Kim Bartosch @kimbartosch.bsky.social I’m Kim Bartosch—author of *Ask the Girl* and host of The Brave Bookshelf, a podcast about meaningful books, big feelings, and brave conversations.
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Laurie Dennison @lauriedennison.bsky.social She/Her | Literary Agent and Film/TV Associate at Creative Media Agency | Loves books, music, animals, and cool places | ladennison.com
Maria Oglesby @mariaoglesbyart.bsky.social I write fantasy books, graphic novels, D&D campaigns, and long texts about how great my dog is. Illustrator. She/her. No AI.
Co-host of Publishing Pals podcast
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E. F. Vale @efvale.bsky.social A SONG TO CROWN HIM
Dark Romantasy 🥀
Final Draft
Writer
Heather Sanchez | H. C. Paye @cecebearz94.bsky.social I write dark paranormal romance for readers who know better, then choose the bad guy anyway.
Currently writing CINDER, one bad decision at a time.
Max Sinsheimer @sinsheimerliterary.bsky.social Nonfiction lit agent spanning food and cookery, popular science, history, biography, adventure, true crime, social issues, and more. Former Oxford UP editor.
Kristen | Editor and Writer @editorwriterkris10.bsky.social Romance editor and writer | No AI | Midwesterner
Jennifer Kalkman @jenniferkalkman.bsky.social Writer drawn to stories that search the past for answers the present has lost. Reunited adoptee. Genealogist. Recently signed with literary agent Ritu Anand and preparing THE LOST ROSE OF ROSSLYN for submission.
Helen Wiley @helenwiley.bsky.social Queer SFF writer with a background in classical music. Southern transplant to the Third Coast. she/her 🏳️🌈
rep: Sidney Boker @ InkWell Management
A.C. Harper (he/him) @harperac.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Transgender Author
📚 Hi, My Name Is Alex: https://a.co/d/0fD7INpf
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Dan Santos Books @dansantosbooks.bsky.social Plots, characters, and dialogue are strictly the fictional products of the author's creativity. Covers and artwork may contain AI components.
Nikki Carrero ~ Closed to Queries @nikkigetsliterary.bsky.social Literary Agent at The Rights Factory… looking forward to reading phenomenal stories 💕
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Kaylyn Groves @egkaylyn.bsky.social Word nerd, storyholic, ridiculous optimist. From CSG, PVC, DAL, SFO, WVL, FLR, DCA, CHO, EUG, BWI, AUS, BNA, CHA. Where next?
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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood tech-creative ADHD magpie.
Lauren Khan | Literary Agent & Author @laurenjpkhan.bsky.social agent, author, attorney | agent: FinePrint Literary Management
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Tali Shammas @talishammas.bsky.social JD/MBA | Associate Literary Agent at Storm Literary Agency | rep: Marilyn Biderman & Brenna English-Loeb at Transatlantic Agency
Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com Breaking news since 1847.
Petrified is Agented @petrifiedj.bsky.social Rep’d https://bsky.app/profile/vickyweberbooks.bsky.social
WRITER OF ALL THINGS ROMANCE 🖤 FANTASY🖤HORROR🖤SCI-FI 🖤 THRILLER/SUSPENSE 🖤 Black Voices Matter ✊🏾
🚫AI
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Linh Chau @linhwrites.bsky.social RevPit winner 2024
SmoochPit mentee 2024
99% Seltzer + 1% coffee
René Kooiker @rjkooiker.bsky.social Writer, freelance book-to-screen scout
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Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/42CQ1
S. Usher Evans @susherevans.bsky.social Young adult & cozy fantasy author
Won a couple awards
Named “a treasure” by my husband
Deborah Paquette @deborahpaquette.bsky.social Picture-book author/illustrator. #SCBWI Canada West Co-ARA.
deborahpaquette@shaw.ca
deborahpaquette.com
Sarah J. Carlson @sjcarlsonauthor.bsky.social Young Adult author of EVERYTHING’S NOT FINE (Kirkus YA Best Books of 2020 About Finding Inner Strength) and ALL THE WALLS OF BELFAST. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 living in Atlantic Canada. Seeking new representation.
