Richard Gadz, horror writer @frankenwriter.bsky.social Award-winning author, ace neurodivergent and keen amateur idiot. Lives in Bristol but spends most of his time in a world of his own.
Also at www.richardgadz.co.uk + Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social 🩸 Folk Horror • Dark Fantasy
📚 Finding dark things you haven't read yet
🌲 Author of IT PIERCES, WILSON & more
👇 Enter the dark woods
www.therealjackfinn.com
Life-long believer that the Tooth Fairy is proof body parts can be traded for cold hard cash.
Ellie Marney @elliemarney.bsky.social Aussie rural, NYT bestseller - people die in my books 💀 Feb 2026: NO ONE IS SAFE 💀 Here's the fun stuff: https://t.co/ujW6HqmgSi
Jon Rand @jonrand.bsky.social Voiceover ont’ telly. Podcaster @failingwriters.bsky.social. Writer… one day… maybe
The Failing Writers Podcast @failingwriters.bsky.social A podcast for anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a writer… then got distracted by a video of a cat being frightened by a cucumber.
https://podfollow.com/the-failing-writers-podcast
Waterstones Inverness @waterstonesness.bsky.social Waterstones bookshop in Inverness, Scottish Highlands 📚
Rachel Amphlett @rachelamphlett.bsky.social USA Today bestselling crime fiction writer. Traveller, podcast host, accidental private detective.
Australia & UK.
Find out more at www.rachelamphlett.com
Crossing the Tees Book Festival @crossingthetees.bsky.social A book festival brought to you by Stockton, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Darlington and Redcar Library Services.
🔗 www.crossingthetees.org/
Waterstones Liverpool @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social Bookshop and coffee shop over two floors in the very heart of Liverpool. Come & talk to us about books and let us help find you your next favourite read. Regular book events held in store & externally - waterstones.com/events/liverpool 
Waterstones Leicester Highcross @waterstoneslhx.bsky.social We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
Rufus Purdy @rufuspurdy.bsky.social Northerner on the Sussex coast. Crime/thriller editor (who also does a bit of horror) at @titanbooks.bsky.social. Long-suffering #swfc fan.
All 4 Inclusion @all4inclusion.bsky.social Social Enterprise supporting the disability community through loneliness
www.all4inclusion.org
Laura McHugh @lauramchugh.bsky.social Award-winning, internationally and USA TODAY bestselling thriller author (Safe and Sound, What’s Done in Darkness, The Weight of Blood & more). Tech writer by day.
www.lauramchughbooks.com
Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning & 2x Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author. She/her.
Pre-Order How to Fake a Haunting:
https://www.christacarmen.com/books-how-to-fake-a-haunting.aspx
Substack: Horror Homesteading:
https://christacarmen.substack.com/
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social Writer. Reviews non-fiction for the Sunday Times, edits The Author magazine. Books about the Kamasutra, Conspiracy Theories, Nepal and, next, a Himalayan mountain. Books, singing, wildlife, languages, running... 
BBC World Book Club @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social Follow for sneak peaks, which authors are coming up, and share your questions to be part of our global book club! New podcast episodes 1st Sat every month https://tinyurl.com/BBC-World-Book-Club Send questions via DM or to worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk
Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
Eve Smith @evesmithauthor.bsky.social Author of speculative thrillers published by Orenda Books
Repd by Harry Illingworth, DHH
THE CURE out now
Waterstones Argyle Street @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social Three storeys of books to discover in the heart of Glasgow 📚 with a charming cafe and exciting programme of events.
The Poisoned Pen Bookstore @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social Your Local Bookstore. No matter where you live!
We're a Scottsdale, AZ indie bookstore, which specializes in signed 1st editions & book signings. We are the hub for autographed books by Diana Gabaldon, Clive Cussler, Jack Carr, Preston & Child, & more.
Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social New York Times bestselling history author. Latest title: SISTERS IN SCIENCE. Editor, Everyday Health. Regular contributor, NatGeo. Journalist. Essayist. Feminist. Mom. Lover of cats, books, baking, tea, & thrifting
James Tobin @jamestobinauthor.bsky.social Fiction writer, at least while our machine overlords allow. Longlisted for CWA debut dagger and shortlisted for Goldfinch novel award.
Jamie-Lee Nardone @jamieleenardone.bsky.social Horror publisher Black Crow Books
Genre PR Black Crow PR
Cat Whisperer. Nerd. 
Sefton Libraries @seftonlibraries.bsky.social News and Events from Sefton Council's Libraries!
FREE to Join!
https://catalogue.sefton.gov.uk/ 
Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Dispatches from the warehouse and other news. http://linktr.ee/subterraneanpress
Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of the Zigic & Ferreira series. Grand Prix des Lectrices winner. Cambridge. Agent - Nicola Barr at Rye Literary
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Waterstones Guildford @w-stonesguildford.bsky.social I am a bookshop. In Guildford. Come buy some books. Bring your dog.
