Mike Connolly @mjconnolly.bsky.social Concerned Citizen
Charles Reyna Art @charlesreynaart2.bsky.social Hello and Welcome! I'm an abstract artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I'm inspired by this beautiful state. My art can be seen at www.ebay.com/str/charlesreynaart.
Rebecca Silverwood @beccasilverwood.bsky.social Mother • Trustee • Educator
Passionate about self-directed learning for the sheer joy of it, widening access in the arts, and the Oxford comma.
Marries strangers for fun.
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
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N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
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Scream Kings Podcast @screamkings.bsky.social Occult expert Max George, literature expert Nathaniel Darkish, & author and ER doctor N.J. Gallegos talk movies, books, folklore, occult, & interview horror pros. Check us out at screamkingspodcast.com or wherever you listen to podcasts!
Alexandra Page @alexandrapage1.bsky.social Author of the Wishyouwas duology (Bloomsbury Kids) and picture books The Worry Tiger and The Fire Fox (Two Hoots). Mum, keen swimmer, letter writer and biscuit lover 🍪
Steve Waters @teachwellall.bsky.social Joint Director: Teach Well Toolkit. Supporting schools to build a culture of staff mental health, reduce workload, and increase retention: www.teachwelltoolkit.com Author: ‘Cultures of Staff Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools’. Open University Press.
Hallie Pritts @halliepritts.bsky.social Writer. Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize ‘24, Sewanee Writers ’22. CHTQA fellow. NZ writer-in-residence. Words in Mcsweeneys, MissouriReview, LitMag, Barrelhouse, TheBelladonna, OffAssignment, etc. Rode a bike across the US once. #nativeplants
m shafiqul islam @msijewel.bsky.social poet, translator, and professor of English literature
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Daniel Malcolm @danielmalcolm7921.bsky.social When you hook on to your life purpose, you become unopposed....
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Kerry Byrne @kerrybyrne.bsky.social Writer & editor. Fen wanderer. Collie wrangler. Words in BULL, Ellipsis Zine, Lucy Writers, Maudlin House, National FlashFlood, Pidgeonholes, Roi Fainéant Press, streetcake magazine & other fine places. BOTN nominee. Assistant Editor at Frazzled Lit.
@combatradio.bsky.social @combatradio.bsky.social Survived Warner Bros Studios/Now Exec Director of Combat Radio/Brigade-Radio-One based at NBC/Universal Studios. MMA practitioner. Terrorist attack survivor. Monk. https://linktr.ee/ethandettenmaier
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Steve "Nothing, tra-la-la?" Turnbull @taupress.com UK Indie writer putting words together in pleasing ways.
SF/F with diverse leads https://taupress.com/books
I block AI, including writers with AI covers.
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SF #Steampunk #Erotica #Queer #biFic #3D 🚫AI-NFT-CRYPTO🚫
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Stephen Fletcher @mrfletcher1308.bsky.social Trust Behaviour Lead | Senior Vice Principal | Salford | NPQH | Atherton LR Girls U11s Coach
Elizabeth Spear AKA Elizabeth Revill @lizrev.bsky.social Writer (22 novels so far) screenwriter and produced playwright. Animal lover, loves films, entertainment, theatre, music, eating out and Prosecco!
Alice Allan @alicemeallan.bsky.social Public health communications (WHO/Europe)
Podcasts: Not if but When (Health in Europe, WHO/Europe)
Books: Open my Eyes/ Sugar Sugar/ The Whispering Trees
Nature and conservation
T1D mum. West Country. Views my own.
Janet Few @janetfew.bsky.social Family, social and community historian. Author and educator. Writer of #nonfiction & #histfict. #C17th historical interpreter. Part of the A Few Forgotten Women team. Mostly historical and bookish posts. Sometimes stray posts about #travel and #gardening.
Dave Watkins @davewatkins.bsky.social Horror writer. Maths teacher. Not mutually exclusive. 
Susan Rocks @susanrocks.bsky.social Avid reader & short story writer. #writingcommunity #amediting psych/gothic ghost novel. Also love folklore/legends the spookier the better!
Paula Harmon @paulasharmon.bsky.social Author of mysteries and more, tea lover, day dreamer…
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Chrissie Parker @chrissieparker.bsky.social Author, writer and history geek!
Marcia Clayton @marciaclayton.bsky.social Author of The Hartford Manor Series - a heartwarming family saga set in Victorian Devon. I'm a wife, mum, and granny and my other interests include gardening, walking, floral art, and family history.
Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
Tracey Norman Author @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social Dark Folklore -The History Press. Who Is Anna Stenberg? -Liminal Books. Author, historian, voice actor, creator of woolly things & art. Tutor Intro to British Witchcraft - Learn for Pleasure. Project Mgr - Folklore Library.
http://traceynormanauthor.com/
Anna Chant @annachantwriter.bsky.social Writer, reader, lover of history & folklore. Medieval historical fiction author.