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Sydney Scott (romance author and typo queen) @sydneyscottauthor.bsky.social Contemporary romance author. 💙📚 🌶️📚 My books are gen-AI free. Also here to talk mental health, baseball (Go Halos!), any anything else I feel like. She/Her
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Cassidy M. Graham @cassidygraham.bsky.social Books stan account 💜
Editor @penguinbooksusa 🐧
Scott Eagan @greyhausliterary.bsky.social Scott Eagan is the acquisitions agent with Greyhaus Literary Agency representing traditional romance and women's fiction
Angela @angelakim.bsky.social editor at berkley/prh
based in bk ny
she/her
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Melissa Roske @melissaroske.bsky.social Mah Jongg-playing, Twizzler-loving, NYC-dwelling #kidlit author
📗Kat Greene Comes Clean
✡️ Coming of Age: 13 B’Nai Mitzvah Stories
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Nadia El-Fassi @nadiaelfassi.bsky.social Fantasy Romance and Horror Author. Professional Yearner. Bookseller Rising Star and Ex-Senior Commissioning Editor. Rep’d by Maddy Belton.
@navessaallen.bsky.social @navessaallen.bsky.social 
Erin C. Niumata 📚🖋️ @ecniumata.bsky.social SVP/Literary Agent Folio Literary Management. MA Creative Writing, Doctoral Researcher. Member @aalitagents https://linktr.ee/erinniumata
She/Her
Ismita Hussain @agentismita.bsky.social Literary agent at Great Dog Literary (@greatdoglit). Learn more at ismitahussain.com. Open to queries: https://querytracker.net/query/IsmitaHussain/
Jess Mileo @jessmileo.bsky.social Literary Agent at InkWell Management 📚
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Charlotte Wenger @charlottewenger.com she/her | 📚 literary agent with Prospect Agency repping kidlit authors and illustrators | toddler mom | Greater Boston Area | opinions mine
🌻
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Amelia Appel @ameliaappel.bsky.social Literary Agent at Triada US. Always learning. Love all things sports. When not reading, likely running. Or downing a dozen donuts in one sitting. She/her
Becca Langton @beccalangton.bsky.social Literary agent at #TeamDACBA everything from illustrators for the tiniest readers to crossover and new adult.
Scotland at home, London at work.
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October K Santerelli @okwrites.bsky.social He/Him/They/Them
Author! Fantasy and Comic Writer.
LGBTQ+, disabled, neurospicy, and proud.
Vive le resistance.
Emily is QUERYING a romantic fantasy and writing romantasy 🐉 @emhenn921.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Mom. PT. Not necessarily in that order.
Currently working on my Romantasy WIP Ryderborn and querying my romantic fantasy Into the Wildewood.
Allissa is Querying📚 @allissawrites.bsky.social Spicy Romance writer | #AmQuerying an adult forced proximity/forbidden love romance | @RT_Mentor Mentee '24 | Sucker for smut & college football | #T1Dwarrior
Ceci Li @writerceci.bsky.social YA romance writer/blogger/opinionated reader with a cringy sense of humor
Represented by Amelia Appel at Triada US
co-host of: @sparksandscribbles.bsky.social
My links: https://linktr.ee/writerceci
Read with me: https://creepingbetweenthemargins.com
Beth Michaela...querying writer. @bmfwriter.bsky.social Literature loving, fantasy obsessed, nerdy novelist from the Ocean State.
#amquerying
Alexis M. Wright @alexismwright.bsky.social Writer | Educator | Tin House Scholar '23, Reading Fellow '24 I Rep:Julia Kim I Pubs: The Common, The Maine Review, Shenandoah I Instructor: The Loft, GrubStreet, midnight & indigo I Interests: estrangement, discarding, lyric essays I www.alexismwright.com
Seattle Book Girl @seattlebookgirl.bsky.social Aspiring Elizabeth Zott 📚
Elizabeth Soule @soulestories.bsky.social Writer of YA Romance | Theatre Arts | Mom/Wife| #RevPit Winner ‘23| AMM Alum | Rep: Morgan Hughes @mohughes22.bsky.social at FinePrint Literary
#CampRevPit Romance Cabin Counselor, #WriteHive Mentor 2026
Aya Khalil @ayakhalilauthor.bsky.social Author, educator, librarian.
Rep’d by Brent Taylor
www.ayakhalil.com
Haley Casey @haley-j-casey.bsky.social Associate Literary Agent at CMA. Feminist. Interested in watching TV shows I've already seen and owning ALL books. (she/her/hers)
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Shannon Snow-Lit Agent (open to queries) @ssnow-litagent.bsky.social Lit Agent @Rosecliff Literary Agency❤️X ID: ssnow_lit_agent;❤️IG ID: shannonsnow_litagent❤️Mom of adult kids, owned by 4 chihuahuas, wife to a homemade soapmaker hubby, lover of books & their creators!
QM link: https://QueryTracker.net/query/shannonsnow
Bothersome Words @bothersomewords.bsky.social Editor, writing mentor and coach as Bothersome Words.
Agent at Large with Alex Adsett Literary. Spec fic, crime, romance. Sometimes open to queries.