Lee Stuart Evans @tismeleese.bsky.social Writer 8/10 Cats & Countdown, The Late Late Show, Last One Laughing UK etc. Jungle jokes nom'd for a BAFTA. Simple Minds/Kate Bush-inspired novel 'Pleasantly Disturbed' out now https://linktr.ee/leestuartevanswriter
#MDANT
Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social Humanist. Midlander. Liberal. Xennial. Quondam Classicist. Chief Executive @humanists.uk | Ambassador @humanists.bsky.social | Chair @classicsforall.bsky.social
Anna Legat @legatwriter.bsky.social Writer of suspense thrillers and historical fiction. Published by Headline, Sharpe Books and Bloodhound Books.
Reader and reviewer of fabulous fiction.
Saving the world in her spare time.
Holly Williams @hollywilliams.bsky.social Author, critic, journalist. The Start of Something and What Time is Love? published by Orion. Editor of Exeunt @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social. 
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Mark Lawrence @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social Fantasy author.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/marklawrenceauthor
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com Books like The English Monster. Podcasts at The Curiously Specific Book Club
John Jarrold @johnj.bsky.social Literary agent for SF, Fantasy and Horror, after 15 years as a publisher in London.
http://www.johnjarrold.co.uk/
Joanne - Portobello Book Blog @portybelle.bsky.social Scottish #bookblogger, chatting about the #books I've loved. Nature watcher, keen cook, always on the go and love living by the sea!
www.portobellobookblog.com
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
George Morley @georgeisediting.bsky.social George as in The Famous Five. Books, nice dinners, flowers, cats and rage against the state of things. Erstwhile publishing person.
Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author from Pembrokeshire, Wales 🏴 www.tonyriches.com Visit my #Writing #Blog The Writing Desk https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/ #Podcast https://tonyriches.podbean.com/ #Tudors #Elizabethan #HistoricalFiction
Katie Espiner @kesp.bsky.social Publisher
Liz Fenwick @lizfenwick.bsky.social Novelist and cat servant
Emma Darwin @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social Writes fiction & non-fiction, teaches, blogs @ This Itch of Writing https://linktr.ee/emmadarwinwriter
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
James Barclay @barculator.bsky.social Author, actor, gamer. Lover of dogs, sport and scuba diving. Avid follower of Ipswich Town FC.
'One of the Godfathers of modern British fantasy.'
@mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social Novelist: ANY HUMAN POWER Mytho-political thriller. Boudica: Dreaming, A Treachery of Spies, winner: McIlvanney, shortlisted: Orange, Edgar, Saltire
#Thrutopian narratives: toward a future we'd be proud to leave behind
Podcaster @AccidentalGods
#LBTQIAA+
Lucy Inglis @lucyinglis.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin. 
Emma (emreadsthebooks) @emreadsthebooks.bsky.social Emma/Em (BookTwitter)
Queer 🏳️🌈 Aries ♈
Read diversely/queer books/classics/contemporary
Theatre lover
(EDS/Endo/ASD)
emmaviolet15@googlemail.com
Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social New book coming next year. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Reading: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/meandmybigmouth
Writing: https://meandmybigmouth.medium.com/
Selling: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/meandmybigmouth
He/him.
Elizabeth Chadwick @chadwickwriter.bsky.social Best selling author of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages. William Marshal super-fan. Recovering chocaholic.
T.O.Munro @tomunro.bsky.social Reviews for www.fantasy-hive.co.uk, creative writing PhD, author of Lady of the Helm, Climate change is REAL, the Fossil fuel industry and its allies are guilty of ecocide. Loves beautiful sunsets & good books! Occasional editor https://tomunroedits.co.uk
Amanda Lees @amandalees.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, formerly in Allo Allo. I know.
Dr. Zoë Marriott @zdmarriott.bsky.social PhD, novelist, RLF Fellow at Uni of Lincoln & Lincoln Bishop Uni. Working class autistic spoonie. Aro/ace. She/they. Proud to be rep'ed by @agentkateshaw.bsky.social. THE MOONLIT MAZE 2025, from @headlinebooks.bsky.social. No dms pls.
Jess Gulliver @jessgulliver.bsky.social Occasional publicist; accidental poet; proper doodler.
London/Newcastle.
Harriet Griffey @harrietgriffey.bsky.social Writer. Suffolk raised, London based, European. MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature.
www.writersretreats.org
Carol McGrath @swanneck.bsky.social Writer of Historical Fiction esp Tudor and Medieval. Published by Headline. Lives in England and Greece. Does talks and literary festival presentations. Website www.carolcmcgrath.co.uk.- K Katie Fforde @kfforde.bsky.social Writer, ex flamenco dancer, only wants the good news.
