First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
Manchester Theatrical @manctheatrical.bsky.social Welcome to @manchestertheatrical and manchester-theatrical.com Reviewing NORTH-WEST THEATRE, LONDON THEATRE & BEYOND
Whodunnit Whisperings @whodunnitwhispers.bsky.social Reviews of classic and more modern crime fiction, celebrating the Golden Age. https://whodunnitwhisperings.substack.com/
Red Herring Reads @redherringreads.bsky.social Your go-to source for mystery, thriller, and suspense book deals.
No red herrings — just great books. 🕵️♀️
📚 Discover new authors. 🎯 Promote your next release.
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Relay @relay.fm With podcasts covering technology and creativity, Relay brings together some of the most influential and unique voices on the internet to create powerful content each and every week.
Federico Viticci @viticci.macstories.net Founder and Editor-in-Chief @macstories.net. I write about iPad, iOS, indie apps, and making computers more fun.
I also co-host @appstories.macstories.net, a podcast about Apple and the world of apps, and @npc.macstories.net, a show about handhelds.
Best New Authors @bestnewauthors.bsky.social Discover the best new voices in fiction and beyond. Curated lists, debut picks, and bold recommendations for curious readers.
https://www.bestnewauthors.com/
Rain Dove @raindovemodel.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Genderless & Limitless 🏳️🌈
Come for the love, stay for a laugh
Model, actor, writer
Director of Safebow (warzone evac collective)
I believe no one should be discarded and that all people are redeemable.
Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social Writing - archaeology - heritage.
British Iraqi.
Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' graduate.
Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025.
Working Classicist of the Year 2025.
She/her
Mike Slavin @mikeslavinauthor.bsky.social Author of fast-paced action-oriented crime/ thrillers.
-KIll Crime: a Vigilante series
-Spike, 35 Kills and Smiling (Think Reacher meets Dexter)
West Pointer, Support Democracy. Always learning.
Free prequel at the website
https://mikeslavinauthor.com/
D.C. Salmon @dcsalmonbooks.com D.C. Salmon | Author of high-octane adventure thrillers that blend real-life historical mysteries with non-stop action.
An Irish Mystery & An American Treasure, Available now on Amazon!
https://www.swimmingupstream.co.uk/p/links.html
Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast.
www.ryanvance.co.uk
Sarah L Campbell @sarahlcampbell.bsky.social Writer of the Leaves of Change Cafe Series, Claire's Diary and children's books. Blogger of cosy crime and classic crime over at www.curlupwithacosycrimenovel.com. Disabled northerner living in the south.
Emma Salisbury @emmasauthor.bsky.social Author@bloodhoundbooks.bsky.social Crime fiction author writes gangland fiction as Maya Ross.
Jenny Morris - Ethical Guide to Murder 🔪⚖️🔪 @drjennymorris.bsky.social Writer, behavioural scientist and aspiring mushroom forager. Ethical Guide to Murder out now.
York Literature Festival @yorklitfest.bsky.social Charity promoting literature, poetry and spoken word in York 📗
Bow Street Museum @bowstreetmuseum.bsky.social Join us in the cells to explore the important and fascinating tales of Bow Street, and its unique links with police history. Tickets via our website.
Giorgi Ninos @giorgininos.com Independent Journalist focused on LGBTQIA+ rights; Human rights and EU enlargement. 🇪🇺🇬🇪
☕️ Support me: https://ko-fi.com/giorgininos
💼 Portfolio: https://muckrack.com/giorgininos
🕸️ Website: www.GiorgiNinos.com
Juno Dawson @junodawson.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, dog lady.
