J D Currums - Author @jdcurrums.bsky.social Author of an eclectic mix of fiction. Favourite genres are Thriller, Crime, Supernatural.
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JAMESON QUINN @realjamesonquinn.bsky.social SAG-AFTRA Award Winning Actor | Voice Artist Pittsburgh PA
4 bookings email BOOKTHEJQWAY@gmail.com or PODSTARZ.net
https://www.IMDb.me/TheJQWay
Project ERSKINE | Radical Gaelic Magazines 1900s – 1930s @erskineproject.bsky.social Exploring Gaelic magazines founded by Ruaraidh Erskine (1869–1960) | erskine.glasgow.ac.uk | Marie Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowship, guaranteed by UKRI, carried out at the University of Glasgow | investigated by Dr Petra Johana Poncarová
Independent Lit @independentlit.bsky.social Celebrating the UK's independent literature. For those who read adventurously.
https://substack.com/@independentlit
@royakhatiblou.bsky.social et al.
Independentlituk@gmail.com
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Clive McCarthy 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇮🇸 🇸🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇪 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇩🇪 @clivemccarthy.bsky.social Retired University Senior lecturer in Media studies, Code, Digital media, Data privacy, UAV UAS Drones, Geopolitics, Areas of Interests Military history, Postwar history Cyberwarfare, Disinformation, internet surveillance Love my wife & Archie the cat
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Dominic Kelly @dominickellyartist.bsky.social Glasgow based character artist, writer and major horror enthusiast.
My Portfolio: https://cara.app/dominickellyartist
Glen Campbell @glenkcampbell.bsky.social Helping you discover op.europa.eu, the portal of the Publications Office of the European Union, in Luxembourg 🇱🇺. EU civil servant. Reposts my responsibility or fault.
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social Cheerleader for Books and Beatles.
20+ years in the book trade.
Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social
Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social TV Writer: Dinosaurs, Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, The OC, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Jessica Jones, Foundation, Artful Dodger, Fallout...
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
www.adamrowan.ccard.co
Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social The Labour right wing in all their glory, from Mandelson to McSweeney. The staffers, the lobbyists, the revolving door. See how they lobby for privateer corporations, cash in via disaster capitalism etc 🥀
❉ labourrightwatch.wordpress.com ❉
Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social Comics editor (the kind you hire); cartoonist of hostile romance comics (Take Me to the Place I Love; The Magic Necklace; Wolf Story; Cosy Witch Book (Brutal)). Still a critic, after all
Clairenapier.com 📧 clairenapier@pm.me 🌸 CANNOT SEE DMS
Jolly Roger 🏴☠️ @jollieblue.bsky.social A lonely pirate sailing the sea of life. Natural.
🚫 DM, unless…you want to know me
Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
https://www.breakthroughbookcollective.com
https://linktr.ee/breakthroughbooks
crimebookgirl @crimebookgirl.bsky.social Crime fiction aficionado. Blogger (www.crimebookgirl.com), event chair, Theakstons & McIlvanney Prize academy member, Ngaio Marsh Awards & CWA Daggers judge - it's #AllCrimeAllTheTime!
Kate is drafting a new WIP! @vkatehutchings.bsky.social #Amwriting an upmarket novel + short fiction. I follow back writers! Yoga teacher, traveller. Mumma to two feral boys (one neurodivergent) & a three-legged cat
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.
Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher.
PARADISE by Ben Tufnell OUT NOW
Join our Mailing List: eepurl.com/dgPEDH
Contact: hello@influxpress.com
Honno Press @honnopress.bsky.social Established in 1986 Honno is a non-for-profit press with a mission to champion the voices of Welsh Women writers. We publish award-winning fiction and non-fiction in English and Welsh.
Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social We're an indie press specialising in queer horror, crime & dark fiction, run by TC Parker & Shauna Mc Eleney
(Skeets by TC/N, occasionally SME)
We like intersectional feminism. A lot
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No GenAI. No DMs (we can't see them)
www.nefariousbatpress.com
Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social Indie publisher of bold, unforgettable international fiction, half in translation. Shortlisted IPG Best Newcomer 2015/16. CWA Crime & Mystery Publisher of the Year 2020. Nibbies Finalist Small Press of the Year. Visit us at www.orendabooks.co.uk.
Blackstaff Press @blackstaffpress.bsky.social Founded in 1971, Blackstaff Press is regarded as one of Ireland’s foremost publishers and is a leading publisher of quality Irish books.
https://blackstaffpress.com
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Indie Press Network @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social A network of indie presses working together to celebrate and improve the publishing industry
Inspired Quill @inspiredquill.bsky.social 📚 Diverse, award-shortlisted titles, from literary to fantasy. 🌈 Discover, support, and explore our world of purposeful, eco-friendly publishing. 🌍 (No AI).
