Stockport Noir @stockportnoir.bsky.social Crime fiction festival in the North West. Saturday 31st January 2026 at Stockport Masonic Guildhall
Sue Thomas @brownflopsy.bsky.social Lover of all things bookish. Book reviewer and blogger at Brown Flopsy's Book Burrow. Cat servant. 🇬🇧 http://linktr.ee/brownflopsy Admin for The SquadPod Collective https://bsky.app/profile/squadpod2021.bsky.social
Cotswold Book Room @cotswoldbookroom.bsky.social Independent book shop in Wotton-under-Edge 📚
Expert recommenders 💙
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop @ylbooks.bsky.social In all our forms - bookshops in Gloucestershire, a festival or two, schools and libraries. Occasionally Hereward. Less often, Errol the dog.
Tammy S. Davies @tsdavies.bsky.social Wife, Mother, Fantasy author, Postgrad student MSc Computing and IT Management @ Cardiff University - pupper-mom to Falkor the Jerk Russell Terrorist - A Canadian 🇨🇦 in Wales 🏴
Neil Beynon 🏴 @neilbeynon.bsky.social 🏴 Restless writer. Omnivorous reader. Stubborn runner. Bound to be other things too. https://www.neilbeynon.com/
GB Williams and Abi Barden @gbwilliams.bsky.social Author of Crime as GB, and steampunk as Abi. Cat lover, Lego fan, reader, blogger.
Jan Baynham @janbaywrites.bsky.social Welsh writer of historical fiction with Joffe Books/Choc Lit. Fascinated by family secrets and skeletons lurking in cupboards. RNA and SoA member.
Mark Edwards @markedwardsauthor.bsky.social Author of psychological thrillers inc The Magpies and Here To Stay. The Wasp Trap coming summer 2025. Loves: cats, horror movies, Lana Del Rey and, of course, books.
Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social Crafter, research librarian, lapsed writer, former editor of The Girly Comic, watcher of kdrama, jdrama, tdrama, has ME/CFS, based in Leicester UK
https://factorfictionpress.co.uk/
Book Space Cardiff @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social Bookshop and community space in Cardiff
Any questions or order inquiries send an email to lily@bookspacecardiff.co.uk
https://www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/
Book-ish @book-ish.bsky.social 2 bookshops, Crickhowell and Abergavenny. Known for ranting, banging on about books and the odd humorous observation since 2010….
www.book-ish.co.uk
Jill's Book Cafe @jillsbookcafe.bsky.social A 60+ Yorkshire lass now residing in Cheshire. Ex librarian, bibliophile, book blogger & breast cancer thriver. Sorry unable to handle review requests. Blogs at jillsbookcafe.blog
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/
TrueCrimeMaps @truecrimemaps.bsky.social Real cases. Real places. True crime through maps, timelines & careful research. Exploring disappearances, unsolved mysteries, and the stories that deserve to be remembered.
Find us on Beacons.
https://beacons.ai/truecrimemaps
Deb’s Book Reviews @debsbookreviews.bsky.social Bookblogger/reviewer 📚
Allotment keeper 🌱
Theatre goer 🎭
Music lover 🎶
https://linktr.ee/DebsBookReviews
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
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
Exploding Unicorn by James Breakwell | Substack [Unofficial] @jamesbreakwell.substack.com.web.brid.gy Family comedy one disaster at a time. Click to read Exploding Unicorn by James Breakwell, a Substack publication.
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://jamesbreakwell.substack.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/jamesbreakwell.substack.com
Oliver Harris @oliharris.bsky.social Writer - crime novels, thrillers. Teaches creative writing at MMU.
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
Alex North @alexnorth.co.uk Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling crime writer, based in Leeds, UK. I publish as Alex North but my friends call me Steve. www.alexnorth.co.uk
Chris Bridges @chrisbridgeswriter.bsky.social Chronicaly ill crime writer.
Debut novel: Sick to Death shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award.
Agent: Hannah Schofield at LBA
1950s, Elizabeth Taylor and poodle obsessive, vegan.
Former nurse, living with MS
Links: https://tr.ee/1vaOIH2gP2
Claire Wade @clairerwade.bsky.social Author of THE CHOICE. Winner of the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition.
Founder of Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI). Winner of the RNA Inclusion Award.
♿️💜 She/her
https://linktr.ee/clairerwade
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
Jon Rand @jonrand.bsky.social Voiceover ont’ telly. Podcaster @failingwriters.bsky.social. Writer… one day… maybe
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.
https://podfollow.com/the-failing-writers-podcast
Alyssa Bushell @writesaly.bsky.social Flash fiction enthusiast and cozy mystery novelist. Find me near the water with my nose in a book. Bring pastries.
