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Christopher @parliapics.bsky.social 2001. Pescatarian. Screenwriter. Songwriter. Playwright.
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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
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Etelka @etelkal.bsky.social Writer in Chicago. I covered comics for NPR for a long time; doing other stuff these days. Bylines: Inc., The New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the LA Review of Books. https://etelkawrites.com/
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Marcy Ongert @moediting.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader, reader, parent, INFJ with ADHD. 
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
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Rick Allen @rallennautilus.bsky.social Director, producer, editor and cinematographer continues to pursue copyright protections for all artists harmed by infringement by states in his landmark case, Allen v. Stein (ne v. Cooper). https://www.nautilusproductions.com/
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Penni Askew (she/her) @penni-askew.bsky.social I edit genre fiction and live in North Texas with my family and rescue dog. I knit to relax and am learning to crochet.
Tiffany Grimes (she/they) @tiffanygrimes.bsky.social 🌿 Editor & Web Designer for brave creatives @ Burgeon Design and Editorial
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Ann Littler @annlittler.bsky.social Writer of twisty and slightly murdery YA books.
Rep: Vicky Weber at CMA
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Michelle Noble | Editor @noble-editorial.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Freelance editor & proofreader | Speculative, historical, lit fic & romance | Narrative nonfiction | Web content | 🚫AI | she/her
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Marlies Sargent | Fiction editor @workingwordseditor.bsky.social ✏️Freelance editor for romance and fantasy writers
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Steph 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Editor 🦦✍️ @ottersediting.com Freelance editor, writer, reader |
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Waffles Mcgrawl @waffles-mcgrawl.bsky.social FEDERAL WHISTLEBLOWER fighting back
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Andy T. Hanson @andythanson.bsky.social Sci-fi, fantasy and general fiction author, screenwriter, playwright and performer. Proud father, husband, secular humanist and Army veteran.
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Lore the Writer @lorethewriter.bsky.social Nonbinary writer of atmospheric queer, adult fantasy, horror, and romance.
WiPs:
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Heartless Hollow (romantic fantasy)
Red (futuristic Robin Hood reimagining)
Jo Davies | Proofreader & Copy Editor @platinumproof.bsky.social Word nerd, bookworm and serial exercise avoider.
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Barrington Steele @barringtonsteele.bsky.social Plantmonger, Trotskyist, flaneur. Based in the US national capital region 😳
Nicole Hefner @badlywritten.bsky.social copy editor, crochet enthusiast, geek, super bad at writing about myself 
J.A. Jablonski | Resolute Death out this fall! @jajablonski.bsky.social Indie author, multi-genre: Academic Mystery, Speculative SF, Magical Realism | Former academic & librarian | Style guide nerd | 🚫 AI | 🚫 auto follows | Alt Text used
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CeecCopes @ceciliacopeland.bsky.social Like cease and desist or cease fire. Award-Winning Writer. American, Jewmanian, (Jewtina by way of Panamá) Aussie, Welsh mix.
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Write or Die 🦕 @write-or-die.bsky.social Writer, basketball freak
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)
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What is life without Books?! @wherearethebooks.bsky.social Promoting #OpenScience practises (in the Arab States) & #LordByron (everywhere else). Ravenous bibliophage lurking in the desert (with cats)
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@joel-francis.bsky.social @joel-francis.bsky.social Fantasy writer, blogger, author. Find my newest series, Pal Bozzai via my website!
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Jack Todd @jacktodd.bsky.social Came to Canada because of the Vietnam War.
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Crooked Branch Editing @cbediting.bsky.social Cynthia
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@caroljpbest.bsky.social @caroljpbest.bsky.social Aspiring author of women’s fiction, romance and romcom
Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social My debut novel, The Austens, won the 2026 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Readers' Choice Award. https://sarahemsley.com/the-austens-a-novel/
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Vickyy B 🦋 @vickyy.bsky.social Progressive dog mom interested in economics, history, public policy, universal healthcare and equality.
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David Dodds @daviddoddsauthor.bsky.social Author of urban fantasy fiction. Semi-retired bat ecologist. Gliding instructor. Butler to a highly-opinionated Jack Russell.
Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social Jewish romance writer; sci-fi, fantasy, and romance editor; university writing coach; Jane Austen enthusiast
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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social Louche left-wing nerd. Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
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Andy Hollandbeck @logophilius.bsky.social Saturday Evening Post managing editor, clarinetist, mediocre pianist, writer, and lapsed peevologist.
He who sows thorns should not go barefoot.
Rhiannon @rhiannonroot.bsky.social Copy editor. Cat mom. Sushi fiend. Romance novel aficionado. (She/her)
Nicole Wayland 🦋🧚🏼♀️ @nicolewayland.bsky.social Owner of Nicole Wayland Editing 💛
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James Gallagher @castlewallsedit.bsky.social Castle Walls Editing (Copyeditor, Proofreader) / Editor at Evident Ink / Pens & Pilcrows / ACES and EFA / Editor of Horror and Romance / Presenter at ACES VCON24 & ACES Salt Lake City 2025 / 400+ Books Edited
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Arthur Seaton #FBPE #Wessex @southsaxon.bsky.social Working class history, photography, railways, skiing, cats, corvids and goats! A sense of humour is essential. Cat butler. Reluctant intellectual. Rare disease survivor. Born at 314.3ppm.
