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Call of Fire
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Bready or Not: Sweet Maple Cookbook
self-published

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23 sweet maple recipes with full color photographs of each

gluten-free breakfast goodies to convention-approved chewy maple cookies to calorie-bomb cakes

The Clockwork Dagger
(book #1)
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"Wings of Sorrow and Bone: A Clockwork Dagger Novella"
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• "A Consideration of Trees," Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology
• "The Sweetness of Bitter" (reprint), Surviving Tomorrow: An all-star charity anthology to fight COVID-19
• "Apocalypse Playlist," Nature
• "A Royal Saber's Work is Never Done," Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas
• "Perilous Blooms," Daily Science Fiction
• "A Different Heaven," Kasma SF
• "The Best Horses Are Found in the Sea, and Other Horse Tales to Emerge Since the Rise," Daily Science Fiction
• "Sometimes You End Up Where You Are," Nature
• "Consider the Monsters," Diabolical Plots; also included in ebook Diabolical Plots Year Five (Diabolical Plots Anthology Series Book 4)
• "The Wind Knows All," Nature
• "By Footpad and Clenched Paw," Monarchies of Mau: Tales of Excellent Cats available in PDF and print at DriveThruFiction and in ebook at Amazon
• "Clouds Gleam Across Her Eyes," Daily Science Fiction
• Letter Z, F is for Fairy
• "A Picture is Worth," Nature
• "The Peculiar Gravity of Home," Future SF Issue 2; available in print and ebook
• "Awaken My Bones Old and New," Gorgon: Stories of Emergence
• Reprint online and in audio "A Fine Night for Tea and Bludgeoning," Escape Pod
• "The Blighted Godling of Company Town H," Beneath Ceaseless Skies #268
• "The 133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance," Nature
• "To This, You Cling, With Jagged Fingernails," Fireside Magazine
• Letter R, E is for Evil anthology
• "The Library is Open," Daily Science Fiction
• "Powers of Observation," Nature
• "Excerpts from the 100-day Food Diary of Angela Meyer," Nature
• "With Cardamom I'll Bind Their Lips," Uncanny Magazine
• "A Fine Night for Tea and Bludgeoning," Little Green Men--Attack! from Baen
• "P is for Pet," D is for Dinosaur
• "Left Hand Awakens," Perihelion SF
• "10 Things Newly Manifested Wizards Should Never Do," Daily Science Fiction
• "Moon Skin," Swords & Steam Short Stories
• "A Recipe for Rain and Rainbows" (reprint), Mysterion: Rediscovering the Mysteries of the Christian Faith
• "American Shadow" (reprint), Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
• "Minor Hockey Gods of Barstow Station," Galactic Games from Baen, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
• "An Echo in the Shell" (reprint), Decision Points edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, published by Wordfire Press
• "Bear-bear Speaks," Daily Science Fiction
• "A Dance to End Our Final Day" (reprint), EGM Shorts
• Letter S, C is for Chimera (Alphabet Anthologies Book 1)
• "The Souls of Horses," Clockwork Phoenix 5
• "The Human is Late to Feed the Cat," Nature Magazine
• "The Sweetness of Bitter" (reprint), Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
• "Rootless" (a Christmas story), Every Day Fiction
• "Red Dust and Dancing Horses" (reprint), 2016 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide
• "Overlap" (reprint), Science Fiction Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy), Amazon, direct from publisher Flame Tree Press
• "Echo in the Shell" (reprint), Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013, from publisher Twelfth Planet Press
• "Red Dust and Dancing Horses" (reprint), For Want of a Horse Anthology; also available in print from the publisher, Lethe Press
