Dr Danny Penman @drdannypenman.bsky.social Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' & 'Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World.' www.franticworld.com @DrDannyPenman
Chorleywood Bookshop @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social Award-winning indie bookshop in Herts. Lovers of author events & champions of the finest new and backlist books. Proudly supporting readers, schools, authors & publishers for over 50 years.
https://chilternbookshops.co.uk/
Karen MacLean @dee2dee.bsky.social Scottish Independence supporter
SNP member
Dog and Cat lover
Sometime writer
From the Highlands
Wind&Bones Books @windandbones.com Independent publisher. Scotland, Taiwan & elsewhere. Directed by Hannah Stevens & Will Buckingham.
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DawkinsDog @dawkinsdog.bsky.social I'm the same dog as on X, Mastadon, Threads et al. So you know what you expect if you tolerate me on those. I'm not affiliated with Prof Richard Dawkins, just so you know.
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Tony Jones @jonezyboy.bsky.social Scotsman, school librarian, prolific horror and YA book reviewer. Author of THE YA HORROR 40O non-fiction almanac. When not reading, snooker fanatic, boxing maniac and lifelong fan of very VERY loud music. Veteran of a million moshpits.
caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social C. A. Asbrey is a Scottish mystery author. Fan of all things Victorian, obscure, forensics, jaywalking, ordering the best meal, and dropping out of society.
https://caasbrey.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mysteryscrivener/
Hayleigh Morrow @hayleighmorrow.bsky.social Scottish writer. Disability Rights campaigner. Taking part in #scotwriterpitch2025 for my #MG #Fantasy book.
Kirsty Hammond @kirstyhammond.bsky.social SciFi and fantasy writer. Member of Ayr Writers' Club. Golden Egg alumni.
Elizabeth Frattaroli @elizfrat.bsky.social LL Bath Children's, Mslexia & WriteMentor Children's Novel awards, 2nd in Wells Festival of Literature Book for Children & HC for Kelpies Prize for Writing. #kidlit
Love anything #mythology and #folklore related
https://www.elizabethfrattaroli.com/
The Real Mr Bradley @therealmrbradley.bsky.social "Midlife crisis"?
Nah, A grown-up gap-year petsitting in Scotland.
Writing 'Through The Catflap'
A dive into the hilariously odd world of petsitting and the even weirder pet owners.
'Through the Keyhole' meets 'All Creatures,'. meets 'Trainspotting'...
Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social Screenwriter, hiker, fangirl, armchair astronaut. Eater of cake and friend of cats. WOLFBLOOD, HINTERLAND, THE SPARTICLE MYSTERY. Reps: Gary Wild, JFL Agency (UK), Sukee Chew, Hopscotch (US). She/they.
Joaning @joaning.bsky.social Knitted a tea cosy once, and wrote a book.
Elizabeth Everett | Educator & Kidlit Author 📚 @elizabetheverett.bsky.social ➡️ Boosting books for #Teachers, #Educators, #Librarians, #Parents, #Authors, #Writers, and #Readers
💙 Former #Teacher turned #Homeschool mama
✏️ #Kidlit #Writer and #SCBWI member
📚 #PB #Author rep'd by Michelle Witte
🖱️ elizabetheverettbooks.com
Fiona Herbert @fionaherbert.bsky.social Writer, storyteller and editor. Shortlisted for the Kelpies Prize 2024. Seeking representation.
Jenny Brown Associates @jennybrownagency.bsky.social Scottish-based literary agency representing literary fiction, non-fiction, crime fiction & writing for children.
Feisty Blue Gecko (Philippa Ramsden) @feistybluegecko.bsky.social 🦎Scot 🏴, formerly Global Dev professional, now gently unfurling, realising dreams of being a writer, poet and enjoying photographing tiny wonders. Breast Cancer survivor.
Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
Indie Press supporter.