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
Subs Closed.
Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Severn House @severnhouse.bsky.social Home of great genre fiction.
Publisher of mystery, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romance and beyond.
Elsewhen Press @elsewhen.press A small independent publisher specialising in Speculative Fiction, based in the South East of England, established in 2011.
Posts here will be by Peter, Editorial Director and general factotum.
#SFF
Charlotte Hayward ✨ @thatchazza.bsky.social Overgrown emo kid 🖤 contemporary fantasy & speculative romance writer ✨ D&D nerd 🎲 stereotypical gemini ♊ occasional sword girl ⚔️ left wing 🌹
she/her, bi 💜
Be excellent to each other 🌈
Banner art by Brittany M. Willows 💜
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/
Jim Monaghan @jimmonaghan.bsky.social Poet, community activist, Govanhill resident, MDANT, Cultural Attache @ Greater Shawlands Republic, Director @ Romano Lav, not boyfriend material. 
Lesley Kelly @lkauthor.bsky.social Author of the Health of Strangers pandemic crime series
Peter Bennett @pbennett.bsky.social Writer. Novel — Liberties, available now: https://www.rymour.co.uk/liberties.html & the usual places. Extracts in New Writing Scotland 40 and other publications.
linktr.ee/peter_bennett
Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
Desperate Literature @desperatelit.bsky.social International bookshop in the heart of Madrid!
Home of the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction (NOW CLOSED FOR 2026)
Penny Blackburn @pennyblackburn.bsky.social Yorkshire born writer and teacher now based in the North East.
Donna Moore @badsvillebroad.bsky.social Love dark, warped humorous crime fiction; historical fiction; film noir; punk. Author of crime fiction and historical fiction. #author #crimefiction #mysteryfiction #historicalfiction #filmnoir #punkrock #books https://www.donnamooreauthor.com/
Funny Women @funnywomen.bsky.social The UK's leading female comedy community. Helping women to perform, write and do business with humour.
Lots more fun to be seen here 👇
https://funnywomen.com/links
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut sci-fi horror novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
Ricky Monahan Brown @rickyballboy.bsky.social Writer. Poetry pamphlet Drawer of Letters from Broken Sleep Books – "Wonderfully audacious" 🖤 Terminal and Other Stories 🖤 Little Apples (novella) 🖤 Stroke: A 2% chance of survival (memoir) 🖤 Next: Teller of Tales in Tantallon Tìr’s Call of the Isles
Sarah Cornelius @sarahc-writes.bsky.social Walking, writing and being curious
Strange Town @strangetownco.bsky.social Creating opportunities for young people: Youth Theatre (5-18) | Young Company (18-25) | Agency | Touring Company | New Writing | Free/discounted places available
Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.social Illustrator of comics, horror, and science things
DARK HORSE | IDW | 2000 AD | ONI PRESS | EARTHJUSTICE
She/They
linktr.ee/emilyschnall
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books.
www.kennys.ie | www.thekennygallery.ie
Reductress @reductress.bsky.social The first and only satirical women's magazine. Constantly moving to a new social platform.
GordonJBrown (AKA Morgan Cry) @gordonjbrown.bsky.social Crime author and founding board director of Bloody Scotland. The Cost, starring Blake Glover, out now - published by Severn House.
Play Full Theatre @playfulltheatre.bsky.social Cultivating collaborations between emerging theatre artists in Scotland to create distinctive new performances 🎭✨ Follow for creative opportunities and scratch nights.
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Mara Joy @marajoyloves.bsky.social Comedian. Idiot. Trans.
Wind&Bones Books @windandbones.com Independent publisher. Scotland, Taiwan & elsewhere. Directed by Hannah Stevens & Will Buckingham.
|| https://links.windandbones.com ||
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
Matthew Harrington @mhaton.bsky.social Product Manager by day
...but when I'm not that, I'm talking D&D, writing fantasy, and playing board games!
https://cardboardchampions.co.uk/
Nancy Freund @nancyfreund.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Wife, Mom & Mum. #T1D. Mostly vegan. Cambridge & UCLA & just finished year 1, CW PhD @Brunel! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭 My mom painted the above. She was amazing.
