The studio
A small press for big worlds.
It exists to give character-driven stories with big worlds a home, and to carry each one from first chapter to finished book.
CALM Studios publishes the speculative fiction of A.C. Bishkey, from the skyship saga of Halcyon Days to the dream-world adventures of Charlie Brunswick and the Encrypted Room, with more worlds in the wings.
The catalog
Books and worlds.
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. The first seven chapters are free on Substack.
Join the Days
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.
The Black Hound took everything Aoife loved. Her one lead is OisÃn, 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.
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.
Framed for murder, Soul flees New Eden with her inheritance: an amulet with a terrible price. A cyberpunk Snow White where the mirror sees a demon behind a woman's eyes.
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.
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.
The story is in the crew and the crew is in the story.
I didn't even make it 20% into the book before I HAD to have a physical hardcover on my shelf and ordered it.
How this book is not more popular I do not know. It has an exciting magic system, incredible worldbuilding, distinct characters, and adrenaline inducing battle scenes.
Read the opening free.
The first seven chapters of Halcyon Days: The Colossus are free on Substack.
Get in touch
Rights, review copies, or just hello.
alexb@calmstudiosltd.com