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MD ANT
https://linktr.ee/drewgum
@piccadilly-press.bsky.social @piccadilly-press.bsky.social 
A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social Author of Future Tense. Speculative tech anthropology. Essays + serialized fiction about the future we're building now. https://azmackay.com
DM De Alwis @dmdealwis.bsky.social Author 🇨🇦🇱🇰🍀 In this life or the next... blending mythology with fantasy. I also write Children's books.🦁👹 Myths& Samsara podcast. https://dmdealwis.com/quick-links/
2nd-generation Canadian; open-source circles know me as dcor.
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/
David Dodds @daviddoddsauthor.bsky.social Author of urban fantasy fiction. Semi-retired bat ecologist. Gliding instructor. Butler to a highly-opinionated Jack Russell.
J.C. Wood 📃is querying @j-c-wood.bsky.social Sci-fi enthusiast and writer #AmQuerying #SFF #NA and #MG
Audrey Niven @nivenaudrey.bsky.social EIC The Propelling Pencil, Creative Coach and business consultant. Exploring new forms in writing and visual art.
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Dr Margot McCuaig @margotmcc.bsky.social Novelist and documentary filmmaker. Wrote a PhD.
Barry Litherland Author @bl-writer.bsky.social Lives in SW Scotland. Reviews selected indie book. Author of The Phil Tyler Thriller Series and paranormal crime novels set in the atmospheric Scottish Highlands. Also lit. fiction, YA and middle grade. 
Tyne & Esk Writers @tyneeskwriters.bsky.social Tyne and Esk Writers is an organisation that champions creative writing in groups across Midlothian and East Lothian.
tyneandeskwriters.org.uk 
Zee Author Artist Reviewer 💙💙💙 @zeamee1.bsky.social Author, Illustrator, Digital & Graphic Design Artist, Content Writer, Proofreader; Book Reader, Reviewer & Book Promotion; I luv NATURE, GARDENS, ART, MUSIC, FILMS, TRAVEL, FOOD #Followback
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23074127.Zea_Perez
Ko-mic @ko-mic.com Hello everyone! I’m building a web app for comic publishing. What would you like it to have? Publish and sell your comics or episodes however you want. More updates coming soon.
https://ko-mic.com
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Flash Fiction North @flashfictionnorth.bsky.social Welcome to Flash Fiction North. The intention of this website is to promote shorter fiction from around the world. It also exhibits poetry and art images.
https://www.flashfictionnorth.com/
Email: flashfictionnorth@gmail.com
MSK @janeadams70.bsky.social 🤷♀️Free Shrugs🤷♀️
****If you haven’t read what Project 2025 has in store for women-your wives, daughters, mothers, aunts-go read it!!!! You need to be informed and prepared****
Gallovidia Books @gallovidiabooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore- supplying the folk of Kirkcudbright SW Scotland with books, gifts and blether 🏴📚
We like tea, dogs…..and books.
@barrington20.bsky.social @barrington20.bsky.social 
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Deborah Kay @westernncgirl2024.bsky.social Twitter refugee/@naturelove4real.
Fight for Democracy!
GO VOLS 🧡
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Agnes Kormendi @tapsiful.bsky.social Used to translate books, now a manual software tester. I write sad poems in English and sff stories in my native Hungarian. I make Celtic knotwork inspired animal drawings and take too many photos of the same hills and vales. Trans rights are human rights.
Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social Scriever, Gomerel.
Scriever an Furthsetter o "Lichtsome Limericks: 101 (an a bit) Scots Limericks". Oot NOO!
A micht dicht ma posts noo an agane.
#ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Scots #ScotsPoetry #ScotsScrievin #Gaidhlig #Independence #Scotland
Jen Bites @jenbitespeople.bsky.social In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
James Dempsey @jamesdempseyauthor.bsky.social I write Fantasy, sometimes Sci-Fi. Husband, and father of two girls. Living in Edinburgh. Some time academic philosopher and corporate ethics consultant. BHAFC fan.
