Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
SFFH Author
Hello! I'm Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, an ace/aro & ADHD/autistic non-binary author from Minnesota. (How's that for an introduction?)I'm the author of several short story collections and the novella The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt. I've had short stories published in such fine venues as Lightspeed, Fireside, Nightmare, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, Uncanny, and more. "This Is Not A Wardrobe Door" was a Nebula Awards finalist story in 2017, and I've had multiple stories reprinted in several different Year's Best anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by John Joseph Adams & others.Some of my interests include anything about robots (and I love weird AI-generated content, yes), dinosaurs, video games (yell with me about Mass Effect, Dishonored, DOOM, Dragon Age, and many more!), photography, and spoiling my goblin cat, Tater Tot. He is frequently the subject of social media posts.
You can check out my longform fiction and short stories (and short story collections, whoo!) on respective pages.Check out my About page for additional biographical wordage and press release materials.Feel free to contact me via the web form, and if you'd like to receive updates, writing thoughts, and freebies, sign up for my newsletter as well. (It contains many Tater Tot photos, of course.)Pronouns: they/them/theirs.Thanks for stopping by!
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Bibliography
Current list of published short fiction available online or in anthologies. If you're looking for novels, novellas, or short story collections, click the BOOKS button above. :D
So, You've Married Your Arch Nemesis...Again — Lightspeed, August 2022
The Heaven That They Never Knew — Lightspeed, March 2022
The Machine Is Experiencing Uncertainty — Escape Pod (original), April 2021
Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts — Apex Magazine, January 2021
Behold The Deep Never Seen — Avatar, Inc., March 2020
Flashlight Man — Nightmare Magazine, March 2020
Trust In the Law, For the Law Trusts In You — Ignorance Is Strength (Dystopia Triptych #1), June 2020
Believe In the Law, For the Law Is All — Burn the Ashes (Dystopia Triptych #2), June 2020
The Law Is the Plan, and the Plan Is Death — Or Else the Light (Dystopia Triptych #3), June 2020
This Cold Red Dust — MY BATTERY IS LOW AND IT IS GETTING DARK, July 2020
Bring the Bones That Sing — Diabolical Plots, Summer 2020
Whether the Earth, the Air, or the Void — Frozen Wavelets, 2020
Our Aim Is Not To Die — A People’s Future of the United States, February 2019
With Teeth Unmake the Sun —Lightspeed, January 2019
The Judith Plague — Do Not Go Quietly, May 2019
Through Dark and Clearest Glass — Unlocking the Magic, April 2019
Sweet Dreams Are Made Of You — Nightmare Magazine, September 2019
Break Free This Ground — Strange Horizons Fundraiser, December 2019
The Frequency of Compassion — Disabled People Destry SF! Uncanny Magazine, September/October 2018
The Words of Our Enemies, The Words of Our Hearts — Sword and Sonnet, September 2018
By Claw, By Hand, By Silent Speech with Elsa Sjunneson — Uncanny Dinosaur Issue, July/August 2018
The Sweetness of Honey and Rot — Beneath Ceaseless Skies, June 2018
If We Die Unjustified — Uncanny Magazine, May/June 2018
I Sing Against the Silent Sun with Ada Hoffmann — Lightspeed Magazine, June 2018
Now Watch My Rising — Fireside, May 2018
Mr. Try Again — Nightmare Magazine, March 2018
Yet So Vain Is Man — Galaxy’s Edge, September 2018
it me, ur smol — March 2018
The House At the End of the Lane Is Dreaming — Lightspeed Magazine, December 2017
Longing For Stars Once Lost — Lightspeed Magazine, October 2017
This Is A Picture Book — sub-Q, November 2017
Two Reflections At Midnight — Gamut Magazine, September 2017
For Now, Sideways — Diabolical Plots, August 2017
Thrice Remembered — The Death of All Things, September 2017
Fathoms Deep and Fathoms Cold — Submerged, September 2017
What the Fires Burn — PodCastle (original), August 2017
Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn — Humans Wanted, August 2017
Monster Girls Don’t Cry — Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2017
Later, Let’s Tear Up the Inner Sanctum — Lightspeed Magazine, February 2017
What Becomes Of The Third-Hearted — Shimmer, September 2016
The Gentleman of Chaos — Apex Magazine, August 2016
Iron Aria — Fireside, July 2016
Lonely Robot in a Rocket Ship in Space — Cicada Magazine, July/August 2016
This Is Not a Wardrobe Door — Fireside, January 2016
Once I, Rose — Daily Science Fiction, May 2016
The Android’s Prehistoric Menagerie — Mothership Zeta, February 2016
Or Be Forever Fallen — InterGalactic Medicine Show, February 2016
For Want of a Heart — Absolute Power: Tales of Queer Villainy, December 2016
Under Wine-Bright Seas — Scigentasy, May 2015
The Sorcerer’s Unattainable Gardens — Daily Science Fiction, April 2015
Where Monsters Dance — Inscription Magazine, March 2015
Finding Home — Vitality Magazine, March 2015
To the Knife-Cold Stars — Escape Pod (original), February 2015
Tomorrow When We See the Sun — Lightspeed Magazine, December 2015
To the Monsters, With Love — Flash Fiction Online, May 2014
Goodnight, Raptor — Daily Science Fiction, March 2014
How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps — Scigentasy, March 2014
Winter Bride — Kaleidotrope, Winter 2014
Thread — Ideomancer, December 2013
Of Blessed Servitude
Fictionvale, November 2013
With the Sun and the Moon in His Eyes — Ride the Moon, February 2012
Sheila — Daily Science Fiction, December 2010
And the Teeth — The Red Penny Papers, December 2010
One With the Monsters — New Fables, Summer 2010
Moo — Nossa Morte, November 2009
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About
![a white non-binary person with short hair is holding a small orange and white kitten with enormous ears, who is draped over their shoulder [Tater Tot as a baby]](assets/images/image02.jpg?v=1ea604fa)
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is an ace/aro ADHD/autistic non-binary author from Minnesota.Merc is the author of several short story collections and the novella The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt. They have had short stories published in such fine venues as Lightspeed, Fireside, Nightmare, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, Uncanny, and more.They have been a Nebula Awards Finalist and have had short stories reprinted in several Year's Best anthologies.They are part of the Chipped Cup Collective, of which Robot Dinosaur Press is an imprint division.Merc also enjoys creating pre-made book covers, available at Bog Wolf Cover Designs.Pronouns: they/them/theirs.
