Rachel Amphlett @rachelamphlett.bsky.social USA Today bestselling crime fiction writer. Traveller, podcast host, accidental private detective.
Australia & UK.
Find out more at www.rachelamphlett.com
Jeff Kitchen @jeffkitchen.bsky.social http://script.kitchen
Training writers in the craft of the dramatist--Broadway to Hollywood
Script doctor
Students nominated for multiple Emmys & Oscars, including Best Picture & Best Adapted Screenplay
Author of Writing a Great Movie / The Hero's Dilemma
Mostly piratey @allanboroughs.bsky.social Children's writer - I am in touch with my inner child - he makes me do things.
Aki Schilz @akischilz.bsky.social Director at @thelitconsultancy, founder #BookJobTransparency & @foundationswift. All things creativity, inclusive culture, literature, leadership and wellbeing.
Charles Beaumont @aspyalone.bsky.social I write books about spies.
Richard Hooton @rjhooton.bsky.social Writer. Award-winning short fiction.
Debut novel THE MARGARET CODE published by Sphere Books out now: http://bit.ly/4eNE0CI.
Rep: @stubbleagent @ RCW
Matt Witten @mattwitten.bsky.social My speculative thriller 51% comes out this year. Wrote The Necklace and Killer Story. TV: wrote for House, Law & Order and Pretty Little Liars. www.mattwittenwriter.com
Sisters in Crime Los Angeles @sistersincrimela.bsky.social We're here to champion women writers and content creators in mystery, thriller and true-crime genres – and their fans. Join us https://www.sistersincrimela.com or subscribe https://sisters-in-crime-los-angeles.mailchimpsites.com/subscribe
Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social Canadian in Taiwan. Emerging tech writer, and analyst with a flagship Newsletter called A.I. Supremacy reaching 115k readers
Also watching Semis, China, robotics, Quantum, BigTech, open-source AI and Gen AI tools.
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/archive
Kelly Creighton @kellycrimebooks.bsky.social Northern Irish author. DI Harriet Sloane series, State of Fear, Souls Wax Fair, Unbecoming, The Bones of It, etc.
I don't respond to anonymous accounts.
Sam Eades @sameades.bsky.social Editor and reader. 
Yvonne ~ Me And My Books @yvonnembee.bsky.social Avid book reader, reviewer and blogger.
I love books, coffee, sea-swimming, gardening, outdoors
Blog - Me And My Books - https://vonnibee.com/
Harry Illingworth @harryillingworth.bsky.social Pimp of Ink @DHHlitagency. SFF. Speculative. Crime & Thriller. Shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2023
Wiessmueller @wiessmueller.bsky.social Ex gamer, still occasional writer, soon to be restaurateur.
Terri Nixon @nixonauthor.bsky.social Born in Devon, raised in Cornwall, live on Marmite.
Author. CWA member.
Rep'd by Louise Buckley at Hannah Sheppard L.A.
Trad and Indie. Family sagas; crime; archaeological thrillers; mythic fantasy.
@Loudmouthkid62 @loudmouthkid62.bsky.social Maura Lynch | New Yorker
#HumanRights #CivilRights #Democracy #Books #Writers #Literature #History #Film #TV #Animals #Dogs #Cats #Birds #Nature #Photography #Music #Art
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#AbolishICE
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#NYKnicks 🏀
#BeKind
Nina Pottell @matineegirl1.bsky.social Book Editor Prima magazine. Book consultant for Between The Covers. Hairdresser.
Sharon Canavar @sharoncanavar.bsky.social CE @HarrogateFestivals | Co Chair BAFA | books, music, fests | spinner, cake habit, slow runner
Lilja Sigurðardóttir @liljawriter.bsky.social Award winning Icelandic author of “The Reykjavik Noir Trilogy” and “Arora Investigates” series. New book: BLACK AS DEATH - out now!
https://linktr.ee/liljawriter
Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
Tom Benjamin @tombenjamin.bsky.social Author of the Bologna-set Daniel Leicester mysteries published by Constable, Little Brown Rep'd @BGLitAgency All my other stuff: https://linktr.ee/tombenjaminsays 
Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social Bibliophile, library-lover, braille-student and cat-lady. Fond of hyphens and interrobangs. Treasurer for Share the Vision @ReadingSight and Libraries Engagement Manager @RNIB ❤️
mybookishblogspot @mybookishblogspot.bsky.social Hi, I’m Amanda a book mad ex-librarian working in a GP practice.
I’m a bookblogger reviewing on my blog, Instagram and X.
My blog: mybookishblogspot.wordpress.com
Instagram: @mybookishblogspot
X: https://x.com/amandaduncan12?s=21
Janet Innes @janetinnes.bsky.social I write about people who do bad things.
