If you are publishing reprints or translations in your magazine, anthology, or podcast, credit the market that first published the story. Clearly state it in that episode, book, or issue. It's a standard professional courtesy and beneficial for your readers. (Yeah, I've seen a few of these today.)

There are a lot of different reasons to publish, and continue publishing, a magazine, but this is the one joy of it that never gets old.

These are the stories that make me happy to pay for subscriptions. I do not know when "The Crow's Second Tale" by @marissalingen.bsky.social will be freely available @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, but I cannot wait to share it. 5/5, no notes.

Catching up on @bcsmagazine.bsky.social reading, and I really liked this Chris Willrich story that is math-tinged and goblin-y: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra...

Live in BCS #444: "A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe "Even as I watch, a demon emerges. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up and wraps itself around the demon's waist." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li...

New report on writers and the use of gen AI and their views of it, including an entirely predictable set of reactions from fiction writers who do/don't use AI in their work www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

BCS #445 ebook out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, w stories by thirteen-time BCS author @marissalingen.bsky.social and new one @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

New @bcsmagazine.bsky.social issue today has stories by @marissalingen.bsky.social and @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social! weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

BCS #444 "The Angel Azrael Visits the Trading Post at the End of the World a Final Time" @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social "Whatever was going on, he had no choice but to walk into it. Nakir never left the trading post, though it wasn’t for lack of wanting" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

Congratulations to BCS author @rblemberg.bsky.social on their World Fantasy Award win!

Congratulations to the amazing @rblemberg.bsky.social

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-...

Scary BCS! "The Black Rainbow" @denzelscott.bsky.social BCS #342: "Eventually their nexian corpses, smelling sweetly with a scent like cardamom, fennel, nutmeg, star anise, cloves, allspice, and cinnamon combined, caught fire as they always do" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

Happy Halloween! Enjoy my short story in BCS where a man cheats the dead at cards!

Scary BCS! "Tithe the Bones, Sell the Blood" @aahabershaw.bsky.social BCS #368: "he ran his thumbs along them as he shuffled, feeling where he’d marked them during the game with the same needle he’d used to draw the blood to let him keep gambling. " www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/tith...

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews Beneath Ceaseless Skies #444 (2 originals) @bcsmagazine.bsky.social An appropriately Halloween-ish issue centered on demons, angels, and people making good on old promises in rather heartbreaking ways. Though both are new, they're also both sequels

Looking at portfolios to find some covers for the next few months. Not going well. So much slop. When I finally manage to avoid it, everything is so dark and shadowy. Color and light and detail appear to be gone from the world. (I may need to start doing this in shorter bursts.)

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...

What a fantastic milestone for Beneath Ceaseless Skies! 🎉✨ Celebrating 17 years of captivating stories is truly inspiring. Can't wait to dive into this travel-themed issue! #SFF #ReadingMagic 📚💫

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews Beneath Ceaseless Skies #443 (2 originals) @bcsmagazine.bsky.social Back to 2 stories after last issue's anniversary bonus. The connective tissue between this pair seems to be demons, summoning, and higher society.

Ghostly BCS! "Home Bread" R.E. Dukalsky, BCS #398: "If she concentrated on her memory of her body sitting at the feast instead of what her senses were currently telling her about the Famine Lands, she could feel hands resting on her shoulders" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/home...

Ghostly BCS for Halloween! "Where They Sleep" @lectio.bsky.social BCS #419: "the shades would wander out from the empty hills. People we knew. But more we didn't, moving slowly along in search of something, somebody. Then they would mill aimlessly" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/wher...

@bcsmagazine.bsky.social reshared the story as a Halloween read, which is way cool!

Ghostly BCS! "The Guadalupe Witch" @joshrountree.bsky.social BCS #322: "The way he said it made it sound like I was a child who’d snuck out after dark. I knew one way or another, Ellard would kill me eventually. I could read the hunger in his eyes" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

Editing is not about rewriting, but about helping a story be the best version of itself. That can mean making things clearer for the reader, but it can also mean making them less clear.

