J. L. Pavich 📚 @jlpavichbooks.bsky.social Unraveling comes out May 1st!
Author of dark, twisty stories. Neurodivergent witch.
Unapologetic feminist.
🌈 She/her
🚫 No sales in DMs please 🚫
Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Kathleen Schmidt @kathmschmidt.bsky.social President, KMSPR. Book publishing, marketing, consulting, strategy. I write Publishing Confidential on Substack.
Sebastian Posth 🇪🇺 @posth.me Liccium content certification – digitally sign your original creative works. Claim your content. Regain control. Protect your copyright. Register at liccium.com. – About me: posth.me
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman @jeannevb.bsky.social Sr Exec Pipeline Media Group @bookpipeline.bsky.social, EiC @pipelineartists.bsky.social, partner Fringe Press, CoHost @recklesscr8tive.bsky.social #podcast. Prev @scriptmagazine.bsky.social + Writer's Digest. CoFndr #scriptchat on X. #HistFic #18thC
Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social Media industry journalist who runs a newsletter and podcast. You can reach me at simonowens@gmail.com
DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social Alter ego of Peter Ginna. Editor, writer, & occasional blogger on books & publishing. Former editor & publisher at several houses. Author of WHAT EDITORS DO: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. Website: peterginna.com 
Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social Writer of fiction - books and digital. Inanimate Alice, Breathe, Forest Green. Academic - Bath Spa University. Books. Food. Sleep. Canadian living in UK. www.katepullinger.com and https://buttondown.email/katepullinger
Guy (aka glecharles) @loudpoet.com Sometimes loud, formerly poet, always opinionated. As in guillotine...
Here via BlackSky, but more active on my blog and Mastodon:
https://loudpoet.com | https://gardenstate.social/@glecharles
Paul Bogaards @paulbogaards.bsky.social PR guy. Former Publisher. Representing authors and companies. Knows the business. Find me @ http://instagram.com/paulbogaards; and here http://paulbogaards.substack.com; and here bogaardspr.com.
Katy Hershberger @katyhersh.bsky.social Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
Cassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes.bsky.social Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. 🐝
http://pinestatepublicity.com
Pinestatepublicity.substack.com
Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com Freelance editor of YA & Adult fiction (sarah@nextchapteredits.com). Writer, optimist, all-around bookish.
Editing: https://www.nextchapteredits.com/
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/SarahLaPolla
Everything Else: https://linktr.ee/sarahlapolla
Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social Writer, editor,publisher, creative funding expert in Brooklyn. Editor of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. Previously @feministpress & @kickstarter. She/they 🌈📚
https://margotatwell.com/
Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
Laura Stanfill @laurastanfill.bsky.social Author, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES (Ooligan Press, Nov. 2026). Publisher, Forest Avenue Press. Publishing consultant. Delete Key is my roller derby name.
Brian DeFiore @briandef.bsky.social Literary Agent, Dad, Geek
E. J. Wenstrom @ejwenstrom.bsky.social 🖤s complicated heroes, horrifying monsters & standing to the right on escalators so the left side can walk. #SFF author. Cohost
@SFFGirlPodcast. #ADHD. She/her
Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social "What's she got to stare at now?"
https://newvirago.com/
Darcy Pattison @darcypattison.bsky.social Author of over 70 children’s books, including A LITTLE BIT OF DINOSAUR series, the Moments in Science series, and the Another Extraordinary Animal series. See more at MimsHouseBooks.com #STEM #NextGen #Kidlit #TLsky #EduSky 
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social Founding Partner, Neon Literary. Get in, loser, we're making it art. www.neonliterary.com
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social Crafty southpaw.
Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social Literary agent, #author, travel-junkie, puppy enthusiast, full-time fed up with the rolling back of our rights.
www.knightagency.net
www.luciennediver.com
Sarah Nicolas @sarahnfisk.bsky.social Literary Agent. YA Author as Sarah Nicolas. Queries Qualms & Quirks host. Disability in Publishing Board. 💛🤍💜🖤 linktr.ee/presidentsarah
Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer. Latest: I review Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/08/arts/emily-st-john-mandel-exit-party/
The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
The Gernert Company @thegernertco.bsky.social The Gernert Company is a literary agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Our client list is as broad as the market. 📚
https://www.thegernertco.com/
Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Independent Publishers Guild @independentpublishersguild.com The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more.
https://linktr.ee/IndependentPublishersGuild
Literary Agents of Change @litagentsofchange.bsky.social A 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping people from underrepresented groups become literary agents.
linktr.ee/literaryagentsofchange
Authors Alliance @authorsalliance.bsky.social Promoting authorship for the public good by supporting authors who write to be read. authorsalliance.org and authorsalliance.substack.com for updates. 