Sisters in Crime // Short Mystery Fiction Society
http://www.janetinnes.net/
R. Morris @r-morris.bsky.social Author. Atmosphere/Climate physicist. Ret U.S. Air Force. #veteranwriters
Beyond the Book Festival @beyondbookfest.bsky.social A book and writing festival curated by Brighton authors. Early bird tickets available now for a limited time. COMING 10 MAY 2025.
https://www.beyondthebookfestival.org/
The Cover Collection @thecovercollection.bsky.social We provide high quality, affordable book covers for both publishers and self published authors www.thecovercollection.com
Caz Frear @cazzifwrites.bsky.social Crime Author. Everything Reader. Cautious Optimist. Occasionally annoying. Five Bad Deeds paperback coming March 25 (Simon & Schuster). Agent: Eugenie Furniss
Haleh Agar @halehagar.bsky.social Author | OUT OF TOUCH with W&N books| Rep’d by Stacy Testa at Writer's House | PhD’ing | Writing an Iranian gothic
Susan Condon @susancondon.bsky.social Irish Writer & Poet | Winner of the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award | MA Creative Writing from DCU | 2024 Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme
Susancondon.Wordpress.com
Bettina Hunt Author @bettinahuntauthor.bsky.social Writer of Romantic Comedies 📚💕Host of the Love at First Write Podcast 🎙️Loves Beauty💄Afternoon Tea 🍰 Books,TV, Films,Theatre, Music & Eating Out. Love to Sing. Dyspraxic 🙋♀️ Mum to 2 boys. 🐈⬛ HEA believer.
Latest book - Our Song 🎤🎵💕⬇️
Mybook.to/OurSongRomCom
Adam Southward @adamsouthward.bsky.social Author of DARLING DEATH, SPIRAL, A STRANGER ON BOARD and THE SAFE HOUSE
Writes as Adam Southward and Cameron Ward.
Rep'd by @Julie_Fergusson
Sarah Govett @sarahgovett.bsky.social Award-winning YA author and screenwriter. Debut crime thriller, BELIEVE, out with Penguin Michael Joseph June 2025.
Frances Quinn @franquinn.bsky.social Author of The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman & The Lost Passenger, agent Alice Lutyens, Curtis Brown. Keen on cats.
Mandy Byatt Author @mandybyattauthor.bsky.social Crime fiction writer. The Gallery of Bones, Book 1 of The British Heritage Mysteries out spring 2026.
Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Independent Bookshop in Romiley, Greater Manchester. Second bookshop in Stockport Centre now open! Co-founder Stockport Noir. Admin: @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social
Lucy Dauman @lucydauman.bsky.social Deputy Publishing Director for Crime & Thriller at Headline Books
📚 All views my own.
Lisa Sell, Author @lisasell.bsky.social Multiple-published thrillers author. Writing mentor. Meme queen. Writing advice and musings. Runs on sarcasm and coffee. All my books are on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Val Penny @valpennyauthor.bsky.social I kill people in my bestselling thrillers - The DI Hunter Wilson Crime Thrillers and The Jane Renwick Thrillers.
www.valpenny.com
Mark Eklid @markeklid.bsky.social Author of crime thrillers, former journalist and supporter of under-performing sports teams.
Rebecca Fletcher @margotgoodlife.bsky.social Writer|Literary interviewer|host @theyard_hampshire
📚Insta Lives #areyousittingcomfortably with @myenglishcountrycottage
Substack - Authorly Fond of Books
www.rebecca-fletcher.co.uk
Lesley Lodge @lesleylodge62.bsky.social Keen on Historical Crime (have written one - "Wayland's Revenge" - working on the sequel). Also horses in film ("Lights! Camera! Gallop!"). Smallholder with sheep & a Guard Goose.
Heather Critchlow @heathercritchlow.bsky.social Author of THE TOMORROW PROJECT and the Cal Lovett series. Bloody Scotland debut shortlisted
Agent: @charlotteseymour.bsky.social Johnson & Alcock
www.heathercritchlow.com
Jo Furniss @jofurniss.bsky.social Author of crime novels. Writer of history podcasts. Resident of seaside town.
Ivey Marsh @iveymarsh.bsky.social BA in pol-sci. writer. here to advocate, self-deprecate + pull you from an existential ledge. 📚
‘a movement guided by principle than by their adversary will surely persist. love your cause more than hatred for the enemy.’
i am only on here and instagram.
Alison C @alice-reads.bsky.social Avid reader and lover of stories
Thomas Dean Donnelly @tddonnelly.bsky.social Thriller author of Year of the Rabbit, and the upcoming Year of the Horse. Hollywood screenwriter for over 25 years (google me). Beach walker extraordinaire. Husband. Father. Owner of guinea pigs, though they seem to think they own me...
