I am a mermaid | A delicate, ladylike blog for mermaids and the humans...

So I have not updated this site in many, many moons, and for a while my life became less mermaidly in general, but now that has all changed and my true nature has once again asserted itself.
I have written a Mermaid Handbook:
Actually, THE Mermaid Handbook, which you can pre-order here and get it with a bookplate signed by yours truly, or anywhere else where books are sold. It comes out from HarperCollins on May 15! And it follows The Faerie Handbook, which came out in November...

So I have to share this Kickstarter with you all, from neighborhood geeky science mermaid Linden Wolbert, one of the most lovely and ocean-loving mermaids out there (read my previous interview with Linden here)!
Linden is preparing to shoot season two of her gorgeous “Mermaid Minute” webseries, and needs some backers. You can watch all of season one here, in case you’re a suspicious type, and I’ve helpfully posted in her enticing Kickstarter video below. So...

So it’s been a FEW MONTHS since I’ve written in here, and so much mermaidliness has piled up that I figure I better get some of it down now. I did mean to post on Saturday, which was not only the first day of summer and MY BIRTHDAY but also the gorgeous...

So last weekend was the NC Merfest in Cary, North Carolina, which yours truly did not attend but Dive Bar mermaid extraordinaire Rachel Smith did—and generously kept a diary of the goings on so that the rest of us can live vicariously through her...