Iris Blasi @irisblasi.bsky.social Book lover and literary agent at Arc Literary. Say hi here: iris@arcliterary.com.
arcliterarymanagement.com/the-agents#iris
Jennifer Ivy Walker @jenniferivywalker.bsky.social Award-winning author of medieval, paranormal, Celtic, and Viking romance. https://jenniferivywalker.com/ I also design Renaissance Denim Couture on Etsy. https://www.etsy.com/shop/bohemienneivy
Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social MN Writer, queer, #autistic, wife, mom, #disabled 🐈⬛Moss enthusiast
🐈⬛Publications in NY Times+
🐈⬛ Repped by Elisa Saphier
🐈⬛Co-founder of The Unpopular Publishing Co.
🐈⬛Co-creator of autisticaunties.com
🐈⬛Cosy mystery F*CK THIS MURDER out now!
Elizabeth Heider @elizabethheider.bsky.social Author of MAY THE WOLF DIE (Penguin) | Thriller in Naples 🇮🇹 | a NYT, WaPo & PW Best Book of 2024. CHILDREN OF THE SAVAGE CITY launches 02-17-2026
www.elizabethheider.com
#maythewolfdie
Exploring crime, culture, and complex characters. 🌍
Lisa Lynn @narratorlisalynn.bsky.social Narrator for clean content books. Historical fiction, Romcom, Dramedy. PNW dweller. Reader. Writer. Drama geek.
K. M. Denholm (@writerkmd) @writerkmd.bsky.social Peace & music & books! Longtime writer, mom of 3 & dog, new novelist; '70s-'80s music lover, lifetime sufferer of Cle Browns dysfunctional cycles. Parental advice sounds suspiciously like Mike & Carol Brady's. #cle #wfwa #rrhof #author #genX
Laura Hazan @lhazan.bsky.social Author•Traveler•Mom•Librarian•I don’t drink coffee•#binders•#writingcommunity••Baltimore•St. Louis•New York•writing #romcoms
Brayden Russell @braydenrwrites.bsky.social i am just a girl who writes books and wonders why on earth I exist | shortlisted for revpit ‘26 | 1st place “Best Pitch” winner of PosterPit
Rep: Molly Jamieson at United Agents
Jennifer Locklear @randomcran.bsky.social Author of the #Constellation Series, Moderator for Argyle Empire, #T1DMom, #PrideMom.
Substack: https://substack.com/@randomcran
K.L. Anderson @klandersonland.bsky.social Author of But First You Need a Plan (Leapfrog Press).
Ecologist by training.
My favorite Muppet is Grover.
she/her
https://klandersonauthor.com/
Kerry Burnett Writer @kerryburnetty.bsky.social She/her #Author of pox-and-all #histfic women's fiction, repd by www.greeneheaton.co.uk
Bath Novel Award LL Specialist Tutor in FE and HE. Hypnotherapist. Poet '5of9' Potty-mouthed lover of 📚 🐈⬛ #Trekkie 🖖
#writingcommunity
http://writehead.medium.com
Kris Clink, author & podcast host @krisclink.bsky.social Author, mom of lovely humans and doggos, & host of Writing Table podcast who isn't letting hate sink her ship. krisclink.com
Keli O’Connor @kelioconnor.bsky.social Ineffectual intellectual. Professional ne’er-do-well. Editor-in-Chief of Canid Literary & Arts and author of dog fiction. Never AI.
Kitt McClain @kittmcc.bsky.social Writer-🌸 Stories of healing, family, legacy, and love.
Author of Becoming Liz, where Black women break cycles, rebuild sisterhood, and find love that feels like home.
KittMcClainOfficial.com
Karen E. Bender @karenebender.bsky.social I write stories and show students how to do it. Teaching in MFAs at SUNY Stony Brook and Alma College. NBA Finalist
Jackie Morrison @jackiemorrison.bsky.social Writer of short stories & more!
In large print from Ulverscroft Publishing:
The Sweetest Thing release date 01/07
Written In The Stars release date TBC
SL Simon and Schuster, LL Penguin
Travelling & exploring 🏴 RNA Member
linktr.ee/LittleWritingCorner
Wendy Haller @wendyhaller.bsky.social ✍️Writer of Book Club/Women’s fiction, poetry and children's books
🙏Yoga/meditation teacher
📚Avid reader
🍃Nature explorer
💗Psoriatic arthritis/chronic pain warrior
Melissa @moatis.bsky.social Author: Rural Indigenousnness (SU Press, 2018). Historian turned fiction writer - querying my debut women’s fiction manuscript in 2025! k-drama fan since Covid. Love my family, travel and learning about people and places and especially Democracy!!