Honorifics: preferably none, but Mx. or Mr. are acceptable if necessary.They are currently not agented. Any rights requests or queries may be directed to Merc either via the contact form or by emailing [email protected]
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BOOKS
Books are available in ebook and print formats; you can purchase ebooks directly from me via the PayHip storefront, and paperback editions are available at major retailers such as B&N and Amazon. Click on a title to get information and purchase links!
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Skythulf wants to live. Raised in the fight pits, trained to kill or be killed, he yearns for freedom that's out of reach. He's a scythewulf: a wolf-shifter considered neither fully man nor beast, his life worth nothing to his keepers…until Brennus, knight-champion of Saorlland, rescues him from certain death and offers him a new life.When he mistakenly kills a corrupted nun, Skythulf has one chance to redeem himself and restore his honor. He must run with the Wild Hunt: an age-old trial of blood and courage, where every step hides peril and carnage. If he survives, he will be pardoned. If he fails, Brennus will die brutally at his side.Few have ever returned from the fae-haunted land, where horrors unnamed dwell beside the enchanted and the damned. There is no rest, no relent, and no mercy.In the Wild Hunt, you run or you die.
The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
The Scythewulf Chronicles - Book 1
$4.99 USD | $14.99 USD
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-949936-28-5
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-949936-29-2
Robot Dinosaur Press (2021)
© 2022 Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. All rights reserved.
Never get between a Dark Lord and his son.Lord Mrakota adopts the boy who is prophesied to kill him and raises Hero as his own son.Despite the meddling of rangers, wizards, and Old Mentors, Mrakota protects and guides Hero to follow in his path as a Dark Lord.However, as Hero's fifteenth birthday approaches and everything conspires to lead him to a final confrontation with Mrakota, Hero doesn't know if he has a choice at all.Is he doomed to fulfill his destiny and kill his own father?
Hero's Choice by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
$1.99 USD | $10.99
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-949936-42-1
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-949936-43-8
Robot Dinosaur Press (2022)
© 2022 Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. All rights reserved.
In this upbeat, positive collection of SFF short stories from Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, author of So You Want to Be A Robot, you'll find hope, humor, friendship—and of course, robots.Have you heard the one about...
...a neural network who wants humans to drink more water?
...a person stranded on Mars with only an obsolete robotic toy?
...a cyborg caught in a time loop with a frightened ship?
...a self-aware mech who doesn't want to be a weapon anymore?
...an AI sent into the deepest part of the ocean—and finds a god?You'll also meet entrepreneurial barbarians, an astronaut making first contact, a boy who might have (accidentally) started Armageddon, magical birds, a bot who wants to tell jokes, and more.Whether you're a robot or not, come make some new friends. :)
Friends For Robots: Short Stories by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
$4.99 USD | $14.99 USD
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-949936-30-8
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-949936-37-7
Robot Dinosaur Press (2021)
© 2022 Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. All rights reserved.
TRUST IN THE LAW
A Good Citizen follows all the Laws set forth by the benevolent Government. Trust the authority of the State. Questions are against the law.BELIEVE IN THE LAW
The Government cares about you. The Government wants you to be happy. Do not deviate from the Government's prescribed conditions of happiness.OBEY ONLY THE LAW
Never question the Law, for that leads to anarchy. Always obey, lest you be found undesirable. Undesirables do not deserve life. And you, Good Citizen, want to live, don't you?* * *The Lawless: A Triptych collects three interconnected dystopian SF stories, plus a bonus flash fiction piece about the unsettlingly probably near-future United States.
The Lawless: A Triptych by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
$2.99 USD | $12.99 USD
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-949936-36-0
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-949936-46-9
Robot Dinosaur Press (2022)
© 2022 Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. All rights reserved.
Making friends with monsters is easy—bring them cookies!A young man must find a new reality to live in when his disappears. Birds team up to right the wrongs of classic literature. An android raises baby dinosaurs after the human world ends. Grandma reveals how she invented intergalactic diplomacy...and more.Good Monsters and Friends collects 33 stories about astronauts and cats, dragons and witches, portals and quests, ghosts and robots, and, of course, all the monsters and their buddies.
Good Monsters and Friends: Stories by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
$2.99 USD | $12.99 USD
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-949936-44-5
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-949936-45-2
Robot Dinosaur Press (2022)
© 2022 Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. All rights reserved.
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Monster Girls Don't Cry: Short Stories by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
$5.99 USD | $16.99
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-949936-55-1
ISBN (paperback):
Robot Dinosaur Press (2022)
© 2022 Merc Fenn Wolfmoor. All rights reserved.
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is a queer non-binary writer from Minnesota, where they live with their two cats. Merc is the author of several short story collections and the novella, The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt. They have had short stories published in such fine venues as Lightspeed, Fireside, Nightmare, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, Uncanny, and more. Visit their website: mercfennwolfmoor.com or follow them on Twitter @Merc_Wolfmoor.
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