- B Benedicte Page @benedictepage.bsky.social Many years in books journalism, currently exploring new horizons and having a bit of a rest. Often found in Yorkshire.
Rachel Hore @rachelhore.bsky.social #books #writing #reading #cutedogs #author of ONE MOONLIT NIGHT, THE HIDDEN YEARS & THE SECRETS OF DRAGONFLY LODGE (new).
Carol Drinkwater @carol4olivefarm.bsky.social I am an actress and author and sometimes I'm involved in documentary filmmaking. I live in the South of France on an Olive Farm. I've won a few awards for my professional activities and for our extra virgin organic olive oil. 
Kate Lord Brown @katelordbrown.bsky.social Writer 
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Philip Reeve @philipreeve.bsky.social Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelance SFFH editor. Commissioning for The Broken Binding. Living in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social The former Conservative MP for Dorset East.🇬🇧
Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social Big Honking Dyke
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Michael Kaufman @kaufmanwrites.bsky.social Writer--mysteries, YA and non-fiction. Worked in 50 countries engaging men to support women's rights & positively transform men's lives. Latest: "The Male Ally Handbook" & "Moon Storm Rising" (K Quinn) & "The Last Resort" both with climate change themes
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Lisa Highton @mslisahighton.bsky.social London Lit Agent at Jenny Brown Assoc. Believe in things that should be true but aren’t, e.g. It’s illegal to go into a bookshop and not buy a book. 💜 Books 💜Travel 💜Scotland 💜 Australia 💜
Emma Cowell Author @emmacowellauthor.bsky.social Author and full time shoe fiend. Novels: One Last Letter From Greece, The House in the Olive Grove & The Island Love Song. Under the Lemon Tree 08/05/25 ☀️💙🤍🇬🇷🧿
@mikep_writes @mikepwrites.bsky.social Writer. Crispin Hershey's love child. Published in the Lightship International Prize Winners Anthology, in literary journals and online. Agent: Sophie Lambert @ C&W.
Sue Moorcroft Author @suemoorcroftauthor.bsky.social #1 bestselling, award-winning author represented by Juliet Pickering of Blake Friedmann, published by Quercus Books, Avon Books UK and Choc Lit UK. Past president of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Gary Dalkin @garydalkin.bsky.social UK editor & writer. I write every month for Writing Magazine. Bournemouth Writing Festival. Organising Chaos. Author Events. Editor-at-large at Cadence Publishing.
Lots more, including contact details: www.tothelastword.com
Brigid Coady @brigidcoady.bsky.social Always the cautionary tale. Writes darkly funny fiction. Obsessed with boots. Will write for gig tickets. Boots Books Beats. Ex-country radio DJ. Drag king. Owned by Bella B, Abyssinian Cat Queen of Hampstead
Dr Tim Rideout @drtimrideout.bsky.social Father of daughters, health services leader, chair of school governors, academic Gothicist, literary interviewer, crime fiction lover, Doctor Who fan (he/him/his)
https://www.precariousgothic.com
Amanda Geard @amandageard.bsky.social Author of R&J pick THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE and THE MOON GATE, lover of big books 📚 THE GLASS KEY coming May ‘26 👀 Agent: AM Heath
www.amandageard.com
TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social Love to travel? Love to read?
TripFiction.com matches books with 2,890 locations around the world
See a destination through the eyes of an author
Julie Crisp @julieacrisp.bsky.social Literary Agent of fantasy and science fiction. Reps lovely authors including John Gwynne, Devin Madson and Kell Woods. Reads a lot, edits more. Red pen usually in hand. 
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
Marie O’Regan @marieoregan.bsky.social Writer, editor of anthologies, managing editor of Absinthe Books, PS Publishing’s novella imprint. Married to @paulkane.bsky.social Fuelled by tea.
Represented by @megdavis.bsky.social of https://ki-agency.co.uk/
marieoregan.net
Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social Feels too much. Never enough children, islands, mourners, gossips & vegetables. Warms the stars. Essentially a spy. She/her. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 🧙♀️SHADOW OF NIGHT 🌚 THE BOOK OF LIFE 📖 TIME'S CONVERT 🕰️ THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE🐦⬛ THE FALCON AND THE ROSE 🥀
Bella Pagan @bellapagan.bsky.social Publisher @UKTor. Love fiction with a speculative spin, science fiction & fantasy. Wordsmith. Professional geek. ‘Cat person’. Info: https://shorturl.at/rRID9
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
Gillian Redfearn @gillianredfearn.bsky.social Deputy Publisher, Gollancz. Hugo nominated editor of diverse and original voices. Chaotic neutral. She/her. Editor by day, supervillain by night . . .
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books and the Devils. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a jaded literary sewer etc. etc.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him