Beth Cato is a renowned author, known for her captivating series and engaging short stories. She has written the "Clockwork Dagger Duology" and the "Breath of Earth" series, both of which have been well-received by fans of fantasy. The "Clockwork Dagger" series, which includes both novels and short stories, combines elements of high fantasy, romance, steam punk, and adventure, making it a well-rounded and thrilling read.
Beth Cato was born in Hanford, California, and currently resides in a lair west of Phoenix, Arizona, where she writes and bakes delicious cookies. She is a Nebula Award-nominated author, with a number of notable works to her name, including "A Thousand Recipes for Revenge" from 47North and the "Clockwork Dagger" and "Blood of Earth" series from Harper Voyager. Her short stories have been published in a variety of publications, ranging from "Beneath Ceaseless Skies" to "Uncanny Magazine." In 2019 and 2022, she was awarded the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry.
Beth shares her home with her husband, son, and two feline overlords. In addition to her writing, she is also an avid baker and shares her culinary creations on her website, BethCato.com. The site includes a vast bibliography of her work, as well as a treasure trove of recipes for delectable goodies. She can be found on Twitter as @BethCato and Instagram as @catocatsandcheese.
Chefs of the Five Gods Books
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Year
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1
A Thousand Recipes for Revenge
2023
2
A Feast for Starving Stone
2024
Clockwork Dagger Books
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Title
Year
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1
The Clockwork Dagger
2014
2
The Deepest Poison
2015
3
The Clockwork Crown
2015
4
Wings of Sorrow and Bone
2015
5
Final Flight
2016
Blood of Earth Books
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Title
Year
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1
Breath of Earth
2016
2
Call of Fire
2017
3
Roar of Sky
2018
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
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1
Cheddar Luck Next Time
2025
2
A House Between Sea and Sky
2025
Short Story Collections
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1
Deep Roots
2016
2
Red Dust and Dancing Horses and Other Stories
2017
Clockwork Phoenix Books
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Clockwork Phoenix (By: Tanith Lee, John C. Wright, Deborah Biancotti, Laird Barron, Mike Allen, Vandana Singh, Catherynne M. Valente, Cat Rambo, Cat Sparks, John Grant, Ekaterina Sedia, Leah Bobet, Erin Hoffman, Michael J. DeLuca, Jennifer Crow, C.S. MacCath, David Sandner, Marie Brennan, Joanna Galbraith)
2008
2
Clockwork Phoenix 2 (By: Tanith Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, Steve Rasnic Tem, Saladin Ahmed, Forrest Aguirre, Mike Allen, Catherynne M. Valente, Claude Lalumière, Kelly Barnhill, Gemma Files, Ian McHugh, Leah Bobet, Barbara Krasnoff, Marie Brennan, Ann Leckie, Joanna Galbraith, Stephen J. Barringer)
2009
3
Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (By: Tanith Lee, John C. Wright, Gregory Frost, Michael M. Jones, Mike Allen, Cat Rambo, John Grant, Kenneth Schneyer, Shweta Narayan, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Georgina Bruce, Marie Brennan, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Tori Truslow, S.J. Hirons)
2010
4
Clockwork Phoenix 4 (By: Tanith Lee, Richard Parks, A.C. Wise, Mike Allen, Yves Meynard, Cat Rambo, Kenneth Schneyer, Gemma Files, Alisa Alering, Ian McHugh, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Shira Lipkin, Barbara Krasnoff, Patricia Russo, Camille Alexa, Marie Brennan, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Yukimi Ogawa, Corinne Duyvis)
2013
5
Clockwork Phoenix 5 (With: Alex Dally MacFarlane, A.C. Wise, Mike Allen, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Rich Larson, Cassandra Khaw, C.S.E. Cooney, Carlos Hernandez, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Sonya Taaffe, Barbara Krasnoff, Patricia Russo, Gray Rinehart, Marie Brennan, Sam Fleming, Shveta Thakrar, Holly Heisey, Jason Kimble, Rachael L. Jones, Rob Cameron, Sunil Patel)
2016
Future Science Fiction Digest Books
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Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 1 (By: Mike Resnick, Lawrence M. Schoen, Alex Shvartsman, Dantzel Cherry, Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko, Walter Dinjos, Steve Kopka, Liang Ling)
2018
2
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 2 (With: Mike Resnick, Tais Teng, Alex Shvartsman, N.R.M. Roshak, David Walton, Dantzel Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou, Jaap Boekestein, Svyatoslav Loginov)
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 4 (By: Mike Resnick, Alex Shvartsman, Shaenon Garrity, Paul Hardy, Alexander Bachilo, Oskar Källner, Stephen Power, Davide Camparsi, Wanxiang Fegnian)
2019
5
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 5 (By: Alex Shvartsman, Filip Wiltgren, Alexandra Seidel, Rodrigo Assis Mesquita)
2019
6
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 6 (By: Ken Liu, Alex Shvartsman, Julie Nováková, Irene Punti, Yevgeny Lukin)
2020
7
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 7 (By: Alex Shvartsman, Michèle Laframboise, Filip Wiltgren, Murtaza Mohsin)
2020
8
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 8 (By: Alex Shvartsman)
2020
9
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 9 (By: Gustavo Bondoni, Taiyo Fujii, Alex Shvartsman, Gu Shi, Wu Guan, Dai Da, Wei Ma)
2020
10
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 10 (By: Alex Shvartsman)
2021
11
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 11 (By: Alex Shvartsman)
2021
12
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 12 (By: Alex Shvartsman)
2021
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Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 13 (By: Alex Shvartsman)
2021
14
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 14 (By: Alex Shvartsman)
2022
15
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 15 (By: Alex Shvartsman)
2022
16
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 16 (By: Alex Shvartsman, Vanesa L. Perillo, Rodrigo Culagovski, Olga Fiks, Mose Njo, Marlon Ortiz, Zhou Wen)
2022
17
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 17 (By: Alex Shvartsman, Han Song, H. Pueyo, Nathan Faries, Renan Bernardo, Rodrigo Culagovski, Uchechukwu Nwaka)
2022
Beth Cato Anthologies
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Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales Of Appalachia
2010
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Mountain Magic
2010
3
Daily Science Fiction Stories of October 2010
2010
4
Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013
2013
5
Oomph: A Little Super Goes a Long Way
2013
6
Coffee
2013
7
Tales of the Talisman Volume 9, Issue 2
2014
8
Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume V
2014
9
Trust & Treachery: Tales of Power and Intrigue
2014
10
Fae
2014
11
A is for Apocalypse
2014
12
Mythic Delirium
2014
13
B is for Broken
2015
14
Tales of the Talisman, Volume 10, Issue 4
2015
15
For Want of a Horse
2015
16
Clockwork Phoenix 5
2016
17
2016 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide
2015
18
Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume VIII
2016
19
C is for Chimera
2016
20
Mysterion: Rediscovering the Mysteries of the Christian Faith
2016
21
Science Fiction Short Stories
2016
22
D is for Dinosaur
2017
23
Little Green Men—Attack!
2017
24
The 2017 Rhysling Anthology
2017
25
E is for Evil
2018
26
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 1
2018
27
Giftmas 2018 Advent Anthology
2018
28
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 2
2019
29
Diabolical Plots Year FIve
2019
30
F is for Fairy
2019
31
The 2019 Rhysling Anthology
2019
32
Monarchies of Mau: Tales of Excellent Cats
2019
33
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 4
2019
34
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 6
2020
35
The 2020 Rhysling Anthology
2020
36
Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas
2020
37
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 9
2020
38
Twilight Worlds: Best of NewMyths Anthology Volume II