Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social TV Writer: Dinosaurs, Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, The OC, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Jessica Jones, Foundation, Artful Dodger, Fallout...
Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social Educator, Author of The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It) 
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Fred Connelly @brendonconnelly.bsky.social Working class writer. Invisibly disabled. Mystery plotter, heist consultant, lover of moving pictures. He/him. Fun things: http://brendonconnelly.carrd.co
Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social Artist, writes + draws comics in London UK. Image, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW/PRH, Oni, Boom, AWA, DSTLRY, Mad Cave, Tiny Onion & more. Open 4 writing, covers
Multiple Eisner nominee on team books
Contact alissamp at gmail
Portfolio: www.alisonsampson.com
Nosy Crow Inc. @nosycrowus.bsky.social ⭐️ Official US and Canada Account for Nosy Crow ⭐️
Award-winning children's books publisher
www.nosycrow.us
Abby Bulmer @abbybulmer.bsky.social She/her. Welsh Comic and storyboard artist working for https://thephoenixcomic.co.uk/ and big ole nerd. I draw Doggo for the Phoenix, and Gnasher n Gnipper for the Beano!
https://linktr.ee/abbybulmer 🩷💜💙
Ellie Freeman @ellief.bsky.social Book lover, parent, Green Party councillor, Bristol. Run Storytale Festival. Doing ELCE at Bristol Uni
Anna Lobbenberg @anna-lobbenberg.bsky.social Discoverer of books, pictures, stories. Manager of Discovering Children’s Books and Discovering Literature at the British Library.
Rob Biddulph @robbiddulph.bsky.social Children's book author and Illustrator of the Year 2025. #DrawWithRob, Peanut Jones, I Follow the Fox, Gigantic, Odd Dog Out, Show and Tell, Blown Away, GRRRRR! & more.
Agent: @jodiehodges.bsky.social
www.robbiddulph.com
www.youtube.com/@DrawWithRob
The Caterpillar Magazine @thecaterpillarmag.bsky.social Annual Caterpillar Poetry Prize and art & lit mag for children (2013-2023), still available online. Younger sibling of @themothmagazine.
Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK
www.mostlybooktalk.com
Dulwich Society @dulwichsociety.com The Dulwich Society, for people in Dulwich. @history.dulwichsociety.com
Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Est. 1983. Not-for-profit children’s booksellers celebrating equality, inclusion & diversity. Schools/EY supplier. Co-runs Little Rebels Award. Workers’ Cooperative. www.letterboxlibrary.com
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social Senior TV editor @ Collider. Romance nerd @ Vulture. TCA member. Author of A REGENCY GUIDE TO MODERN LIFE from DK Books. She/her. Subscribe to my Kissing Books newsletter: https://kissing-books.ghost.io/
Diana Gerald @dianajgerald.bsky.social CEO, BookTrust, MBE. All about getting children and families reading. Reading is for everyone. Views my own.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Colette Townend @colettet.bsky.social Systems librarian at Lambeth Libraries (she/her) 🏴
Jenny Hawke @jennyhawke.bsky.social Children’s Librarian and Chair of CILIP YLG National Committee
KateW @kateweb.bsky.social Often found in front of a stage or a screen.
Shed | Morveren | Play it by ear @BigTellyNI | @CriTheatre New Writing She/her
Caroline Roche @carolineroche.bsky.social School Librarian, Chair of CILIPSLG, creator of Heart of the School website, booklover, reader. Co-author of Creating A School Library with Impact. CILIP Honorary Fellow.