• "Cartographer's Ink" (reprint), Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
• "The Quest You Have Chosen Defies Your Fate," Daily Science Fiction
• Letter K, B is for Broken (Alphabet Anthologies Book 2)
• Letter D, A is for Apocalypse (Alphabet Anthologies Book 1)
• "Headspace," Cats in Space; on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
• "Roots, Shallow and Deep," Urban Fantasy Magazine
• "My Brother's Keeper," Fantasy Scroll Magazine
• "Bread of Life," Nature Magazine
• "From the Ashes," Daily Science Fiction
• "A Mother's Touch," Perihelion Science Fiction
• "Hatchlings," Daily Science Fiction
• "Post-Apocalyptic Conversations with a Sidewalk," Nature Magazine
• "The Cartography of Shattered Trees," FAE; on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
• "Degrees of Starvation," Every Day Fiction
• "Bad Snake Day," Every Day Fiction
• "Sanctified Ground," Trust and Treachery: Tales of Power and Intrigue
• "Measures and Countermeasures," Daily Science Fiction
• "Cold Beyond White," Stupefying Stories Showcase #13
• "Stitched Wings," Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• "Toilet Gnomes at War" (reprint), Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic available in print and Kindle
• "Frail Men of Metal and Bone," Every Day Fiction
• "Hat Trick," Oomph: A Little Super Goes a Long Way
• "The Sweetness of Bitter," Intergalactic Medicine Show #35; reviewed at Tangent Online
• "Last Supper," Perihelion
• "For Want of Stars," Electric Spec
• "Grandmother's Prerogative," Metro Moms
• "A Song Not Fully Sung," Every Day Fiction
• "A Lonesome Speck of Home," Blue Shift Magazine; full issue available in PDF or print
• "A Library of the Living," Clones, Fairies, & Monsters in the Closet; available in print and for Kindle
• "Clementine, Who Swims with Mermaids," Penumbra eMag volume 2 issue 8
• "American Shadow," The California Cantata; available for Kindle and Nook
• "Bloom," 713 Flash
• "Canopy of Skulls," Nature Magazine
• "Maps," Daily Science Fiction; glowing review from Diabolical Plots
• "An Echo in the Shell," Waylines Magazine Issue 1
• "A Unicorn for Christmas," At Year's End: Holiday SFF Stories; available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
• "Toilet Gnomes at War, " Stupefying Stories Issue 2.1 (November 2012); available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes; reviewed in Locus Magazine
• "Pigeons in Heaven," Every Day Fiction
• "Overlap," Cucurbital 3; available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, and on Kindle; at Barnes & Noble in paperback and hardcover
• "The Vulgarity of Flowers," Plasma Frequency: Issue 2
• "Blue Tag Sale," Buzzy Mag
• "Cartographer's Ink," Daily Science Fiction
• "Pest Control," Every Day Fiction
• "A Good Eye," Big Pulp: Summer 2012; available for Kindle via Amazon and in print soon
• "Don't Look", Grand Science Fiction
• "213 Myrtle Street", Flash Fiction Online
• "Red Dust and Dancing Horses," Stupefying Stories Issue 1.5 (March 2012); available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes
• "Brains for Breakfast," Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction: 88 Short Short Stories You Can Read in a Single Sitting published by Bathroom Readers' Institute; available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble
• "Safe Places," Eschatology: The Journal of Lovecraftian and Apocalyptic Fiction
• "A Taste," Apollo's Lyre
• "Drumbeats," Stories from the Hearth: Heartwarming Tales of Appalachia published by Woodland Press; also on Amazon
• "La Rosa Still in Bloom," Crossed Genres Quarterly 3 Anthology
• "One More Name," Fiction365
• "A Spectacular Display," Fantastique Unfettered issue 3 Prolefeed; Barnes & Noble and Amazon
