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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BCS #468 ebook out early at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, w stories of historical voyage for gods by multiple-time BCS author James Morrow and new one @jordonjones98.bsky.social, cover art by Bruce Brenneise. www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #468

Issue #468 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by James Morrow and Jordon Jones and cover art by Bruce Brenneise.

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I should probably turn my Bluesky notifications on--what a fun thing to see when I accidentally open this app! Shouts out to Scott once again; it was absolute pleasure to work with him.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

BCS Patreon supporters just got a free ebook of BCS #468, with stories by James Morrow and @jordonjones98.bsky.social, ten days before it goes live on the website. Want free BCS ebooks and to help us pay our authors and First Readers? Please support us! Thank you. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas...

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

W/O downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Also finished Lonesome Dove and it may be an all-time favourite. However, recency bias does go brr, so I will need to watch this space

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Halfway through Lonesome Dove now. This book does not let up man

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I've hit about 40% of the way through it last night and it just keeps getting better to be honest!

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

25% of the way through Lonesome Dove and this book is so good man. Can see it cracking my favourites of all time at this rate

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My one-short-story-a-year publishing streak is unbroken, bosh. What this tells me, though, is that I really need to pull my finger out and write more!

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Excited to say that I have signed on the dotted line with @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and my story about space-faring monks and Anglo-Saxon kings will appear there later on in the year :) Thanks to Scott for his in depth editorial work which brought the story into being the best version it could be!

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Been on hold so long I've forget why I'm calling them in the first place

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Caught a screening of Project Hail Mary on Saturday and my fiance and I are still talking about it... Might go watch it again this weekend

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Rereading Kindred for Bookclub and damn I forgot how much I love Octavia Butlers writing & how brutal this novel is

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Trying to decide between Parable of The Sower and Kindred for bookclub. Both are banging books, but I'm just not sure which to put forward for our next read

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Big nap enjoyer over here

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Just realised I referred to Anglian Water as Anglican water; that's being put down to dehydration induced delirium. In other news, we have water now. Big win

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

2200 has come and still no water

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Had to carry gallons of water back like a medieval milk maid

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Anglican Water turned off around water around 12 today, with little notice. Said it'd be back on a 1800. Workers left at 1700. The time we'd get water back updated to 2200. It is now 2125. No workers can be seen. So, unless they're holding back our water for a laugh, I doubt I'm getting it back.

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Ever since I got an E-Reader for Christmas, I've been reading so much more than I usually would; it's wild.

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Get more anxiety asking people to read my query letter and synopsis than I do shooting short stories off to magazines lol

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

No worries! I found the tub if you're curious about the brand etc. Interestingly enough, it's 0% caffine, so I imagine brewing it in Red Bull was a creative solution people did to get a kick

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Query Letter and synopsis wrote. Now, time to wait for beta feedback on the book...

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

My fiancè is Lithuanian; it's popular in the Baltics, I believe. As such, we have some acorn coffee squirrelled away somewhere... I might have to dig it out and brew it with Red Bull now.

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Finally finished the novel I started back during my MA in 2022 or so. Like, it's almost ready for query, just waiting on Beta's to say it's ready😎 Now to write the synopsis and query letter...

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Badenoch reading Vimes' Boots Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness and thinking how much more economic growth comes from making poorer people buy cheap boots over and over

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So far, the only things I've published are stories I wrote during my MA two years ago, so in two years' time, I expect to see the stuff I'm writing now out in the world😅 It's all about persistence. Rejections sometimes still get to me, but I now realise it often doesn't correlate with quality!

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My biggest accomplishment of the past few weeks is getting a "high-tier" rejection from Asimovs. Let's go. Progress is being made!

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Trying to decide when a short story is ready for the submissions gauntlet is harrowing

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

True, I like to try and forget as much as I can before another draft tbh. Hopefully I'll think it's amazing and needs very little work but that's unlikely ahahaha

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Wrote a short story last month that has gone through atleast 4 drafts and I havent done anything with it yet. Not touched it since I wrapped up last draft so need to give it a read and see if i still like it lmao

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Today has been productive. Finished the draft to a short story, got a rough plan for a second, and an idea for a third. They'll keep me productive for a little while.

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Was too focussed on the idea that the story needs to be plausible like nah, let's get weird with it. My brain my rules

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Feel like I've been writing with blinders on for past few months. Forgot that I can literally write about whatever the hell I want, and remembering that is pretty liberating

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/05/2025

This is what happens when you get marketing suggestions on Discord. (And because it's not in the actual image, you can find us at clarkesworldmagazine.com)

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I joined Threads, never posted, and left. Don't think I even saw anything bad, just couldnt be bothered with it ahaha. I wanted to cut myself off Meta stuff but I also have peeps only on them 🙃 Almost did the same on here tbh, but I made an effort to follow people etc and it seems pretty chill so 😎

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Shame it'll take me lord knows how long to bring the stuff from when I started up to my standards today lmao

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I've been working on my main WIP since mid 2022--I think. Between graduating my MA and starting work I've not been able to put as many hours into it as I want. However, one benefit of taking so long whilst continuing to read, write short stories etc is it does a good job of showing my growth

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Ohh that's good to know! I usually avoid social media but I decided to venture out because don't really have a writing circle where I am

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Literally anyone who reads this thread:

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Not really related but I was just wondering what we called "Tweets" over here and "Skeet" is perfect thanks! To circle back around though, I've been in the space for not too long and it seems like a great community :)

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I say all this like it isn't just a 2 and half hour drive from the city I moved to...

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Could bake my own pie, and I do enjoy baking and I can throw together a pretty good pie but it would feel like stolen valor. I'm not from Wigan. It should only be built in the proper institution. That is a chippy.

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My biggest regret is that, before leaving my home town for greener pastures, I never popped over to Wigan for a proper Wigan Slappy. And popping a frozen pie in a barm seems like it would do a disservice to the greatest culinary innovation of north-west england

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Dabbling in something different to the main WIP is a great way to stay motivated in my opinion. Although I say that and then look at my novel wip folder with two different quarter complete first drafts...

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Thanks, it was a good way to procrastinate editing! And same goes to you:)

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Atm its scifi and i want to get some shorts out there. But I dabble. My published short work consists of horror and "literary"(a term I dislike)fiction. My last major project was fantasy/scifi, but my current novel is scifi/fantasy lol. How about you? Primarily comic-fantasy or have you dabbled?

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JJ @jordonjones98.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Oh that sounds fun! How long have you been working on it? I've always enjoyed comedy-fantasy a la Terry Pratchett, although I imagine it's difficult to write

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