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Cynthia Rivers, Mermaid and Mermaid Blogger
So Cynthia Rivers is a gold-tailed internet-loving techie mermaid who runs her own mermaid blog and mermaid groups on Facebook and in Second Life (where she also provides a resource page for you...
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Dive Bar’s Rachel Smith talks Mermaid Illustration
You might remember Rachel Smith as head mermaid and mermaid trainer at Sacramento’s glamorous Dive Bar, where you can go out any night and blow kisses at mermaids swimming in the 7,500-gallon tank...
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Tera Lynn Childs’s Just for Fins
So Tera Lynn Childs’s third mermaid book, Just For Fins, came out last month (the first two in the Fins trilogy were Forgive my Fins and Fins Are Forever), but sadly, I was very busy being professorial...
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Brenda Peterson’s The Drowning World
So Brenda Peterson is a very accomplished and fancy National Geographic (and otherwise) writer who’s written 17 books, most of them having to do with the natural and usually aquatic world and even with...
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Canadian Mermaid Marie, International Mermaid Queen
So you’ve probably been wondering who the new International Mermaid Queen is since Weeki Wachee’s Kylee Troche can’t be it forever… or can she? Anyway, a new queen was in fact crowned at MerPalooza...
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Hannah Fraser, Ivan Landau, and Sigur Ros
So Icelandic band Sigur Ros is holding a mystery film experiment contest, inviting film makers and video directors to create an original video for one of the tracks from their new album Valtari. I...
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Mermaid Bingo!
I have many many things I need to put on this blog and will soon but I am also working very hard on the (hopefully) final final draft my new book, which is about RAPUNZEL and SNOW WHITE and will be out...
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Shane and Leah Odoms’ Mermaid Mask for RESCU
The inimitable Shane Odom and his lovely wife Leah are the creative team behind Mythical Designs by Miscellaneous Oddiments, making sculptural leather masks, polymer clay antlers, horns and other...
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Sora Dancing Mermaid
Photo by Michael BurianSo as I’ve mentioned, this August I went on a gorgeous week-long mermaid diving trip in the Bahamas led by one Malena Sharkey and her partner Robert Minnick of Chesapeake Bay...
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Mermaid Artiste Tammy Derwick, Part 2
I posted part one of my gorgeous and inimitable Tammy Derwick feature some time ago, complete with her portrait of yours truly and a sampling of her mermaid art, and now here is the illuminating...
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Grace Nuth Talks Pre-Raphaelite Mermaids
So Grace Nuth is a writer, blogger, and Faerie Magazine editor, as well as a gorgeous, luminous art-photography model with flaming locks. She is also a long-time lover of the Pre-Raphaelites and runs...
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Mermaid Portfolio Workshop next July!
I’ve mentioned a few times how, this past July, I went on a 7-day diving trip in the Bahamas arranged by gorgeous mermaidly dive expert Malena Sharkey of Chesapeake Bay Diving Center in Portsmouth,...
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For all you aspiring mermaid writers….
This is just a quick semi-mermaidly post to tell you that I’m teaching a one-month online workshop through Pennwriters that starts tomorrow and focuses on using the fantastic (which can include...
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Nick Cave and Mermaids
I’ve got a bunch of interviews and tidbits to post on here, but thought I would pause right now to share the amazing fact that Nick Cave, whom I’ve loved since I was a teenager and has probably been...
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Mermaid Paper Dolls by Rachel Smith, plus suspicious other mermaid happenings
So for a while I’ve been meaning to post these cool paper dolls made by head Dive Bar mermaid and illustrator Rachel Smith, based on my very own novel Mermaid. Check them out below. You can buy some of...
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Traci Hines: Life Lessons from a Hipster Mermaid
Traci Hines has a new webseries that you need to watch immediately, because I believe these are life lessons we’ve all been waiting for: Isn’t it great? Here’s a link to Traci’s blog post about the...
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Julie Ditrich and Mermaid Comic Books
So I met the charming Julie Ditrich at MerCon in 2011, where she was premiering a limited edition preview of her brand-new mermaid-themed comic book series Elf-Fin amid all the pool parties and mermaid...
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Mermaid Shelly’s Grotto
So I have interviewed Mermaid Shelly AND her merman husband Chris (the only bona fide mer-couple I know of) here before, but considering that a few months ago Shelly opened the only actual...
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Mermaids, The Better Bombshell, and Siolo Thompson
So I was in Seattle last month for the launch of this gorgeous anthology, The Better Bombshell, that I contributed to and that features 18 pairings between writers and visual artists answering the...
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Mermaid Retreats in Williamsburg, Virginia, with Rebecca the Jamestown Mermaid
So I learned about Rebecca the Jamestown Mermaid and her upcoming mermaid retreats in Williamsburg, Virginia, from mermaid extraordinaire Iara Mandyn, who slept above me on our mermaidly diving trip in...
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