TL;DR: Words. Cats. Occasional peeves.
https://linktr.ee/BothersomeWords
J.B. Warrick @jbwarrick.com 🏳️🌈 Writer of MM Paranormal and Fantasy Romance. Gay. Not really a guy.
https://linktr.ee/jbwarrick
@authorchristywopat @authorchristywopat.bsky.social Hi! I'm Christy, and I'm a kidlit writer from Wisconsin.
Trinica Sampson-Vera @trinicasampsonvera.bsky.social Associate Agent at New Leaf Literary & Media | they/she 🇹🇹🏳️🌈
trinicasampsonvera.com
Jennifer Udden @suddenlyjen.bsky.social Literary agent at LDLA, author of publishing newsletter A Faster No & cohost of publishing podcast Shipping & Handling!
Alice Speilburg @alicespeilburg.bsky.social Literary Agent at Speilburg Literary
Open to queries monthly, on the 10th-16th: https://querytracker.net/query/AliceSpeilburg
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Jennifer Chen Tran @jenchentran.bsky.social Literary agent at Glass Literary Management. Former art major, publishing attorney, cheese lover, aspiring humorist. 
Alexandra Weiss @akaweiss.bsky.social Literary Agent @ Azantian Lit
Probably baking or reading next to my cat
Ruth Hanson @ruthiewrites91.bsky.social She/They 💙💜💖🎬: published author, optioned screenwriter, hopeless romantic
https://linktr.ee/ruthiewrites for all my goodies
Ste Gen Mo Dem 💙📚 🐕🌳 @stegenmodem.bsky.social Supporting Dems Everywhere SG 60 miles South of St Louis @piperformissouri.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @labarnitz.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social 📚🚭💙
B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social Author of horror, sci-fi, dark fantasy & more. #Dis father of four. Gamer. 🇳🇱 Forever DM.
DAD BODIES, a co(s)mic horror novel.
Writing MARK OF THE JESTER, a dark fantasy novel.
Born in the 80's.
Rep: V Ruiz (D4EO)
Sam Bee @sambusawrites.bsky.social Free witch, no guilt
KnightAuthor @knightauthor.bsky.social Author: cozy mysteries, 1900s historical fiction. Retired news reporter. Wig reviewer. A black woman telling our stories. 📚And please, just BOOK TALK. NC resident. Yellow Springs, OH native. Check out the books & blog therealknightauthor.com
D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com Writer, shower singer, and all around goof. Current trial lawyer and former appellate attorney. Oh... and... I have a SERIOUS shoe addiction.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/D.R.-Slaten/author/B00DSS70CW
Kacie Cachera Seeley ✨is writing a psych thriller✨ @authorkcachera.bsky.social Writer. Psychological thriller and horror novel addict. Cat mom. Colorado living. Needs coffee.
Tiff @tiff-d.bsky.social Writer.
✍️ debut- dark, emotional psychological suspense.Toxic female friendship.
✍️Book 2- dark, emotional psychological suspense. Sibling trauma under public gaze.
Repped by Bethany Jett
Stephanie Bourbon @stephobourbon.bsky.social Los Angeles Screenwriter of 🎬 RomComs, Producer, 🎄 Author, Animation Artist, Actress, Comedian ❤️ That which does not kill me makes me funnier ❤️
www.stephaniebourbon.com
MORE linktr.ee/StephOBourbon
Romance Books by Lia Fairchild @liafairchild.bsky.social Writing angsty romance books since 2011. Also editor and Ghostwriter.
Priscilla Oliveras @prisoliveras.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Author 📕💻
Stories that stir your heart 💕💃🏽
Latina author🇵🇷🇲🇽
book coach 📖👩🏽🏫
sports fan ⚾️🏈🎾
beach lover 🏝❤️
hammock napper 😴
Brooklyn dweller 🗽
prisoliveras.com
Zoe York (aka Ainsley Booth) @zoeyorkwrites.bsky.social romance author, Canadian, mom, Xennial (she/her) Newest book: The Rebound Plan writing as Ainsley Booth
Love’s Sweet Arrow | Romance Booksellers @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social A romance-focused bookstore in the suburbs of Chicago (Tinley Park, IL).
Selling HEAs like it’s our job since 2019.
https://shop.lovessweetarrow.com/product/second-chance-romance/10013?cs=true&cst=custom
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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
The Smut Report @smutreport.com We are three crones who have been swapping smut since we were maidens and therefore spend a lot of time yelling about romance books.
Primarily managed by Holly.