• "Reading Time", Daily Science Fiction; also available for Kindle
• "La Rosa Still in Bloom," Crossed Genres
• "A Dance to End Our Final Day," Every Day Fiction
• "Trash Night," Concisely Magazine
• "A Recipe for Rain and Rainbows," Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia published by Woodland Press; also on Amazon
• "Bless This House," Daily Science Fiction
• "Bless This House,"(unpublished) honorable mention in the 2nd Annual Crossed Genres Flash Fiction Contest
• "The Green Bike," 6S The Green Bike Stories
• "Biding Time," The Pedestal Magazine Issue 55 (December 2009-February 2010)
• "Christmas Bloodbath," Nothing to Dread: A Niteblade Anthology
• "And Yet Stars Still Existed" (the compiled Jessie and Aaron trilogy), Nothing to Dread: A Niteblade Anthology
• "That Strange Day," August winner on the Writer's Digest Promptly Blog
• "The Teething Ring" (third in a series of three), September 2009 Niteblade Fantasy and Horror Magazine
• "Nipped in the Bud," Every Day Fiction
• Untitled, Nanoism
• "The Mother and the Moon," Apollo's Lyre
• "Father's Daughter," first place in the 1st Annual Crossed Genres Flash Fiction Contest
• "Gold Star", Six Sentences
• "The Empty Crib at the End of the World" (second in series of three), June 2009 Niteblade Fantasy and Horror Magazine
• "Promise in the Dust," Crossed Genres Issue 6: Western
• "Deja Vu," Six Sentences
• "The Pacifier" (first in series of three), March 2009 Niteblade Fantasy and Horror Magazine
• "Junk and Mothballs," top ten runner-up, WOW! Women on Writing Summer 2008 Flash Fiction Contest
• "Brains for Breakfast," honorable mention, Ligonier Valley Writers 2008 Zombie Flash Fiction Contest
• "Rejection," The Shine Journal

• "Hatchlings," translated into Chinese in Science Fiction World Junior (10/2020)
• "Red Dust and Dancing Horses," cover story, translated in Chinese in Science Fiction World Junior (12/2019)
• "Powers of Observation" translated as "How to Become a Good Scientist" in Arabic at Arabic Nature Magazine
• "Human is Late to Feed the Cat" translated as "Hungry Cat" in German at Spektrum (Nature Magazine)
• "Bread of Life" in Arabic at Arabic Nature Magazine
• "Post Apocalyptic Conversations with a Sidewalk" translated as "My Friend, the Walkway" in German at Spektrum (Nature Magazine)
• "Reading Time," translated by Alireza Ajali into Persian, published in Farheekhtegan in Iran

• "The Story Behind the Story of 'The Wind Knows All': at Nature
• Mind Meld at Nerds of a Feather Flock Together: Favorite Hugo best Novel Winners
• "The Story Behind the Story of 'A Picture is Worth'" at Nature
• "The Story Behind the Story of the 133rd Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance" at Nature
• MONTH OF JOY: On Joy, Sorrow, and Cats: Special Feature for Skiffy and Fanty
• Libraries and Authors: A Match Made in Heaven at Once and Future Podcast Blog
• Contributed to B&N SFF's Mind Meld: Monster Mayhem—Vampires and Everything Else
• A Long Time Ago: Beth Cato on Being Born Into Star Wars at Unbound Worlds
• Four Tips to Reduce Stress During NaNoWriMo at the Once and Future Podcast Blog
• Tor.com Feature: Five Books Set in the Pacific Northwest
• At the Nature Blog: The Story Behind the Story of 'Excerpts from the 100 day Food Diary of Angela Meyer'
• "Not So Imaginary Friends" about my D is for Dinosaur story, at Rhonda Parrish's blog
• The Binge-Watcher’s Companion Guide: Beth Cato’s Breath of Earth and The Great British Baking Show at the B&N SFF Blog
• Mind Meld: Some of Our Favorite Characters at B&N SFF Blog
• "The Importance of Slides: Beth Cato's Story in C is for Chimera at Rhonda Parrish's site
• The Story Behind 'The Human is Late to Feed the Cat,' Nature Blog
• The Children’s Movies That Scared Us the Most, SF Signal Mind Meld
• What Writers Read featuring Beth Cato.
