If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
B Yost @baylitconsulting.bsky.social https://lnk.bio/thestorywanderer
Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social sff novels & weird seagull noises 👽 🌈
sidewise winner, locus & astounding finalist
books: SARGASSA & BLOODTIDE
rep: maria napolitano // kt literary
https://linktr.ee/sophieburnham
Lavanya Lakshminarayan | INTERGALACTIC FEAST out now! @lavanya.bsky.social Author: INTERGALACTIC FEAST | INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF | THE TEN PERCENT THIEF
Arthur C Clarke Award Finalist | Locus Award Finalist
Game Designer
Rep: Cameron McClure
H.E. Milla @hemilla.bsky.social Hazel (they/them)
"Demon of dissociation" of Clarion West 2024.
Writer of quantum queerness, computational biologist in training.
https://hemilla.substack.com/
SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social Synell J. Hartman (she/they) 🏳️⚧️
Also known as: Shard, Halfwheel
Writer of upcoming fantasy novel
THE SIGIL AND THE SERPENT
Developer of soulslike RPG Deadbeat!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2067430/Deadbeat/
https://linktr.ee/jahartman
Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social Author | THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS (Erewhon/Kensington) & Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner, UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED. she/her/hers
http:/mybook.to/hestergardens
Ciel Pierlot @cielpierlot.bsky.social writer, artist, gamer, freelance editor, she/her ✨Preorder TERMS OF SERVICE, coming out this September!!
Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com Neurospicy disabled trans girl, Ph.Dyke
Writes with @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social, @catblackard.bsky.social, & @jessicamudd.bsky.social
EggPrimeDirective.com
Music—Books—Games—Poetry MothMother.com
Ink—Art CauldronFireStudios.com
Theory TessTanen.com
Cassidy Ellis Salter @cesalter.com Author of gothic YA fantasy These Shattered Spires (2026) 🏳️🌈they/them
Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer, occasional editor, and part-time educator. All opinions my own, unless they're someone else's.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan. 
Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social Lead developer of Nightwell Games. Currently surviving the aftermath of the Eaton Fire. All-ages deduction game DEDUCTOPIA coming soon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/Deductopia/
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh @rtie.org Working to change society and create a safer future for trans folk in Edinburgh and beyond.
https://rtie.org/
How to be trans-inclusive in 2026:
https://rtie.org/2026/06/04/staying-trans-inclusive-as-a-service-provider/
dave c @davepoems.bsky.social 
Alex Jennings @alexjennings.bsky.social World Fantasy Award finalist
Compton Crook winner
Speculative Poetry reviewer for F&SF
Buy The Ballad of Perilous Graves wherever books are sold.
https://tinyurl.com/2dazncx8
Support me on Patreon! patreon.com/AlexJennings79
Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social Comics writer:
●OFF MENU/ THE RESTAURANT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Little Bee/Faber)
●DEVLIN WAUGH (2000AD)
●YOUNG MEN IN LOVE (GLAAD award winner)
●RED SONJA
And more!
Oggerlach.wordpress.com
Open for work! Email on my site.
Rep: Stephanie Winter, KOMM
Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social Author, technologist and data scientist. Founder @darkdataproject.bsky.social. Biblio by.timothyquinn.com. Better looking in Kelvin timeline.
Mars @mars-welldone.bsky.social Content: 🌈📷🎨📝🐶. Poet frog in the body of a boy. I have sparkly eyebrows when I transform.
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
Clare Patterson @clarepatterson.bsky.social Writer, PhD student at Centre for New Writing
XEECEE @xeecee.bsky.social Artist/Writer/Composer. Visual novels (Misericorde, 35 Electric), Pepper Grinder, Shriekcast, and more. they/them
Shriekcast 🏹 @shriekcast.bsky.social A podcast hosted by @xeecee.bsky.social and @lizrpg.bsky.social. Fridays on Patreon, Tuesdays on RSS. Harry Potter Hater Gang
patreon.com/shriekcast
https://soundcloud.com/shriekingshack
Currently reading: The Irresistible Urge To Fall for Your Enemy
Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social Comic artist, novel writer, performer, crafter, queer icon, cheese expert, creator and destroyer of worlds. Agent: D Ellis Wilson at Looking Glass Lit. Trans neutral. They/them.
rosalarian.com ro@rosalarian.com
RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social Ross. Writer. Poet. I believe in repetition and Carly Rae Jepsen. Refill the Nor Loch! All hail the sun! He/Him
C.Piveral @cpiveral.bsky.social SFFH writer. She/her/they. Purveyor of whimsy and angst. Work in Shoreline of Infinity, Kaleidotrope, TFlatiron, FlameTreePress, ZNB Presents, and elsewhere. Grad presentation on Psychopomps in modern works.
Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social Anthropologist of care 🌸
MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Greens 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏴
https://linktr.ee/QManivannan
GT Korbin @gtkorbin.bsky.social Gina/G 🖤 SFF&H Author. Medical Researcher, MSc. #DVmentee '22. Stories in NoSleep Podcast, Andromeda Spaceways, and others. Rep by MWLA 🇬🇷 🏳️🌈(she/they) banner art by stellesappho
linktr.ee/gtkorbin
Tor Books UK @torbooksuk.bsky.social Publisher of science fiction and fantasy.
Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social A literary magazine with bite
Guest illustrator for each issue
Words from Scotland + everywhere else
https://linktr.ee/extrateethmagazine?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=c2a4f6ec-dbc1-4d06-90fd-08004f7f5192
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social she/her 🏳️⚧️ Writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs
Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places.
Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary
nicanstett.com
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
She/her
Gen X
Breast cancer survivor '23, OCD since '01, ME/CFS/FM, etc.
Horror/fantasy writer best known for THE GOBLIN EMPEROR (Tor, 2014)
Geek about everything
Childless cat lady by choice
Lindsey @lindseydanis.bsky.social Queer travel writer. Author of (Out) On the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel (2026), On Queer Homesteading (2026)
https://www.lindseydanis.com
https://www.queeradventurers.com
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
https://linktr.ee/TenebrousPress
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social This is my personal social media account! Opinions and misatkes my own!
PictCon @pictcon.bsky.social A Scottish science fiction and fantasy convention about science fiction and fantasy in Scotland. #PictCon October 17 2026, Perth 🏴
PictCon.com
Sam K Horton @samkhorton.bsky.social Author based on Eythin Island, GORSE out now from @Solarisbooks
Founder, Granite and Glitter. He/him rep’d by John Baker & Julie Gourinchas at Bell Lomax Moreton
www.graniteandglitter.com
Allan Radcliffe @allanradcliffe.bsky.social Writer & critic 🏳️🌈 He/Him. Novel The Old Haunts shortlisted for McKitterick Prize & Shortlisted for Saltire First Book Award 2024
allanradcliffe.co.uk https://linktr.ee/allanradcliffe
nat raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social poet & activist-scholar
📚 Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds @plutopress.bsky.social
📚 apparitions (nines), Nightboat Books
Queer.party/@fullnommunism
she/her
Michael Beale @michaelbeale.bsky.social Delighted and bewildered to be an Editor at Tor UK. Big fan of geeky acronyms, including D&D, G&S, SFF.
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
Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social Publishing radical queer specfic from London, UK. Founded: @trip.bsky.social, @robwillb.bsky.social, @chrismccartney.bsky.social.
Harassed by: @lyamkk.bsky.social
🛸I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! (2024)
🧱Wrath Month (2026)
https://linktr.ee/bonabooksltd
D. A. Vorobyov | НЕТ ВОЙНЕ @davorobyov.bsky.social he/him | work in Worlds of Possibility, @strangehorizons, @robodinofiction, @GlitterShipSF | @AlphaWorkshop 2016/17 | @clarionwest 2024 |
Shiraki Press @shirakipress.com Independent publisher of adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
www.shirakipress.com
Arthur H. Manners @arthurmanners.bsky.social Author. Work in Analog, Strange Horizons, Pseudopod, etc. Debut novel: INWORLD, spring 2027, Saga Press & HarperVoyager UK.
Rep: Alexander Cochran, Greyhound Literary (UK) & Brandi Bowles, UTA (US).
Website & Newsletter: https://arthurmanners.com/
All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social Literary magazine exploring character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. Submissions CLOSED. #litmag
Read stories at www.allworldswayfarer.com
Emmet Asher-Perrin @use-theforce-em.bsky.social hey hey the ga(y)ng's all here. Entertainment Editor at Reactor, one of those they/thems, opinions are mine ofc.
Rep by thejordache at JABberwocky
Moth @mdwstmoth.bsky.social He/Him 32 year old nerdpunk baker
Bisexual Kaiju, TTRPG junkie.
Supervillainy and pro wrestling are both specialized styles of drag
Garry Mac @queertempo.bsky.social Writer, artist, comics and queer theorist. PhD graduate from Dundee Uni. Forthcoming book from Routledge: 'Making Time: Queer Temporalities and Chronotopia in Comics' due ~2027
https://www.garrymacart.com
Michael Lee Richardson 🦡 @hrfmichael.bsky.social Working class writer, director and One to Watch. Mocatriz. Rep'd by Louisa Minghella at Revolution Talent.
Jamie M. Boyd @jamieboyd.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Recovering Journalist. Words in Strange Horizons, Heartlines Spec &more. SFWA. Codex. www.jamiemboyd.com
Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscriptions @sffmagazines.bsky.social A list of active, regularly published fiction markets, including stories by today's best science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.
