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Hi, I'm Piers Beckley and this is my website.

Here you can find information about my latest books, plus various other pieces of writing I've done over the years.

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The Mirrored Castle

The fourth part of the Antonan Chronicles – and the last part of the first book – is now available on Amazon for just $2.99. Like the first three parts, there are plenty of swordfights, skycars, and romance. And a revelation about one of the recurring villains… I set out to write a Planetary Romance […]

May 8, 2026 1 min read
Miscellaneous

Into The Dark now only 99¢ for Halloween

For Halloween this year I’ve reduced the price of the Kindle version of Into The Dark, my collection of short fiction, to just 99¢. Seven short stories of Science Fiction and Horror collected together for the first time, including tales where… And you can get all of these for less than a dollar until All […]

October 27, 2025 1 min read
NewsWriting

Newsletter

Now that I’ve started publishing The Swords of Antona in helpful bite-size pieces (with a military SF novel on the way) I thought it would be a good idea to start a newsletter. The idea being that it’s a not-very often email about what I’m up to, with the occasional special offer to subscribers, and […]

October 14, 2025 1 min read
Books

The Forest of Death

Part two of The Swords of Antona is now available to buy from Amazon.

September 15, 2025 1 min read
Theatre

Putting on one of my plays

Occasionally I get contacted by an amateur dramatics company or school about performing one of my plays. (To be honest, it’s usually A Christmas Carol. It’s not a seasonal staple for nothing, you know…) Previously I’ve always dealt with this on a case-by-case basis, but I’ve streamlined the process because, let’s face it, we’ve both […]

September 8, 2025 2 min read
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Shiny!

As you might have noticed, I’ve had a bit of a clearout. 🙂 Over the long, long years the site had accumulated a lot of posts which, quite frankly, weren’t doing any useful business any more. You don’t really need to know which panels I’m going to be appearing at for an SF convention next […]

August 31, 2025 2 min read
Books

The Crystal Sword

So I have a new novella out. It’s called The Crystal Sword and is the first in a new series in the genre of what used to be known as Planetary Romance (or sometimes Sword & Planet) – a genre which features someone from our world transported to another, swordfighting, monsters, beautiful princesses, that sort […]

August 21, 2025 2 min read
News

I Aten’t Dead

[cough] [cough] Oh dear. The state of this place. I suppose I owe you an update. I accidentally got a full-time dayjob, and then another one, and the writing and blogging and websiting and all of the creative things that I loved well, just all kind of… fell by the wayside for a while. For […]

August 19, 2025 2 min read
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Into The Dark

[blows dust off the blog] Well. Hello. Been a while since I’ve powered this thing up. I’ve got a new book out. It’s called Into The Dark and is a collection of science fiction / horror short stories. About 28,000 words of them, all told. Some have been published previously, and some are debuting in […]

August 12, 2023 1 min read