• Great SF Detective Novels, SF Signal
• Unlikely Influences: What Beth Cato Learned About Writing by Baking Cookies at Kate Heartfield's Blog
• Cities and The Epic SFF Road Trip, SF Signal
• "The Story Behind the Story: Bread of Life," Nature Blog
• That Was Awesome: The Power of Voice in The Diabolical Miss Hyde, Tor.com
• The Christmas Cat, Rhonda Parrish's Blog
• "Writing a Bit of Everything," Milo James Fowler's Site
• Words We Learned From Genre Fiction, SF Signal
• Write Strong Guest Post: "Hikes on the Edge of Nowhere," Josh Vogt's Write Strong series
• "Our Favorite Magical Items from Fantasy," SF Signal
• "Grammar Pet Peeves: The Agony and the Ecstacy," J. Kathleen Cheney's Site
• "Beth Cato: My Reading Rainbow Story," Reading Rainbow Stories (official site)
• "A Confession Regarding Zombies," Rhonda Parrish.com
• "Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2014," SF Signal
• "Agency," Penumbra eZine Blog
• Side-Show Freaks: The Story Behind the Story of "The Sweetness of Bitter" at InterGalactic Medicine Show
• "Requested Material," WOW! Muffin Friday Speak Out!
• "Resolutions and Writing," Flash Fiction Chronicles
• "Science of Hockey Scores Big," Arizona SciTech Festival
• "Prompts for the Poet," Penumbra eZine Blog
• "Defying Stereotypes," WOW! Muffin Blog Friday Speak Out!
• "How Flash Fiction Can Lead to Representation," Flash Fiction Chronicles
• "Flash Essays for the Flash Fiction Writer," Flash Fiction Chronicles
• "Context and Character", Flash Fiction Chronicles
• "Feedback on Feedback," Flash Fiction Chronicles
• "NaNoWriMo and the Evolution of a Writer," Darcy Pattison's Fiction Notes

• Included in 'People have been trying to outpun each other – and these 27 are very punny indeed' at the Poke
• Buckeye writer lands in ‘Magic of Cats,’ West Valley View
• Four poems nominated for the Rhysling Award: "Childhood Memory from the Old Victorian House on Warner" (long form category) and "My Ghost Will Know the Way," "A Purring Cat is a Time Machine," and "What You Hear When Your Best Friend Falls for a Supervillain" (short form category)
• Tor.com's Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: December 2019 highlights my Nature story "Sometimes You End Up Where You Are."
• Tangent Online on my story "Consider the Monsters": "It’s a sweet story, though short, and brings up memories of how I used to think about the world when I was a kid."
• Quick Sip Reviews on my story "Consider the Monsters": ""It’s a bit of a grim piece, containing as it does a young girl and what might be a truly devastating global crisis/calamity. But there’s hope, too, wrapped in the way that when bad things happen, people have a tendency to pull together and try to offer what solidarity and protection there can be in cooperation and kindness."
• Book Riot: GET INTO SPECULATIVE POETRY WITH THESE 2019 RHYSLING AWARD WINNERS, featuring my two finalist poems
• 2019 Rhysling Award Winner, short form category, for my poem “After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls,” published in Mythic Delirium; also, 2nd place, long form category, for "The Fairies in the Crawlspace," published in Uncanny Magazine
• Locus Magazine reviews and recommends "The Blighted Godling of Company Town H" from Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Kirkus recommends my story "The Peculiar Gravity of Home": "To describe her short story "The Peculiar Gravity of Home" as being about an Old Cat Lady on the Moon belies its charm... [Ms. Harrison is] as likable as the story and I wouldn't mind revisiting this setting again."
• Reviewed at Smile Politely: "And maybe the most beautiful combination of form, language and imagery is Beth Cato’s poem, “Childhood Memory from the Old Victorian House on Warner”. Short, surreal and shocking, its personification of light, shadow and wallpaper reads like something Kafka might have written while reminiscing about his youth."
• Poems "After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls" and "Fairies in the Crawlspace" nominated for the 2019 Rhysling Award.
• Quick Sip Reviews on "Blighted Godling of Company Town H" in Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "The piece looks at aftermaths and purpose, conveying a fallen feeling. It’s a teetering on the edge of complete ruin, asking if it’s worth it to try and stand again, knowing that it will never be the same... A wonderful read!"
