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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#Booksky 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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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this is very much the problem with all the dudebro showrunners who took all the wrong lessons from Game of Thrones

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Come out and see me on Saturday!

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Booksky Next book table! Look for author Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social at Cream & Amber Books @creamandamber.bsky.social in Hopkins MN this Saturday 10/10 from 10-2PM! He’ll have his books and a selection of our titles for sale too! creamandamber.com/event/2026-1...

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Fall Mini Market

Come to Cream & Amber's Fall Mini Market, an outdoor market in our parking lot featuring local makers, doers, and bookish vendors. This event is back for the 7th year!

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dear Oklahoma family, friends, siblings, and cousins - I did not run booze in a big, black, overpowered Dodge for my great-uncle's rural speakeasy in a dry county, just for you to kneel and lick the books of authoritarianism.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One day, you are young and fun. Then, suddenly, you find yourself sitting in your bathrobe on your sun porch, talking to your cat about yellow-throated warblers while enjoying your morning coffee.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Buy IN TRANSIT: STORIES ON THE MOVE here: www.amazon.com/Transit-Shor...

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

have a new short story collection that came out this year called IN TRANSIT: STORIES ON THE MOVE. All the stories are "on the move," whether by train, spaceship, automobile, or even on foot. I'm pleased with this collection. Bonus: I created a playlist for the book for you to enjoy as you read.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Apparently, the government's security apparatus has been spying on my church, even going so far as to plant agents inside, disguised as visitors during Sunday services. This tells me that the church I attend (First Universalist in Minneapolis) must be doing something right.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#Booksky Did you know that we have a terrific urban fantasy set in #Minneapolis? LAST CAR TO ANNWN STATION by @mmerriam.bsky.social is Welsh mythology meets Uptown, circa 2007. Ghostly streetcars, the Hounds of Annwn, fae creatures + a sweet sapphic romance! queenofswordspress.com/product/last...

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One day, you are young and fun. Then, suddenly, you find yourself sitting in your bathrobe on your sun porch, talking to your cat about yellow-throated warblers while enjoying your morning coffee.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

While I let the Pony Express novella rest a bit before the next draft, and while I have thinky thoughts about a possible space opera piece, I'm reworking an old secondary world fantasy novel I wrote over a decade ago and...it's not half bad.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My cosmic horror haunted-radio-station story will appear in this upcoming anthology! Enter SUMMER26 at checkout to redeem a 25% discount; the offer is exclusively available on the Waterstones website and the Waterstones app. I checked, and Waterstones does ship to the USA. Get your copy reserved!

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

D&D has released an official statblock for Jimothy

Jimothy statblock from DnD: You cannot gain XP by fighting him. He has agile and compact frame traits; his action is hurl garbage.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The untitled Pony Express novella is complete in the first draft. It only took me 17 damned months to finish this thing.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Photo of Fergus, Lucky, and Maddie for the algorithm tax

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Many factors went into this decision, including wanting more control over when and where I work, what I work on (artist career vs. medical billing career), and how I live my life and use my time here in the third act of my existence. It is a big, scary step, but I am committed.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Early next week, I will be developing a marketing plan, finalizing my rates for all these services, and creating basic contracts.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I am also planning to hang out my shingle to assist writers who need developmental edits, continuity reads, and sensitivity reads for disability, with a strong emphasis on blindness. I am not your guy for copy and line edits.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I am more interested in supporting therapists or therapy clinics as a medical biller and/or consultant than in contracting and credentialing. I already have some leads and possibilities.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I am returning to freelance work. I will seek clients for outpatient behavioral health medical billing, consulting, contracting, and credentialing. I plan to work only with certain electronic health record platforms, such as Therapy Notes, Simple Practice, Breezy Notes, and a couple of smaller ones.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

On Monday the 13th, I submitted my resignation from my day job. I will remain with them until the end of July. At 61, I thought this would be my final stop, that I would stay here in some capacity until my working days were over or I died face down on my keyboard, but sometimes life has other plans.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Join us today at 1:30. I am looking forward to this discussion.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I'm getting them daily now, and it really is just annoying.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I've also been hit with some really sophisticated agent and editor emails that look really real but - well - aren't. Anyone else seeing this?

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Have other authors seen an uptick in spam and phishing around your books? People trying to scam money, saying they represent large book clubs (hundreds of readers!) or that they can position your book to reach maximum readership through Goodreads and other platforms.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

4th of July is over. If you keep firing off those illegal in MN fireworks, you are a fucking piece of shit, and I hope you stumble in a parking lot full of garden rakes and get hit in the face by the handles repeatedly.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Yes, because I've come to love Minnesota over 25 years of living here, warts and all, and my home city as well. I will ride and die for Minneapolis.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

ICE observers in Minneapolis have begun receiving visits from FBI agents sent to intimidate them. A close friend-combat vet, mother, no criminal record-who was a volunteer observer during the ICE crisis, had a visit and was threatened for taking photos and videoed, claiming that filming was illegal.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

600 new words on the Pony Express Weird Western. I can see the ending from here.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Why are printers the most hateful and hate-filled pieces of technology?

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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Burial Books @burialbooks.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Our next writer in the upcoming sci-fi anthology Strange Tales of Space and Time is Michael Merriam with his story "Mother Carry Us Home". Michael is author of the Sixguns & Sorcery series with fourteen books and over 100 pieces of short fiction published. Learn more at michaelmerriam.com.

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

New Badge Ribbons have arrived! See you at the local conventions and book events!

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Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Hey! So that you know, "In Transit" has a playlist. I listened to a bunch of different songs while putting this collection together. These are the most played. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Kenneth Mark Hoover @kmarkhoover.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I got @mmerriam.bsky.social new anthology today! Can’t wait to read it!

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

#Booksky For the PM crowd! The Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A.Barnett, Point of Hearts is the example book, is eligible for the Best Series Hugo if you’re nominating! This series includes 1 Lambda Award Winner and 1 MIPA Award winner! Help us hit the big time. www.lacon.org/hugos/

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This series is very, very good and imo exactly what the series Hugo should be recognising. Suspect a lot of people will be struggling to fill up their series ballot; if you have a spare you should absolutely nominate Astreaint.

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