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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
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Summer Scares @summerscares.bsky.social A reading program designed to introduce new horror authors to readers & to help librarians with horror RA. Titles include adult, YA, & MG. Time to get scared!
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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social 2x Bram Stoker Award nominated author
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The Haunting of Alejandra
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Morgan Dante @morgandante.bsky.social 🩸🔪 Gothic romance, horror, & fantasy author | vampire enjoyer | I wrote the fishwives book and Judas x The Devil Bibleslash. | morgandante.com | rep'd by Julie Gourinchas
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Eleanor @eleanorlanewriter.bsky.social Writer, artist, cat mother, occasional seamstress.
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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social She/her. Feminist. Repro Health Advocate. Public health professor. Union Leader. Former candidate for U.S. Senate in ME
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social Actor, Playwright, Ghost Researcher, Author, Book Lover (she/they) 🌈✨🇨🇦
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
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Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
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Susie Crimmins 8647 @scrimmins.bsky.social Retired and live in beautiful Maine. Used to live in CD-2, now live in CD-1.
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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of THE MERRY DREDGERS and BEDFELLOW and THE ATROCITIES. FAMILIAR out now! Fabric artist. Butler for cats. They/them
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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.co.uk gay dandy. white & welsh. he/him. 18+.
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cymru am byth.
my website: https://johannestevans.co.uk/
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social This is me, not an official account. Led NYU-Marron’s passenger rail modernization effort; co-authored/edited the landmark ‘A Better Billion’ subway report. Now working on next gen trains at the MTA. City beat reporter in a former life. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈.
Baratunde @baratunde.com host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, and How To Citizen podcast
Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social Candidate for Maine House of Representatives, District 104: https://samhouse104.com/
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Visit Freeport @visitfreeport.bsky.social Tourism & Travel Association of Freeport, Maine. Host of The Maine Oyster Festival, Freeport Fall Festival. Makers on Main, Early Bird Sale-A-Bration and Flavors of Freeport. 
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Shenna Bellows @shennabellows.bsky.social Bio: Maine Secretary of State Prev: State Senator, Executive Director of HHRC Maine + ACLU of Maine
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Print: A Bookstore @printbookstore.bsky.social Indie bookstore on Portland's East End! Open Sun/Mon 11a-4p, Tues/Wed/Thurs 10a-5p, Fri/Sat 10a-7p. Dog-friendly and very gay. 🌈🌲
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Mabel Wadsworth Center @mabelwadsworthctr.bsky.social We're an independent feminist sexual and reproductive health center based in Wabanaki Territory, commonly known as Bangor, ME. We provide a full range of sexual and reproductive healthcare!
Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social Birds, Jeopardy, Publishing, WPBL, Maine | They/them | Yes, the dog's name is Subaru
Queerly ME @queerlyme.bsky.social Queerly ME fosters strong support networks and strengthens community belonging for LGBTQIA+ adults in Maine by creating and increasing Queer visibility, resource accessibility, and community building outdoors.
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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social 🇺🇸&🇯🇵 SFF author | 📚: THE DEEP SKY, THE STARDUST GRAIL, SALTCROP (Flatiron). ENVOY (2027) (Tor). Any opinions expressed are my own only. (https://www.yumekitasei.com/links)
Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me National Reporter for Religion News Service. "Workaday writer." — The New Yorker. Author of "American Prophets," a book on the religious left. Tips? Try me on Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Website: jackjenkins.me
Erin deWard @erinrdeward.bsky.social I talk to myself - most times I use a mic. Actor and audiobook narrator giving voice to the weird, wild, and wonderful.
erindeward.com
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Stewart Easter Taylor @stewarttaylor.bsky.social Country Bumpkin from Norfolk! Married 👨❤️👨 Dog dad 🐶 Expect geekiness / baking / selfies 🤩
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
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EqualityMaine @equalitymaine.bsky.social Protecting and advancing full equality for all LGBTQ+ Mainers for 40 years.
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Kit Mayquist @kmayquist.bsky.social Author of TRIPPING ARCADIA (Dutton) and lover of all things spooky and gay. He/Him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 currently revising 💀🪨💧 drafting 🪻🥖🇫🇷 and🌲💊🔪 Rep’d by Erin Clyburn at Howland Literary
em. rowene @queerenigma.com author of gay fantasy webserials & attorney. I have opinions about elves, holmes, & byronic heroes.
