So Tara Altebrando is another gorgeous mermaid authoress who was mentioned in the USA Today article last year on mermaid fiction and who has a piece in the long-suffering-yet-astonishing Mermaids magazine and read last fall with Sarah Porter and me in Barnes & Noble (photographic documentation of which is a couple posts down  in case you don’t believe me)… Her mermaids are of the aspiring kind  like the rest of us  but in that magical Coney Island style which is really just as good as the real thing