• "[The poem] doesn’t mince words—it shreds them instead, foregoing the need for the woman in the poem to speak at all... I’m going to say that I love how the piece brings fantasy into reality, how it makes this kind of justice (sharp, fiery, violent) a mirror of the injustice that it faces." Quick Sip Reviews on "smile" from Uncanny issue 25
• Quick Sip Reviews offers deep praise of "To This You Cling, With Jagged Fingernails": "It’s a graceful read, though, careful and with a blush of defiance, a hope that maybe magic isn’t just for those too young to know better."
• B&N SFF Blog highlights my story "To This You Cling, With Jagged Fingernails": "Cato perfectly captures the bittersweet moment when you feel the magic of childhood slip away, a moment haunted by sadness, and by the loneliness you can feel in a crowd when you think no one else feels the same, or as deeply, as you."
• 9 Nerdy Things to Do This August [2018] in Metro Phoenix feature in Phoenix New Times, which includes an incredibly large picture of my head along with a mention for CoKoCon, where I am local author guest of honor
• Phoenix Comic Fest: The View From the Center Hallway in the Phoenix New Times: Beth Cato's cookies among the best things at the con
• Quick Sip Reviews on "Fairies in the Crawlspace": "And it’s creepy as fuck but also just a wee bit adorable and the pairing of those things, the balance, is deftly handled. And there’s such a nice flow, giving it this energy, this wonder that never really leaves, even as the mood of the piece dissolves into darkness and horror. It’s just really fun, and that might make me a terrible person because it’s dealing with abuse and with coping and with trauma, but there’s something beautifully haunting about the way this poem moves."
• Red Dust and Dancing Horses Is an Affecting Collection of Epics in Miniature: collection reviewed at the B&N SFF Blog
• Red Dust and Dancing Horses collection recommended at Kirkus Reviews
• Included in “TIME DOESN’T RUN OUT, IT RUNS BETTER”: 30 WRITERS WHO FOUND SUCCESS AFTER 30 at Book Riot
• My sun-cooked backyard egg made worldwide media, with a feature on the Arizona Republic's Weather Blog resulting in mentions on the BBC
• Wonderful Locus Magazine review of my story "With Cardamom I'll Bind Their Lips" from Uncanny Magazine
• Three poems ("The Box of Dust and Monsters," "The Death of the Horse," and "Morning During Migration Season") nominated for the 2016 Rhysling Award
• Story "Beat Softly, My Wings of Steel" on Diabolical Plot's list of Best Podcastle Stories 2016
• "Headspace" from Cats in Space a finalist for WSFA Small Press Award
• Ellen Datlow included "The City" from Mythic Delirium on her long list for best horror of the year for 2015
• Included in 10 Arizona Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors You Should Know — Besides Diana Gabaldon and Stephenie Meyer in Phoenix New Times
• Wings of Sorrow and Bone: A Clockwork Dagger Novella nominated for 2015 Nebula Award!
• Poem "Fried Okra" (originally published in Tales of the Talisman) nominated for Rhysling Award
• Poem "What Happened Among the Stars" nominated for the Pushcart Prize
• The Clockwork Crown nominated for Best Steampunk in the Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy category of the 2015 RT Reviewers Choice Awards
• Poem "Sorry" nominated for Best of the Net by Mobius Magazine
• Poem "Bird Girl" from Niteblade 27 on Ellen Datlow's full recommended list for Best Horror of the Year volume Seven
• The Clockwork Dagger nominated for the 2015 First Novel Locus Award
• Nominated for the 2015 Rhysling Award for poem "Dragon to Centauri"
• Participant in 2015 #TwitterFiction Festival; posted about 70 tweet-sized stories and poems
• "The Cartography of Shattered Trees" (published in FAE anthology) included on Tangent Online's 2014 Recommended Reading List
• Included on SF Signal's list Up And Coming Authors of The Last 5 Years
• "The Sweetness of Bitter" (published in IGMS) included on Tangent Online's 2013 Recommended Reading List