Henshaw Press @presshenshaw.bsky.social Supporting new writing. Run by Hobeck Books. A new competition every quarter with the chance of winning publication and £200. PLUS our bespoke critique service. www.henshawpress.co.uk
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
Eve Smith @evesmithauthor.bsky.social Author of speculative thrillers published by Orenda Books
Repd by Harry Illingworth, DHH
THE CURE out now
@gaystheword.bsky.social @gaystheword.bsky.social LGBT+ Bookshop, London
Tues - Sat Open 11am - 6pm
Sunday Open 1pm - 6pm
Monday - Closed
Pop-up location: 58-60 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB
Lit. on Fire Books @litonfirepia.bsky.social Woman, Disabled, & LGBTQ+ Owned and Operated independent bookstore in the heart of Central Illinois. 🏳️🌈✊🍉✊🏳️⚧️✊👨🦽➡️✊
712 W. Main St.
Peoria, IL 61606
https://linktr.ee/Litonfirepia
Reducing Environmental Impact | Reconnecting the Community | Reviving Bohemia
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
Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social Independent online & pop-up bookstore based in Manitou Springs, Colorado | Specializing in LGBTQ+ books 🐺⛰️📚
https://linkpop.com/queer
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
Cross & Crows Books @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social That queerly friendly neighbourhood bookstore in the community of East Van on unceded and occupied MST land. Offering new and used books, small gifts, and Cozy Chairs™ for the queer soul and beloved community since 2023. www.crossandcrows.com 
The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social Sci-fi, fantasy, & LGBTQIA. Queer resistance. Always trying to help. Portalbookshop@gmail.com Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 11-5:30; 5 Patrick Pool, York, UK
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lalidoesbooks
The Common Press Bookshop @thecommonpress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 London's queer intersectional bookshop! A sanctuary for storytelling, queer literature & culture.
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We are open Tues - Sun 11 am - 6.30 pm | Events 7 pm-late
118 Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom E2 6DG
commonpress.co.uk
The Old Queeriosity Shop @toqs.bsky.social We are an LGBTQIA+ Bookstore based in Plymouth, UK. We currently only ship within the UK.
our website: toqs.co.uk
our linktree: linktr.ee/toqs
Paned o Gê @panedoge.bsky.social Siop Llyfrau LHDTC+ arlein ac yn The Queer Emporium |
LGBTQIA+ bookshop based online and The Queer Emporium
@gayonwye.bsky.social @gayonwye.bsky.social 
Nicola Bigwood | Proofreader, Copyeditor, former Translator ✍️📚 @nicolabigwood.uk Proofreader & copyeditor of fiction & non-fiction, with background as a translator into English from French & German • CIEP Professional member • She/her • https://linktr.ee/nicolabigwood • Learning Italian, Welsh, Irish, Gaelic… slowly! 📍Scotland 🏴
Marlborough LitFest @marlboroughlitfest.bsky.social 25-28 September 2025. An annual festival of literary events in the historic market town of Marlborough, Wiltshire, with a community outreach programme. We look forward to welcoming you to our town each Autumn for a feast of bookish events for all ages!
Tariq Ashkanani @tariqashkanani.bsky.social Writer. Winner of Bloody Scotland Debut and McIlvanney Awards. Co-host of the Page One Podcast. The Midnight King - out now!
https://www.tariqashkanani.co.uk
Sarah Goodwin @sarahgoodwinauthor.bsky.social Author, feminist, witch enthusiast. She/Her 🌈
Also writing as....
Amy Cunningham #TheSerialKiller'sParty
And Amelia Wildwood @ameliawildwood.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/sarahlgoodwinauthor
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social Books etc
THOMAS R. WEAVER @tomweaver.bsky.social 📚 Author of Artificial Wisdom 🎧 Audiobook narrated by Steven Pacey 💡Tech startup entrepreneur (1 exit) & investor
Balancing the Books @balancingthebooks.bsky.social A podcast to help writers balance the books … along with everything else in life ⚖️
Hosted by @caileansteed.bsky.social
https://tinyurl.com/4wk29w3z
Hatchards @hatchards.bsky.social London's oldest & finest bookshop, since 1797. Remarkable booksellers, signed editions and fascinating author events.
The Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social 📝 Worldwide creative writing comp
📝 Over £20K prize pot
📝 Alumni inc Kate Atkinson
📝 Honorary Patron Kit de Waal
📝 Raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre
The views of contributors do not reflect the views of The Bridport Prize.
bridportprize.org.uk
Libro.fm @libro.fm 🎧 The audiobook company that shares profits with independent bookshops
💗 Certified B Corp
🔗 Shop, sign up, find bookshops, & more: www.libro.fm
@ajaychow.bsky.social @ajaychow.bsky.social 
Vaseem Khan @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social Author: Q novels (from Bond franchise). Malabar House & Baby Ganesh agency series. The Girl in Cell A. Cricket mad. UCL Security & Crime Science. Website: www.vaseemkhan.com 
Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social Commissioning editor at Titan Books. Debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER out now from Black Shuck Books.
https://linktr.ee/dancarpenter85
Script Haven LTD @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK!
scripthavenltd@gmail.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scripthaven
5 Crown Passage, Worcester WR1 3LL
scripthaven.co.uk
Also on Insta, Facebook and Twitter
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
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
Chris 🎬🎧 @raidercast.bsky.social Dog Dad
Video Producer
Tomb Raider Podcaster
London-based Welshman
https://youtube.com/raidercast
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🚫Anti Gen-AI
Manilla Press @manillapress.bsky.social Home to bestselling fiction and non-fiction by award-winning authors including Stacey Halls, Christy Lefteri and Satoshi Yagisawa. An imprint of Bonnier Books UK.
@bonnierbooks.bsky.social @bonnierbooks.bsky.social 
Datura Books @daturabooks.bsky.social CRIME IS IN OUR BONES 🦴
Crime fiction imprint of @angryrobotbooks
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/daturabooks
Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT Rep'd by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
Lauren Brown @laurenrbrown95.bsky.social Freelance journalist and writer / Fiction Previewer at The Bookseller | Author of Hands (HarperNorthUK) - rep’d by @mariliasavvides.bsky.social. From Teesside
CozyMystery.com @cozymystery-com.bsky.social We are CozyMystery.com, the way to find the cozy you want to read. Get our weekly newsletter at https://cozymystery.com/newsletter/
Rowan MacDonald @rowanthewriter.bsky.social Writer + Book Reviewer
Lutruwita / Tasmania
https://linktr.ee/rowmac
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Gillian Bagwell @gillianbagwell.bsky.social 🦋🦋🦋Historical novelist, freelance writer of non-fiction. Editor: manuscript evaluation, evaluation, writing coaching, editing. Actress. Theatre director and producer.
Rep: Kevan Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency
http://www.gillianbagwell.com/
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
Elisabeth Wolf @elisabethwolf.bsky.social Writing gothic fiction. Spending time in graveyards. Eating ice cream. Edinburgh. Writes crime as @alisonbelsham.bsky.social
Website: https://elisabethwolf.net/home
Ben Cooke @bencookewrites.bsky.social Writer | Journalist | Photographer
www.bencookewrites.com
Julie Wassmer @juliewassmer.bsky.social New to Blue Sky! TV drama writer, author & environmental campaigner. My Whitstable Pearl crime novels are now a recurring 6-part TV drama series starring Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles & Frances Barber. 
Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social Author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley and A Woman of Opinion (Penguin, 2022, 2024). Trying to do a few small good things to lighten the grim 2020s 
Marcia Hutchinson @mhut25.bsky.social Novelist and fitness instructor. I live for Zumba
https://Linktr.ee/marciathewriter
A.W. Boardman @historymondays.bsky.social Author & Historian | Exploring #Towton1461, the Wars of the Roses & medieval military history. For deeper insights join me at: historymondays.substack.com
Jayne Chard Author & TV Producer @jaynechard.bsky.social Cosy Crime writer and award winning Film and TV producer. I’ve produced three feature films and TV series for SKY, ITV and BBC - including the BBC1 flagship brand SILENT WITNESS.
Virtual Shelf Event @virtualshelfevent.bsky.social Virtual Bookish Event Coming 2025
Owned by @elsiesmithwrites.bsky.social and @rosejohnsonauthor.bsky.social
https://www.virtualshelfevent.com/home
Kevin T. Norman @kevintnorman.bsky.social 
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
A.R. Welch @arwelch.bsky.social I'm a gay author who writes queer characters. My husband and I spoil our dog. 🌈 🐕
Katherine Bryant- Author @katherinebryant.bsky.social I'm the 🐝
🏳️🌈💙✊🏼
Debut novel: Give My Love to Berlin out May 20th, 2025 🎉🎉
Preorder my novel HERE!
https://tinyurl.com/yrttkj6k
Jo Lewis @jolewisdirector.bsky.social Film /Games
Cornwall Libraries @cornwalllibraries.bsky.social With a network of 29 libraries across Cornwall, we provide a free service to residents, including access to books, computers, activities, events and digital resources such as eBooks, eAudiobooks, ePress, language learning and driving theory practise.