✒️ AlyWrites.ca
Gloucestershire Writers' Network (GWN) @gloswriters.bsky.social The go-to place for writers in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire
https://gloswriters.org.uk/
Caelan @caelanscottie.bsky.social Yorkshire author. Poet ✨ no social media rizz ✨ there's something noir in that nebula ☕️ www.caelanscott.com
Ruth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Still writing books... still drinking coffee... still making stuff up as I go along. The Woman in Suite 11 available to pre-order now at linktr.ee/ruthwarewriter
Find me at ruthware.com
Mary Grand @authormaryg.bsky.social I live and write on the Isle of Wight. classic whodunnit, murder mysteries.No.1 Bestselling author.
I love cats and dogs, new gym member(!) pub. by Boldwood Books. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Castle-Cove-murder-mystery-ebook/dp/B0BKFQZMBC/?
James Tobin @jamestobinauthor.bsky.social Fiction writer, at least while our machine overlords allow. Longlisted for CWA debut dagger and shortlisted for Goldfinch novel award.
Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social Writer, editor, translator. Books, Earth &
misc. musings. Someone Else's Conflict (2014) & #CliFi novels Riverflow (2019) and After the Clearances (coming 10 July 25) pub @honno. More at www.alayland.uk
Welsh National Theatre @welshnattheatre.bsky.social https://www.welshnationaltheatre.com
Laura Dobson @laurarose13.bsky.social PGDip Children's Wellbeing Practitioner; MSc Psychology (conversion); Writer of flash fiction and creative non-fiction with words in Hinterland Magazine, Ellipsis Zine, The Birdseed, The Phare
Bookaholic Bex @bexbookaholic.bsky.social Book-obsessed, theatre-loving feminist with a liberal outlook on life. Mental health champion. Award winning book blogger.
https://bookaholicbex.wordpress.com/
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Jeff McIntyre - Author @jeffmcintyre.bsky.social Telecom dork, writer, retired dog dad, gaming geek. Author of Theory of Magic - book 2 “The M Word” available 4/15.
Kelly Creighton @kellycrimebooks.bsky.social Northern Irish author. DI Harriet Sloane series, State of Fear, Souls Wax Fair, Unbecoming, The Bones of It, etc.
I don't respond to anonymous accounts.
Selina Beety (she/her) @a-stitch-in-time.bsky.social Reader, writer, Border Collie walker. Not loving these interesting times.
🕊️♾️ ☮️ 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🏴 🇩🇰 🇿🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
🛑 Please no DMs unless you are Hozier
🛑 Not looking for love
🛑 or cryptocurrency
Georgia DiPirro 📎 @georgiadipirro.bsky.social On a voyage that spans a lifetime. Storyteller • Writer • Screenwriter • Creative Tech Writer • All typos are mine. #Film #Dyslexia
🚫DM Blocked! Unless, I know you. “Flooding The Zone With Facts”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9526842/
Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social ⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
⋆WHITE TRASH WITCHCRAFT (HH Fall, 2027)
⋆Rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social at Azantian
⋆✒️WTMP & 🩵 SmoochPit Mentor
https://linktr.ee/RowanBrightonBrown
Kerry P (Author & Editor) @kerrypwrites.bsky.social 💻 Editor. CIEP professional member.
💞 Author of contemporary romance and romcoms with heart, heat & HEA.
💜 WIP: Hearts Adrift.
🧠 Neurodivergent.
Laura Jensen Walker @laurajensenwalker.bsky.social Lover of books, tea, & England. Writer of mysteries, “women’s” fiction & historicals. Death of a Flying Nightingale: “Riveting and affecting” - NYT bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal. Rep: Vicky Weber, CMA
Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
Buy Now: https://geni.us/OEi75Gh
Guy Morpuss @guymorpuss.bsky.social Writer. Barrister. Published by @viperbooks.bsky.social. Rep'd by @onechaptermore.bsky.social.
Richard Hooton @rjhooton.bsky.social Writer. Award-winning short fiction.
Debut novel THE MARGARET CODE published by Sphere Books out now: http://bit.ly/4eNE0CI.
