John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
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Oksanna Crawley @oksanna.bsky.social Mom, teacher, inclusion, LOTR, oceans, cake, Super Hammy
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J.J. Scott | Orensha (author & creator) @orensha.bsky.social I am a self-published author, musician, artist, technology professional and science nerd.
Orensha is my warehouse of creation.
Enter the Universe with the free prequel novella: https://orensha.com/start
Leigh Therriault💫 @leightherriault.bsky.social Canadian writer & poet 🌙✨️ AuDHD ☆
A STRANGE PLACE FOR A GHOST 👻 coming Sep 2027 from Orca Book Publishers 📚
Rep: Liz Nealon at Great Dog Literary
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St Louis Atheists @stlouisatheists.bsky.social "If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" Carl Sagan @rsslmo.bsky.social @atheists.org @ffrf.org @nickfish.me @ethicalstl.org @riatheists.bsky.social ⚛️ 📚💙🐕 🚭 Team Site
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James Penha @jamespenha.bsky.social Poet. Editor of @NewVerseNews.bsky.social at http://newversenews.blogspot.com and https://thenewversenews.substack.com . Expat New Yorker living in Bali. he/him 🌈 💙 Story collection—Queer As Folk Tales—out now https://a.co/d/9GkGz81. https://jamespenha.com
Melissa Rea Author 📚📚📚 @melrea.bsky.social Four novels written. Fun sexy novels about strong women. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Melissa-Rea/author/B018EE5T5Y?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true / @iquitcigs.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social Team Site StL Mo 🚭
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
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WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
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Layla Hawke - author @laylahawke2.bsky.social Human Writer who cares abt the environment, fairness, equality, animals...
Navigations series-dystopian, fantasy, romance, also sweet romance, fantasy. Reader
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Steve Downes @writerstevedownes.bsky.social Author of Fyre & Stone crime/historical fiction series.
Books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Apple Books & Google Play
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social I make comics. Bunny Vs Monkey, Looshkin, Megalomaniacs, Flember, Fish Head Steve, Max And Chaffy, and Super Duper Bunny League coming to Nickleodeon in 2024!
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Launched in 1980, we review hundreds of new children’s books each year and publish articles on every aspect of writing for children. Explore new issues and our 40 year archive for free on our website www.booksforkeeps.co.uk
CLPE @theclpe.bsky.social The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) is a UK based charity that creates and delivers award-winning literacy training and resources for the teachers of early years and primary school children.
Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social Children’s comic artist/writer.
Bumble & Snug graphic novels published by Hachette!
Represented by Lydia Silver of the Soho Agency.
Talks about comics a *lot*.
Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social Author of crime for kids.
#KidnapatMidnight a Malory Towers Mystery out in September with Hachette
West Country UK
- she/her.
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@AgentKateShaw.bsky.social
Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social ✏️ Comics writer and artist
🍩 Creator of AWARD-WINNING and/or BEST-SELLING comics such as MEGA ROBO BROS and DONUT SQUAD!
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Mich Kenney @michkenneybooks.bsky.social Barefoot dreamer. Also author YA BOOK OF FIRE trilogy @hqstories & THE FAIRFAX SISTERS SERIES out now @onemorechapterhc Rep’d @northbanktalent
Spark! School Book Award @sparkbookaward.bsky.social Sparking the imaginations of young readers! Now in our 6th year, we are excited to welcome schools across the country to join our awards & vote for the winners. www.sparkbookawards.co.uk
Richard Ruddick @richardruddick.bsky.social Convinced your classroom needs more graphic novels. 
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Dr. Mohan Prasad Joshi @mohan-prasad-joshi.bsky.social Awareness • Silence • Nature • Poetry • Spirituality
MD, MSc • Former Professor & Global AMR Consultant
Author of A Hundred Flowers to Awareness and Death
Photos/videos/GIFs are original & shot by me (except RTs)
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Ted Morrissey @tedmorrissey.bsky.social Novelist, story writer, poet, scholar, translator, theorist, librarian, publisher, podcaster, educator
glucas6696.bsky.social @glucas6696.bsky.social I read and write a lot of poetry. I especially like ekphrastic poetry, which is poetry inspired by visual works of art. I also play classical guitar.