Wayne Berkeley Herbert @berkeley34.bsky.social Writer, PhD student, director of Hastings Book Festival and proudly LGBT+
J. Matthew Saunders @jmattsaunders.bsky.social Writer of vampires and werewolves and demons (oh my!). HWA, SFWA. Fan of fiddles and bagpipes. Star Wars, history, linguistics. https://linktr.ee/jmattsaunders
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK's leading indie publishers. High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction. Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Harriet Griffey @harrietgriffey.bsky.social Writer. Suffolk raised, London based, European. MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature.
www.writersretreats.org
Gary Dalkin @garydalkin.bsky.social UK editor & writer. I write every month for Writing Magazine. Bournemouth Writing Festival. Organising Chaos. Author Events. Editor-at-large at Cadence Publishing.
Lots more, including contact details: www.tothelastword.com
Dr Tim Rideout @drtimrideout.bsky.social Father of daughters, health services leader, chair of school governors, academic Gothicist, literary interviewer, crime fiction lover, Doctor Who fan (he/him/his)
https://www.precariousgothic.com
Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com Books like The English Monster. Podcasts at The Curiously Specific Book Club
James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night" @jamesbennett.bsky.social British Fantasy Award-Winning author 🏳️🌈
The Ben Garston Novels. The Dark magazine.
"Mother of Night" March 2027 from Evil Twin (Zando Books)
Web: https://james-bennett.org/
'Inventive and vivid'
Publishers Weekly
🚫 AI
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social New book THE CASTLE can be preordered now! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
🤴🏾 Kingsley Pearson 🍐 @kingsley-pearson.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist & Writer.
London-based.
🏳️🌈 🇱🇰 🇧🇪 🇬🇧
Flat 401: https://www.klpearson.net/flat-401
Out now with Orion Fiction.
The Queer Review @thequeerreview.com TheQueerReview.com Independently queer. GLAAD Award-nominated x3 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Charlie Cochrane @charliecochrane.bsky.social Author, reader, sport fanatic.
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
TM Logan @tmloganauthor.bsky.social Three-million selling author of THE DAUGHTER, THE DREAM HOME, THE HOLIDAY and others. New novel THE WEEKEND out now! Rep'd by Camilla Bolton at Darley Anderson linktr.ee/TMLoganAuthor
Gianetta Murray - Author @gianettamurray.bsky.social Writer, librarian, expat, cat servant.
Author of the Vivien Brandt mysteries.
Member of Sisters in Crime, CWA, ALLi.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer superfan.
https://linktr.ee/gianettamurray
MJ Porter @mjporterauthor.bsky.social Author of historical fiction set in Saxon England & 20th century historical mysteries. A bit obsessed with the Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Pub by Boldwood Books, Pen & Sword and Indie. Infuriatingly prolific.
Formula 1, 2, 3, E, Academy & Extreme E/H fan.
Edinburgh Gay Men's Book Group @egmbg.bsky.social We meet the 4th Wednesday of each month at 7pm either in-person or via Zoom and is open to gay, bi, trans or queer identifying men. See our website for further information https://edgaybookgroup.wordpress.com/about/ or email edingaybookgroup@gmail.com
Cambridge Coffee and Crime @nancymwriter.bsky.social Kiwi crime writer holed up in the Scottish Highlands. Mist and whisky essential. Murder optional. The Orchid Mystery, out now.
Reconnecting Rainbows Press @reconnectingrainbo.ws 🌈 Amplifying LGBTQIA+ voices through authentic storytelling.
📚 Poetry. History. Fiction. Children’s books. Emerging talent.
💡 Building community, connection, resistance and resilience.
www.reconnectingrainbows.co.uk
www.bookstodon.com/@reconnectpress