Jason Conway @daydreamacademy.bsky.social Professional daydreamer & award-winning creative - designer, poet, writer, artist & mentor - MA Creative Writing Bath Spa - AuDHD - forest bather
Editor Steel Jackdaw Magazine
Director Gloucestershire Poetry Society
https://bio.site/jasonleeconway
Gemma Goodman @gemmagoodman.bsky.social Researching Cornish lit 19thc to the present. Current research project on sustainable screen production. Out now ALTERNATIVE CORNWALLS published by University of Exeter Press. 
Josephine Gardiner @josephinegardiner.bsky.social Writer/journalist. Author of novel Whistling Jack. Likes long-distance train travel. Identifies as a seal.
Helen Baggott | Editor ~ Author ~ Speaker @postedinthepast.bsky.social Author of the #PostedInThePast series – revealing the true stories from postcards sent in the early 20th century, and #MemoriesFromTheFuture. Books ~ Talks ~ Freelance Editor (working with indie authors).
https://linktr.ee/helenbaggott
Lisa Schneidau @lisaschneidau.bsky.social Storyteller, environmentalist, folk tale purveyor, core group member of Dartmoor Nature Alliance.
New book 'Tree Folk' published in hardback, ebook and audiobook November 2026
www.lisaschneidau.co.uk
Susie Williamson @susiewilliamson.bsky.social Award winner author of the fantasy series, BLOOD GIFT CHRONICLES, published by Stairwell Books. 🍃🐉 www.susiewilliamson.blog
David Lloyd @cymrubookman.bsky.social Welsh, Devon based writer,
Co- Curator of Word Kitchen www.wordkitchen.org.uk - promoting the spoken word in East Devon and Exeter -I write about hidden histories including queer ones - with a novel and memoir in development Faber Academy Alumni
Laura Livingstone @zombieirishgirl.bsky.social YA romance author with a side hustle in the paranormal. Reformed history teacher. Massively into toxic Tudors, happily-ever-afters and cats. The Boy with the Heart of Sea Glass (June 2026 with Rowan Prose)
Richard Frost @richardnfrost.bsky.social Author of 3 'Eastwood Story' novellas and 4 faith books.
Husband, Dad, MBE, lay minister in Devon, UK. Former mental health & work professional. Blog & podcast at workrestpray.com. Books at richardfrostauthor.com
@HelenHollick @helenhollick.bsky.social Partial Sighted #USATodayBestseller Author from #DevonUK writing #HistoricalFiction #1700sNauticalAdventure #1970sCosyMysteries #Arthurian #RomanBritain #1066KingHaroldII #BlogPosts & other stuff No DMs contact via website: https://blog.helenhollick.net/
Rebecca Southgate Williams @rebeccaksw.bsky.social Author based in Cornwall.
Linguist. Language lover. Weaver of words into worlds within and without.
Jennifer Ash @jenniferash.bsky.social Usually found under the guise of Jenny Kane, Jennifer Ash writes #TheFolvilleChronicles #medievalcrime., #therobinhoodclub stories & #RobinofSherwood #audio stories & novels
All details at www.jennykane.co.uk
Nick Swift @nickswiftwrites.bsky.social Crime fiction writer #amquerying, coffee lover, Devon dweller, former barrister, occasional indie music PR ... 💙📚 #Exeter #Topsham via #Hull
Ian D Smith @iandsmith.bsky.social Hobby writer of adult stories, keen photographer, learning the guitar. Family includes two delightful horses and a lively dog. Retired scientist. Live in SW England. Support your choices and lives. No to bitcoin. Rejoiner. Would join Antifa if it existed.
Meg Burton ~ Historical Fiction Author @megburton.bsky.social 🏡Author of WW1 village saga (coming March ‘27)@hodderfiction
🎼Plays flute/piano. Loves the sea & crab sarnies 🦀
👇Read my latest blogs & news here
🔗 https://megburton.com
Martin J Lake Author @martinjlake.bsky.social Author of the fantasy novel Beyond The Stones
Felicehardy.com @feliceski.bsky.social I write true stories shaped by history, in a creative non-fiction style. Award-winning author of The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis, podcaster at Action Packed Travel, mother of 3, European 🇪🇺 #writer #author #memoirwriter #travelwriter #booksky
Stuart Turnbull @ysocks.bsky.social Ruggedly handsome and utterly talented. Oh, and I write. First draft of first novel is 106% done. Collection of short stories is on Kindle.
#AuDHD
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
AA Abbott @aaabbottstories.bsky.social I'm a psychological thriller writer and reader in the English West Country. My books focus on women finding strength in the face of danger.
