CALM Studios, Ltd., speculative fiction by A.C. Bishkey

Speculative fiction by A.C. Bishkey.

Skyships, dream-worlds, ancient powers, and the long road between.

The studio

A small press for big worlds.

CALM Studios publishes the speculative fiction of A.C. Bishkey, from the skyship saga of Halcyon Days to dream-world adventures for younger readers. New work is serialized free as it is written, then collected into books.

The catalog

Books and worlds.

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Available now
Halcyon Days: The Colossus Book one of the skyship saga

Six months ago the Azure Colossus rose and cracked a city of three million like an egg. Locke woke up three years short on memory and aboard the fastest ship in the sky. Banter, skyship chases, and warmth between the explosions.

Available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover.

Join the Days
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ARC Aug 25 · On sale Sept 22
Halcyon Days: The City in the Sands Book two

Save the world, get a parade, then fly into the empire that wants you dead before the confetti lands. The crew is fracturing and the enemy they buried is already marching again. Preorder available soon.

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Fall 2026
Charlie Brunswick and the Encrypted Room A dream-world adventure for younger readers

A misfit whose sleeping mind turns nightmares into puzzles solves his way into the Subconscious Control Agency, the secret service that guards the dreaming world. Now the agency wants to train him, and something far older wants to recruit him.

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Planned 2027
Otherwhile Literary time-slip

The Black Hound took everything Aoife loved. Her one lead is Oisín, a fisherman's son who knows nothing of monsters and whom the Hound wants enough to raise an army. When she finds him in the Drowned Isles, both their worlds begin to come apart.

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Planned 2027
Stella Casus A conspiracy thriller in three books

Austin Stella's family is the richest in human history, and she has never asked why. The night she slips her bodyguards, the answer detonates into gunfire, old money, and a legacy reaching back to the darkest chapter in human history.

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In development
Occluded An epic fantasy in nine books

Power is a passenger. People are the vessels it rides. Four lives, four powers, one long unraveling.

Early reviews

What readers are saying.

On Halcyon Days: The Colossus, from NetGalley and BookSirens.

★★★★★
A thrill ride of a book. An adventure grand enough to contain it all.
Noah Jackson BookSirens
★★★★★
The story is in the crew and the crew is in the story.
Matthias Seys BookSirens
★★★★★
I didn't even make it 20% into the book before I HAD to have a physical hardcover on my shelf and ordered it.
Hutson Coventry NetGalley
★★★★
It was really fun, but has a lot of heart. I absolutely loved the crystal magic and tech system.
Sophie NetGalley

Read it as it is written.

Halcyon Days serializes free. New chapters twice a week.

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Get in touch

Rights, review copies, or just hello.
alexb@calmstudiosltd.com