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Book Off! @ohdobookoff.bsky.social A lighthearted book podcast hosted by Joe Haddow, where two authors discuss their work and get three minutes to pitch a book they absolutely love and think everyone should read!
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Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social Writer, cyclist, biscuit connoisseur. A bit much.
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Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social A literary magazine with bite
Guest illustrator for each issue
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Zain Rishi @zainrishi.bsky.social Brummie Poet 📚🌈
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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social Associate Publishing Director at Granta Books. Late of the parishes of Routledge, Jonathan Cape, Vintage and William Heinemann.
Out of Order Book Club @outoforderbookclub.bsky.social A podcast about reading random books from random series 'out of order'. An avid reader and aspiring writer, plus a fan of #books, #podcasts and #libraries. Crime fiction is my particular addiction! Website: https://outoforderbookclub.com/
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social Assoc. Professor at UC Berkeley
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PI Berkeley Biological and Artificial Language Lab 🗣️
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Teddy Jamieson @teddyjamieson.bsky.social Writer for The Herald, The Sunday Post, Nutmeg & anyone else who will have me. Getting on a bit. Contact me @ teddyjamieson@yahoo.com
Suna Dasi @sunadasi.bsky.social Dutch/Indian Muso/SFF Writer/Voice Thesp in Scotland.
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Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief @goodlifedeathgrief.bsky.social GLGDGG is part of the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care's work to improve experiences of death, dying and bereavement.
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Andy Lawrence @e-astronomer.bsky.social Active Galaxy Nut and Space Environmentalist.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Please bring croissants 🥐
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens.
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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.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social We are publishing Ceitidh Chaimbeul • Mohammed Moussa • Luca Serra
Anne Cater @annerandomthings.bsky.social Reader, Book Reviewer, Book Buyer, Virtual Book Tour Organiser.
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Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust @edincityoflit.bsky.social Edinburgh is celebrating 20 years as the world's first UNESCO City of Literature. Connecting you to Scotland's stories since 2004.
Rebecca Roanhorse @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social Writer of speculative fictions. NYTimes Bestseller. Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte winner.
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Comics/games: Marvel
TV: A Murder at the End of the World, Echo, Netflix Series Animation.
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'. 
Les Hodge @leshodge.bsky.social Writer/Musician/Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2024
Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social Writer: Goblin | HellSans
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Nick Barley @nickbarley.bsky.social Director of the National Poetry Centre in Leeds. Used to head up the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Love books, poetry, cycling and York City
The List @thelistuk.bsky.social Monthly Scottish arts and culture magazine covering #Glasgow & #Edinburgh since 1985.
list.co.uk
Maud Woolf @maudwoolf.bsky.social Scottish sci fi author represented by Lina Langlee at the North Lit Agency. Debut novel THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK now shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2025
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://WanderingGaia.com
David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social Writer. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils | Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, shortlisted: Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize & Saltire Nonfiction Prize 2025
Professor of Literature & the Environment, Uni of Edinburgh
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The Literary Consultancy @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social The UK's longest-standing editorial consultancy. Offering editing, mentoring and events. Home of Being A Writer. #ACEsupported. Official BlueSky account.
Jeannette Ng 吳志麗 @ngjeannette.bsky.social Novelist. Won: Astounding, BFA Newcomer. Dabbles: history, poetry, costumes, live roleplay. She/they. Mostly photos of my dog. Repped by @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social
Euan Tait @taaait.bsky.social 
Lesley Kelly @lkauthor.bsky.social Author of the Health of Strangers pandemic crime series
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.
Leona @editor.scot book lady 🏴
Fiona Brownlee @fionabrownlee.bsky.social Publishing consultant. PR & International Rights. Currently working with Canongate. Little,Brown. Hodder. Greystone. Muswell Press. Birlinn. Polygon. Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival. Swim judge. BSL beginner.
Robert Loyko-Greer @robertloyko-greer.bsky.social Book publicist:
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@serpents-tail.bsky.social
@viperbooks.bsky.social
I co-edited an anthology called 22 FICTIONS:
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Mike Berners-Lee @mikebernerslee.bsky.social Author of A Climate of Truth, There is No Planet B and How Bad are Bananas?
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Prof at Lancaster University. Work on climate, sustainable food & land and wider challenges of the Anthropocene.
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
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Tariq Ashkanani @tariqashkanani.bsky.social Writer. Winner of Bloody Scotland Debut and McIlvanney Awards. Co-host of the Page One Podcast. The Midnight King - out now!
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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social Author of the Rivers of London Series
GordonJBrown (AKA Morgan Cry) @gordonjbrown.bsky.social Crime author and founding board director of Bloody Scotland. The Cost, starring Blake Glover, out now - published by Severn House.
Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of novels, children’s books, poetry and essays. This account is managed by her estate.