Emily Munro💜💀🩶🖤 @thatemilymunro.bsky.social Author blending scifi and fantasy with reckless abandon. Lurks in Brooklyn. Episode 952 on PodCastle!
TTRPGs, Tea, and Fountain Pens.
also at @writingabtwriting.bsky.social
Blogs at writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
she/her. Opinions my own.
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Matt Masucci @mattmasucci.bsky.social Writer. [REDACTED]. Person.
Genres: Horror, Crime, Mystery, Suspense
HWA Member
www.matthewmasucci.com
David Whish-Wilson @davidwhish-wilson.bsky.social Fremantle-based crime writer and reader, reviewer, academic. Author of the Frank Swann and Lee Southern series. Latest is Cutler, out with Fremantle Press.
Deborah Crombie @debcrombie.bsky.social writer, author of the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James British Crime novels, anglophile, dog and cat lover, foodie, gardener, sporadic journaler
Barry Forshaw @barryf48.bsky.social Writer & journalist (newspapers, magazines); books on crime fiction & film (inc. Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide, British Gothic Cinema). Editor: Crime Time (www.crimetime.co.uk), Blu-ray Choice (www.dvdchoices.co.uk), Classical CD Choice
JD Kirk @jdkirk.bsky.social Writer of crime fiction. 
ReganMacArthur @reganmacarthur.bsky.social Writer of crime fiction under my own name. Published author (starting Sept. 8, 2023!) of morally-deficient pulp novels as Clint Reno. For those who want more of me: reganmacarthurauthor.blogspot.com
Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
Mari Hannah @mariwriter.bsky.social Crime writer/screenwriter repped by @Oliagent @AMHeathLtd & Conrad Williams @BlakeFriedmann
web: marihannah.com
KG Hill @kghillwriter.bsky.social Crime/thriller writer living in The Peg. Tottenham Hotspur. Treaty One territory. Elbows Up. First Novel, The Icelander, coming soon. 🇨🇦🏴🇮🇪🇺🇦🍁
Lia Matera @liamatera.bsky.social Author liamatera.com
12 crime novels, 2 Edgar nominations; 14 stories, 1 Shamus winner, 1 Int'l Thriller Award nom
Editor, anthology of stories by my betters
ChatGPT says I died in 2022, making me...a ghost writer?
Member CA Bar
Sorry, I don't reply to DMs
Sarah Stewart Taylor @sarahstewarttaylor.bsky.social Vermont crime writer, book hoarder, kid/sheep/flower/chicken wrangler, author of the Maggie D'arcy series and Agony Hill, out now from Minotaur Books. www.SarahStewartTaylor.com
Corrina @corrinalawson.bsky.social Multi-genre writer of steampunk, mysteries and paranormal romance. Check out Above the Fold, starring Trisha, my punk rock crime reporter in 1980s Manhattan. https://books2read.com/Mysteries1UBL
Karin Salvalaggio @karinsalvalaggio.bsky.social American crime writer living in London. Staying for the werewolves.
www.karinsalvalaggio.com
Sherryl writes and reads @sherrylwriter.bsky.social Writer of crime fiction and books for young readers of all ages. Most recent crime novel is "Woman, Missing" (HQ). Love reading. Edit part-time. Owner (servant) of a cat.
Emily Webb @emilywebbcrime.bsky.social True crime writer. Advocacy and Comms work ♥️ Wales Cymru thanks to Welsh husband. Late-diagnosed ADHD. Love old time radio drama, archives. Living on Wurundjeri Country she/her https://linktr.ee/emilywebbcrime
Lyndsey Goddard @pinklibrarian.bsky.social Librarian. Singer. Writer of pantomimes and murder mysteries. Crime fiction devotee. All views are my own.
Dan Eady Author @daneady.bsky.social Writer of Genre Fiction mostly of the horror/crime-thriller variety from Aotearoa, New Zealand I General Nerdiness | Metal, Dark Country & Ambient music Fan I Taco Demolition Expert
https://linktr.ee/daniel_eady
Rebecca 🧡📚 Lewis Smith @beccalewissmith.bsky.social Here for the #writingcommunity 🖋️📚 and #booksky
Writer of female-led crime novels.
