Lindsay Vaught @lindsayfouts.bsky.social Spalding CNF student
🎷 player
Louisville KY liberal
Protect trans 🏳️⚧️ youth
RT doesn’t = endorsement
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social We publish books. We like fiction, nonfiction, translation, poetry, and topics of social relevance. And you?
Distributor: @ipgbook.bsky.social
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Lisa @runtalien.bsky.social 😷 Chicago based book critic and cofounder of Who Even Reads (whoevenreads.com). Follow us at @whoevenreads.bsky.social. Editor in academic publishing. Show me your orange cat. 🐈
Stephalazarasus goes rawr! 🦕 @stephalazarasus.bsky.social B.S. in Psych 𖤓 Book Lover 𖤓 Book Reviewer 𖤓 No Gen. AI 𖤓 she/her 𖤓 Stuck in FL pls send help lol
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Yodamonkey @yodamonkey2.bsky.social Avid Blue democracy supporter and hater of The Orange Orangutan! . I follow back 100%. I LOVE people and Kindness. Latest Book is out now. https://olympiapublishers.com/book/screaming-into-the-darkness Followed by Mark Hamill & Morgan Fairchild #Blues
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social Celebrating admirable women and girls (historical & contemporary). Their courage, resilience, perseverance, triumphs. Highlighting "firsts." Raising awareness of injustices and our struggles, obstacles, erasure, and more. #WomenInSTEM & in everything else!
Dell R. "Dell" Adams @dell-adams.bsky.social Oregonian truck driver in her intermodal era. Transitioning either for edgy political reasons or because it was just too much work to hide it from myself anymore. Meanwhile the world has one issue and one fight, which cannot wait for us to know ourselves.
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
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
A Book & Its Author @abookanditsauthor.bsky.social A Book & Its Author is a podcast featuring interviews with & readings by writers working in a variety of genres. Available on all your favorite platforms & here: https://abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/
Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social Fiction [Stealing the Fire]. Critic [BBC_Culture LitHub. Community [@bookcritics.bsky.social SFGrotto BayBookFest Litcampwriters .
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Katy Hershberger @katyhersh.bsky.social Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
Keith Arsenault @keitharsenault.bsky.social Book slinger, reader, music lover, fan of fauna and flora. #LiverpoolFC supporter. #YNWA 🧣
📍—Rhode Island
Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com Reader. Novelist. Fiction nerd. Pro-worker. Anti-billionaire. I teach at Columbia. Online for two decades.
Stephen Sparks @ssparks.bsky.social “To disappear, but not completely, so that you can know it.” - Elias Canetti
Point Reyes Books (pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) & Wayfinder Bookshop in Marin County, CA | Bad at email
Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social Reader, writer, and librarian. Author of George & Lizzie: A Novel; the Book Lust series, and The Writer's Library (with Jeff Schwager)
David Marcus @davidmarcus.bsky.social Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
Laura Marsh @lauramarsh.bsky.social Literary Editor, The New Republic
Jess @jessicaesquire.bsky.social Co-founder of @darkertimes.bsky.social. Queer, ex-Mormon, former lawyer. Day job in media. She/her.
The Triangle, NC.
https://darkertimes.com
Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof.
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
Laurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social On substack: https://lauriehertzel.substack.com. Also, book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist" and "Ghosts of Fourth Street," and teacher at MFA program at UGA-Athens.
Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
Warren Read @writenow1967.bsky.social Author, retired educator, determined optimist. So f*cking tired of the fight but damn it if I'm giving in.
www.warren-read.com
Hub City Bookshop @hubcitybookshop.bsky.social 864•577•9349 | Spartanburg, SC
Nonprofit bookstore of Hub City Writers Project
Sister store to @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Home of Zora Nelle, #hubkitty
Literary Community @literarycommunity.bsky.social Reposting book publication news, great reviews, work in journals, magazines & anthologies, and literary nominations & awards.
Also see: @rodmannix.bsky.social
@writingcommunity.bsky.social
@literarybulletin.bsky.social
https://LiteraryRetweet.com
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Jen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social Executive Director of the Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social
Literaryartsfund.org
YAbookscentral @yabookscentral.bsky.social Website devoted to YA, Middle-Grade, and Kids books.
We offer book reviews, blog content featuring author Q&A, guest posts, excerpts, cover reveals, and giveaways!
Authors- Check out how to advertise your book with YABC!
ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social Book blogger. Lectomane. Tsundoku carrier. #ReadingIsResistance
WARNING: Reading can seriously damage your ignorance.
I EXIST ON US DISABILITY 'BENEFITS'*DON'T ASK ME FOR MONEY.