Roz MacLaren @rozmaclaren.bsky.social ʏᴀ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴛᴀꜱʏ ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ
ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴛᴀᴋᴇꜱ. ꜱʟᴏᴡ ʙᴜʀɴꜱ.
ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴜɪɴᴇᴅ ꜱᴋʏᴇ ᴛʀɪʟᴏɢʏ (1/3 📚)
ᴛʜᴇ ᴍɪʀʀᴏʀᴅᴏᴍ ʟᴇɢᴇɴᴅꜱ (3/5)
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Art by KatArt
L A Traynor @latraynor.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, lover of archeological digs. Currently revealing late medieval Unst. Recipient of 2024 Dorothy Dunnett Centenary Award for historical fiction research.
Founder of Women With Fierce Words.
DrMacLeodCartoons @macltoons.bsky.social Historian. Cartoonist. Atheist. Scot. Author of 'The Second Disruption,' 'Evansville in WW2’, 'The Cartoons of KK Knecht' and 'Lost Evansville" and wrote the documentary ’Evansville at War.’ He/Him🏳️🌈
Marianne L Berghuis @mlb-write.bsky.social A Poet & Writer who loves all things bookish and walking her dog in the beautiful Fife countryside.
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Sandra K @sandrakohls.bsky.social Writer, crime fiction/fantasy junkie, vintage rock chick & gamer, slow runner and book fiend. UofG MLitt grad.
Russel D McLean/R.D. McLean @russeldmclean.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, freelance dev editor. Crime/thriller/sff/horror. General miscreant. Dad of cats. Scottish. Latest Book: THE FRIDAY GIRL (as R.D. McLean) Rep: Allan Guthrie at the North Lit agency
https://www.russeldmcleanbooks.com
Billy Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social Scriever/Braidcaster in Scots, English, an a wheen ither leids forbye.
Writer/Broadcaster in English, Scots and a few other languages as well. Passionate about Scottish independence, my wife, my weans and grandweans. Oh, and Scotland & Dundee United.
Kate Blackadder @kateblackadder.bsky.social Writer (novel Stella’s Christmas Wish plus short stories + magazine serials) and reader (in many genres). Toast-and-marmite eater. Member of Romantic Novelists Association and Edinburgh Writers’ Club. http://katewritesandreads.blogspot.com/p/my-books.html
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Keeks Mc @keeksmc.bsky.social Scots language poet 🏴
Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social I do things with wool & words. She/her. Tired. 🏴🇩🇰🏳️🌈
These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net
Mary M @marym276.bsky.social Edinburgh based osteopath and writer of biographical stories with courage and freedom at heart. Nature lover, baker, wildlife and landscape photographer. https://linktr.ee/mmonro276
Susan M Coon @susanmcoon.bsky.social Author of Tarbloch Book Club Series. #Psychologicalthriller writer #amquerying
grandmother, gardener, orienteer and qigong teacher. #shouldknowbetter
Molly Murray | Seahorse Bookstore @mollymurray.bsky.social 🇺🇸 in 🏴
Join our online Book Club seahorsebookstore.com
Editor | Creative Mentor | RTT | flowmagic.org
Neurosparkly Writer & Editor
Query: MG Adventure 🐙
Anna P. Read @annapread.bsky.social writer of historical fiction and fantasy; lover of nature, folklore and food; singer, mum, PhD; Polish in Scotland
Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social Software dev and writer of books you’ve never read.
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.
@junefetteswrites.bsky.social @junefetteswrites.bsky.social 
Sylvia Hehir @sylviahehirwrites.bsky.social writer in Scotland. likes being outside
Lina Langlee @linalanglee.bsky.social Let’s see if this is any better. Literary Agent at the North Lit Agency, based in Edinburgh.
PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
Esquiver @esquiver.bsky.social IMMIGRANT.
US diplomat (ret); US-German dual citizen; Jew. Enthusiastic Edinburgher. Crumhornist. Journalist, critic, and writer of fiction/plays.
