Now on Kickstarter: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026
I’m honored to be part of a new book that funding on Kickstarter: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2026. This is an established series with veteran authors, and this is my first time joining in the fun. My story is a science fiction detective tale with Golden Age influences.
The Kickstarter just began this past weekend and is about half funded! Please contribute. $15 will get you an ebook of this book, and the tiers go up from there. There is one spot at the $100 level that’ll get a male name tuckerized in my story! (If you don’t know what that means, Wikipedia has a full write-up on this phenomena.)
The campaign wraps up December 14th, but some of the rewards (like my tuckerization) have only one spot available.
Recent Publications and Promo Stuff
Someday, I’ll feel like I am no longer playing catch-up from the move. Today is not that day.
I’m doing such much-belated updating on my Bibliography page. In particular, the sections for short stories, interviews, guest blogs, and podcasts. The poetry section needs many new entries and will be done soon.
Short Stories
“Apocalypse Playlist” (reprint), The Big Book of Cyberpunk
“Birds of London,” Abyss & Apex
“Monsters of the Places Between,” Stupefying Stories #24
“Believe Nothing Said by Clouds,” Stupefying Stories Showcase
Interview
6 Books with Beth Cato at Nerds of a Feather
eSpec Books interviews Beth Cato, contributor to Other Aether: Tales of Global Steampunk
Guest Blogs
Scalzi’s Big Idea: A Thousand Recipes for Revenge
My Favorite Bit from A Thousand Recipes for Revenge
Podcasts
H. P. Lovecast Podcast – Ep 22 – Tom Starita and Beth Cato
Russ’s Rockin’ Rollercoaster Ep #97– The Writer’s Chair: How to Build Magic Systems in Genre Fiction featuring AARON ROSENBERG, BETH CATO and SHERRI COOK WOOSLEY
“Headspace” reprint, CatsCast (only subscribers have access to full content)
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Read MoreNew Publications for January
New year, new month, and finally a chance to update my bibliography with my new releases. Here’s what is new!
Short Story
“Family Get-Together,” Nature (Dec 16 2022)
Poetry
“Birthday Cake,” co-written with Rhonda Parrish, Dreams & Nightmares (issue 123 January 2023)
“The Deal” and “Lucky Shot,” co-written with Rhonda Parrish, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Jan/Feb 2023)
“That Monster Beneath the Bed,” Haven Spec
“Following the White Horse,” Daikaijuzine
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Read MoreUpdated Bibliography December 2022
The Bibliography page has been updated with an array of news and publications:
Big News:
“The Bookstore” (NewMyths) won long form Rhysling Award for 2022!
Short story:
“P is for Pet” (reprint), Paradoxical Pets anthology for middle grade readers
Translated short story:
“Raue Sitten” (Rough Manners) (originally “Canopy of Skulls”), Spektrum.de (Oct 12 2022)
Podcast:
“The Library is Open” (reprint), Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast
Poetry:
“Doing Her Part to Combat Sexism in the Sciences” and “Mother, Grandmother, God,” Star*Line 45.3 Summer 2022
“Better Off,” Star*Line 45.4 Fall 2022
“Summer Evenings,” Frozen Wavelets issue 7
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Read MorePublications from Summer 2022
Well, hi. There hasn’t been anything but scheduled-ahead Bready or Not posts over the past while because I have been in DEADLINE LAND. Deadline Land is a nightmarish place where you don’t leave the house except to acquire groceries and get your kid to therapy, and you write and write and write and panic and write some more AND THEN you get copyedits for another book and you then quietly scream.
I’m still in Deadline Land but the landscape has changed enough to grant me some catch-up time to update my bibliography and also compile those changes in this very post. Along with the new short stories, poems, and podcast linked below, I can also say that my book A Thousand Recipes for Revenge is now scheduled for release on June 13, 2023. I hope to have a cover to share soon!
New Short Stories
“Prognostiqueso,” Daily Science Fiction
“The 207th Time I Went Back to March 9, 1980,” Uncanny Magazine Issue 48 (Sept/Oct 2022)
“How to Creatively Host Cheese Parties During and After the Apocalypse,” Hexagon Magazine
“A Light in the Garden,” Nature
Poetry
“Only Times,” Eye to the Telescope #45
“When As An Adult, You Choose to Again Believe in Magic,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2022
“In Spring, We Thanked the Wee Folk,” Kaleidotrope (Summer 2022)
“The Ship is Wrong,” Felis Futura [Amazon Affiliate link]
Podcast
“Consider the Monsters” (reprint), Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast
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Read MoreNew Publications to End May
I’ve had a smattering of new publications over the last month and now I finally have the chance to update my site! The Bibliography is now current. Here’s what is new:
Short stories:
- “The Right Cornbread” in Nature
- “To Meet the Death Carriage” in Daily Science Fiction
Poetry:
- “Another Life” in Gwyllion Magazine Issue 4
- “Timeless Pie” in Uncanny Magazine (Issue 46 May/June 2022)
Translation:
- “Nadat Haar Broer de Hoofden van Haar Papieren Poppen Trok” (“After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls”) translated into Dutch in Speculatief Magazine
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