LJ Shepherd @ljshepherd.bsky.social 📚ONE OF YOUR NUMBER
💉☣️💚👩⚖️🪑
Out 9 April 2026
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Substack Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Philip Curnow @philipcurnow.bsky.social After working in television production & qualitative ad research across 3 continents, I settled in Rome to co-found an Italy travel resource. Linguist & travel author, BlueSky is my daily jotter, but a sharpened pencil is always preferred.
k. radke @kradke.bsky.social art | film | music | photography |
notes on our turbulent times
If needed, I recommend using an AI translation app- R Ramsey Campbell @ramseycampbell.bsky.social I write horror.
Severn House @severnhouse.bsky.social Home of great genre fiction.
Publisher of mystery, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romance and beyond.
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Ewa Sherman @ewashe.bsky.social Translation, books, NordicNoir, Norway, Iceland, Scandinavia, cats, moose 🫎, food, nature, lighthouses & offshore wind are my things. Oh, and I’m #PetronaAward judge
https://nordiclighthouse.blog/
Mark Hebditch @markh44.bsky.social Quondam English and Philosophy teacher. Forever Yorkshireman and European. Contentedly and unrepentantly woke. Enjoy particularly theatre, art, performance and reading.
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Joseph Finder @josephfinderbooks.bsky.social Author, husband, father, dog owner, tomato farmer. THE OLIGARCH'S DAUGHTER is coming from Harper Books in January 2025. https://josephfinder.com/
Dr Linda Cotterill @arkleton.bsky.social Geologist and retired chartered accountant, mad about ancient volcanoes of NW Scotland and Iceland, especially St Kilda, Ardnamurchan and Mull. Geology PhD Cambridge. Passionate about rocks, birds, volcanoes & wild remote places. No DMs please.
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
@gillylishman.bsky.social @gillylishman.bsky.social 
Patsy Irwin @patsyirwin.bsky.social Long time book publicist. Now reading and talking about books purely for pleasure.
ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social Scrivener for macOS, Windows and iOS. The best-selling writing app containing everything you need to craft your first draft.
Discover Scrivener and Writing Resources here: https://bit.ly/ScrivenerApp_ResourceHub
Spag W @spagw.bsky.social 
Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social Writer, cyclist, biscuit connoisseur. A bit much.
Latest book: ‘The Good Liar’, about junk forensic science and moral responsibility
Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social ...sometimes you wake up. sometimes the fall kills you. and sometimes when you fall you fly...
www.crimebookgirl.com
William Mival @willmival.bsky.social Composer. Chair and Professor of Composition, Royal College of Music. Broadcaster, almost always talking classical and art music. Writes words occasionally.
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Contributor to Hellebore • Poems in NewPoetry.ca and The South Shore Review • Canadian in Connecticut • /|\
Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform.
'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat
Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social Scottish writer. Not sure about this at all.
alr.lykke🦋 @anettelykke.bsky.social Live in Copenhagen 🇩🇰🇪🇺 Job: Head of Communications. Will read and share your clever thoughts especially on democracy, politics, equality, communication, books, art, music and concerts 🦋
Rebecca Cantrell @rebeccacantrell.bsky.social New York Times bestselling writer, tea drinker, and nerd. No DMs unless I actually know you. No AI in my posts or my books. (she/her)
Jaana Uolamo @jaanauolamo.bsky.social Finnish writer, raised in Sweden. Co-author of "GoldenHeart II: We Are Your Family" on Amazon in 2021.
https://jaanauolamoauthor.wixsite.com/website
Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
A Garden in Venice @gardeninvenice.bsky.social A Blog exploring the stories, rich greenery and unique flavors of gardens in Venice and the Lagoon. First launched in 2012 by Iris Loredana and Grandmother Lina. Visit us at lavenessiana.com/links
Susanne Bresges @susannebresges.bsky.social Books, Nature, the Arts, EUROPE, politics, history, cherries, scuba diving, LONDON
Jon @this-is-stupid.bsky.social Just here to enjoy pictures of trees and nature.
Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex.
Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer.