Visit our web page and subscribe to your favorite titles:
https://www.trollbreath.com/sff-magazine-subscriptions/
Solarpunk Magazine @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social An online publication of radically hopeful science fiction.
solarpunkmagazine.com
patreon.com/solarpunkmag
Caroline Eden @edentravels.bsky.social Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com
Daniel Gorman @dnlgorman.bsky.social art x human rights. Director of English PEN (@englishpen.bsky.social). Posts are my personal opinions
English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/englishpen
STAND FAST Zine @stand-fast-zine.bsky.social Boots on the ground journalism for human rights! 🥾📷🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/stand.fast.zine
https://standfastzine.substack.com/
G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social Fiction in Strange Horizons, Reactor, and The Deadlands. World & British Fantasy winner. Nebula finalist. Cat lady.
Agent: Alex Cochran @ Greyhound Literary
https://gvanderson.com/
Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social Official account of the Trans Rights Readathon! 🏳️⚧️ March 17-31, 2026. 🏳️⚧️
https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co
Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
lingthusiasm.com
Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net all work and no play makes cat a dull girl
Typesetter & Editrix @littlepuss.net // Author of The Call-Out & THE DINNER PARTY: A BOOK ABOUT LOVE - OUT NOW
Rayn Epremian @roverayndom.bsky.social Writer & filmmaker. Words in VAMPIRES SAVE THE NIGHT (Gorgon’s Gaze Press), THE UTOPIA OF US (Luna Press), Fusion Fragment, Liminality. MSc Evolution of Language and Cognition. All3Media New Voices Awards Drama Nominee 2022. 
Suna Dasi @sunadasi.bsky.social Dutch/Indian Muso/SFF Writer/Voice Thesp in Scotland.
Backing Vox/Analog Synth in @ebbband.bsky.social (Prog) & Krow (Metal)
Tiny Brown Sapphic Maenad
Cofounder PandoraFest (1st women led music fest Scotland 2016) & The Lodge Arts Collective. BSFA Nominee
Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social Writer & musician. 20th novel Ghost Notes out now. Tombstoning and The Ossians also re-published in 2026. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
elle nash @saderotica.bsky.social literary catgirl | author of Deliver Me, Gag Reflex, Nudes, & Animals Eat Each Other | phd candidate at university of glasgow | editor @thecreativeindependent.com 🌀
“i’m the bigger dog only for now.” —peter christopher
🐇linktr.ee/ellenash
sarah maria griff @griffski.bsky.social don’t do anything i wouldn’t do 😎
now: eat the ones you love 🌱
next: strange is the light 👁️✨
& then: everything not saved🐅
@bernzdb.bsky.social @bernzdb.bsky.social 
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social She/Her 🍉
Bsky is my spam acct basically
Sam Fern @samfern.bsky.social Author, editor, Edinburgh!
'Escape Castle Dracula'
(Big Picture Press)
'Where the Dead Live'
(Templar Books)
www.samfern.co.uk
Athos Outdoor Prospector @athos-outdoorsp.bsky.social I am in survival mode every moment of my life 🤟🔥🙏
Tom Pickles @tompickles.bsky.social Bookseller. 🏴 in 🇮🇪
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis
Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social Voice Actress - Audiobook Narrator - AD - Drums/Vox - Pit Bunny
Credits: Manhunt, Wrath Goddess Sing, and The Hades Calculus!
Support me at https://www.patreon.com/c/GoldenAppleAudio
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
Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com Novel development & editing services. Our editors are industry experts and award-winning writers. Take your manuscript to the next level.
DarlingAxe.com
Mia Violet @ohmiagod.bsky.social Author | Queer | ADHD | Co-owner of Mittens |
Also a big ol’ nerd who likes Warhammer, Magical Girls, TTRPGs, and other dorky goodness 🎀 💖
She/her
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social literary agent, speculative & literary adult fiction @ Bell Lomax Moreton. mainly on 📷. cheap wine enthusiast, TTRPG nerd, & Tolkien girlie. nd. views mine. 🚫 query DMs; 🚫 AI.
📍 ldn ❗she, they
🔗 https://linktr.ee/literaryfey
Harry Woodgate @harrywoodgate.bsky.social Award winning author and illustrator of children’s books including Grandad’s Camper, TIMID, Little Glow and many more. They/them.
Agent: @ashliterary.bsky.social
Enquiries: info@ashliterary.com
Website: www.harrywoodgate.com
The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com by transfemmes. for transfemmes. about transfemmes. | @transjournalists.org member | thetransfemininereview.com | ed. Bethany Karsten
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
Lina Langlee @linalanglee.bsky.social Let’s see if this is any better. Literary Agent at the North Lit Agency, based in Edinburgh.
John Baker, Literary Agent @jjbker.bsky.social The Small God of Hype, Literary Agent: Likes SFF&H, Welsh Rugby, Indie bands I heard about way later than you. He/Him. Opinions mine.
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the skeets
Author. she/her https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard
Books read: 89/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social Aspiring poet, growing problem. My books POYUMS, and POYUMS ANNAW are available to order now. https://buythebook.online/poyums-annaw
🏴💙
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/