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This makes reviews by real readers even more important.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Be your own book section. I’ve seen a lot of conversation online about the Washington Post shutting down its book review section, and it's sad to see this happen no matter its cause. There are only a handful of books sections left, and their days are probably numbered. So what's the answer?

Short story club! Book club! Let's do both!

"A wonderfully strange tale of angels, nephilim, humans, and more in an apocalyptic Weird West." A nice review of "The Angel Azrael Encounters the Revelation Pilgrims and Other Curiosities" published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

A reminder that I have a new book out: The Wonder Lands War. 🪽 Diabolical angels hunting for God's bible! ⚔️ An immortal rogue! 💫 Scheming faerie! 📖 Book characters run wild in our world! Visit your local bookstore or order online. More info: 🔗https://peterdarbyshire.com/the-wonder-lands-war

Delighted at this review of my latest Azrael weird western tale! Review by @mariahaskins.com in @locusmag.bsky.social. "The Angel Azrael Visits the Trading Post at the End of the World a Final Time" was published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

A fantastic book with a fantastic cover!

This is very sad news. Thinking of Hal today.

Did you get an e-reader this holiday season and need to fill it up? My books are all available in e-book form, including my latest, The Wonder Lands War! ⚔️ Immortal rogues run amok! 🪽 Diabolical angels starting holy wars! 📖 Literary characters gone wild! Visit peterdarbyshire.com for the links.

In case you missed my latest Azrael the Angel Gunslinger tale, published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social earlier this year! 🪽 Angel gunslingers! 🧟‍♂️ Supernatural outlaws! 📖 Magic bibles! And more!

Friends, just one day left to get my books from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social for 30% off! What says Christmas more than immortal rogues, scheming angels, literary characters come to life and unpredictable faerie? Order here and apply discount at checkout: www.wolsakandwynn.ca/authors-all/...

📚 Canadian-published books account for less than 5% of the Canadian publishing market. What can be done to change the situation? How about reinventing the PLR (public lending right program) to better reward authors with Canadian publishers and the publishers themselves? substack.com/home/post/p-...

Here's your chance to get 30% off my tales of immortal rogues, scheming angels, literary characters come to life and unpredictable faerie! Links in the thread.

I'm at Night Beats discussing my new novel, The Wonder Lands War, and who the book is really for. (Spoiler: "Anyone who loves a serious mix of the literary and fantastic, who wants to see their favourite characters from other books and plays and myths in one place.") nightbeatseu.ca/2025/11/25/b...

Why do we love books about secret, hidden or forgotten texts? (Inspired by the Whispers from the Archives panel at @wcsfa.bsky.social's CONnections event.) peterdarbyshire.com/2025/11/16/w...

"Books are a nation thinking out loud." Scott McIntyre of Douglas and McIntyre on the fight to save Canadian publishing. thewalrus.ca/i-was-warned...

Very sad to the end of On Spec. I hope everyone involved knows what a difference they made over the years.

I don’t know where Pluribus is going but I’m strapping in after those first two episodes!

What happens when Azrael the Angel Gunslinger visits the Trading Post at the End of the World to repay a debt to its angel proprietor but finds a strange band of bounty hunters there? Mayhem. My latest Azrael tale is out in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

My article for Grimdark is open to the public now! I talk about luck and playing chicken with solar winds(I’m looking at you Appollo 16-17). www.grimdarkmagazine.com/space-were-p...

The amazing crew at @49thshelf.bsky.social are hosting a giveaway of The Wonder Lands War, my latest Cross supernatural thriller. 🎁 Visit 49thshelf.com/Giveaways for a chance to win a copy of The Wonder Lands War. The giveaway period ends Nov. 1, so enter now! 🔗: 49thshelf.com/Giveaways

If your ideal fantasy tale is a magically written, literary labyrinth infused with Calvino, Borges, Lovecraft, necromancy, demons and supernatural libraries, then check out “A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library” by @librariangoblin.bsky.social! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra...

BCS #444 ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store & subscribers, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) & @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to @theignyteawards.bsky.social Winner): weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

I’ve written a new Azrael the Angel Gunslinger tale! #weirdwest

Oh no! This is heartbreaking! @onspecmag.bsky.social has been so so so important not only for speculative writers but particularly for Canadian speculative writers. My first sale ever was to On Spec and it gave me the confidence to keep writing and developing. We'll all miss the magazine!

