Weird West Pony Express story. In that time, I've done a bunch of outlining and brainstorming on the story. I can see the shape of the thing in my head, but I can't seem to get the actual words to come. 1/2
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My mother's ashes have been buried between her mother and father, and her stone has been set out at the little country cemetery in Albert/Oney, Oklahoma. My brother Brian Myers handled this part. He did a great job. Also, the vase with her flower glows in the dark. Just perfect for spooky season.
October 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My mother's ashes have been buried between her mother and father, and her stone has been set out at the little country cemetery in Albert/Oney, Oklahoma. My brother Brian Myers handled this part. He did a great job. Also, the vase with her flower glows in the dark. Just perfect for spooky season.
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Anyone can hop in an inflatable suit and protest. Can't make it to an "official protest"? Find a freeway overpass or an intersection nearby. Hang out with your friends. Wave signs about ending fascism, or saving democracy. Everyone has their thing. My mom? No swears. My husband? Guillotines. 😂🤷♀️
You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin)
STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST
THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS
THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER
THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER
the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!”
Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.
STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST
THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS
THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER
THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER
the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!”
Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.
Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?
Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.
October 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Anyone can hop in an inflatable suit and protest. Can't make it to an "official protest"? Find a freeway overpass or an intersection nearby. Hang out with your friends. Wave signs about ending fascism, or saving democracy. Everyone has their thing. My mom? No swears. My husband? Guillotines. 😂🤷♀️
Baseball Post: What I'm loving about this American League Championship Series is that I'm old enough to remember when these two teams (Seattle and Toronto) came into the league together as expansion teams.
October 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Baseball Post: What I'm loving about this American League Championship Series is that I'm old enough to remember when these two teams (Seattle and Toronto) came into the league together as expansion teams.
Did some thinking and pre-writing work on the next section of the Pony Express Weird Western. I'm close to being ready to start writing on this draft again.
October 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Did some thinking and pre-writing work on the next section of the Pony Express Weird Western. I'm close to being ready to start writing on this draft again.
Wrote a new poem today, so that's something.
October 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Wrote a new poem today, so that's something.
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Congratulations, Michael! 🎉🎉🎉
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Congratulations, Michael! 🎉🎉🎉