Read my latest, LIES BETWEEN FRIENDS, in ebook, Kindle Unlimited & print.
https://mybook.to/LiesBetweenFriendsEbk
Mark Mapstone @markmapstone.bsky.social UK based Fiction author. 6 young adult books written so far and a seventh in the works. Exciting!
Chrissey Harrison @chrisseywrites.bsky.social #Author
I write supernatural thrillers about monsters, magic, and fragile humans doing the best they can.
WIP: Hollow Graves
#Bookbinder
#GraphicDesigner
Owner of Maple & Pecan 🐈 #torties
Ambivert. She/Her.
http://chrisseyharrison.com
Ana Salote @anasalote.bsky.social Writer, thrutopian, supporter Green Stories Project, editor Welcome to Thrutopia https://thrutopia.substack.com/ Free serialised fiction and essays https://anasalote.substack.com/
Books: Oy Yew, Nondula, Nigma, Tree Talk
Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social Writer & Professor Emerit (Roehampton), research facilitator & peer supporter for Survivors' Voices. Cornwall.
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
Dave Holwill @daveholwill.bsky.social Editor, Proofreader, Musician, and (very occasionally) Author (He/Him)
Sam Payne @sampayne.bsky.social Writer ‐‐ https://linktr.ee/skpayne
Jane Jago @janejago.bsky.social Harmless pensioner, who writes books and makes pictures. Okay, maybe I exaggerated the harmlessness
Ruth Downie @ruthsd.bsky.social Lives in Devon, used to write about Romans and Britons, gazes at sunsets.
Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social Poet, Quaker, retired teacher, socialist, runner (just) , proud Omi . She/her
Sammy Rambles @sammyrambles.bsky.social Fantasy adventure books for children and adults who like castles and dragons.
Rachel H @rachelape.bsky.social Writer, walker, storyteller, anecdoter, guinea pig scruffler, nature lover. Works with rescued primates. Loves wildlife, music, languages and books. Dorset, UK.
Cathie Hartigan @cathiehartigan.bsky.social Novelist and musician. Founder of the Exeter Novel Prize and Creative Writing Matters.
Coastal Kate @gabbrogirl.bsky.social Author, sea spirit, lover of wild places 
Tracey Gemmell @traceygemmell.bsky.social Travel fiction writer, ex-expat, equal parts wanderlust/hiraeth, Exmoor fanatic. Never get between me and chocolate. Or scones.
Author of 'Dunster's Calling' and 'More or Less Annie'.
Insta: traceygemmellauthor
website: traceygemmell.com
Liz Shakespeare @lizshakespeare.bsky.social Author of seven books set in Devon.
Devon Book Club @devonbookclub.bsky.social A community of book lovers that started in the SW of the UK but now has members all over the world. A warm welcome awaits you all.
Alec Hepburn @alechepburn.bsky.social Writer of The Ivyford Chronicles novels set in Teignmouth/Devon. Club anorak at Burgess Hill CC. Long-suffering Plymouth Argyle fan. Owned by 3 dogs, 12 cats. Socially awkward overthinker, woke, professional procrastinator.
Alex Cotter @alexcotter.bsky.social Writer, editor, procastinator
ICE DANCER out 2025 with Nosy Crow⛸
Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing for Young People
Editor at Golden Egg Academy
Agent: Kate Shaw
Steve Davison @steve-davison.bsky.social Landscape & Nature Photography • Writer of Walking Books • Based in South West England • OM-System user • Images ©Steve Davison
More info: www.stevedavison.co.uk
@cclarke626.bsky.social @cclarke626.bsky.social 
Abena Eyeson @eyesab2.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇬🇭 writer. Rep'd by Gill McLay @bathlitagency.bsky.social. Debut MG RUNNING MY OWN RACE out. Winner Children's Sports Book of the Year 2026. Winner Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2026. Shortlisted Spark Book Awards 2026. Megaphone Community. Wife. Mum.
Adeola Sokunbi @adeolasokunbi.bsky.social Author and Illustrator of the Destiny Ink series.
Rep'd by Clare Wallace, DarleyAnderson.
Emma Cowing @emmacowing.bsky.social Debut novel THE SHOW WOMAN 🎪 out now from Hodder & Stoughton. Rep'd by Amanda Harris. Order THE SHOW WOMAN 👉 https://bio.to/m8w8bb
𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔶 ℜ𝔬𝔰𝔢 🌊 @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social • black cat owner and horror girlie
• sunday times bestselling author/forbes 30 under 30 with no mystique
• the lamb 🥩 @wnbooks @harperbooks
• audhd / bi
https://linktr.ee/lucyrosecreative
She/they
Nussaibah Younis @nussaibah.bsky.social Author of FUNDAMENTALLY (Feb 2025) W&N (UK) Dutton (US)
Chris Bridges @chrisbridgeswriter.bsky.social Chronicaly ill crime writer.
Debut novel: Sick to Death shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award.