🧛‍♀️🪐 Looking for some supernatural sci-fi for Halloween? I recommend Monsters and Mainframes by @barbaratruelove.bsky.social. This one has it all -- quirky sentient ships, vampires, werewolves, aliens, evil bureaucracies, genre mashups and more. It's monstrously good! #Halloweenread

Declining news coverage for books, obsessions with sales numbers, increasingly conservative book publishers -- it's a tough time for the midlist writer and anyone else who isn't a bestseller. thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Finding it more difficult to focus on writing, given the state of the world? You’re not alone. I’ve been leaning heavily on a few habits to deny distraction. 🚪Lock the door to your writing space if you have one. 🚫Put up a “Do Not Disturb” sign. 🗓Block time so people can’t pull you away.

The rapture seems like a good time to remind people of Has the World Ended Yet, my collection of apocalyptic tales from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social. Angels descend upon a superhero retirement community. Deity salesmen wreck a suburban neighbourhood. And more! peterdarbyshire.com/has-the-worl...

Creators bring light to darkness. We need to support them now more than ever. 📚 Read widely. Seek out authors from small presses or outside the mainstream who don’t always get marketing or hype. 💌 Share your appreciation. A kind DM or post can be the push someone needs to finish their next book.

Wow! Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement. Maybe it would have been cheaper to license those works in the first place. www.theverge.com/anthropic/77...

It's ALIVE!!!! Today is the official pub date for NMLCT, published by @ecwpress.bsky.social!

"Writing is like life. Sometimes it’s better to push into the unknown than try to pursue some elusive perfection with what you have." I talk about the writing life at On Creative Writing. www.oncreativewriting.com/post/peter-d...

The first review of NMLCT is here, just days from its official release. Thanks to Rob McLennan. "Vermeersch builds his bricks of lyric narrative in lengthy and even gymnastic lines, more oriented in propulsive, almost staccato, sound than in his prior work" robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/paul...

I imagine more Canadian publishers will be following suit shortly.

What's the state of Canadian lit mags? Most editors feel their magazines are not sustainable. Remember, if you like a magazine/creator, subscribe to keep them going! litmags.ca/survey/ #CanLit

"My great-grandmother told me a story about how her uncle went missing and he was taken away by witches. That was one of the originating stories." @silviamg.bsky.social on her new novel, The Bewitching. www.goodreads.com/interviews/s...

BCS opened for submissions 17 years ago this month, July 2008, and has been open continuously since. Writing all submission replies with personalized comments. And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.

Alec-Nevala Lee interviewed me for NYT! The story mentions Lovecraft (my thesis was on women, eugenics & HPL), how weird it was when they optioned Mexican Gothic, & that I don't watch superhero flicks (sorry! I gorge on Sinners & Nosferatu, not Marvel. mmm... Horror) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/b...

One of my earliest memories is a teacher trying to show us Watership Down. Maybe Grade 1 or so. We all freaked out so hard she had to turn it off. I've never trusted teachers since.

"That's what faith and the divine is, isn't it? A line stretching from little beings like us, to the ineffable, the incomprehensible." My book club recently read A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett and there was so much to talk about!

Thank you to all who supported or donated to BCS this week! It goes to pay our authors, artists, podcast narrators, and First Readers (staff pay is important too). We really appreciate it. Anyone else, if you'd like to support BCS, check out our Patreon. THANK YOU! www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...

Book bans are never about the books. They're about control. thewalrus.ca/albertas-boo...

"This was Middle-earth with nobody in it! No Men, no Ringwraiths, no Elves or Dwarves or Orcs, no conflicts or battles or rousing speeches or hobbity wisecracking or escapes in the nick of time. This was just nature. Growth, decay, wind and rain." thomaswharton.substack.com/p/what-if-to...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies has been incredibly important to me as a reader and a writer. If you’re looking for new reads, I strongly recommend their monthly Patreon!

If there's one thing every writer needs, it's a second brain. No, not a brain in a jar in your desk! (No judgement, though.) I mean a system for organizing your writing life. What's your second brain? (Or third brain, or fourth brain....) peterdarbyshire.com/2025/04/15/t... #thewritelife

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Franc Kaiser.