Yvie Reads Books 💙📚 @readingismything.bsky.social I’m mostly here for the bookish posts 📖
@1649digger.bsky.social @1649digger.bsky.social Definitely older than you. Texan living in the Philly 'burbs whose heart is in the Yorkshire Dales. SFF. Cats.Crime fiction.Cats. And cats.
Into Creative @intocreative.bsky.social Supporting Creatives #MDANT
Imprints: Into Books | Into Poetry
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/intocreative
Ted Ryker @tedryker.bsky.social Writer of hard-boiled, ruthlessly paced crime fiction. New stories and posts Tuesday and Thursday every week. Photo by Florian Klauer on Unsplash.
St Andrew’s Book Festival London @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social 27-30 Nov 25. We bring Scottish writers, Scottish themes and Scottish connections to London. Https://StAndrewsBookFestival.org/
@siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social NHS Doctor (1983-2019). Aspiring Eco - Warrior/poet/singer-MDANT 🏅
Anton Peeters @antonpeeters.bsky.social Anton Peeters is a Dutch author who has made Thailand his home for almost 20 years. He draws inspiration from the country’s rich history and culture with a focus on Southern Thailand.
#Samurai #treasure #writer
#adventure #thriller #HistoricalFiction
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
Captain Cabinets @samebattime.bsky.social A fixation with TV, Film and Horror nostalgia and creating images to amuse myself and others of a like mind
@asimwaheed1968.bsky.social @asimwaheed1968.bsky.social 
Sheila Ritchie @europesheila.bsky.social 🔶Former MEP. Electoral Commissioner. Scottish Lib Dem. Papy’s mum. Gardener. Birdwatcher. Conservationist. Outdoor swimmer. Rugby. She/her.🏳️⚧️ally. DMs with IRL friends only- that last bit went a bit wonky....🤪
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Sharon McTeir 📚 🐈 @sharonmcteir.bsky.social Creative Publishing Services
Book design, picture research & rights.
Currently learning Norwegian.
www.sharonmcteir.co.uk
Melrose, Scottish Borders 🏴
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JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social ✏️Graphic novels makers
📚Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares
Out now from Scholastic UK
⭐️Order ➡️ https://linktr.ee/wilomina
Rep’d by United Agents. Scottish + French. Glasgow
#KidsGN📚💬
@scotinvt.bsky.social @scotinvt.bsky.social I saw all the bands that matter late 70's and 80's....worked for a few too. Arsenal FC, beer, bourbon, Tunnocks and Scotland
David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. AND OTHER STORIES collection: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc. IMAGINE A FRIEND:
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagine-a-friend/
S. John Davies @sjohndavies.bsky.social Glasgow crime fiction. Twisting Fates - out now. For readers of Rankin, McDermid, Mina. Free short story: sjohndavies.co.uk
Bernard O'Keeffe @bernok1.bsky.social Writer of the DI Garibaldi novels. The Carousel of Time out now. Music. Books. Barnes. #QPR. Patron of the Bloody Barnes Crime Writing Festival https://bernardokeeffe.com/
Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social I write Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror that is slightly bent, a bit fun and certain to be an adventure. I also art. I encourage writers of all levels with writing. Nevada! NO AI here. DMs closed!
Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social Writer, cyclist, biscuit connoisseur. A bit much.
Latest book: ‘The Good Liar’, about junk forensic science and moral responsibility
The Crime Writers' Association @thecwa.bsky.social The CWA promotes, supports and celebrates crime writing and writers of crime fiction and non-fiction 🔪🩸👮🏽♀️📚
linktr.ee/crimewritersassociation
Linda Duncan McLaughlin @flamingredhead.bsky.social Playwright, screenwriter, fiction writer, actor, Glasgow girl…all that jazz. Reps: Gary at https://jflagency.com/ (screenwriting); https://coulterhamiltonrae.com/ (acting)
LifuX @lifux.bsky.social The cats are in charge, we just document it. 😼
Chaos is our specialty.
Global nonsense headquarters.
Buy Me a Coffee : https://buymeacoffee.com/lifux ☕🐾
Store : www.teepublic.com/user/lifux
Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Cara @woolelephant.bsky.social Northerner, writer, walker, witterer. Wannabe historian. Little pilgrimages and beer, a novel about the 17th C (Wren, shortlisted for the Mslexia 2023 novel prize)
RadioFreeBronx | MD ANT 🥇 @radiofreebronx.bsky.social Bronx Based, MD ANT 🥇
Art, photography, literature, and lots of post-punk/vinyl
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.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social novelist, historian, amateur hoofer | www.dianejosefowicz.com | THE GREAT HOUSES OF PILL HILL is just out from @sohopress
Paula @paulastb.bsky.social Mainly retired but you can find me from time to time working at the library. Best job ever. 💙📚
I love reading, walking travel and I spend a lot of time researching my family history.