Susan Setteducato @susansetteducato.bsky.social Writer of urban fantasy, artist, student of dragon lore and mythology, protector of wild beauty. I practice Reiki and speak to trees. www.susansetteducato.com.
@mmorgante.bsky.social @mmorgante.bsky.social 
EJTwriter | Emi T @ejtwriter.bsky.social Romance author / ER Nurse Practitioner / cargo-bike enthusiast / Anything worth doing is worth overdoing / solar-powered / coffee / raising 4 feral kids
Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social English professor at King's College, PA 📚 Fiction writer 💻 Optimistic pessimist ✊ Editor of Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts
https://zeal.kings.edu/zeal
Ggglimpopo @ggglimpopo.bsky.social Bangs on about 17th century French nuns and noble rot. Inordinately fond of other people’s books. Reads. Writes. Cooks. Brazen reposter.
@AnitaTimeout @anitatimeout.bsky.social Bleed Blue Dem, MBA, Politics Junkie, Fitness Enthusiast, and Maddow Fan. I'm just trying to survive this new fresh hell.
#VoteBlue #BeAPirate #NeverGiveUp
Redheadedpatti @writermum.bsky.social Here, you’ll find creative ideas, practical solutions, and inspiring content to help you live smarter, dream bigger, and bring joy to your life every day.
We’re all about turning possibilities into reality.
Proudly Canadian.
Fox Glover @bbdoc.bsky.social The doctor is in-credibly tired. She/her. 
Nyx Nyghtingale @nyxnyghtingale.bsky.social She/Her. I write queer romance and erotica with a supernatural twist. <3
Find & support my work at https://nyxnyghtingale.com/
For business inquiries, please contact me at NyxNyghtingale@gmail.com.
Robyn @robynmh.bsky.social New to the sky. Love books, music, and chocolate (but not always in that order). Technical writer by day, creative writer by night if I have enough energy remaining.
Bettina @bettifly.bsky.social Writing/Social Impact/Public Health/Resistance from my perch in rocky coastal Maine. #amediting.
Claire Barner | Sci-fi Romance Writer @clairebarner.bsky.social Author | Sci-fi Romance | Rep: Jenna Satterthwaite
MOONRISING coming July 2025 from Diversion Books
Laura Jean McKay @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social Writer. THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY winner of The Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Latest collection GUNFLOWER. She/her. Views mostly other people's.
laurajeanmckay.com.au
On Meeanjin - Turrbal and Jagera Country.
Anti gen AI
Melissa Wiebe🇨🇦🇧🇷🇺🇦🫘 @melissawiebe.bsky.social #Leguminati. Xennial. Proud #Canadian and British Columbian and Lower Mainlander. Canucks, Seahawks, Mariners fan. Lover of good books, good coffee, good discussion, travel and history. Breast cancer survivor. ASD. Christian. Vlogger. she/her.
C.S. Russ 🌟 @csrussauthor.bsky.social Aspiring author of women's fiction, fantasy, and romance. Follow me to find out when the sequel to Book 0 drops. 📚
You might also catch me blogging approximately once a year on https://www.christinaruss.com.
Cat Melville @catmelville.bsky.social Wrestling with a tricky second novel. (The first one is safely tied up in a drawer.) 💙📚👀
Time spent reading:writing = 10:1
#writingcommunity #amquerying- K Kami @kamibratten.bsky.social writer, reader, mom, home chef, PNW til I die
Open to everything, convinced of nothing
Anne Thornley-Brown @annethornleybrown.bsky.social Forbes featured
🎬 Actress ACTRA
Agent: Jennifer Fry - Star Talent
📚 Writer - Updates & Tips
https://bit.ly/atbwritingupdates
Seeking a Literary Agent
Querying: #HF in 🇯🇲 & 🇬🇧 🏴
#WF in 🇯🇲 & 🇨🇦
LinkedIn Top Voice since 2024
Dr Chrissy Jay @dr-chrissy-jay.bsky.social NHS Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist & Academic in London 🇬🇧 #PerinatalOCD #workingMotherhood 50% of @beyondbabyblues.bsky.social #womeninSTEM (bit of knitting & quilting too 🪡)
www.drchrissyjayarajah.com
🔞 Eldon Macwood | Author of Grimdark and Cyberpunk🏳️🌈 @eldonmacwood.bsky.social ✍🏼✨🐉🦄🔮🧙♂️🧝♀️🏹🛡️⚔️📚☕️🌆🌈☂︎
Blog: https://grimwood-notice-board.tumblr.com
Author of #Grimdark Fantasy and #Cyberpunk (I call it cybergrimpunk)
#writingcommunity #ProAI
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Courtney Hunt Munther @chmunther.bsky.social Writer • Educator • Caffeine Enthusiast
Native Northern Californian living in Oregon. Constantly doodling.