Rep’d by Kiya Evans at Mushens Entertainment
Ciar Byrne @ciarbyrne.bsky.social Author of Golden Age cosy crime series ‘The Woolf & Bell Mysteries’. Gardening writer. Media hack. Wrangler of unruly allotment/ Cockapoo/ offspring/ laundry pile.
www.ciarbyrne.co.uk
R.N. Morris @rnmorris.bsky.social Writer of historical crime fiction and other things. Podcast scriptwriter on The Curious History of Your Home for Noiser. “Mesmerizing, repellent, bizarre, intelligent, dark, provocative… utterly fascinating…”
Booklist
Lara Bricker @larabricker.bsky.social Crime writer, licensed private investigator, Crime Writers On podcast personality, certified cat detective, author of the Piper Greene Exeter mysteries and community connector.
larabricker.com
Keith Brooke @keithbrooke.co.uk Makes up shit. Eloquently. Crime & SF writer, editor, photographer... Author of alt.human/Harmony, The Accord, half of Wormhole, and other stuff. Writes as Nick Gifford for teens. www.keithbrooke.co.uk
Adam Maxwell @adam.kilchester.com Crime writer. Idiot. Genius. Liar.
Author of the Kilchester series of darkly comic crime thrillers.
Want a couple of books free?
www.linktree.com/kilchester
Jan Pippins @jhpippinsauthor.bsky.social Writer, wife, shepherdess, stablehand, she/her, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America. Liberal in Louisianastan. Always brave enough to suck at something new!
Angela Ranson - Author @angelaauthor.bsky.social I am a historical crime fiction writer, currently working on the Catrin Surovell series, in which one of Elizabeth I's ladies in waiting solves mysteries for her queen. Find me on my website: https://angela-ranson-author.mailchimpsites.com/
Noelle Holten @noelleholten.bsky.social Crime writer; book publicist in publishing; book reviewer on CrimeBookJunkie; criminologist; ex-Senior Probation Officer and avid reader!
Sara Mossman | Writer & Filmmaker 🏳️🌈 @saramossman.bsky.social If Spinelli grew up to be an angry lesbian.
Award winning filmmaker and author S.A. Mossman.
Making art about gays and crime.
Black/Filipina/Indigenous/Jewish 🏳️🌈 Angeleno from Bmore
Novel: 'The Tree of Life' on Amazon and B&N
saramossman.com
Kevin Moreau @kevinmoreau.bsky.social Writer, editor, co-host of The Comics Canon podcast. Recovering music and entertainment journalist. Comics, RPG, fantasy, sci-fi, crime fiction and hard rock enthusiast. I contain multitudes, and they’re all bummed out.
Jon Davis @sivads-sanctum.bsky.social He/him. Armchair occultist. Writer of In the Light of a Setting Sun, CRIME WAVE, and HAMMERS.
https://sivadssanctum.carrd.co/
Oliver Harris @oliharris.bsky.social Writer - crime novels, thrillers. Teaches creative writing at MMU.
Markus Neumann @fl4tlinr.bsky.social Ancient History & Classical Archeology @goetheuni.bsky.social
Playtester @Ubisoft
Writer @fearzinemagazine.com
All things Horror, indie, tabletop, books, F1, Warhammer...
Partner in crime of @synaktis.bsky.social
JP ROSE AKA JACQUI ROSE @jprosewriter.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling crime author. Award winning children's writer. Teamed up to write books with my buddy, Martina Cole. Owned by horses, cats and dogs. Find me in the land of unicorns.
Jay King @jay-king-art.bsky.social Athens-based writer, performer & translator from the Republic of Croydon.
Crime novels, audiobooks and drama, bouzouki, neurodivergence, migraines, G.O. 💚🍉
Now also Greek.
I wrote Common Charges, the Exarcheia murder mystery
Www.jayking.art
Jasper Barry @jasperbarry.bsky.social Writer. Servant to 2 cats. European history and literature. Crime Fiction. Hates Trump and is worried sick about democracy and world peace. #TheArchers #FBPE #FBPEU
Nicola Whyte @nixawhy.bsky.social Writer, reader, web developer, ex-bookseller. Pratchett fan. Lives near Stonehenge. Debut crime novel '10 Marchfield Square' out now. (She/Her)
https://linktr.ee/nicolawhyte
#Author #Crime #BookSky
Delia Pitts @deliapitts50.bsky.social Twins mother, historian, diplomat, university administrator, crime fiction writer. DEATH OF AN EX is out now. TROUBLE IN QUEENSTOWN is in paperback.