Ghostly BCS for your Halloween week! "Her Black Coal Heart a Diamond in My Hand" @rkduncan.bsky.social BCS #322: "I staged a fight on the ground floor, scattered the broken furniture and pinned scraps of the boy, the middle child, all around." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/her-...

Scary BCS! "The Butcher, the Baker" @mythicdelirium.bsky.social BCS #289: "Trukos found that statement strange. He knew exactly what he was: a thing Auntie Mayya had made. The pain, though, he needed her to unmake." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews Beneath Ceaseless Skies #442 (4 originals) @bcsmagazine.bsky.social A special 17th anniversary issue, so double the fiction! Bc of the extra stories it's a little harder to pin down a theme of the issue but there is a focus on travel, cities, & philosophy

Scary BCS! "The Study of Monstrosities" Greg Kurzawa, BCS #127 & podcast 109, read by @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social "Seven subjects. All of them torn into two distinct beings: a functional husk and an abomination. Ethan had read the doctor's journal." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

If you're looking for a way to wind down from the week, I hear my warlock letter exchange story in Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a fun one!

My Sincere Apologies for the Demon, by Adrian Ward in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A delightful epistolary tale tracking the back-and-forth between the definitely very sorry demon summoner who wants back into the warlocks club and the representative of said club.

In BCS #443 "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social "Regarding the banishing of Erimodius, you shall, I expect, be most pleased to hear that he has been returned to the Realm of Flame and additional seals placed on the gate." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/my-s...

I just read my first issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and my word! Cracking stories. I’m now a subscriber.

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...

Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social's story "A Random Walk through the Goblin Library" (Beneath Ceaseless Skies): a fantasy + math delight. I had the privilege of reading this in draft and I'm so happy I can shout about it now it's published! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-ra...

“Commander Maeb Len knows that, more than anything, an army needs hope in order to struggle onward. They need a vision to fight for and faith that the future will be better than the past. Better than the present.” @clclark.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social!

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social and cover art by Bruce Brenneise: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

“Beyond the Fold” by @oldheneel.bsky.social from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, “Domestic Disputes” by @naokan.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social -

I read Last Train From Deadwall by André Geleynse in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , a story of raised skeletons running a bone train. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-re...

One of the things I enjoyed most about studying Victorian lit in college was how these people would read each other for filth in the most roundabout ways. And "My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" by @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social puts me exactly in that mindset. I LAUGHED so many times here. Read it!

Contract returned, I am very pleased to announce that my story "The Great King's Lost Bride," will appear in a future issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social It's a tale of classical adventure following a young man in the Sacred Band of Thebes, a sequel to my prior BCS story, "Nemesis and the Sorcerer."

"My Sincere Apologies For the Demon" is out today in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #443! It's got liquor, malevolent entities from other planes of existence, and a warlock getting bounced from the club. Also art, I suppose.

New Issue: BCS #443 out today, featuring stories by Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social (a new Eldshore story) and @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social, a podcast of the Ward, cover art by Bruce Brenneise @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Nope. Nope. Nope. Not cool. Not here. Not ever. We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

In BCS #442: "The Thirteenth Time" @patricksamphire.bsky.social "if you think about it, you’re going to start thinking about what could have been, the years that are gone and you can’t get back. That was the glade, for us. The last day in the glade." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

“The witch hunter caught up with me along the banks of the Guadalupe River. He was barely old enough to grow a moustache, and I figured my husband had paid him half of what he would’ve paid someone with more experience.” Loved this! @joshrountree.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

In BCS #442: "The Third Movement of Time" @rjtaylor.bsky.social "no tune she recognizes, but she observes in her chest the stirrings of nostalgia, the memory of a song not yet heard. The pipes turn into singing, too far off to distinguish the words." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

Live in BCS #442: "The Last of Atlantis" James Morrow. "bringing me back to where I’d begun, the garden of Platonic solids. Once again cubeness beguiled me, and once again I lifted its shining, chirping, three-dimensional shadow from the crater floor." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

“The air is birdsong and honeysuckle and the electric touch of approaching thunderstorms, and I can almost imagine myself happy here.” February Moon by Josh Rountree in Beneath Ceaseless Skies! @joshrountree.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social