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kellen graves 🦇 @skellygraves.bsky.social transmasc (they/them) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 indie author of the ROWAN BLOOD series 🍓 and more 🌊 | art by me unless otherwise tagged | covers by @morlevart.bsky.social 💍 | https://skellygraves.carrd.co/
George @hannahtempler.com Hannah George Templer | 🏳️🌈lesbian | GLAAD-nominated, Eisner and Ignatz-winning cartoonist | she/any | COSMOKNIGHTS http://cosmoknights.space | http://www.hannahtempler.com | htempler@gmail.com
Marieke Nijkamp @mariekeyn.bsky.social #1 NYT bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels | nonbinary | 🌈📚 | 🏳️🌈 | ♿
Out now: SPLINTER & ASH | Up next: AFTER WE BURNED
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Al Hess @al-distortion.bsky.social Artist and author of cozy sci-fi 🏳️🌈👁
WORLD RUNNING DOWN
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
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What The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social hey, we’re QLL — a fully digital library fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ // follow for updates! 💜🪶
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com Dark SFF illustration & WP dev. Author, querying rn. Dark art feed curator. Likes robots a normal amount. I repost LOTs. No N/F/T, No A/I.
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Vincent uses they/them pronouns 🐸 @v-e-tirado.com afrodominican 🇩🇴 🏳️⚧️ they/them or die mad about it 👻 award winning horror author. I write a lot.
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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Whovian • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, and many other things
📍 Britain • 📖 Whitewalls • 📺 Trotters' Flat
Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social Mum friend transitioning to mum. Recovering medievalist. Pen name of a dark fantasy/horror writer. Displaced northener. Culinary Cenobite. Möther to Vesper & Pippa. Synth/BM gremlin. Writing at patreon.com/lhardingwrites & https://ko-fi.com/lawrenceharding
Erik Wade @erikkaars.bsky.social Queer medievalist. Helicopter parent to a kitty. Champion napper. He/they
JMS Books LLC @jms-books.com JMS Books LLC is a small press (e-book & print) with competitive royalty rates. We publish LGBTQ erotica, romance, & young adult/YA fiction. Open to subs! https://www.jms-books.com
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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social Agender Intersex Butch | Author of F/F and F/NBi romance, fantasy, & horror | They/Them | 2026: GALEAS THE KEEN | #sapphicromance #lesfic
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Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!) @hironennes.bsky.social British fantasy award-winning author of LEECH and THE WORKS OF VERMIN
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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social Writer, ice skater, gin drinker. She/her 🏳️🌈. THE LAST BINDING trilogy, SWORDCROSSED, CINDER HOUSE out now. BODIES OF MAGIC out September 2026.
Avril Circus @avrilcircus.bsky.social Illustrator and comic artist on the run!
❤️Le Jardin, Paris (édition Delcourt)
🏰Minuit Passé (édition Delcourt)
🛎️Currently working on an another project
To fall asleep, I imagine an old house.
anita kelly 🌈 @anitakellywrites.bsky.social Writer of queer romance.
Last: DONUT SUMMER, out now 🍩
Next: HEARTWAVES #2, out sometime 2026 (hopefully lol)
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social VILE LADY VILLAINS (UK: Penguin Michael Joseph / US: Union Square & Co) ✨Rep: Lauren Bieker✨Editor: khōréō ✨Associate Literary Agent: Tobias Literary Agency✨she/they🏳️🌈🇬🇷
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Sarah Read @inkwellmonster.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the Bone Weaver's Orchard, Out of Water, Root Rot, The Atropine Tree. Librarian, stationery addict, and crafter. She/her. 🏳️🌈
Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social Horror/SFF Author of THE CITY BEAUTIFUL, WRATH BECOMES HER, and others. Sydney Taylor winner. Finalist for World Fantasy Award, Lambda, National Jewish Book Award. Nonbinary/Trans.
Next books: THE CITY OF SLAUGHTER (9/26), IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU (1/27)
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social queer SFF author, essayist, poet. he/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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