Elizabeth Drummond @lizzythebrit.bsky.social Mama/Writer/Movie person.
Author of enemies-to-lovers romcom ‘The Reunion’ & Grumpy/Sunshine romcom ‘The House Sitter.’
Rep’d by Hannah Schofield at LBA.
Dan Thompson @mrdanthompson.bsky.social Writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and stories for the media.📚🖥️📰 ✍🏻
Creative Writing Alumni University of Cambridge.
Interested in writing of all kinds including for the screen, stage, prose, poetry and VSS.
@clairecooperauthor.bsky.social @clairecooperauthor.bsky.social Writer of psychological thrillers. Lover of tea. Rep'd by @Northbanktalent.bsky.social
Mike Mignola @mikemignola.bsky.social Artist-Writer-Creator of the Hellboy Universe or Mignolaverse etc...
Eve Ainsworth @eveainsworth.bsky.social Award winning working class author. Writes children’s books and adult romance/suspense.
Safeguarding Lead. Part time Lady Stardust.
Somebody I Used To Love - 2024
Pieces of Us - 2025
Loves football, fudge and fascinating fascinations.
The Honest Authors @honestauthors.bsky.social Everything you want to know about being a published bestselling author in a podcast from @gillianmauthor.bsky.social and @holly.bsky.social, often featuring special guests. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and the usual places.
Read and Buried Podcast @readandburiedpod.bsky.social Like crime stories, books and people talking about those things? This is the podcast for you. Hosted by Frankie.
Books Of The Year @booksoftheyear.bsky.social Simon Mayo and Matt Williams welcome the world’s best authors in for a chat.
In Suspense Podcast @insuspensepodcast.bsky.social A podcast for fans and writers of crime fiction. Hosted by @lesleykara.bsky.social and @nikkismithauthor.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/insuspense
Sarah Bax Horton @sarahbaxhorton.bsky.social Currently on BBC iPlayer with Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder Club as author of Arm of Eve: Investigating the Thames Torso Murders, RBAM Book of the Year 2024 🏆, also One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper
amykierce.bsky.social @amykierce.bsky.social writer☕️📚🕊️ rep’d by DMLA | novel in progress | family at heart | trials and errors veggie gardener (no dms pls)
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Jennifer Edwards @jenniferewrites.bsky.social PhD student in creative writing and crime fiction @ UoC. Agatha Christie fan. Loves pseudo-domestic spaces.
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Laura Evans @yetanotherevans.bsky.social LITTLE WILD coming June 2026 (Mantle, UK; Holt, US; Fazi Editore, IT)
Rep'd by Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown. Will work for croissants.
Stockport Noir @stockportnoir.bsky.social Crime fiction festival in the North West. Saturday 31st January 2026 at Stockport Masonic Guildhall
Richard Jerram @richardjerram.bsky.social The Makoto Murders out in July 2026 … CWA Debut Dagger 2024 winner … UEA Crime Fiction MA … rep’d by Lisa Moylett at CMM … PhD economist …
Rebecca Thorne @spookyrebecca.bsky.social Author of The Grief House
Lover of all things ghostly
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Bryan J Mason - Crime Writer @bryanjmason.bsky.social Black comedy crime writer. An Old Tin Can is the first in a new series set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. I also write regular theatre reviews. Member of Crime Writers Association www.bryanjmason.com #crime #author #books
Louise Hulland @louiseonair.bsky.social BBC Afternoon Presenter | Award winning journalist | Author ‘Stolen Lives’ | Global Women in News - Inspirational Leader 2024 | Stories Louise.Hulland@bbc.co.uk
Ijaz @ijazi.bsky.social Writer/ Director | Showrunner of The Demonata - a screen adaptation of the novels by Darren Shan
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithwrites.bsky.social Novelist, Podcast Host, Editor, Movie Buff linktr.ee/maggiesmithwrites
Kain Stockton @kainstockton.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Writer🖋
Penguin #WriteNow 2025 Cohort
(he/him)
📍London
Becca Mascull @beccamascull.bsky.social Bestselling author of 3 names:
#RebeccaMascull & #MollieWalton historical fiction & #HarperFord romcoms.
Currently writing novel number 18.
Also award-winning teacher. 😍📖💖
https://linktr.ee/beccamascull
Brandy O’Briant @brandyo71.bsky.social 54. American in England. Beagle mom. Writer. Literary fiction. MFA. INFJ.
Shortlist, The Virginia Prize for Fiction
Finalist, Wildhouse Fiction Prize
Longlist, Mslexia Novel Award
Honourable Mention, Craft Literary 1st Chapters
brandyobriant.com
Kieron Freeburn - Crime Fiction Writer @kieronf2.bsky.social Former Scotland Yard, International and Organised Crime Detective. Crime writer. Any questions about policing - just ask. #amwriting, #amquerying -
Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein
linktr.ee/wonderofscience
Jen Faulkner @jenfaulknerwriter.bsky.social Writer, teacher, #PCD mum.