#amquerying women’s fiction debut ✨ 🥐 🇫🇷
Luanne Oleas, Author @authorluanneo.bsky.social Book lover, storyteller, AG member & cat person.
Querying upmarket contemporary romance: SHEDDING CATS
Two published #novels:
🛩️ FLYING BLIND, A CROPDUSTER'S STORY
🌺 A PRIMROSE IN NOVEMBER
https://luanneoleas.com/
Suzy England • Author @suzyenglandwrites.bsky.social Women’s Fic & Romance Author.
Tall Poppy Writer. WFWA. Big Virgo energy.
📍HTX. Hook Em🤘Go ‘Stros ⚾️
Dej Knuckey - Author @dejknuckey.bsky.social Author of upmarket speculative fiction with themes of privilege and climate inequity. My main character is more broken than I am, and her first best friend is way cooler. she/her
Climate news handle: @climatefuturist
https://linktr.ee/dejknuckey
maggie mae is writing ✨ @maggiegallardo.bsky.social queer writer, lover of beautiful things, devotion embodied. 🍒
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Kathleen Rhodes @kathleenrhodes.bsky.social If you like Shaun of the Dead & The Lost Boys, I wrote a novel for you. 🧛🏻♂️ VAMPIRE MISSIONARIES (on sale 4.14.26/Dead Sky Publishing) PRE ORDER NOW
Catherine Mann @catherinemann.bsky.social 📚USA Today Bestselling Author - Lake Union, Harlequin/HQN, Berkley, Sourcebooks, Tule
🩷South Carolina Wife-Mom-MayMay
🐶 🐶Dog Mom 🐈 Feral Cat Rescuer
Virginia Hall @virginiahall.bsky.social Writer, literary and women’s fiction, poet, border collie slave and ocean activist - roots in science, wings in sentence craft.
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
A s p e n🕊️©️(AspenBrave®️™️) @aspenbrave.bsky.social #BraveWrite|#Author|#Poet|#Screenwriter|#vss365|#tanka|#haiku|#PoetsOfBlueSky|
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AKA: @Write2Fite on Twitter
Tanya S @tanyasmitherman.bsky.social Mom, Wife, Attorney
Big fan of sports, pets, and democracy
❤️Texas Tech, Chiefs, Mavs, Rangers, Stars, Cowboys?
Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social Writer, seeker, occasional finder, food-forester, caller-outer, nature lover/pavement loather, pro-water/anti-waste, devout atheist/panpsychist. Trust but verify, forgive but don't forget, don't "write what you know," dare to explore. Sharing is caring.
TJ Butler Author @tjbutlerauthor.bsky.social TJButlerAuthor.com
Dating Silky Maxwell (ELJ Editions) short stories for badass people
Writer and photographer
Your cool, childfree Gen X auntie
Nakedkindle @nakedkindle.bsky.social 
Karen Janowsky @authorkarenj.bsky.social I don't have Wonder Woman's lasso of truth, but I've got a good "mom stare."
#Romanceauthor #romancelandia, 💕 #romancereader #booksky 📖📚 #catlady, #superhero fan
🔞 Grim Realm Publications @grimwoodshire.substack.com 🏳️🌈✍🏼✨🐉🦄🔮🧙♂️🧝♀️🏹🛡️⚔️📚☕️☂︎
Blog: https://grimwood-notice-board.tumblr.com
Publisher for grimdark fantasy, and cybergrimpunk. Ran by Cornelius Grimwood.
Sidra Ansari @sidraansari.bsky.social Award-winning author!!- AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR!The Week Junior Award ‘23| Alumni Jericho Writers Self-Edit Bursary 2024|@Ladybirdbooks|PenguinWriteNowLive|Writing #WF #R & #PB #MG| ChooseKindness
TL Wright @tlinwright.com Autodidact, book blogger, writer, fan, photographer, liberal/democratic socialist intersectional feminist. Cat herder.
Website: tlinwright.com
Anadabyel @adelicatechaos.bsky.social Story telling. Evolving. Teaching. Being.
Sneaky Peeps @kfdy.bsky.social Living my best life. Stage Manager. Looking for daylight.
Wild west @swimmingcat100.bsky.social Twitter escapee, interested in mental health, human rights, nature and cats