🔸
Elsewhere: @timofnewbury
+ blogger.com/profile/02224647895500543757
Free Reading @jakelehman.bsky.social Independent Journalist
📙 jacoblehman.substack.com
☠️ x.com/_Jake_Lehman
🐘 cyberplace.social/@aldergeshem
🌐 aintnoseagull@protonmail.com
The Puglia Guys @pugliaguys.bsky.social Puglia ambassadors | olive farmers | food and travel writers on Puglia, Italy | spaghetti assassina superfans | BBC and Rough Guides contributors | PugliaGuys.com
Puppydudley🌹🇪🇺🇺🇳🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇸🇺🇸🗽🦅🔱⚖️🪿🍁🍉🫒🕊️✝️ @puppydudley.bsky.social socialist. federalist. supports democratic socialism, universal healthcare & universal basic income. he/him. pro-choice. pro-democracy. anti-war. anti-racist. anti-authoritarian. LGBTQ+ ally. PNW(WA), tech junkie, casual gamer, policy nerd, twitter refugee
Brighton Book Festival @brightbookfest.bsky.social Brighton's best festival.
Making the marginalised mainstream since 2022.
https://linktr.ee/brightonbookfestival
Teresa Lass 💙 @tll6601.bsky.social 💙Proud Democratic Resister! Native Atlantan. Loving rescue mom to 3 cats, 2 kittens, & 3 hens. Retired special ed teacher & college/university instructor (GSU, UGA), Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, Teacher of the Year, Who’s Who in America. 🚫 DMs!
Jack Hillside | Illustrator @jackhillside.bsky.social Illustrator 🎨 | Based in Bordeaux, France
✍️ Available for work
📬 contact@jackhillside.com
https://jackhillside.com/
👉️ Online Shop : https://shop.jackhillside.com/
🫶 Support my work : https://ko-fi.com/jackhillside
Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social Write for The Times, my book is Scattering Plenty, work with brilliant conservation charities & I sell books. Progressive liberal, never very impressed by political right. Represented by Northbank. Leisure time by rivers and immersed in culture and nature
Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social Food + drink, mostly but also sport, culture, cartoons. Author of SMÖRGÅSBORD, SPIRITED, SOLO, HOW TO HYGGE, SCANDILICIOUS 📚
Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social Journalist covering cybersecurity and intelligence. UK Editor at The Record from Recorded Future News. Dad of two.
🏠 Sheffield
📧 alexander.martin@therecord.media
📱 Signal: AlexanderMartin.79
Vox Populi, Vox Dei @townsquare.bsky.social "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ...
Slava Ukraina, Heroyam Slava!
Bear - Markdown Notes @bearnotesapp.bsky.social Beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown notes app to help you write naturally anytime, anywhere. 🐻❤️📝
Available on Mac, iPhone & iPad.
🏠 Website: https://bear.app
🔗 FAQ & Support: https://bear.app/faq/
💬 Community: https://community.bear.app
Peter Bertlessen @peterbertlessen.bsky.social Lover of books and films, especially those in the genres of Transgressive Fiction, Western, Horror and Punk. A counterculture enthusiast who writes sometimes.
https://www.instagram.com/peterbertlessen?igsh=em5wM3lnZXJ4MDU2
Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social Director, Institute for Mental Health, and Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Interested in psychosis, youth mental health, neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology. NHS Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis
Snowywhitehead @snowpeter.bsky.social British Northern Lad ..a bit left of centre. Love to read & eat well ..love the Boro
Mary Kennelly @mollyken.bsky.social An Irish Poet. Published works include; On the Wind and the Singing Tide, Seven Steps to Birth a Crone, Into the Grey, Splinters, Catching Bats Takes Patience, From the Stones, Sunny Spells Scattered Showers.
@brenked60.bsky.social @brenked60.bsky.social Cinephile and music nerd. Retired film lecturer. Seeking shelter from the Storm. What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row. Rejoin the EU NOW!
COYS
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Vaucluse Dreamer @vauclusedreamer.bsky.social Living our best life in France, cycling, walking & pootling around The Luberon, Provence in Fifi our 2CV.... 
Alexandra Sokoloff @alexsokoloff.bsky.social Thriller Award-winning author/screenwriter: The Huntress Moon thrillers, Screenwriting Tricks for Authors. California liberal repatriated to Scotland. Feminist. Ally. Traveler. Accidental historian.
Cheri🌻📚😻🎨🏳️🌈🇺🇦🏁✡️♻️🍅 @andersoncheri.bsky.social Mother, feminist, information specialist, 🔥🔥🔥liberal, librarian, researcher, tech, crafts, home chef, Master gardener, pets . #BlueCrew
#BreakfastCrew
#EpsteinFiles
No DMs
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D., HWA, SFWA #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky
Web: https://francescolevato.com/
Robin Como 🇮🇹🇨🇭 @roby2308.bsky.social 📍Como Italy
I❤️ justice, climate/nature/pollution protection,
culture, art,music
I❤️ 🎹🎹 🎸🎾⛷️🏊🤿⚽📸📽️
🚫No violence,wars, fanaticism,racial discrimination, corruption,scammer,drugs, smoking.