Rep: @stubbleagent @ RCW
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
M. K. Rush - Author @mkrush.com Author of Grounded Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Spicy Romance www.mkrush.com
She💙Her
Lollygagger | Abuse Survivor | Gamer | Voracious Reader | Plant & Animal Lover | Ex - AI Computer Scientist | Kind People Lover
Posts by me - http://bit.ly/4fGM9ti
@londonwriterssalon.bsky.social @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social 
Nadine Matheson @nadinematheson.com Bestselling Author👩🏾💻 | Host of ‘The Conversation’ Podcast 🎙️| All Views My Own 💬
www.nadinematheson.com
Podcast: apple.co/3RSKsxK |Spotify spoti.fi/3DVDB0G
📗OUT NOW: ‘THE SHADOW CARVER’ - https://linktr.ee/Nadine_Matheson
Megan Carroll @megancarrollagent.bsky.social Literary Agent at @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Lilja Sigurðardóttir @liljawriter.bsky.social Award winning Icelandic author of “The Reykjavik Noir Trilogy” and “Arora Investigates” series. New book: BLACK AS DEATH - out now!
https://linktr.ee/liljawriter
Lucy Dauman @lucydauman.bsky.social Deputy Publishing Director for Crime & Thriller at Headline Books
📚 All views my own.
Katie Holloway @katiehwrites.bsky.social Mostly, you'll find me here: https://loseyourselfbooks.substack.com/
Rosanna Forte @rosannaforte.bsky.social Editorial Director @ Little, Brown UK.
Commissioner of beautiful books with big plots. Generalist but particularly partial to the historical, the criminal, the ghostly and the lightly fantastical.
Exclusively 📚 on this account.
Sarah Lawton @sarahlawton.bsky.social Author, editor, reader, professional couch-hogger. 
Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social Literary & commercial translator (Swedish, Norwegian & French to UK English). Proofreader/editor. Writer. Manx European in rural southern Sweden. Gamer. Lefty. Autistic. More than slightly obsessed with IDLES.
Buy my book here: https://amzn.to/3ykZYJh
Caroline England Author *The Return of Frankie Whittle out 8 Feb @cazengland.bsky.social The Stranger Beside Me; The Sinner; Truth Games; Betray Her; My Husband's Lies; Beneath the Skin Also writes as CE Rose: The Attic at Wilton Place; The Shadows of Rutherford House; The House on the Water's Edge;The House of Hidden Secrets 
Federica @fedstrg.bsky.social Federica not F(r)ederica. Press Office at Headline. She/Her. Views my own
Ruth Brandt @ruthabrandt.bsky.social Writer & creative writing tutor.
Words: Fly on the Wall Press, Bridport Prize 2018, Bristol Short Story, Litro, The Phare, Ellipsis Zine, Fictive Dream, Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology and other lovely folk ...
website: www.Ruth@ruthbrandt.co.uk
The Coroner's Report Podcast @coronersreport.bsky.social A Southern true crime podcast. Join our team as we delve into cases. Sometimes, we look at interesting murders, and other times, just strange, unsettled deaths. We talk to the experts, including police investigators, psychiatrists, and family members.
Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social Lawyer. Writer. Artist. PhD: Creative & Critical Writing: The Hybrid Aesthetic as Decolonial Practice
Winner of Queen Mary Wasafiri Prize 2023. Co Ediitor: Gathering (2024). Nasiasarwarskuse.com
Whonextmary @whonextmary.bsky.social Librarian and Swimmer
Online help to find author suggestions you might like to read
https://www.whoelsewriteslike.com/
Online ideas on what to read next for children and young people
https://www.whonextguide.com/
Cathy Ace @cathyace.bsky.social Author of the Bony Blithe Award-winning Cait Morgan Mysteries, the #1 international amazon cozy WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries and suspense THE WRONG BOY
Lisa Sell, Author @lisasell.bsky.social Multiple-published thrillers author. Writing mentor. Meme queen. Writing advice and musings. Runs on sarcasm and coffee. All my books are on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Penguin Michael Joseph @michaeljbooks.bsky.social Est. 1935 🐧 A division of Penguin Random House 📚 Home to some of the world's most popular authors 📖
Zooloo's Book Tours @zooloosbt.bsky.social 📖Supports ALL Authors and Publishers with worldwide digital book tours.
😻crazy cat lady📚book lover☕decaff tea drinker
Tap below to find out more⬇️
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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction
https://freeflashfiction.com/
CMJohnston @cmjohnston.bsky.social Camera-pointing sometimes, powered by Ms J always. OM System convert, usually snapping around County Antrim. Watches filums. Supports neurodivergence & mental health a’ness. Carer. Join a Union and a Credit Union please and thank you.
River and Celia in Underland @riverandcelia.bsky.social
Living our queer, twisted truth. Stories, art, love, and cantankerous cats.
https://river-and-celia-in-underland-shop.fourthwall.com/
https://riverandceliainunderland.com/
https://www.tiktok.com/@riverandceliainunderland
Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social Author of the Nathan Sutherland Venetian mysteries. Currently investigating "The Magus of Sicily" with Nedda and Calogero.