You can read my family tree stories on https://shakingthebranches.com/
Andy Charman @andyandz.bsky.social Author of Crow Court. published by @unbounders.bsky.social. Longlist Desmond Elliott 2021. Shortlist CWA Historical 2022. Laureat Festival du Premier Roman 2022. Researching 1983 and philosophers in WWII. Assistant Editor of Thin-Skin.com
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Greek-American gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, allegorical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are all in English and NOT AI.
Penny Kiley @pennykiley.bsky.social Oxford-based writer and editor, working mostly in digital and mostly for non-profits. Former music journo. Autistic. Memoir 'Atypical Girl' published by Polygon. https://linktr.ee/pennykiley
scots.wha.hae @scotswhahae.bsky.social 
Louise Welsh @louisewelsh00.bsky.social Writer, The Cutting Room, Plague Times Trilogy, To the Dogs & more. Prof Creative Writing, Glasgow University. Hon Prez Scottish PEN. Podcast Who Owns the Clyde. Librettist Anthropocene. Theatre, movies, cats, life 🏳️🌈
Worm In Heaven @isthisross.bsky.social they're coming fin by fin until the whole boat sinks
CaseyAD @caseychavis.bsky.social Child of God, Proud Liberal, Brother, Uncle, Baker,Short Story Writer, Published Author, Cat Owner, World wide Traveler, Architect in a past (or future) life, Proud New Yorker living in Wisconsin. Introvert struggling to become more of an extrovert
Eugenie Todd @eugeniesediting.bsky.social Freelance copyeditor for Penguin Random House and Canongate. Wife, mother, dog-wrangler and forgetful gardener, Fife.
David Hawkes @davidhawkes.bsky.social Worked on advice sector policy, avid reader, keen cook, lover of music, cinema, history and Italy
Amro. @amro.xyz Amro.
Not a medical doctor.
Former physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory
Despite all that, still a daydream believer
[sorry - can't use DMs ... because I won’t scan my face or something]
https://letterboxd.com/iamamro/
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Sophie Mac @sophiemac.bsky.social "It was always like this in life. No one ever had the right reaction to anything."
"Like reflections in water, the movie light ripples across her face."
"A dark omelette on bleak toast."
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#210,729
Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social Chief TV Critic: @theindependent
Podcaster in Chief: @podotpods
Other "chief" roles: tbc
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Daniel A. Riddle @danielariddle.bsky.social British author | Psychological thrillers with a cinematic edge | Wishing Shelf Awards Finalist 🏆 | Free audio drama on Spotify & Apple 🎧 | danielariddle.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/
Carrie @iamcarrie.bsky.social Christian. Auntie to 15!
Advice worker. One time solicitor.
Skyrim. Disney Dreamlight Valley.
I have a book problem.
Scott Reid @ascottreid.bsky.social At BBC Sport. Bouncing between Glasgow (nearly) and Salford. Will go on about news, sport, Scottish stuff, Eurovision etc. Any rare views are very much my opinion alone.
Mark @markhobbs.bsky.social Father, Widower, Artist, Writer, Book Cover Designer, photographer and individual.
All original images owned by me.
@eemarkham.bsky.social @eemarkham.bsky.social Science fiction writer, mini painter and weaver based in Australia. Check out www.eemarkham.com for details of my books!
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Canada Hardcover 🇨🇦 @canadahardcover.bsky.social You will likely find me knee-deep in crime fiction books. 
Nairn Books @nairnbooks.bsky.social linktr.ee/nairnbooks
European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
LET THEM EAT BOOKS THE PODCAST @letthemeatbooks.bsky.social Let Them Eat Books is a podcast by Colin Herd & Claire Reynolds about all the food you have & haven’t tried in all the books & poems you have & haven’t read.
Streaming weekly wherever you get your podcasts
🍽️📚📖✌🏻 https://bit.ly/LetThemEatBooks
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Carol Waterkeyn @carolwater.bsky.social Former feature writer and editor, now writing fiction - women's and children's novels, and short stories. Loves travel, gardening, crafts, the coast and countryside. Cat owner. Married. UK-based.
Christine Morgan @bookwormchris.bsky.social Reads a lot & writes too. Love all things literary. Interests include the sea, Art & Design, Education, Health & Disability issues.
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Lesley McLean @lmclea2.bsky.social Writer & editor of greeting cards and jokes; artsy-crafty; reader, especially of crime thrillers - like to post reviews too!
Nic the Bookseller @nic-v.bsky.social Part-time bookseller, full-time reader.
Bristol, UK.
When I read a book, I post a little review here.
Soho Press @sohopress.bsky.social Independent book publisher of bold literary voices, award-winning international crime fiction, and groundbreaking horror.
linktr.ee/sohopress
Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social I should have been a pair of ragged claws…
Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. Thrilled to be in top 5% of entrants for 2026 Bridport Novel prize #amquerying
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social Cartoonist, co-creator/creator of Salmonella Smorgasbord/the Bad Bad Place/Lip Hook and such.