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Cara Zelaya @carazelaya.bsky.social Digital comms for @AFLCIO.org. Passionate advocate for labor, equality, and terrible Christmas films. Proud @newsguild.org member. Opinions my own.
Sasha Fury @sashafury.myatproto.social Editor. Literary academic. PhD candidate. Mostly US literature. Theory junkie. Writer. Musician. Cat mom. She/her. Treaty 1 Territory. Palestine will be free.
Christian @cwwilkie.org ACES-certified editor, dissident, void-screamer, liability multiplier, localthink. #slogan #slogan #bumpersticker
Laura Bontje | Preorder Marian's Big Dig! @laurabontje.bsky.social Fiction Editor | Author: WAS IT A CAT I SAW? (Amicus), WHEN THE AIR SANG (Annick), MARIAN'S BIG DIG (Groundwood), and more | she/her | Rep: James McGowan, BookEnds | No AI
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Kristen Tatroe @kristenedits.bsky.social Editor and Instructional Designer, culinary enthusiast, outdoor adventurer, photography fan. KristenEdits.com
Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social I write cozy romantasy with protagonists who take time to get to know each other. Now querying contemporary romance! I’ve also published Bread Science and a bicycling memoir. I edit science papers and I live in fear of my cat. https://janebuehler.com
Siobhán O'Brien Holmes @siobhanobh.bsky.social Developmental editor of middle grade & YA fiction 🐺
Horror fan 💙
GEA grad ✍️
YA reviews for BFS 📚
CIEP pro ⭐️
Children's Lit MA & Novel Writing MA 🤓
Cats, wine, The Sims, 50s rock & roll, indie, Victorian history 🥰
she/her 🤘
Catherine Dunn @catherinedunn.bsky.social I right books. No job too odd! Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. Hobbies: snakes, drawing, painting, knitting, crochet, Valheim, gardening, geocaching. Occasional spinner. Noise-maker. She/her. Insta: bearlycat / CatherineDunnArtwork. 📝🐍🎨🧶🐻❄️🫀❤️🔥🎲🌱🫧
Hannah Bartlett @hbediting.bsky.social freelance editor & sensitivity reader 📚
poet ✒️
cat mom 🐈⬛
74/200 2026 reading goal 💚
contact me for a free sample edit!
EFA, ACES, and Editors Tea Club ☕️
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Katherine A. Moore @kamoore.bsky.social Developmental and copy editor. Photographer. Book review column editor for PEN.
Former script supervisor.
Seattle, WA. 🌱📚🎥
Professional Editors Network @pensite.org Editors, writers, indexers, and others who work with words. PEN is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but we have members located throughout the United States and beyond.
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Editorial Freelancers Association @efafreelancers.bsky.social EFA freelancers include editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, translators. Free job listing service. Courses & webinars for members & guests. https://linktr.ee/efa_editors
Editors Tea Club @editorsteaclub.bsky.social The Editors Tea Club is a friendly, safe, and welcoming community, centered on the experiences of women, for editors who are women and individuals of underrecognized gender identities. www.EditorsTeaClub.org
The Chicago Manual of Style @chicagomanual.bsky.social The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar. An indispensable reference, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice at cmos.style/ONLINE. We answer your “Chicago Style” questions at cmos.style/QandA. 
Ley Taylor Johnson | Fiction Editor @leytaylorjohnson.bsky.social Writer, fighter, actual Hobbit. (she/they)
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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social education writer | academic editor | English language instructor
author:
📖 Techniques of Propaganda & Persuasion (Prestwick House)
📖 Rhetoric, Logic, & Argumentation: A Guide for Student Writers (Prestwick House)
📷 botanical photography
🖋️ micropoetry
Sam Kelly @samkellyproof.bsky.social Brit in Argentina. Bad pool player and good reader for pleasure; proofreader for money (also good at that, or at least so I like to think).
Professional Member of the CIEP | https://undisputedproof.com
Also podcast @handofpod.bsky.social
Carla DeSantis Editing @cdesantiseditor.bsky.social Scholarly/academic copyeditor, line editor, translator, indexer specializing in multilingual humanities and social sciences texts. PhD. CIEP Adv. Prof. Mem. English, Latin, Spanish, Italian texts. Latinist. Medievalist. carladesantisediting.com
Karen (they/them) is ✨querying✨ @karenaparker.com I’m that BIPOC Buddhist book coach and speculative fiction writer who is doing a social media detox in 2026. Find me on my website at karenaparker.com! | ✊🏽🌈🎭🧠 | 🍉
Carly J Dubois 🦋 @carlyjdubois.com Words at newspapers and magazines. Prior editing paychecks from CBS, The Athletic, and The New York Times. How people use a language is what the language is. FFS, check voter registration status regularly! She/her. Be kind.