Will not cede em dash to AI.
Mordant, feminist, and generally oblique.
Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.
Oak Tree Comics @oaktreecomics.bsky.social An independent children’s book publisher 📚
Where imagination meets environmentalism🌍
Based out of Los Angeles ☀️
Founded by author Josh Oaktree 🌳
www.oaktreecomics.com/link-tree
Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social 📚💙 Scottish fantasy author of D-Notice series- Cassie discovers saving the world with Glaswegian retired gods is a tough gig.
FREE BOOK links
Deviation: Wandering gods https://BookHip.com/HBMLCLS
Darkness https://BookHip.com/XNZJLNF
@emmawalsh-creative.bsky.social @emmawalsh-creative.bsky.social Mum to twin musicians. Wife to entrepreneur. Writer to all who need a self belief booster.
Currently seeking PB representation.
#SCBWI 📕 #networkisa 🎥
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
Neal Zetter @nealzetterpoet.bsky.social Award-winning performance poet, author, educator, entertainer and superhero. I work with all ages visiting schools, libraries etc, in-person and virtually. Latest poetry books: 'Chicken in the Kitchen' and 'Small Poems for Big Imaginations'.
Little Miss Contrary @eimanmunro.bsky.social Writer ~ Researcher ~ Autism Expert by Experience for CAMHS NHS professionals.
SCBWI member, Megaphone community member, Writementor Hub community member, #UV2024 winner🤩
Lee Ballard @leeballardbooks.bsky.social Novice Writer of Chapter Book Series, Experienced Grandmother, Almost Graduate of SNHU, Gladly Retired, Shivering Chicago Resident, Extreme Novice Website Developer (mine only), Longtime lover of life!
www.LeeBallardBooks.com
Karen Bultiauw @karenbultiauw.bsky.social Unrepenting book pusher & Howard Ashman fangirl. Writer. Chocolate connoisseur. She/her. Views own.
https://karenbultiauw.com/
MYLES STAFFORD @mylesastafford.bsky.social Author of THE KILLER ANGEL novels. "An epic story of survival, across a continent and over a century." https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CC5T3C?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tkin
Anita Loughrey @anitaloughrey.bsky.social Children's book author, champion of children's literature, specialising in author interviews and blog tours.
Nic Pearce @nicpearce.bsky.social Artist, Illustrator and Librarian 
Jo Cummins @booksuperhero2.bsky.social ⭐️Primary advisory teacher
⭐️Children's book blogger
⭐️Former English lead
⭐️Workshop provider
⭐️Awards judge
⭐️Resource creator
😀Children's mental health advocate
www.LibraryGirlAndBookBoy.com
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Katherine Tomlinson @kattomic.bsky.social Fictionista known by many names. Screenwriter. Reader. Voter. Fond of photography, travel, fall foliage, cats, chocolate, and science. 
JB Miller @jbmilleractually.bsky.social Writer, novelist, playwright, classic film nut, dad, Londoner, superior wit, inferior cook, avid slow reader, champion sleeper, haematological memoirist
DiscoverKelpies @discoverkelpies.bsky.social Imprint of indie publisher Floris Books (@florisbooks.bsky.social).
We specialise in children's books for tots to teens - all with a Scottish twist!
discoverkelpies.co.uk
Note: we do stories, not statues!
Emily Randall-Jones @erandalljones.bsky.social Wiltshire girl. MG author of folksy horrors THE WITCHSTONE GHOSTS and THE SCREAM OF THE WHISTLE with Chicken House. Repped by Lucy Irvine, DA. Storyteller/Workshop Person. Longlisted for Branford Boase. Messy ND overthinker, big fan of tea and magic.