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Eris Young is Eunuchmaxxing @erisyoung.bsky.social https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/eris-young/hunger-in-the-blood/9781035095346 pre-order HUNGER IN THE BLOOD Tor Nightfire 05/2027❣️👄🩸🦷🧛♀️
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Barry Burns @barry.mogwai.scot A Scottish man in a Glasgow band
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crimebookgirl @crimebookgirl.bsky.social Crime fiction aficionado. Blogger (www.crimebookgirl.com), event chair, Theakstons & McIlvanney Prize academy member, Ngaio Marsh Awards & CWA Daggers judge - it's #AllCrimeAllTheTime!
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
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Vaseem Khan @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social Author: Q novels (from Bond franchise). Malabar House & Baby Ganesh agency series. The Girl in Cell A. Cricket mad. UCL Security & Crime Science. Website: www.vaseemkhan.com 
Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com We put the "Ginger" in "Horror" 🔥
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17 years strong. Still scared. Still reviewing.
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Jamie-Lee Nardone @jamieleenardone.bsky.social Horror publisher Black Crow Books
Genre PR Black Crow PR
Cat Whisperer. Nerd. 
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
Graeme Armstrong @graemearmstrong.bsky.social ✦ RAVEHEART ✦ available now! Times bestseller. THE YOUNG TEAM. Granta Best Young British Novelist. PhD at @UniStrathclyde.bsky.social @BlakeFriedmann.bsky.social
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PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social Author in the Highlands 🏴, for kids, teens and adults. Next adult book: THE FROG PRINCE, Summer 2027 🐸👑
Bedford Square Publishers @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social An independent publisher of fiction and non-fiction, founded in 2022.
Sylvia Patterson @sylvpatterson.bsky.social Journalist, author of I’m Not With The Band (2016), Same Old Girl (2023), I'm Not With The Man (2026) / Agent: kevin@thenorthlitagency.com
Vivien Strachan @vstellastrachan.bsky.social Teacher. Gigs. Hills. Running. Cheese scones. Leeds. Aberdeenshire. East Lothian.
Shetland Library @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social Free, fun, informative and educational - public and school library services for Shetland. Further north than Orkney.
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Eve Smith @evesmithauthor.bsky.social Author of speculative thrillers published by Orenda Books
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THE CURE out now
Interview Room One @interviewroomone.bsky.social We're a team of crime fiction loving writers and readers bringing authors and readers together via interviews, reviews, articles and from 2025, phsyical and online events. Find out more at www.interviewroomone.com 
Cal Flyn @calflyn.bsky.social Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social ...sometimes you wake up. sometimes the fall kills you. and sometimes when you fall you fly...
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Sheri Friers @sherifriers.bsky.social CEO of The List Magazine which has been ‘helping people get a life’ since 1985.
Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social Writer living on the road. AI-free. Read THE ACTUAL STAR: https://www.monicabyrne.org/the-actual-star. Reps at CAA, DG&B, and Kaplan/Perrone. She/her.
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Portobello Book Festival @portybookfest.bsky.social Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
Rebecca Swift Foundation @foundationswift.bsky.social Advancing the craft, creativity and wellbeing of women poets in the UK
Dr Harriet MacMillan @literaryharriet.bsky.social Director of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust.
Poet, editor, feminist, Dolly Parton enthusiast, mythmaker, punner, dog mother.
She/her
Aidan Moffat @aidanjohnmoffat.bsky.social "Flat, out of tune, and rambling like a drunk on a Saturday night."
Helen Gordon @helenlpgordon.bsky.social New book THE METEORITES forthcoming from @profilebooks.bsky.social, Feb 6. Author of Notes from Deep Time, Being a Writer and Landfall.
Website: helengordon.net
Agent: Lisa Baker, Alexander Aitken
Aki Schilz @akischilz.bsky.social Director at @thelitconsultancy, founder #BookJobTransparency & @foundationswift. All things creativity, inclusive culture, literature, leadership and wellbeing.
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews. Author of GOOD VICTIMS. Gestures vividly about light and loss, care and place, birds and soil, grief and bodies. http://roxanikrystalli.substack.com
Peggy Hughes @hughespeg.bsky.social Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich
Philip Patterson @agentphil.bsky.social Literary Agent at Marjacq Scripts.
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Ann Morgan @annmorgan.bsky.social Internationally bestselling author, literary activist, podcaster and blogger who read the world
Mari Hannah @mariwriter.bsky.social Crime writer/screenwriter repped by @Oliagent @AMHeathLtd & Conrad Williams @BlakeFriedmann
web: marihannah.com
Philip Miller @philipmiller.bsky.social Five novels, including The Diary of Lies: A Wall St Journal and Airmail Mystery Book of 2025. Poetry collection: Blame Yourself (Nine Pens). The Goldenacre won a Shamus. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/E8G/a-shona-sandison-investigation/
peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social Haverin: 40 years of GSFWC. October 2026.
Editors: Milton, Morrison & Valentine
He/Him. GSFWC. WGB. Glasgow.
(banner by Jenni Coutts)
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
🔗: antonhur.com