Agent: Hannah Schofield at LBA
1950s, Elizabeth Taylor and poodle obsessive, vegan.
Former nurse, living with MS
Links: https://tr.ee/1vaOIH2gP2
Katherine Bryant- Author @katherinebryant.bsky.social I'm the 🐝
🏳️🌈💙✊🏼
Debut novel: Give My Love to Berlin out May 20th, 2025 🎉🎉
Preorder my novel HERE!
https://tinyurl.com/yrttkj6k
Sarah Govett @sarahgovett.bsky.social Award-winning YA author and screenwriter. Debut crime thriller, BELIEVE, out with Penguin Michael Joseph June 2025.
Fiza Saeed McLynn @fizalovesbooks.bsky.social Debut THE MIDNIGHT CAROUSEL publishes April 2025; rep’d by Hellie Ogden at WME
Abigail Johnson author @abigailj.bsky.social Writer, book lover and mum of two. Loves the sea and cake, not necessarily together. Debut The Secret Collector @panmacmillan.bsky.social out now: bit.ly/SecretCollector 📚🛋️🕰️ Rep'd: WME Books
Laura Sweeney @lauracsweeney.bsky.social Writer of uplifting, emotional women’s fiction.
Debut novel: My Grandmother’s Secret OUT NOW
Occasional cocktail drinker
Has an out of control TBR pile
https://linktr.ee/laurasweeney
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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
Kate Kemp @katekemp.bsky.social Writer. She/her. Debut novel THE GRAPEVINE out with Phoenix Books, Orion, 13 March ‘25. Agent: Nelle Andrew
Jenny Morris - Ethical Guide to Murder 🔪⚖️🔪 @drjennymorris.bsky.social Writer, behavioural scientist and aspiring mushroom forager. Ethical Guide to Murder out now.
Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social Author - THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE - Feb 25 (UK) May 25 (US) with Dialogue and Legacy Lit
🌈☎️✨ I like games, books, art & crafts ✨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative ✨ she/her
linktr.ee/elizabethlovatt
Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby coming-of-age novel - out now: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback 🩷💜💙
🌻 I'm like if an old man was a girl. She/her.
📍Manchester(ish)
Ova Ceren @excusemyreading.bsky.social Half woman, half book
Gabrielle Griffiths @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social Writer in Brighton • Debut novel GREATER SINS out now from Doubleday (UK)
linktr.ee/gabriellegriffiths
Author JJ Niveh ✨️Querying✨️ @jjniveh.com Air Fryer Zealot, Sad Millennial. Author of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙪𝙨𝙠 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙣, a Forward Fantasy novel plopping onto your bookshelf in 2026!
he/him
jjniveh.com
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Nicola Whyte @nixawhy.bsky.social Writer, reader, web developer, ex-bookseller. Pratchett fan. Lives near Stonehenge. Debut crime novel '10 Marchfield Square' out now. (She/Her)
https://linktr.ee/nicolawhyte
#Author #Crime #BookSky
C.J. Dotson @cj-dotson.bsky.social Generally cheerful, scaredy-cat horror-lover & horror author. THE CUT and THESE FAMILIAR WALLS are available now!
https://read.macmillan.com/lp/these-familiar-walls-9781250336583/
rep: Chris Bucci
member HWA | #PitchWars 2020
bi, she/her
MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com Sapphic Scottish specfic duo E&M. Fungi fanatics, lurcher lovers, gin guzzlers.
The Needfire NOW OUT out with Solaris Books!
PREORDER The Haunting of Avis Lovelock TODAY!
Repped by John Baker @ PFD.
https://www.mkhardywrites.com/links/
✨️L.A. Riemenschneider✨️ @authorlar.bsky.social | Author | @vulpinepress.bsky.social | 'Her Writhing Crown' is OUT NOW 🐍⚔️✨️ |
❣️ WIP #1: Double Play Deception
❤️ WIP #2: Sisters of the Bone Keep
kerry cullen @kermichele.bsky.social mouse detective. HOUSE OF BETH out from Simon & Schuster in July 2025 & available for preorder now.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/House-of-Beth/Kerry-Cullen/9781668074596
Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
Mylee J. Miller | SFF Author | ✨Updates Only✨ @myleejmiller.bsky.social Fantasy Author
HEART OF BONE (Crooked Lane & Simon Maverick, 9 March 2027)
#PosterPit Creator
Editor & Podcast Host
Book Competition Judge
Seeking new rep!
Website: https://myleejmiller.com/
Richard Strachan @richardstrachan.bsky.social Writer, novels 'The Unrecovered' and 'Night Fire' from Raven Books 2025/26. Stories in The Dark, New Writing Scotland, Weird Horror and more. https://linktr.ee/richstrach
Rep'd: @samedenborough.bsky.social
https://richardstrachan.substack.com/