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
PGC Books @pgcbooks.bsky.social Canadian distributors of the best in independent publishing. Part of the Raincoast Distribution Group. 🇨🇦
www.raincoastgroup.com 
Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social Senior resident fellow, the Renew Democracy Initiative. Music critic, The New Criterion. Substack: Onward and Upward.
sophia stewart @sophiastewart.bsky.social editor of the millions / news editor at publishers weekly
writing in hyperallergic, larb, the atlantic, the baffler, etc
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
Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Punamu’kwati’jk|Dartmouth (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, Sept 2026). https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com
📚💙
Spearheaded #100smallpress:
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/
A Cappella Books @acappellabooks.bsky.social Intown Atlanta's only full-service general bookstore since 1989. New. Used. Rare. Free delivery to most in-town ATL neighborhoods ($50 min)
Eagle Eye Book Shop @eagleeyebooks.bsky.social Snarky Independent Book Shop in Atlanta eagleeyebooks.com https://linktr.ee/eagleeyebooks
Green Apple Books on the Park @booksonthepark.bsky.social A branch of the legendary Green Apple Books in San Francisco's Inner Sunset. Est. 2014. Events happen here!
https://greenapplebooks.com/
Loyalty Bookstores @loyaltybooks.bsky.social Black, Asian, queer owned indie bookstore in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC with a long term pop up in the Parks at Walter Reed in DC.
Happenstance Bookshop @happenstancebook.shop Coming soon to Granville County, NC! A bookshop where stories & people meet by chance but connect with intention.
We're building something special. Join us on our journey! ✨
https://lnk.bio/happenstancebooks
Powerhouse Bookstores @phbookstores.bsky.social Brooklyn's coolest independent bookstore serves up an eclectic mix of the finest books for kids and adults, with locations in Dumbo, Park Slope, and Industry City!
Truman Books @trumanbooks.bsky.social A friendly local independent bookshop and cafe in Farsley, West Leeds.
Co-founder of Farsley Literature Festival.
www.trumanbooks.co.uk
Byrd's Books @byrdbrainct.bsky.social Your local independent bookstore in the heart of downtown Bethel, CT
The Booktenders @thebooktenders.bsky.social "Small but mighty" (we could fit in your pocket) indie bookstore for York, ME and neighboring communities.
463 US Route 1, York, ME 03909
www.thebooktenders.com
Eyes on Indie @eyesonindie.bsky.social Reader, writer, lover of small presses.
https://www.youtube.com/@eyesonindie
Wendy J. Fox @wendyjfox.bsky.social Deckled edges is my safe word. Reading and writing from the Sonoran desert.
NV Gay @nvgay.bsky.social Your favorite queer educator, writer, and photographer. Follow along for authentic representation and love.
Author of The Queer Allies Bible
www.mxgay.org
🏳️⚧️
RL Maizes (she/her) @rlmaizes.bsky.social New novel out November 4 titled A COMPLETE FICTION (Ig Publishing). Author of novel Other People's Pets, winner of Colorado Book Award, and short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper. Assistant to white cat and big-eared dog. Knitter. 🧶
Thérèse Purcell Nielsen @nyreader.bsky.social I used to be disgusted, now I’m just (sort of) amused. (I used to be a lawyer. I used to be a librarian. Book reviewer. NBCC. Be nice to your mail carrier, they’re out there and you’re not.)
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks
Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social A used and new bookstore in Monroe, Washington since 1995. Woman- and LGBTQIA-owned and operated. Store cat. 110 E. Main St. Monroe WA 98272 📚🌈😺 MainStBooksMonroe.com
Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social Co-owner of the Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social. Writer. Reader. Co-host of John Updike’s Ghost, a books podcast: pod.link/1594686894
Andrea Ferrante @andreaferrante.bsky.social Book Whisperer, Tarot Reader, Tea drinker. Sicilian-American, Tree-Hugging Animist.
Here for Community Building. Talk to me about Music, Books, Art, Magick, Herbalism, Food, Geneaology, and Southern Italian Folkways.
Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social Co-owner of @portersqbooks.bsky.social Author of The Art of Libromancy & An Exaggerated Murder. Opinions my own. BlueSky for @authorsabb.bsky.social & @massaabb.bsky.social He/him https://linktr.ee/joshthelibromancer
Republic of Letters @republicofletters.bsky.social An independent bookstore in Mineral Point, WI.
Blue Willow Bookshop @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social West Houston's favorite bookshop. Can we say that? Opinionated service and fantastic author events since 1996.
Huxley and Hiro Bookstore @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social Huxley and Hiro: Bookseller in historic downtown Wilmington, Delaware
Book Maven @bookmaven.bsky.social Reading books in the Midwest. Attempting to figure out how avoid the consequences of other people's stupidity.
bookward @rilnj.bsky.social ☕ Managing Editrix, Shelf Awareness (https://bsky.app/profile/shelf-awareness.com). ☕ Lark. ☕ Short, not sweet.
Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social Book distributors for US & UK indie publishers including fiction, art, graphic novels, and everything in-between! Impudently independent since 1984 & employee-owned since 2022. 📚
https://linktr.ee/turnaround_books?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAab4W9C8mGvdr0Z
Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis.
https://leviathanbookstore.com/
TransLash Media @translash.org We tell trans stories to save trans lives. 