#WhatGoesAround OUT NOW WITH Bloodhound Books. 
Susie Fleming @susieflemingauthor.bsky.social Author of crime thrillers… Blood Ties, out Spring 2025.
Arnold Thomas Fanning @arnoldtfanning.bsky.social Writer, Walker, Photographer, Record Collector. Essays & Stories in The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd & elsewhere. Author of Mind on Fire (Penguin Ireland, 2018).
https://about.me/arnoldthomasfanning
Glen Laker @glenlaker.com Too easily distrac
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids:
Minou Moonshine 2023/ Sam Singh 2024 Bloomsbury Kids
Poetry:
Empirical 2026
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren 2022 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing 2020
Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Julie @ A Little Book Problem @alittlebookproblem.bsky.social Writer. Blogger. Book hoarder. Ex-Lawyer. Eternal optimist. Travel junkie. Owl lover. Plant Killer. #girlyswot Host: @little_retreats ⭐️RNA Media Star 2020
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Christina Young @christinayoung58.bsky.social British Bookish podcaster at Books and Chat ~ Gloucester Book Club Host ~ choir member ~ Parish Councillor ~grandmother~ avid reader
Jodie Whitfield @relishbooks.bsky.social Book Lover 📚
Crime Fiction Fanatic 🔪🕵♀️
Waterstones Bookseller
Adam Hamdy @adamhamdy.bsky.social Screenwriter, producer and author of DEADBEAT, THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT, the Scott Pearce series (BLACK 13, RED WOLVES & WHITE FIRE) and the PRIVATE series with James Patterson.
Christie J. Newport @christiejnewport.bsky.social Author of The Preston Murders crime thriller series. Book One: The Raven’s Mark Book Two: The Ordinary Man. An historical thriller coming soon. Represented by Northbank Talent Management. Published by Joffe Books & Storm Books. Lives in Grimsargh Village.
Emilia Ares @emiliaares.bsky.social Award-winning Author. An Armenian-American actress best known for American Horror Story and Bosch, co-producer of Burden and author of Love and Other Sins and Love and Other Cages. ❤️🔥 Supporting organizations like NCMEC and RAINN❤️🩹 www.linktr.ee/Emiliaares
Richie Narvaez @richienarvaez.bsky.social Adjunct as well as Agatha- and Anthony-award–winning author of HIPSTER DEATH RATTLE | HOLLY HERNANDEZ & THE DEATH OF DISCO | NOIRYORICAN | 🇵🇷 | The songs I punched are dreaming
https://linktr.ee/richienarvaez
Donna Moore @badsvillebroad.bsky.social Love dark, warped humorous crime fiction; historical fiction; film noir; punk. Author of crime fiction and historical fiction. #author #crimefiction #mysteryfiction #historicalfiction #filmnoir #punkrock #books https://www.donnamooreauthor.com/
Teretha G. Houston @teretha111.bsky.social Best-selling author of the thriller #NoWhereToLand. ⚡️BookLife Editor's Pick.Director, producer, screenwriter, film editor, actress, and singer.
https://www.amazon.com/NOWHERE-LAND-Teretha-Houston-ebook/dp/B0B4F8QFR3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3P5J5PHV
teretha.com
Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social Historia Magazine is the online magazine of the Historical Writers’ Association
historiamag.com
historicalwriters.org
Lizzy Barber @bylizzybarber.bsky.social Richard and Judy best-selling author Out of her Depth / Nanny Wanted / My Name is Anna / Be Mine out ‘25
Rep’d Luigi Bonomi/Amanda Preston @ LBA. Tv & film: Emily Hayward-Whitlock at The Artist’s Partnership
Tariq Ashkanani @tariqashkanani.bsky.social Writer. Winner of Bloody Scotland Debut and McIlvanney Awards. Co-host of the Page One Podcast. The Midnight King - out now!
https://www.tariqashkanani.co.uk
Interview Room One @interviewroomone.bsky.social We're a team of crime fiction loving writers and readers bringing authors and readers together via interviews, reviews, articles and from 2025, phsyical and online events. Find out more at www.interviewroomone.com 
Joanne Craven @joannecraven.bsky.social I love reading (mainly crime fiction and thrillers), watching good stuff on tv and at the cinema, cooking, eating out and trying new food, especially a bit of fizz and some cheese. Peloton fan. From the north ❤️
Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social Queer writer & Uni Lecturer | fiction in Smokelong, Wigleaf, Cincinnati Review, Citron Review, Vestal Review, Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.katehorsley.co.uk