Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Socials Post and Cover Designer): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Päivi Butcher AuDHD @finnattentive.eurosky.social Late diagnosed #ADHD #Autistic #AuDHD • Raising ADHD & autism acceptance • Cardiac arrest survivor 2020, defib implant, Cardiac sarcoidosis • Ulcerative colitis • MCAS suspicion • Born in the 70s • Happy Finn 😉 • She/her • EN/FI
📍 Tampere, Finland
The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @autisticbooks.bsky.social Books about autism, written by Autistic people. Community resource website cataloguing as many of these as possible (2300+ so far).
Autistic curator (@lillyjade.bsky.social she/her).
https://linktr.ee/autisticbooks
*Taking a social media break*
Dr Ronni Googe, of the Mid Rim Network 🍉 @clembastow.bsky.social Featuring an 8-page colour photo insert of thrilling images from the hit movie!
😈 Critical Autism & action studies researcher and screenwriter in Naarm. We wish to stay at the inn; our opinions are our own.
AMASE @amase.org.uk Autistic Mutual Aid Society Edinburgh - helping autistic people to help each other.
#ActuallyAutistic #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #Scotland
https://amase.org.uk
@cornerstoneslit.bsky.social @cornerstoneslit.bsky.social Cornerstones is the #1 transatlantic literary consultancy. We are the writer’s friend, and we believe your story matters.
Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social Author, illustrator, comics creator
THE FACTS OF LIFE (Myriad) Kidlit Books x3
Words and pictures
https://linktr.ee/paulajknight
https://www.redbubble.com/people/PaulaJKnight
https://ko-fi.com/bedscapepaula
Bedridden #MEcfs ♿ TAC/ Migraine
Carey Colgrave @careycolgrave.bsky.social YA writer with debut AENIGMA coming Autumn 2026 from CamCat Books. Mystery. Magic. And hearts caught in the crossfire.
www.careycolgrave.com
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social 💜 ♾️ AuDHD | Monotropic | Neuro-affirming Autism advocate & consultant.
Interests: monotropism, flow, burnout & neuroqueer theory.
Writer • Trainer • Resource Creator | Former SEND EY/Primary teacher ♾️ 💜
https://www.autisticrealms.com/
Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
they/them.
https://linktr.ee/0olong
Ecas @ecasscot.bsky.social Friendly and practical support for people with a physical disability living in Edinburgh & Lothians:
- weekly activity groups
- befriending service and facilitated friendships
- grants for adults and children
Contact ecas.scot, we're here to help!
Sofia Brizio @sofiabrizio.bsky.social PhD in Media Diversity at BCU. Alumna and ex TA @cujournmedcul.bsky.social 🎓| I write, edit and translate books 📚✨✒️| Disability rights activist. Occasional Paraswimmer| ♿️🇮🇹🏴🏳️🌈
Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social She/her, chronically ill, writer.
BA degree in Disability Studies
Anti-eugenics, pro-masking & clean air.
RFK Jr & MAHA hater
Free Palestine
KindleStack – The Go-To Platform for Indie Authors @kindlestack.com Boost Your Book Sales!
List. Promote. Sell.
🔗 KindleStack.com
Tired of Amazon’s algorithm? KindleStack helps indie authors get noticed! List your book today and reach more readers—no ads, no ranking games!
Laura Gordon @laurabgordon.bsky.social Marine conservation, birding, reading, writing - Edinburgh. Views own. She/her
👩🦯✏️Maureen📚🦯 @anythingmaureen.bsky.social Writer, #ActuallyAutistic, legally blind. Former journalist/editor. Dutch. Disability and mental health advocate. ❤️ books, music, crafting. #WritingCommunity
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
Knights Of @knightsofbooks.bsky.social Independent. Inclusive. Award-winning children's books publisher 📚|
Euan's Guide @euansguide.com Award-winning charity known for our disabled access review website, making accessible loos safer with our Red Cord Cards, and the UK's largest Access Survey.
www.EuansGuide.com
Sophie Siddall @sophiesiddall.bsky.social Writer of YA romance with a natural world twist📚Birder🦆Happiest by a river🦦
🌱🏳️🌈❤️🧡🤍💖
👽💗🤍
Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social Writer, reader, sailor, hiker, based South Wales. Am querying BORN OF COURAGE, turning maritime histfic on its head. www.ladyturtlepress.cymru for Welsh fantasy collection Children of the Land. Also write essays & reviews.
Gillian Hamnett (she/her) @gillianhamnett.bsky.social Proofreader & copyeditor for Simon & Schuster and Canongate
Editor of commercial fiction and memoir
Book sales and publishing consultation
Freelancing as Dark Sky Pages, based in Wigtown – Scotland's National Book Town 📖📚🌠🌌
Neil Braidwood @wemakemags.bsky.social Magazines, drumming, cycling and dogs. Not necessarily in that order.
@rosemarykaye.bsky.social @rosemarykaye.bsky.social I review theatre, art and books, and like electronic music, pop, disco, jazz, opera, Siamese cats, coffee, tea shops, and scones with jam. I live in beautiful North East Scotland.
Benedick @eleventhdoctor.bsky.social poet, he/him
Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social I'm mostly around Edinburgh, often lurking in corners with a camera at cultural events.
linktr.ee/chrisdonia
Emily Roberson @robersonemily.bsky.social Author and screenwriter, LIFESTYLES OF GODS & MONSTERS (FSG/Macmillan) | Repped by Kerry Sparks at LGR Literary | fundamentally unserious
Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY
@e-k0da.bsky.social @e-k0da.bsky.social
Sarah Broadley @sarahbroadley.bsky.social She/her. Herder of cats. Devourer of Books. Children's writer. Children's book reviewer for @mybookcorner.bsky.social, member of Craigmillar Literacy Trust, CWIG, societyofauthors.bsky.social and supporter of Cymerafestival.co.uk. #ViewsMyOwn #BeKind
Snowball @snowballcommunity.bsky.social
What’s is Snowball??…Think TripAdvisor for the disabled community.
Apple https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/snowball-community/id1624679548
Android https://play.google.com/store/search?q=snowball+community&c=apps&hl=en&gl=US
Evlambia Angelou @evlambiaangelou.bsky.social Independent researcher/ Sign language interpreter (GSL).
“Life is a sum of all your choices.
So, what are you doing today?”
Albert Camus
Dill Werner (they/them) 🌈 @dillwerner.bsky.social Indeed, like the pickle.
I write queer, kinky sff stuff. Diversity reader, copyeditor/proofreader, & TTRPG gamer. Seizures suck, but my trans wife is amazing.
Genderqueer wheelchair user, #disabled & #actuallyautistic
Definitely a mermaid with AuADHD
Laurence Anholt 🌻 @laurenceanholt.bsky.social Multi-million selling author/illustrator of 200 titles 📚
New book SMALL STORIES OF GREAT ARTISTS published by @Taschen 👩🏽🎨
Everything here: https://linktr.ee/LaurenceAnholtAuthor 🪷
#UKKidLit #ChildrensBooks #books #EduSkyPrimary #illustration
MW @galleristocrat.bsky.social Recovering bookseller.
Boats, Books, Battlestar Galactica.
Scotland my home. Opinions my own.
Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social Games, Movies, Music and Books 🍅-approved, coffee and whisky-driven culture wordsmith. Words in IGN, NME, Radio Times, DIY, Clash, Metro, Yahoo and others. Member of the UK Film Critics Association.
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
Rianna Walcott @riannawalcott.bsky.social Researcher of social media, so I am contractually obliged to shitpost
Assistant prof @ UMD
Associate director of BCaT Lab
Black Brit abroad, Londoner for life 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇧🇧
MASSIVE hater
Lisa @agathacrispie.bsky.social Publishing Support and Accessibility Specialist @ Consonance. MSc Translational Health Sciences. Well-meaning expert amateur. Patient and a11y advocate. Haver of autoimmune conditions. Story lover, fond of code & tabletop games. Wrangler of cats. she/her
Allison K Williams @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social Formerly GuerillaMemoir over there
Writer, editor at Brevity, literal fire-eater
Give yourself permission.
linktr.ee/guerillamemoir
William Mager @wlmager.bsky.social Screenwriter for film and TV | 4Screenwriting | BBC Writersroom | REUNION April 7th 9pm BBC ONE | My friends call me Billy | www.wlmager.com
Jen Bowden @jenbowden12.bsky.social Journalist | Writer repped by @liverpoollit | Editor | Northern Voices podcast | Dr of Northern stories | #TeamHorn | Pityakker linktr.ee/jenbowden12
Dr Colin Begg @colinbegg.bsky.social Textual healing. Generally tired. AVMO.
Human of several parts: Doctor|Editor|Poet|Home Copilot|Parent|Campaigner.
NHS Consultant Paediatric Intensivist @PICU_Scot, RHC Glasgow
Co-editor & co-director @Gutter_Magazine co-op
Medical Trustee @StopSepsisNow
Vicki Jarrett @vicki-jarrett.bsky.social Novelist (Nothing is Heavy, Always North), short story writer (The Way Out - collected stories).
Chloe Timms @clotimms.bsky.social Writer at Inside Soap Magazine | Author of THE SEAWOMEN (HodderBooks) she/her ♿ | Agent: Nelle_Andrew | Podcast: Confessions of a Debut Novelist
Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social Historian of disability, early America, and the 19th century.
Assistant Prof at Kean University, views mine not my employer's.
Learn More: https://nicoleleeschroeder.com/
Katy Ewing @katywing.bsky.social Writer, artist, environmental humanities graduate.
Covid cautious Twitter refugee
Hannah 💗💜💙 @thatcupgirl.bsky.social D&D/books/nerdy content twitter
I also write a lot
icon by @lilaeleaf
banner by @cosmomage (of our D&D party)
she her/bi ✰
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20237325?ref=nav_profile_l
Alice Hewson - Author @alicehewson.bsky.social 📚Author of "Neurodiversity in the Workplace."
👩💻Charity comms person
🌱 Youth Worker
✍️Writer
🧠 Neurodivergent
🌈 she/her
📖 Buy my book here: https://amzn.eu/d/09hx9ks8
#dyspraxia #ADHD #inclusion
alicehewson.com https://linktr.ee/alicehewson
Nora Thurkle @norathurkle.bsky.social Teacher/writer. Work placed in Aurora, London Magazine, Galley Beggar and Bristol Short Story Prizes, and featured in Motherlore, Lunate, Liars' League etc. Catford Cat fan. 🏳️🌈 she/her
Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social 🔥Free Disability Zines🔥 https://linktr.ee/disabilityark
Disability: History, Politics, Media Analysis and more!
Recent ones include Disability and: | Star Trek | Ancient Egypt | Radicals | Gods | Film Analysis Tools | Feminists | Anarchists | and more!
Anna Biggs @writebiggs.bsky.social Reader, writer, sleeper agent
Loves history, folklore & growing things
ME + expansion packs
ADCI network ♿️ | she/her
LL Lucy Cavendish Prize ‘24,
won: Greene Door ‘25, Curtis Brown Breakthrough ’24, Jericho Writers Mentorship ‘24, Novelry Octopus ‘23
Company of Wolves @companyofwolves.org Scotland's leading laboratory theatre company
Performance / Training / Community
The Bacchae 2026 Tour - On Sale: https://companyofwolves.org/projects/the-bacchae
Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Heritage. Own views. UK / NZ. Museums, ethnography, emotional labour, collecting, methods. Norwegian forest cat 😂 and newly diagnosed coeliac posts 😭
David Hingley @davidhingley.bsky.social Head of Arts, Heritage and Culture at Peridot. Trustee at Painshill Park and Museum of the Broads - with previous form running visitor experience at Tate Galleries, Hampton Court Palace, Landmark Trust and BOP Consulting
BEM for queues- U @underlinelit.bsky.social @underlinelit.bsky.social
Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social Historical novelist, book lover & freelance writer/editor with ME/CFS. Currently writing about a 1930s spirit medium.
📚 CBC breakthrough mentee 2024
📚 MMA mentee 2022
https://linktr.ee/katieandersonmorrison
Elizabeth Frattaroli @elizfrat.bsky.social LL Bath Children's, Mslexia & WriteMentor Children's Novel awards, 2nd in Wells Festival of Literature Book for Children & HC for Kelpies Prize for Writing. #kidlit
Love anything #mythology and #folklore related
https://www.elizabethfrattaroli.com/
Cate Haynes @catehaynes.bsky.social UK writer rep by Becky Bagnell @lindsaylit.bsky.social , magical/fantasy MG, YA romantasy, loves folklore and cake @WriteMentor CNA winner 2023, @writingawards SL ‘22, speech therapist, ADHD-er, Mum, 1st class cat butler, 2nd class archer
Write Magic @writemagic.bsky.social A free volunteer-run community helping writers find Magic - Motivation Accountability Goalsetting Inspiration & Community. Writing sprints, support & more
Louise Cobby Writer @louisecobbywriter.bsky.social Writer of historical fiction. Soon to be submitting to agents.
Cathy Johnson @dadslibrary.bsky.social Writing YA and teen. Northern Writers Debut Fiction Award 2019, Guppy YA SL 2022. #SCBWI, #MAWFYP Bath Spa. Lupus warrior. Former GP.
Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social Author, The Flicker Against the Light, A User's Guide to Make-Believe, The Last Treasure Hunt. https://linktr.ee/janealexander. Teach CW @ UoE. She/her. janealexander@net
Helen Sedgwick @helensedgwick.bsky.social Author, editor, physicist. Books: The Comet Seekers, The Growing Season, The Burrowhead Mysteries trilogy. linktr.ee/HelenSedgwick 🏳️🌈
Ola Tundun @olatundunx.bsky.social Reader, writer and cookie lover. Prone to indulging in things that bring me joy. Agent Emily Glenister, DHH Literary Agency.
My debut trilogy Roommates 🫣 Complicated 😳 and Endgame 😜, are out now. I know, I don’t believe it either.
Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social Author ✍️ Artist 🎨 Editor 📝 AuDHD 🏳️🌈
Tombstone tourist 🪦 Cryptid cultivator 👣
Writing strange stories from strange places 🖤
#ukteenchat • #WriteMentor
Substack: Notes from the Graveyard Shift 🪦
Deborah Bailey @fourgreensquares.bsky.social YA writer. Former WriteMentor YA mentor and Write Team mentor in residence. Clarion UCSD and Tin House YA grad. She/her.
Caroline Murphy @carolinemurphy.bsky.social MG writer; Northerner; dead posh Geordie; ex-Hong-Konger; mother of 4 boys, master of none
Agent: Rachel Petty @ Blair Partnership
Anne Marie Jackson @annemariejackson.bsky.social #Translator *** #TranslationEditor *** #Editor
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Julie @wormgirlfriend.bsky.social Poet. Mom.
She/her
Against white supremacy, genocide, and generally pro human rights
Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social Poet, Editor (samueltongue.com) and Co-Director of Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat kalewatercottage.co.uk
Anna Korving @annakorving.bsky.social Writer in search of an agent, NED and Board Advisor to creative businesses.
Sophie Claire @sophieclaire.bsky.social Writes contemporary romance with a French connection.🇫🇷 Loves patchwork quilting. 🧵
She/her. RNA, HodderBooks.
Sophieclaire.co.uk
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
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com