Mandy Byatt Author @mandybyattauthor.bsky.social Crime fiction writer. The Gallery of Bones, Book 1 of The British Heritage Mysteries out spring 2026.
Jo Furniss @jofurniss.bsky.social Author of crime novels. Writer of history podcasts. Resident of seaside town.
Katie Lee @shinykatie.bsky.social Writer. Crime fic as @KJLyttleton, comedy sci-fi as me. Rep DHAMedia. Inevitable Substack: https://shinykatie.substack
Also: ex tech journo, ex digital media entrepreneur.
Cath Staincliffe @cathstaincliffe.bsky.social Crime writer – novels, radio, TV, to-do lists. Reading junkie. Likes hill-walks, mum dancing, pootling in the garden. She/her. Latest book Fire on the Fells.
Anna Britton @brittonbookgeek.bsky.social Freelance book editor, cake maker and loud laugh-er. Library lover, crime writer and dog spotter. Rep’d by Saskia Leach & pub’d by Canelo - Shot in the Dark and Close to the Edge 📚
https://linktr.ee/thebrittonbookgeek
Peter May @authorpetermay.bsky.social Award-winning writer of crime novels, including the Lewis Trilogy, The China Thrillers and the Enzo Files, as well as numerous standalones. Sixteen million books sold worldwide. “The Black Loch” out now.
Shauna Mc Eleney 🇮🇪 🏳️🌈 @shaunamceleney.bsky.social Irish writer of dark fiction. Awake in the Night (sapphic haunted house) is on KU, eBook, and paperback.
One half of NEFARIOUS BAT PRESS. Female-owned indie publisher specialising in queer horror, crime, and dark fiction.
She/her
Jane Lanigan @editors4change.bsky.social Freelance copyeditor, writer (www.editors4change.co.uk)
Social justice, climate justice, sustainable futures, democracy, human rights. Also live music 💃🏻, trashy crime novels 📚, walks on the South Downs 🌳☔️. One grown up daughter, three cats 😸. 🚫DMs
Em @wvesquiress.bsky.social Lawyer and writer, senior editor at ordinary-times.com. I keep my worst opinions to myself. Also, onions suck.
True Crime writings: thatsawfultellmemore.wordpress.com
Vanda Symon @vandasymon.bsky.social Kiwi crime writer, CWA Dagger finalist, Barry Award nominee, science gal, and dangerous woman with a sword. The Traitors New Zealand
Julie Irwin @jdirwinbooks.bsky.social Writer. Doesn't go on about it. Likes a laugh. Rep'd for children's lit by Fraser Ross Associates, Edinburgh. Crime Fiction WIP.
Anika K. Clausen @akclausen.bsky.social Dark and twisted crime fiction/horror writer
🇨🇭-based Dane who speaks 🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷, who loves to hike with her dog | Singer/songwriter
Find my work and upcoming publications here:
https://akclausen.com
GiGi Mac @gigimac.bsky.social I’m an independent political researcher and systems writer focused on how global corruption, organized crime, and transnational far‑right alliances target the working class and undermine democratic institutions. https://gigimacm.substack.com/
Gin | soft hiatus (carpal tunnel) @ziinnias.bsky.social Illustrator, writer, comics. they/them. 30. Currently working on Marmalade Gaze (slice of life, supernatural horror, crime comic).
☕ https://ko-fi.com/ziinnias
🍵 https://vgen.co/ziinnias
🚫 AI/NFT or T*RF shit
#ziinniart #comic #OCsky
Jane McLoughlin @jbmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer of Gothic suspense, psychological thrillers, and other crime. The Perfect Couple, Lume/Joffe out March, 24.
Jeff Noon @jeffnoon.bsky.social Writer of Science Fiction and Crime Novels
Meagan Daine @meagandaine.bsky.social Writer recovering from a life of crime. Cross, Murder with My Husband, Mind of a Serial Killer. I may post the occasional cat pic.
Daniel Aubrey @spacemandan13.bsky.social Crime writer 📚 Debut novel DARK ISLAND out now!