Crystal | Fiction Editor @redpenrabbit.bsky.social Fiction editor and proofreader for hire. Advocate of intentional language and respectful representation. Visit rabbitwitharedpen.com/links for writing and editing resources. She/her.
SZ Estavillo @szestavilloauthor.com Crime Thriller Author | The Serpent Series |@OliverHeberBooks | MA: TV, Radio & Film | Multi-Genre Reader
The Serpent’s Bridge (📚1)
The Serpent Woman (📚2)
Twilight of the Serpent (📚3)
The Serpent’s Order (📚4)
amazon.com/dp/B0CW6KP433
Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net Resist Rebel Revolt! Anti-Fascist. Author. Philosopher. Dog-Mom. Utilitarian Democrat. Existential Activist.
https://melissanadiaviviana.com/
Organized 3 Abortion Marches
Past President of Women's Non-Profit
Past Secretary of LGBTQIA Org
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
westofcanon @westofcanon.bsky.social
westofcanon.com.
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Booktasters @booktasters.bsky.social We connect you with authors to read their books for free in exchange for an honest review. 📚📖
Brenna Bailey-Davies @brennabaileybooks.bsky.social Queer Canadian romance author as Brenna Bailey ~ Fiction editor of SFF and romance ✨🇨🇦
(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social Editing social science and social science fiction since 2005.
Following dragons, dictionaries, and disability justice.
Hope is a decision.
Find me at Bridge Creek Editing | Academic Editing Circle | Mightier (she/they)
Laura Poole @laurapoole.bsky.social Editor, baker, modern quilter, pluviophile, pasta enthusiast, rhubarb lover. Retroflex r. Short and mighty.
She/her
Amy J. Schneider @amyjschneider.bsky.social Copyeditor. Crazy dog lady. Singer. Wife. Runner. Wino. Not necessarily in that order. (she/her)
Dave Nelsen @thegrammargeek.bsky.social Copy editor, proofreader, deputy editorial manager at Dragonfly Editorial. Oxford comma agnostic. What you learned in ninth-grade English might be wrong. He/him.
Erin Brenner (she/her) @ebrenner.bsky.social Author of "The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors." 📘
2024 winner of the Robinson Prize. 🏆
Builder of editing teams for small and growing organizations. 💪
Advocate for conscious language. 💬
Chelle P (they/them) @chellenator.bsky.social Freelance Canadian editor of many things. (Hire me!) Disabled neurospicy trans queerdo. Very sweary. Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult. linktr.ee/chellenator
Jenny Warren | Fiction Editor @jennyeditor.bsky.social Freelance line/copyeditor/proofreader of fiction. Massive romance fan 💕 Professional Member of the CIEP. She/her. https://www.warrenproofreading.co.uk/
KW Thomas - author and editor @kwthomasbooks.bsky.social Very niche combination of steamy contemporary romance author and plain language health editor. North East England till I die. She/her.
mybook.to/TheScoop
Karen Yin (Nice to Eat You / Scholastic) 🧙🏻♀️🎃 @karenyin.bsky.social Writer by day, in bed by night. Author of five books, including The Conscious Style Guide (Hachette). I open my own jars. #AABB
KarenYin.com/links
VCCA/LLF/CAC Fellow | ACES Robinson Prize Winner | DJNF Alum
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier, DeFiore & Company
Katherine Kirk @geckoedit.com A hopeless semantic. Copyeditor, line editor, proofreader, book formatter, tentacle counter. (she/her). www.geckoedit.com
linktr.ee/kirkldk
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Typos inserted deliberately in posts so you can practice your editing skills, totally.
Alicia Chantal @freshlookediting.ca Copyeditor/proofreader/authenticity reader. Lover of good books, good TV, and good music. And hockey. My fave story reps all 4! Words matter. she/her
Treaty 6 Territory, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Kate Nascimento - Editor and Proofreader @katenascim.bsky.social Editor (kneditorial.com) and lover of all things dark, magical, and weird 🖤 I edit fantasy, horror, comics, games 🖤(she/her)🖤
Alex Kapitan (Radical Copyeditor) @radicalcopyeditor.bsky.social Queer, genderqueer writer, editor, trainer, and activist helping people use words for good. Blogging at www.radicalcopyeditor.com
Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social sff writer & dev editor, book designer, author-illustrator, lapsed podcaster, sculptor, fabricator, Viable Paradise alum, online community specialist, queer as in here, they as in them, kennywood enthusiast.
writes books as @mdmcd.com
WILLO 🏳️🌈⚔️ @willoglenn.bsky.social Sapphic epic fantasy author and local dyke witch 🌙🕯NO AI - we yearn the old fashioned way here.
TEMPERED IN ASH out now ⚔️✨
https://a.co/d/gBZaR0s
THE SERPENT AND THE DAUGHTER out Winter 2026 🐍✨️
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Elizabeth Snow @elizabeth-snow.bsky.social Call me Ez, baiman (both woman/werman), any/ae/aer (air)
Chronically ill AuDHD queer faithful parent
Writer. Queer. Nerd.
Attendance will be spotty-Please ignore absences
LionsToothPublishing.com
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