🚫OF,Porno,Crypto,Steam,Illuminati
Elli Anderson 🌊💙🇺🇸 @ellilanderson.bsky.social News and politics enthusiast.
NEVER TRUMPER 🇺🇦
Wife & mom fueled by caffeine ☕️ and savoring the rare peaceful 🧘♀️ moment in the garden 🌺 or by the seaside 🌊
X @ElliLanderson
Sharm💙 #RejoinEU#FBPE🌏🌍🌎 @babysham.bsky.social Pro-EU, pro keeping NHS public, pro- peace, pro decency.
mgbgt57 💙🗿🚴🇮🇹🇪🇺 @mgbgt57.bsky.social Leftie, getting angrier with the injustice I see everywhere. Seeking refuge from Musk.
PWT2D. Slow cyclist with Italian bikes. QPR fan.
Now an Italian resident after Brexit stole my FOM.
researchdoom @bananaintherama.bsky.social 'To thine own self be true.' 🇬🇧 academic, mother, wife, carer, 🐱 mum, tree-hugger. Interested in politics, books, history, disability rights, music, gardening, plants. Follows & RTs not endorsements. No DMs. I don’t use this account for networking.
Dominik Heil @dominikheil.bsky.social Philosopher, Flaneur, inquiring into the nature of time and how to dissolve fascism sustainably 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦
#FBPE 
Hansine Ilse of the North Shore @parisinthespring99.bsky.social Minnesotan,Phoenician- current🔵in a🔴state.Democracy Period.Mind your own damn business.BS Human Biology,MS Immunology.🇸🇪with a 🇩🇪Grandmother.Eye roll is my signature response. I am MN nice until I’m not.Skol💜
Sea Crow Press @seacrowpress.bsky.social Award Winning Independent Press. www.seacrowpress.com
#indiepublishing #Booksky
Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social Fiction writer. Ignite Fellow 2025: Scottish Book Trust. Winner: Canada & Europe, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Stories: Granta, New Writing Scotland, BBC Radio 4. Www.carolfarrelly.com
Jon Salt @jon-salt.bsky.social Digital Leadership & Innovation.
Dreams of Nottingham Forest, the Detroit Lions and MotoGP.
Sometimes posts about Film and Music.
ashlea screaton is querying @ashleascreaton.bsky.social uk low-socio actress + co-author of The Siren's Call • NYT member • rep by Abi Darling at Brynmoor • supported artist Crucible Theatre • head in the clouds
writing partner: bsky.app/profile/d-and-a-authors.bsky.social
Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social Writer, reader, sailor, hiker, based South Wales. Am querying BORN OF COURAGE, turning maritime histfic on its head. www.ladyturtlepress.cymru for Welsh fantasy collection Children of the Land. Also write essays & reviews.
Sean McNulty @thispersona.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Pox.
Irish Novel Fair Finalist. Maker of weird and untrustworthy fictions.
https://linktr.ee/Sean_McNulty
Charles Parker III @charlieparkerpi.bsky.social Film & theatre director & educator, semi-retired but my work was always my passion, so not really even a little bit retired! Living on a little island between the USA and mainland Europe called Ireland.
M. Thomas Cooper @cooperthewriter.bsky.social Writing, reading, wine, cycling, stand-up comedy, the Theatre, improv, poetry, and cats.
www.cooperthewriter.com
@writingmore.bsky.social @writingmore.bsky.social Books. Dogs. Cats. Middle-aged lady stuff.
Hugh W. Roberts 🏴 🏳️🌈 @hughsviewsandnews.com Dyslexic blogger, writer, author, keen photographer and time-traveller.
Dog Dad to two Welsh Cardigan Corgis.
Blog: https://hughsviewsandnews.com/
Located: Swansea, Wales.
Two short story and flash fiction collections - Glimpses and More Glimpses.
Sarah Emma @seasidesarahemma.bsky.social School librarian, book obsessive (seriously, it's a problem), writer wannabe, cat mum, reluctant gardener, seaside dweller
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer and author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, Sept. 2026). Preorder: https://www.ryantpozzi.com/tmtmt | Writes Life on the Midlist on trade publishing and life as a working artist | Rep: Giles Anderson, The Anderson Literary Agency
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Dr Phil Dixon @philipjdixon.bsky.social Ex-F1 nerd in measurement, simulation and control of vehicles and energy systems. Latter day eco-worrier, slowly re-skilling for the electrified future. ND (AuDHD); MBTI xNxP.