Blog at smutreport.com
Carrie Lomax, aka Joline Pearce (she/her) @carrielomax.bsky.social Romance author dancing through the lightning strikes
Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com Contemporary and historical romance/ political ranting and pop culture/ costumes and cute animals. Brooklyn, NY. she/her
https://www.amandaweavernovels.com/
DirtyBookChick @dirtybookchick.bsky.social Author, avid romance/fanfic reader, SEC football and K-pop enjoyer. Liberal af. #Stay
dirtybookchick on Twitter
Laura Moher @lauramoher.bsky.social Writer of contemp romance. Sociologist. Always learning, sometimes slowly. Loves cats but not their bodily functions. She/her
Andie J. Christopher @authorandiej.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling author of kissing books with “unlikeable” heroines. F1 fangirl. The originator of the Stern Brunch Daddy™️
Dee Carney @deecarney.com Best selling romance author, outspoken, bougie Black woman, proud dog mama, Registered Nurse by day. She/her.
Susannah Nix 🦄 @susannahnix.bsky.social Writer of romance books. USA Today bestseller. RITA Award winner. I like to eat cheese and watch murder shows. She/Her. "Fuck nice. Be kind."
🌐 susannahnix.com
📷 @susannahnixauthor
Aviva Blakeman @actuallyaviva.bsky.social author of kissing books (most recently: Hot Lumberjack http://shorturl.at/EIPW5 )snark enthusiast, confirmed spinster, anxiety aficionado, fangirl, she/her
Sarah MacLean @sarahmaclean.bsky.social Writer. Podcaster. Third-act break-up evangelist. I’m somewhere talking about romance novels.
Manda Collins 🐈📚🔎💕 @mandacollins.bsky.social She/her - Romance/mystery author; Too Nora Roberts™; Bama native #disabled Join my mailing list https://t.co/v60MSLiklr @hroot @rootliterary MA, MLIS, *CCH
*C(overed in) C(at) (H)air
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
@robynhillwriter.bsky.social @robynhillwriter.bsky.social Mild-mannered history teacher by day. Cat mum, vintage collector, and romance writer on the weekends. 
Megan Frampton 🤷🏻♀️ @meganf.bsky.social Romance author. She/her. Proud Brooklynite. Oxford comma forever. Fujoshi. Danmei reader. Shawol/EXO-L/Stay/Atiny/WayZenNi/NCTzen #NoAI #Romancelandia #CodifyRoe #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights #AbolishICE
https://www.meganframpton.com/
Odette Stone, Romance Author @odettestoneauthor.bsky.social I write romance where love is messy, deep, and worth the fight 🖤
Here for bookish thoughts, behind-the-scenes musings, and the magic of storytelling 🪄
Christine Balint @christinebalint.bsky.social Writer
CatCrazed😺🇵🇸🪶☮️🕊️🌲🌈 💙🐾🏳️🌈 @crazedcat.bsky.social Cat Worshiper, #Vegan, #IamQuerying Beneath the Kisses of Night #YAWriter #FreePalestine, #AnimalRights, nature freak #PiiPaash #Indigenous, #biracial #poetry #TwoSpirit, #Dyslexic, #treehugger #VeryLiberal no dms 
Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they- M @marianapolitano.bsky.social @marianapolitano.bsky.social
H. L. Docherty (Updates Only) @hldocherty.bsky.social Writer of romantasy with chaotic anti-heros, forbidden romance, and things that go bump in the night.
🥀SNOWDROPS & STONES
☀️Rep: Rachel Estep | D4EO Literary Agency
https://linktr.ee/HLDocherty
@brentwrites.bsky.social @brentwrites.bsky.social 
Christine Kelly @ckellywrites.bsky.social Writer of words, master of typos
Educated at a top-50 liberal arts college
Elizabeth Writes @elizabeth-writes.bsky.social Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP & PMHNP), college professor, clinician, writer of things & host of Imposter Syndrome Podcast (coming September 2025). My health/politics/humorous Substack elizabethwritesthings.substack.com
Krystal Lang @krystallotuslang.bsky.social 📚book recs & reviews
📍rva | dc | nyc
⏱️booktok 62k
📧 krystallotuslang@gmail.com
JemilaBeReadin @jemilabe.bsky.social I do be readin’ tho.✌🏾
30 // Lawyer // PDX 🌲
https://linktr.ee/jemilabereadin
bri monet 💋 @authorbrimonet.bsky.social indie author working on her debut ♡
WIP: punk band romance 🎸
✉️: authorbrimonet@gmail.com
✰ ebony ✰ @residentialreader.bsky.social 23 | tx | ♍️
✨opinionated book blogger
✨ we support new/indie diverse authors in this household
📺: Mr. Plankton
https://beacons.ai/residentialreader
(there are typos here, you have been warned)