the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social She/Her. find me at cons & signings, usually near Boston.
name - I was at an N. K. Jemisin signing and I did a piece of calligraphy for her, she said something like “wow, drive by calligraphy”, I asked if I could use that as a moniker. 
Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com Writer of queer romance and sff. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR: #RomanceColumn OliviaWaite.com
Amal El-Mohtar is at Worldcon @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social Romance critic & freelance editor. Half of Fated Mates. Chicagoan. She/her.
www.jenreadsromance.com
LA Knight & Co. (CHECK PINNED - NEED HELP) @laknight89.bsky.social SFF writer (pro & fic); nommed for Locus 2021; Fiyah Lit alum; queer Black ♿ LDS autistic byke. 37. OSDD (9+). 6-peep polyam (1Sp, 2LP, 2Mm). Cat mom. Poor af. Cassgenderfluidwtf; she/they/fae/jæ/xe/etc. Anti-censorship. Pfp = illustrated version of me.
Fated Mates @fatedmates.net A romance recommendation machine and podcast.
Discover your next favorite romance novel
fatedmates.net
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fatedmates.net/rrr
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Optiki Tiki @optiki-tiki.bsky.social He/Him 🏳️🌈 little bit of everyday life, baking cooking, 3D printing, embroidery, crafting, video games. 😎🤓
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com Author of SF/F romance featuring dangerous women & smitten men. SILVER & BLOOD is out now! Game geek. Introvert. She/her. Agent: Sarah Younger.
www.jessiemihalik.com
paigevoice @paigevoice.bsky.social Audiobook narrator. Classical soprano. SAG-AFTRA. INFJ. 4w5. ♑♐🏳️🌈. Orange Hat. Coffee. Cats.
https://linktr.ee/paigevoice
Darran Ⓜ️ Handshaw @theengineer.bsky.social Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author📚
•The Engineer: http://getbook.at/engineer
•Dark Heart: http://mybook.to/darkheart
Past Fire & EMS Chief🚒🚑
R&D Engineer⚙️
Proud Husband & Dad 👪
SPFBO4 Semi-Finalist🏹
SPSFC2 Quarter-Finalist🚀
Just Keep Writing Podcast @justkeepwriting.bsky.social A podcast for writers. By writers. To keep you writing.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-keep-writing/id1453881131
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat. https://linktr.ee/erinmorgenstern
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.")
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
https://imakeupworlds.com/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com The (reluctantly) official BlueSky account of award-winning author (Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion), editor, teacher (@writingtheother.com), and freelance adventuress K. Tempest Bradford (she/her).
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Naomi Novik @naominovik.bsky.social author, coder, fangirl, geek. 🌕🌖🌗🌑 Author of Spinning Silver, Uprooted, Temeraire, & The Scholomance. Latest Release: THE SUMMER WAR
https://lnk.bio/naominovik
Kelley Armstrong @kelleyarmstrong.bsky.social Author. Expect sporadic book news, unsolicited writing advice, random pet pics & strongly worded opinions. She/her. 🇨🇦
Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com Bestselling writer of The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow books and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. And The God of Sleep.
Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social Writer, librarian, practice adult, forever mentor...
Holly Black @hollyblack.bsky.social Author of books involving folklore and bad decisions.
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Jonathan Maberry @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social NY Times bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, editor & comic book writer for IDW, Dark Horse,Marvel. Creator of V-Wars (Netflix). Editor of Weird Tales.
Travis Baldree @travisbaldree.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author: Legends & Lattes. Hugo, Nebula & Locus finalist. Audie winning Narrator. Ex-gamedev - Fate,Torchlight & Rebel Galaxy.
Brigands & Breadknives out Nov 11 '25 from Tor.
travisbaldree.com
khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social An Ignyte and Shirley Jackson award-winning magazine and podcast of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora authors & artists. Issue 6.2 is out now!
https://linktr.ee/khoreomag
Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com Author of bestselling sexy book as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD Book Stuff: https://linktr.ee/kitrocha Enable Chaos: https://amzn.to/4gCqcOD
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com 📚Book lover & whatnot📚
BarnesandNoble.com
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 🥀
Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com 40+ yrs in print, 50+ novels, asst'd TV/film, NYT B'seller List every now & then, blah blah blah. Ireland-resident. Ebook store: https://ebooks.direct. Now with added Ko-Fi! (https://ko-fi.com/dianeduane) I miss @peter.petermorwood.com.
PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org The oldest short-fiction horror podcast. We have always lived in the tower. We/they/them 🦑 Co-Editors: Kat Day & Alex Hofelich | Host: Alasdair Stuart | Asst Eds: Scott Campbell & Joshua Tuttle | Audio: Chelsea Davis & Graeme Dunlop 🎙️ PseudoPod.org
PodCastle @podcastle.org Short fantasy from
@EAPodcasts
BFA winner, Ignyte winner
WFA, Hugo, Ignyte, Aurora finalists
Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org The Young Adult Fiction Podcast featuring stories of the Fantastic
Episodes cross all speculative boundaries and if someone complains we are 'woke' or pandering to the liberals we are doing our job right!
Part of the Escape Artists Foundation
Escape Pod @escapepod.org Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast magazine. New stories every week in audio and text. Find us wherever you get your podcasts!
FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Award-winning Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Submissions CLOSED. Publisher + Executive Editor: @davaun.bsky.social #fiyahlitmag
CatsCast @catscast.org Monthly speculative feline fiction, for real.
https://escapeartists.net/catscast
Editor: @laurasbadideas.bsky.social
Associate editor: @tarvernova.bsky.social
Audio Producers: Dave Robison and Wilson Fowlie
Part of @escapeartists.net
Mur Lafferty @mightymur.bsky.social Author, podcaster, editor.
Digger, listener, runner.
INFINITE ARCHIVE is out July ‘25!
She/her
Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social aka Lia Amador. Sci-fi, fantasy, and romance writer. MtG story scribe. Co-editor of Escape Pod. Variety game streamer. VPXX/16.
Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Award-winning author, poet, Hugo Award-nominated editor
TONGE I DREAM IN, MOJORHYTHM & NINE BAR BLUES, MARVEL'S Black Panther: PANTHER'S RAGE novel, AFRICA RISEN and TROUBLE THE WATERS, NYTimes bestselling collab w/ Janelle Monáe on THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
Julia Rios @omgjulia.bsky.social Writer, editor (Worlds of Possibility), narrator, podcaster. Queer, Latinx (half-Mexican), pronouns: They/Them
sunyi @sunyidean.com ~Reader, writer, occasional thinker // multi-award-losing author // rep: Harry Illingworth @harryillingworth.bsky.social
Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com Recently: Seek the Traitor's Son (dystopian fantasy)
Next: The Sixth Faction (a Divergent alternate universe story)
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Jacob Clifton @jacobclifton.com gay writer and critic in ATX
Joe Dragovich @joedragovich.bsky.social History writer, digital archive nerd. Words in @nytimes.com, @historytoday.com and @sdtimes.bsky.social.
Associate Fellow, Royal Historical Society.
📚 https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst
Runs @historyclippings.bsky.social
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social Public Servant. Romance Reader.✨. Fainting couch? I'm on it. She/her.
campsite.bio/b.andherbooks
Tessa Dare @tessadare.bsky.social Occasional author of historical romance novels. Baby goat enthusiast.
Marshall Carr Jr. @marshallcarrjr.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer, podcaster, teacher, geeky gamer golfer.