Kurt Bassuener @kurtbassuener.bsky.social Co-Founder and Senior Associate @DPC_global.bluesky.social; former Fulbrighter - PhD at St. Andrews; Angry Optimist
Glynis Jones 🏴 @glynisjones.bsky.social Endlessly curious. Voracious reader. Thankfully retired. Best outdoors. Diagnosed Asperger’s (ASD). No DMs.
Ggglimpopo @ggglimpopo.bsky.social Bangs on about 17th century French nuns and noble rot. Inordinately fond of other people’s books. Reads. Writes. Cooks. Brazen reposter.
Chris Dixon @avalanchechris.bsky.social Mental health book author who is attempting to archive as much of MAGA's misdeeds on Bluesky as humanly possible.
Terraclash.co.uk fantasy board game. Sign up to the mailing list and get an exclusive Character if you back the Kickstarter.
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
@miadaffodilia.bsky.social @miadaffodilia.bsky.social 
Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net Author of Mysteries (Edgar/Thriller/Derringer Nominee). Musician.
Member: MWA (Mystery Writers of America) & NZSA (Aotearoa)
Repped by High Spot Literary
Substack: Cinema555.com
Website: StephenRoss.net
Oskar Jensen @oskarjensen.bsky.social Novelist, Historian, BBC New Generation Thinker, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | Song, streets, balladry, Jacobins, Whodunnits | Helle in Venice out 18.2.27 | he/him
Mags 🏴🇪🇺 SNP for independence 🏴 @weenoseyme.bsky.social Wee Scottish woman 🏴 SNP i believe in independence! don't know anything about football but love the freedom from X🏴
Ivey Mauritz @iveymauritz.bsky.social British 🇬🇧 in France 🇫🇷 Former New Englander. Cambodian family 🇰🇭 European at heart 🇪🇺 Fan of Canada 🇨🇦 Love Seychelles 🇸🇨
- Even while the sky is blue ☀️ it takes a little rain 🌦️ to see the rainbow 🌈 🙏🏽
Robert Williams @robwiny.bsky.social Emigré from “the other place” and doing my best to assimilate here. #FBPE - everywhere.
Welsh but not tribal, especially blessed to know lovely people in wonderful places all over this world. 
John Beverley @johnbeverley.bsky.social Retired NGO Finance Director, atheist, modernist, analogue hifi, digital photography, latest fad - downsizing & decluttering.
https://johnbeverley.micro.blog/
Peter Archibald @archipet.bsky.social Humanist chaplain. Vegetarian with vitiligo (no connection). Happily married Dad. Cut your carbon. No DMs 🚫
Northampton House Press @noho-house-press.bsky.social Established in 2011, Northampton House Press publishes diverse, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.
https://linktr.ee/nhousepress
Sini Majuri @sinimajuri.bsky.social Glass designer and artist | Helsinki, Finland | Rebel of Glass | AI, Robotics | Breaking boundaries between tradition and innovation | Human rights | Lasitaide | taide | kulttuuri | lasi
John Bird @johnbird001.bsky.social Ph.D. atmospheric scientist🌎, nuclear engineer☢, 📰 #antarctica
South Pole Station 🐧 http://amzn.to/2klpv3b 🐧
Lenore Hart (she/her) @lenorehartauthor.bsky.social Novelist, poet, Night Bazaar series creator. Historical Novel Society grand prize winner; Shirley Jackson Award & Exeter Novel Prize finalist. IWU/AG member. Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat faculty. Serving 3 cat overlords. https://www.lenorehartbooks.com/
Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social Dancer turned dance critic. Improv performer and teacher.
Bylines: The List, Springback
Improv: Hoopla, Free Association, Blanche, Disco Disco, Two Chairs
London
Sisters in Crime Los Angeles @sistersincrimela.bsky.social We're here to champion women writers and content creators in mystery, thriller and true-crime genres – and their fans. Join us https://www.sistersincrimela.com or subscribe https://sisters-in-crime-los-angeles.mailchimpsites.com/subscribe
Jim Fusilli @jimfusilli.bsky.social Author, journalist, songwriter, host and executive producer of the "Writers at Work" podcast. www.jimfusilli.com www.writersatworkpodcast.com