CILIP School Libraries Group @cilipslg.bsky.social This is the account for the CILIP School Libraries Group, the professional association for school librarians. https://linktr.ee/CILIPSLGUK
Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social Disability Reporter @ Mother Jones • jmetraux@motherjones.com • She/her • Berkeley Journalism alum • Signal: @juliametraux.49
Author page: https://www.motherjones.com/author/julia-metraux/
Free monthly newsletter: https://bit.ly/4tUXg9r
Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social Naturalist, writer, artist, and educator with a Ph.D. in Ecology. I make interpretive signs, illustrations, murals, and books. Sometimes, I chase polar bears and belugas. #scicomm #sciart http://www.discoversecondnature.ca
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
Sam Creighton @samcreighton.bsky.social Teacher, reader, talker, writer. Literacy lead. Faith, family, fiction, films. Catholic ✝️ Joshua 1:9, Isaiah 43:1. Need me? I’ll be in a book 📚
Peter Brown! @peterbrownstudio.com I write and illustrate children’s books, including The Wild Robot series. Learn more at www.peterbrownstudio.com
reads by flashlight | MrsMath @readsbyflashlight.bsky.social school librarian, outdoor enthusiast, sweet tea drinker, & proud 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
neurospicy overthinker 🌶️💭💫
*content = my own views*
Sarah Johnson (was Dove) @phoenixedsarah.bsky.social President PRUsAP |Author All About SEMH, Behaving Together :A Teacher's Guide to Nurturing Behaviour |Works in behaviour, mental health, AP, PRU & hospital education | Trustee|🐈, DnD⚔️, MtG, fossils, 🦅, 🏰, travelling |Mum to 4 girls
Vilissa Thompson @vilissathompson.bsky.social #DisabilityTooWhite Creator • Founder of Ramp Your Voice!, LLC • #Disability_Rights #Consultant • Social Worker • #Writer
https://www.rampyourvoice.com/
https://www.vilissathompson.com/
http://patreon.com/RampYourVoice
Contact, for families with disabled children @contactfamilies.bsky.social UK disability charity for all families caring for a disabled child ☎️ support, info & advice ❤️ bringing families together 📢 campaigning for change! Find out more: https://linktr.ee/contactfamilies
Sarah (Superhero doggy to my son!) @sarah7285.bsky.social Sweary. Feels deeply. Heart on sleeve. Leaning into growing edges. Grateful! (And yet pessimistic) paradox? Works in MH but don't discuss what I do beyond that.
Boyds Mills @boydsmills.bsky.social Boyds Mills positively impacts children by amplifying the voices of storytellers who inspire children to become their best selves.
https://linktr.ee/boydsmills
Waterstones Leicester Highcross @waterstoneslhx.bsky.social We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com Writer/Director: Life of Chuck, Doctor Sleep, Hush.
Showrunner: Carrie, Fall of the House of Usher, Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass.
Founder @redroompictures.com
www.mikeflanaganfilm.com
https://linktr.ee/mikeflanaganfilm
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Tiger Tales @tigertalesbooks.bsky.social Tiger Tales publishes imaginative picture, board, novelty, chapter, and nonfiction books for children 10 and younger. https://tigertalesbooks.com
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
HarperStacks @harperstacks.bsky.social Home of the HarperCollins Children's Books School and Library team. Find us at HarperStacks.com
Sally Doherty @sallywrites.bsky.social MG author: Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, Max and Monty with Collins Primary
Winner of the Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award 2022
Owned by three-legged rescue dog
ME/CFS
https://linktr.ee/SallyDoherty
Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social Feminist rabbi. I like democracy and inclusive education. #ParshaChat
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social Publisher: Wild Hunt Books.🦌 @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
Writer & Reader. 📚
Editor. ✒️
Leeds.☔
theshapeofwords.blog
Esther Lindström @estherlindstrom.bsky.social Associate professor of special education at UIC. Interests in reading, disability, and instruction. Parent to two, including one with DDX3X. Curbside treasure hunter. ADHD. she/her. Personal account.
ORCiD: 0000-0001-6343-2538
Lee & Low Books @leeandlow.bsky.social Independent, POC-owned children's book publisher specializing in diversity since 1991. © 2026 Lee & Low Books.
Clare aka GingerKnits @claresdraws.bsky.social Illustrator, storyteller, student, wildlife geek, crafty type, ally, looong Covider
She/her they/them
Illustration portfolio here: clarestorry.com
Pathways Into Kids Illustration mentee 2022-2024
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social Writer. Relatively chirpy. Stockwell Park Orchestra series, and sometimes poetry.