🏆 SL - McDermid Debut Award & Bloody Scotland Debut Prize.
🏆 LL - Saltire Society First Book Prize.
✍️ Agent: Ella Kahn at DKW
#Orkney obsessed. #AuDHD. #BookSky 💙📚
Mostly here for the #dog pics 🦮🐕🦺
Peter Blauner @peterblauner.bsky.social 9-time crime novelist, part-time TV writer, full-time bettor on underdogs.
Jan Kimbrough @jankimbrough.bsky.social WGA writer – Features and True Crime television. Proud Badger. NYWIFT Writing Lab funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. 2025 Grey List. Runner-up to the winner in Scriptapalooza. Plume et Pellicule in Switzerland.
Colin Matthews @colinmatthews.bsky.social UK-born 🇨🇦🇮🇪 Award-Winning Film & TV writer/director of ‘Never Use Alone’ & ‘In Plain Sight’ true crime series.
www.NeverUseAloneFilm.com
Simon Scarrow @simon-scarrow.bsky.social Writer of historical and crime fiction. Have been known to be a Sunday Times number one bestselling author. I was a lecturer previously and sad to leave formal education. Try to make up for that by making interesting comments on social media.
LoriHellis, Author and Lawyer @lorihellis.bsky.social Lawyer and true crime author. Veteran. Author of Children of Darkness and Light. Siamese cat mom. Oregon lib 💙 Female veteran. Quilter. Rep’d by Sinsheimer Literary DMs=block #truecrime #writer #author #thegoodlori #meezers4evah #booksky #chasingjustice
Shauna Joy @shaunajoy.bsky.social I'm that Scottish Screenwriter 💜 | genre writer (horror, crime), love living things and human beings, hate fascists | proud to be working at https://www.officialstuntlist.com | for script consultancy contact me on: bavvymorda@gmail.com
Claire Stibbe @clairestibbe.bsky.social 𝙋𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧 of dark fiction with twist endings. Crime series with dp Books. ʙᴏᴏᴋꜱ | ᴡᴇʙꜱɪᴛᴇ ɪɴꜰᴏ👇🏼
Jill Johnson @writerjilljohnson.bsky.social 🥀Crime Writer🥀Creator of Toxic Botanical Mayhem🥀DEVIL’S BREATH+HELL’S BELLS+BELLA DONNA+BLOOD ROOT🥀
@bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social 🇬🇧@sourcebooks.bsky.social 🇺🇸
BBC Between the Covers book club pick
Insta: jilljohnsonwrites
Info: http://jilljohnsonwrites.com
Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction & Non Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social ✍🏼WRITER
📖13 PARK LANE historical crime novel - an Amazon best seller + others
🩰Late onset ballet dancer
🐕🦺Dog lover
RobMcInroy @mcinrob.bsky.social Scottish writer
Bob and Annie Kelty Scottish historical crime series - Cuddies Strip, Barossa Street, Moot.
Barvick Falls forthcoming autumn 2025
Fiction with a social conscience
www.robmcinroy.co.uk
Virtual Moth @virtualmoth.bsky.social I'm Harlow! I'm a Gamedev, writer, composer, et cetera. I make [Tynk! and the Final Phonorecord] and am a concept artist and designer for [Beastieball] by Wishes Unlimited. (❤️partner in crime: @curryswirl.bsky.social❤️)
https://linktr.ee/virtualmoth
Derek Farrell @derekifarrell.bsky.social He/ him. Crime-writer. Puppy-parent. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦✍️🧠🐕🦺
Ray Pace @raypace.bsky.social Writer of crime novels and other books, former news reporter, sailor, and ballplayer. Big Island. My website is
www.raypacewrites.com.
RachelWardbooks @rachelwardbooks.bsky.social Writer of cozy crime series, The Supermarket Mysteries, plus psych thrillers, and YA (Numbers). Now non-fiction, Write Your Cozy Mystery. Takes photos of Bath, UK, draws, paints, wrangles dogs.
Rea Rhine @rearhine.bsky.social Historical crime writer (current WIP sees Isambard Kingdom Brunel's sister Emma act as an amateur sleuth), tour guide at the Brunel Museum, freelance tour guide offering "Visiting London in the 18th & 19th Century" walks, WaSh Wombles co-director