Here for Italy, music, old horror films and prog rock!
https://linktr.ee/pgjonesvenice
https://philipgwynnejones.com- C Carol Parchewsky @carolannparchewsky.bsky.social Writer, Instructor. Words in Stanchion, Flash Boulevard, On the Run, Drunk Monkeys, Burningword Literary.
www.carolannparchewsky.com
Richard Jerram @richardjerram.bsky.social The Makoto Murders out in July 2026 … CWA Debut Dagger 2024 winner … UEA Crime Fiction MA … rep’d by Lisa Moylett at CMM … PhD economist …
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ 
🐺 Nathalie M.L. Römer 🐺 @nathaliemlromer.bsky.social Author of 🐺The Wolf Riders of Keldarra🐺 | Writes #epicfantasy #scifi #mystery #romance #horror | Pagan | Owns Emerentsia Publications and @nathaliemlromer.com Bsky acc. No PMs pls.
Website: nathaliemlromer.com
I'm @nathaliemlromer on all social media.
Cris ap Iago @crisapiago.bsky.social Cymro - Pel-droed (Caerdydd) ac rygbi (Ponty). Data geek. Annibyniaeth. Live on the sunny slopes of the Garth.
Elidir Jones @elidirj.bsky.social Awdur ffantasi ac arswyd | Horror and fantasy author • Sgriptiwr | Scriptwriter • Isdeitlydd | Subtitler
Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social Writes SFF as Gareth L. Powell and horror and mystery as G.L. Powell. Occasional award winner. Repped by Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency.
🔗 Mystery and Horror - https://www.glpowell.com
🔗 Science Fiction - https://www.garethlpowell.com
Isabel Ashdown @isabelashdown.com 🦀 Coast loving writer of 10 novels
📚 Royal Literary Fund Fellow
✍️ Writing tutor & coach
⭐️ NEW novel writing masterclass out now!
Publisher: @orionbooks
Agent: @agentkateshaw
www.isabelashdown.com
Sævar Halldórsson @saevarhalldorsson.bsky.social Icelandic writer/producer working for Television Network in New York. Sr. writer/producer on #Vikings for History. Author of upcoming Icelandic Crime Series.
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
Jenny Quintana @jennyquintana.bsky.social Author. The Missing Girl, The Hiding Place, Our Dark Secret
@MantleBooks @panmacmillan
Agent @davidhheadley.bsky.social
Martin Lake @martinlake.bsky.social Published 25 books, mainly historical fiction from ancient Crete to World War 2. I send my characters to places I fear to go.
viewauthor.at/MartinLake
Martinlake.substack.com
#Kindle
#histfic
Lianne @lianneslittlebooks.bsky.social Instagram home is @lianneslittlebookshelf
Reviewer and lover of books 📚
Catch me for all your crime, thriller, literary fiction and sapphic romance reviews 🫶🏼
Mark Rutterford @markrutterford.bsky.social Writer-Performer.
Stories. Love. Props.
Badgers. Lucy. Daylight and fresh air.
Alizon Robertson @alizonrobertson.bsky.social Aged reader and writer of crime fiction and ghost stories. Querying The Lantern Bearers and writing new work in progress- The Lost Boys of Starling Farm. Recovering academic. Lefty punk pensioner with allotment. Likes a rant about social justice!
Samantha Horley @samanthahorley.bsky.social Screenwriter @ Utd Agents, script doctor, ex intl film sales, BIFA juror. Recently qualified Clinical Sexologist; monogamy is a patriarchal scam, discuss.
@writerunboxed.bsky.social @writerunboxed.bsky.social 
Stephanie Cotela @stephaniecotela.bsky.social Art Historian & Author writing spooky mysteries for children & crime thrillers for adults. 👻📚 @scbwi_british_isles @mslexia & @thesocietyofauthors https://linktr.ee/stephaniecotela
Brenna Rose @brennab1227.bsky.social I am a wife, mom and first grade teacher from Michigan. Vote blue always! 💙
Please help my first graders get what they need to start the 26/27 school year successfully 🩷 https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1ZYGN0IJYAXMF?ref_=wl_share
Vanitha Sankaran @vanithasankaran.bsky.social Writer. Scientist. Traveler.
Laura Wheatman Hill @laurawheatmanhill.bsky.social Writer (?!)
2 dogs (!!)
Also 2 humans (...)
https://www.laurawheatmanhill.com/ 
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social