Citizen Paul Templeman @paultempleman.bsky.social Writes books
Takes photos
Drinks red wine (often)
Writer of 'Cuba Libre' available at Amazon - https://amzn.eu/d/0ehs5BWk
#BuntersBrexit at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTK3R9P3
#TheLastHope https://amzn.eu/d/aOoz680
Blog at https://edennote.com
Caroline G 📚 @loopyk.bsky.social Irish. Leinster Rugby and Ireland Rugby supporter. 🇮🇪
Work as a support worker in preschool.
Dog lover, avid reader of books, fan of Freddie Mercury and Queen.
Love John Connolly, and Icelandic and Scandi noir.
Mairi Damer @marzid.bsky.social 🏴 Glasgow gal, unapologetic cheeky monkey, partial to great craic. Music daft, frequent gig-goer. Punky, rudie and lefty. Fitba & photography fan. Proud #MDANT
AliceBadAssGothicMedic1 @raealice2.bsky.social Avid lover of Music, (Rock,Metal,Reggae, Blues )Books,TTRPG🎲
Science , Art ,History plus witty, kind folk.
Social skills of a gnat .^_^ Unlikely to post much.
DeeEm @deeemceeem.bsky.social Donna 🏴
Here for music challenges, and to read (and occasionally post) about books/films/tv/radio and silliness.
🎶 📚 🎬 📺 📻 🐈⬛️
Scotify @scotify.bsky.social Music junkie living in the land of 10,000 lakes.
Paul Connell @paulconnell.bsky.social Stirling based writer/guitar owner. Here for culture, politics, history, daftness. MD ANT (3rd class)
@dogearedtatty.bsky.social @dogearedtatty.bsky.social Bookworm, ballet fan, likes a good detective story. Now with the NHS. All views my own. Goodreads and NetGalley user.
🇨🇦🍁 Fictionophile - #Booksky 💙📚 @fictionophile.bsky.social Retired public library cataloguer - more time to read! Now full time fiction reader and reviewer. I read mostly mystery/crime/thriller and historical, women's or contemporary fiction.
I have submitted 780 reviews to NetGalley so far...
& 540 to Edelweiss
North Lanarkshire Libraries @librariesnl.bsky.social Library service in North Lanarkshire. News, events and of course books.
Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social Scriever, Gomerel.
Scriever an Furthsetter o "The Life Time o Valerie Duke, Phase Yin: Bluid an Rackets" Oot NOO!
A micht dicht ma posts noo an agane.
#ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Scots #ScotsPoetry #ScotsScrievin #Gaidhlig #Independence #Scotland
Dreena’s Writing (Dreena C) @dreenawriting.co.uk Author. Insomniac. Tofu-eating wokerati. Pub’d here & there. 🇯🇪🌟 Winner: Flash500. Placed/ listed: Bridport, Marlowe & Christie, BFFA, SPR, etc. 🌟 Part-time scallywag. 🌟 I also write as Jane Harvey. 🌟
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
@guardianbooks.bsky.social @guardianbooks.bsky.social 
Rebecca Powell @rebeccapowellbooks.bsky.social Author | Editor | Book coach.
Bristol girl now living in France. Caledonia Novel Award SL. Goldfinch Novel Award LL.
Rep’d by Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, ex Oracle admin. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
Christopher Silver @silverscribed.bsky.social Recovering freelance journalist/embattled early career academic: researching journalism, culture and place. 🏳️🌈🏴✊
https://www.christopher-silver.com/
Moira @moirabanks.bsky.social Lazy human, champion procrastinator, socially awkward, Impostor
Living in dreamland since 1957.
‘I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.’
Emily Dickinson
Dave Fraser/Hatari Teenage Riot @discodave75.bsky.social Tied to the 90s and really wishing there was a better 90s song to have lifted that line from.
Pretty much the same dodgy patter here as in the Other Place.
Daubs here: Discodave75.redbubble.com
He/Him
OmandOriginal @omandoriginal.bsky.social Audiobook proofer for Games Workshop Black Library.
Erstwhile artist at https://www.omandoriginal.com/
The cake is a lie.
Nicola Meighan @nicolameighan.bsky.social Arts Writer & Broadcaster 🏳️⚧️
Friday Afternoons, BBC Radio Scotland
A Kick Up The Arts podcast
akickupthearts.org
Interviews: Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, Martha Reeves, Joan Collins 
Nastasya Parker @nastasyaparker.bsky.social Writer with stories in The Phare, Funny Pearls, and featured in Stroud and Bristol Short Story Anthologies. Immigrated from New England to Old. I work in secondary education. Inexplicably drawn to not entirely pleasant characters.
Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social Stop fucking about and start writing.
Online courses | workshops | writing retreats | community | tea | biscuits | swearing | gold stars ⭐️
Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
Bay Tales @baytales.bsky.social Visit http://baytales.com
Bay Tales Live 2026 happening in Whitley Bay on 27/02/27 tickets available now!
Visit our website for the best tickets at the best price. £44.55 for the WHOLE DAY!
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
@bantambooksuk.bsky.social @bantambooksuk.bsky.social 
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.