isabelrogers619 on instagram
https://farragobooks.com/book-series/the-stockwell-park-orchestra-series
isabelrogers.org
Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social Sharing news about kids books from international publishers and domestic library and teacher conferences https://www.publisherspotlight.com
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Signe Rudoviča @signeru.bsky.social Sharing Sensory Stories Project manager @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social Love and live Edinburgh 💙
#ReadingForPleasure I read everything from picture books to YA! Interested in Additional Support Needs, education, language/s, literacy, &pugs
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Women's Institute @womensinstitute.bsky.social The WI is the largest voluntary women’s membership organisation in the UK, all about fun, friendship, & campaigning for change. 190,000+ members #InspiringWomen
https://linktr.ee/womensinstitute
www.thewi.org.uk
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
Tina Reynolds @tinareynolds.bsky.social Chartered librarian. Interests include legal tech & innovation, KM, gin, languages/linguistics, reading especially Girls Own books, & road racing (mostly the classics). Usually found trying to improve my very rusty French or searching for sun. Herts/London
Cllr Claire Holland @clairekholland.bsky.social Leader Lambeth Council. Labour &Co-op Cllr Oval ward. Chair London Councils. GMB
Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com Freelance journalist and editor in London, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
American Association of School Librarians (AASL) @aaslala.bsky.social AASL empowers leaders to transform teaching & learning.
AASL follows ALA’s Code of Conduct: https://bit.ly/3rNCISH
Jules Swain @thereadingpara.bsky.social Paramedic/Team Leader (views my own)
Runner (including crazy distance runner!)
Book reviewer #TheReadingParamedic™️
UK Book Blogger of the Year 2023 🏆
All my links here: https://linktr.ee/thereadingparamedic
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social Theatre, politics and football mostly. I write about theatre (not football!) for the Financial Times. 
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Hamza Jahanzeb (isn't here, contact via email) 🚫 Kindly NO DM 🚫 @hamzajahanzeb.co.uk 📕 The Rise & Rise of #ChappellRoan
💼 hamzajahanzeb.co.uk
🎭 hamzajahanzeb.substack.com
📧 info[@]hamzajahanzeb[dot]co[dot]uk
〠 Views own
In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social 🎧Twice-weekly podcast episodes with authors & book lovers
📚Book reviews & recommendations
🏴Scotland
🙋🏻♀️Susie - She/her
Links to listen: https://linktr.ee/inmygoodbookspod
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hat… | ManderleyPress.com
Insta @manderleypress
Latest book: manderleypress.com/shop/p/moonismaking
Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social Your favourite book publisher, obvs.
We used to publish books.
July 2016 - July 2026.
We were @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
www.404ink.com
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social Ideas that matter, storytelling that lasts. Award-winning fiction and nonfiction. https://www.penguin.com/penguin-press-overview/
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Neem Tree Press @neemtreepress.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning books that change and broaden perspectives 📚
Indie Press Network @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social A network of indie presses working together to celebrate and improve the publishing industry
@penguinbooks.bsky.social @penguinbooks.bsky.social 
Serpent's Tail @serpents-tail.bsky.social Lighting up our readers' minds and opening spaces for them to think differently. Bringing you brilliant, award-winning new and classic fiction and non-fiction.
Souvenir Press @souvenirpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of books for a healthier, happier, more interesting life. An imprint of award-winning Profile Books.
Viper Books @viperbooks.bsky.social Books with bite: crime, thrillers mysterious fiction | British Book Awards Imprint of the Year 2022, CWA Publisher of the Year 2023.
Headline Books @headlinebooks.bsky.social 📚 Home to brilliant fiction & non-fiction.
📚 Stories to discover. Books to keep.
📚 Tag us in your post for a chance to be featured!
Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social Indie publisher of bold, unforgettable international fiction, half in translation. Shortlisted IPG Best Newcomer 2015/16. CWA Crime & Mystery Publisher of the Year 2020. Nibbies Finalist Small Press of the Year. Visit us at www.orendabooks.co.uk.
Atlantic Books @atlanticbooks.bsky.social Independent British publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Also the home of imprints Corvus Books, Allen & Unwin UK, and Grove Press UK.
Sign up for our newsletter: https://atlantic-books.co.uk/
Charco Press @charcopress.com Award-winning publisher of outstanding Latin American literature. Edinburgh.
charcopress.com
@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
Renard Press @renardpress.com 🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press.
renardpress.com
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Corylus Books @corylusbooks.bsky.social UK-based independent publisher of translated crime fiction with a social edge. See all our books at https://corylusbooks.com/
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social Publishing great authors since 1817. 📚
Harper360 @harper360.bsky.social We're a global publishing platform of HarperCollins, bringing you books from all directions. Get on board!
Practical Inspiration Publishing @practicalinspiration.com The home of books - and authors - that mean business.
Check out our superb range of business, self-development and wellbeing books: https://linktr.ee/practicalinspiration
Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk