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Jane Loftus @janeloftus.bsky.social Author of historical novels set in Winchester. First one out on 8th May. I'd do a half decent banner of it for the profile if I knew the heck how.
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Sarah Tanburn ๐ ๐ ๐๏ธ @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.
Mary @marysbookcase.bsky.social Mary's Bookcase is a blog that celebrates the very best in #Romance #HistoricalFiction and #Fantasy
Anne Radcliffe, Historical Fiction Author ๐ @anneradcliffe.com Historical fiction writer, author of Crown Jewel Regency Mysteries. Reformed SF Lit and General Film Nerd
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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social Working Class Historical Fiction from the not so gilded age. Labor History. Social justice. An injury to one is an injury to all!
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Cheryl Hollon @cherylhollon.bsky.social Mystery Author
William Meikle @williammeikle.com Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
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Maureen Aitken @maureenaitken.bsky.social Author of The Patron Saint of Lost Girls, winner of the Foreword Review INDIE Gold Prize, The Nilsen Prize; a Kirkus Star, and a Foreword Review Star. Stories in Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters.
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Ceegee Moore @ceegeemoore.bsky.social Author of historical fiction, contemporary fiction and JA Fan fiction. Latest is Women Patriot Series. www.linktr.ee/ceegeemoore
Pippa Elliott @scrollingbooks.bsky.social A reader/ reviewer with a fascination for 19th century women
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Patricia Bracewell @patbracewell.bsky.social Author of the Emma of Normandy Series: Shadow on the Crown, The Price of Blood, The Steel Beneath the Silk. Writer, reader, scholar, medievalist, traveler, gardener, occasional tennis player.
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David Dodds @daviddoddsauthor.bsky.social Author of urban fantasy fiction. Semi-retired bat ecologist. Gliding instructor. Butler to a highly-opinionated Jack Russell.
Laura Hardy @laurahardy.bsky.social History addict, often disappearing down rabbit holes.
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Jennifer M. Lane @jennifermlanewrites.com Anxiety in a meat suit with a writing obsession. Historical Fiction about badass women. Member: Author's Guild, IBPA, Historical Novel Society. Wrote an award-winning book about a Jeep. She/Her.
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Andrew Varga @andrewvargaauthor.bsky.social YA Historical Fiction author of the Jump in Time series.
Total History Geek. Canadian.
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Cindy Quigley @caquigley.bsky.social I write books inspired by my own life experience as well as historical events. I've lived in a cabin on the banks of a North Georgia river, in a tiny town in Germany and now in the woods in what I call my treehouse, with lots of cats. 
@jbharrisauthor.bsky.social @jbharrisauthor.bsky.social Author โ๏ธ living my best life