Prism @prismreports.org An independent, nonprofit newsroom that goes where justice requires.
🗞️ Visit: prismreports.org
💫 Donate: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/support-independent-nonprofit-news-led-by-journalists-of-color
ShelfAwareness @shelf-awareness.com Free e-newsletters dedicated to the reading, buying, selling & lending of books.
Subscribe & read! http://shelf-awareness.com/xs/register
The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com The world's oldest mystery fiction specialty shop, located at 58 Warren Street, NYC. Home to Penzler Publishers and all its imprints, Mysterious Press, Scarlet, Crime Ink, and American Mystery Classics.
Voted USA Today's #1 Indie Bookshop 2025
Literati Bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social Curing brain rot since 2013.
As seen on NBC News, NPR, etc.
📍Ann Arbor, MI.
LiteratiBookstore.com
Boulder Bookstore @boulderbookstore.bsky.social Colorado's largest independent bookstore, and Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year for 2018. Celebrating 50 Years!
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social 
John Asbury @johnasbury.bsky.social Journalist. Dad. Home chef. New York Explorer.
Breaking news reporter for Newsday
Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social Associate Agent | Azantian Literary Agency • PW Star Watch Honoree• Bi Final Girl • she/her 🇭🇳
Website: shellyromero.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/shellyromero
No AI “art” or “writing.”
Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social Book recs, reviews, and news. Supporting independent booksellers as a Bookshop affiliate. Thanks for helping us help local bookstores. 🙏🏼 #BooksMatter
https://bookshop.org/shop/matteristbooks https://matteristbooks.substack.com/
https://matteristbooks.com/
king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social Order books online or shop in-person at Canada's hardest to find indie bookstore, co-operatively run in Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring $5 flat rate shipping across Canada!
www.linktr.ee/kingscoopbookstore
Tamara Pearson @tamarapearson.bsky.social Australian-Mexican journalist, activist, and author. Excluded Headlines newsletter: https://excludedheadlines.substack.com/ New book, The Eyes of the Earth https://tinyurl.com/EyesEarth
Alessandra Bergamin @alessandrabergamin.bsky.social Journalist — international environmental violence & human rights
she/her 🌈 🫒 🐡 🧿
Work: In These Times, The Baffler, Atmos, Alta, Harpers, Waging Nonviolence
~~not a social media person ~~
https://campsite.bio/alessandrabergamin
The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com Daily News. With swearing. https://www.dailybeanspod.com/
Hosts: @muellershewrote.com & @dgcomedy.bsky.social
Support independent media: http://patreon.com/thedailybeans
Subscribe to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@MSWMediaPods
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.
Carol Ann Tack @carolanntack.bsky.social Librarian and Host of Top Shelf Podcast. Book lover, book talker, book reviewer, all things books.
https://topshelfatmerricklibrary.blubrry.net/
Bookie’s Bookstore - Chicago @bookieschicago.bsky.social This is the Bluesky Account for Bookie’s Bookstore on the far South Side of Chicago in the beautiful Beverly neighborhood!
The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976.
11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com
Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social Supplying all the book needs of Beverly Farms, MA, since 1968. Co-owned by @sampfeifle.bsky.social and @hhharlow.bsky.social. Come see us sometime (or go to www.realbookshop.com).
Also, home of the "Four Books a Fortnight" pod: https://pod.link/159468689
South Main Book Company @southmainbookco.bsky.social Independent bookstore proudly located in the heart of historic downtown Salisbury NC for over 20 years
Thank You Books @thankyoubooks.bsky.social Birmingham, AL’s independent bookstore
Find your book. Find your people. 🩵
lnk.bio/thankyou_bham
A Seat at the Table Books - Elk Grove's ONLY Indie Bookstore @seatbooks.bsky.social Inclusive, LGBTQ-owned "third space" bookstore w/ cafe, events, and free wifi in Elk Grove, just south of Sacramento
Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social 🐉 Rad indie bookstore located in beautiful & complicated Bremerton, WA
📚 Shop indie bookstores and support local
📍 Corner of 4th street and Pacific Ave
www.ballastbookco.com
Bookdwarf aka Megan @bookdwarf.bsky.social Really into books and reading and cooking and traveling
The Floating Bookshop @thefloatingbookshop.com Downtown OKC's bookstore, featuring zines, puzzles, cards, oddities, and more.
Locally owned and proudly independent
Open 10-6 Sun to Thurs and 10-7 Fri & Sat in the 🌈🏡
3 NW 9TH ST • OKC
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
Belmont Books @belmontbooks.bsky.social The biggest independent bookstore in Belmont, MA! (Also, the only one.) Loves: Books, readers, teachers, schools, kids, parents, dogs, cats, mythical creatures and desserts of all kinds! Visit us at https://belmontbooks.com or on Instagram!
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.