David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social Blue Peter Book of the Year winner. Writes for children and adults, 60+ books translated into 30+ languages. Occasional ghost. Agent: Penny Holroyde at Holroyde-Cartey.
davidlong.info
Charlotte Teeple-Salas @ctsalaswrites.bsky.social Adventures in the UK, Europe & California. 🤺 🚕 Bath Spa MA Writing for Young People ‘22. 📚 SL Searchlight ‘21. LL Guppy ‘22. LL WriteMentor & Searchlight ‘24. 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧
Melissa @melissa-writer.bsky.social I love science, especially bio-molecular!
I have 6 bottle fed cats + 4 older rescues <3
Love metal and making music- bass, voice, keys.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy reader- new favorites are Jay Kristoff, John Gwynne, Tamsyn Muir, Kevin Hearne, Steven Erikson
@june-scribbles.bsky.social @june-scribbles.bsky.social 
Nicholas Korn | The Wild Sonnets @wildsonnets.bsky.social For The Wild Sonnets books & downloads: www.wildsonnets.com
For The Wild Sonnets YouTube Channel (150+ videos): https://www.youtube.com/@wildsonnets
Christopher Artinian @chrisartinian.bsky.social Yorkshire born best-selling author of 53 books #Dystopian #Apocalyptic #Horror. Living in the Outer Hebrides. A cinephile who loves music (anything from jazz to metal), cricket, and growing stuff in my polytunnel. Vegan FTA. www.christopherartinian.com
disturbedByVoices @godhatesgoth.bsky.social Chronic distributor of dark art, music, and humor to the benefit (nay detriment) of those who follow. Abandon all hope ye who enter within... 🖤💀 https://godhatesgoth.com #gothic #postpunk #synthwave #darkwave #horror #horrorfam #darkart #darkhumor
Mary Rees @bookcraic.bsky.social I’m a primary school teacher, Year 3. I am Reading Lead which is perfect for me as I’m a huge fan of children’s books. I am also a children’s book blogger at https://bookcraic.blog. 
Jason Croot @jasoncroot.bsky.social Bradfordian actor, filmmaker, and author of the Bradford Back in the Day Memories series 📚 Bradford, Eh? & 📚 Bradford, Ye What?
https://www.jasoncroot.com
bookgorilla | #BookSky 💙📚 @bookgorilla.com It's bookgorilla.com/kindledealsonly, where readers + authors connect for the best prices deals ever on ebooks by your favorite authors!
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Alison Hunt @emeraldshadow.bsky.social Author of MG fantasy The Last Time Wrangler. Two poems and a short story published. Collector of vintage costume jewellery. #SCBWI_BI #WriteMentor
Sabrina Shah #kidlit author @sabrinashahauthor.bsky.social #Kidlit author #PB MUSIC OF THE MOUNTAINS '25 with Barefoot Books
#writementor #12X12 #TheGEAcademy #SCBWI
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Author A.L. Norton @authoralnorton.bsky.social International, award-winning, bestselling author of over 33 books. Global award-winning book promoter. Owner of Readers Depot. Youtuber. Book Hoarder. #Autoimmune warrior. Married to Author Dell Sweet. #Disabled #childabusesurvivor #wolfpackauthor
Prudence McKitty @jo705.bsky.social I am a rescue kitty. They say I have many Maine Coon characteristics. I live in Vancouver, Canada. I am a very lucky cat.
@corambeanstalk.bsky.social @corambeanstalk.bsky.social 
Sheila M Averbuch @sheilamaverbuch.bsky.social Children's #author of middlegrade thriller FRIEND ME (Scholastic Press). Studied history & literature at Harvard. From US & Ireland. Living in Scotland. NEW BOOK: PITCH YOUR BOOK - write the letter that hooks an agent on your novel bit.ly/SMApitchorder
Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social ⚡️ Love everything embedded software/hardware.
🧑🏫 Passionate about STEM & EdTech.
👨💻 Embedded Software @ #Microbit Educational Foundation (microbit.org).
🐍 Oxford Python user group co-organiser.
🤔 Views my own.