Greg Dinner @gregdinner.bsky.social Published author & Produced screenwriter for almost 40 years, former film exec/teacher/mentor. Lives now in West of Ireland. PENIreland, PENSan Miguel, BAFTA, WGA, WGGB. Visit www.gregdinner.com
RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social The voices of RogerEbert.com
M Brown @mbrown007.bsky.social Friendly writer of thrilling SF, Fantasy, Horror. Screenwriter/Novelist. TTRPG enthusiast. Architecture/Design nut. Biography and history fiend. All around lover of art. Shouldering the burden of one massive TBR!
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
angelfruit @dawnobrien.bsky.social Confirmed Italophile/Sicilianophile … food, people, culture, weather … 💚🤍❤️
Loves books, writing, painting, TV
Lives in UK with dog & old man.
Has kids/grandkids.
Late Dx AUDHD.
Anti-Brexit also loathes cloves & cinnamon
Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social Writing wee stories about Belfast and other bits and pieces. Bath Novella-in-Flash S/L 2025. Words in places like @theDublinReview.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social @mooncityreview.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl 🌍 Biologist, 🪺 Studying strange animal nests, 📚 Author, 🧠 Doing science communication daily, 🏛️ Loves natural history, 🔥 Documenting the Anthropocene 🌐 www.aukeflorian.nl
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, The Survivor Zine
British, living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Steph Amey @stephamey.bsky.social Writer of historical fiction. Passionate about Roman Britain. My novel 'The Edge of Empire' was published by Northodox in May 2024. Book 2 is due out in May 2025.
Billy Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social Scriever/Braidcaster in Scots, English, an a wheen ither leids forbye.
Writer/Broadcaster in English, Scots and a few other languages as well. Passionate about Scottish independence, my wife, my weans and grandweans. Oh, and Scotland & Dundee United.
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Vasiliki Katsarou @solitudehill.bsky.social Poet publisher @Solitude Hill Press, with a focus on poetry, film & visual art. I've lived in #cambma & Paris, now halfway between NYC & Philly. Email: books [at] solitudehill [dot] com. www.solitudehill.com. Also, dachshunds
Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm
https://www.instagram.com/benmorganwriter/
https://benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/
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
Sam Hincks @samhincks.bsky.social - PhD in AI and Consciousness - www.samhincks.com
- Building a company to Save the Oceans - www.yourdevocean.com
- Fantasy Author - www.isadorancreed.com
- Musician - Spotify/ Sam Hincks
- Following people to build spiritual/AI/ocean community
Sceptre Books @sceptrebooks.bsky.social Inspired writing. Irresistible reading. Posts from the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton. 
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social Author in the Highlands 🏴, for kids, teens and adults. Next adult book: THE FROG PRINCE, Summer 2027 🐸👑
Emma Cowing @emmacowing.bsky.social Debut novel THE SHOW WOMAN 🎪 out now from Hodder & Stoughton. Rep'd by Amanda Harris. Order THE SHOW WOMAN 👉 https://bio.to/m8w8bb
𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔶 ℜ𝔬𝔰𝔢 🌊 @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social • black cat owner and horror girlie
• sunday times bestselling author/forbes 30 under 30 with no mystique
• the lamb 🥩 @wnbooks @harperbooks
• audhd / bi
https://linktr.ee/lucyrosecreative
She/they
Nussaibah Younis @nussaibah.bsky.social Author of FUNDAMENTALLY (Feb 2025) W&N (UK) Dutton (US)
Carys Green @carysgreenauthor.bsky.social Thriller author. Always on My Mind out now with Harvill. Loves Disney and cupcakes.
Chris Bridges @chrisbridgeswriter.bsky.social Chronicaly ill crime writer.
Debut novel: Sick to Death shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award.
Agent: Hannah Schofield at LBA
1950s, Elizabeth Taylor and poodle obsessive, vegan.
Former nurse, living with MS
Links: https://tr.ee/1vaOIH2gP2
Joanna Miller @joannamillerauthor.bsky.social Writer, reader, whippet lover.
Debut novel THE EIGHTS out 3 April 2025 with Fig Tree Penguin & Putnam Books.
https://linktr.ee/joannamillerauthor?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=6abb21c9-05b2-4265-9222-8de90ca4d083u
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
Sarah Govett @sarahgovett.bsky.social Award-winning YA author and screenwriter. Debut crime thriller, BELIEVE, out with Penguin Michael Joseph June 2025.
Fiza Saeed McLynn @fizalovesbooks.bsky.social Debut THE MIDNIGHT CAROUSEL publishes April 2025; rep’d by Hellie Ogden at WME
Abigail Johnson author @abigailj.bsky.social Writer, book lover and mum of two. Loves the sea and cake, not necessarily together. Debut The Secret Collector @panmacmillan.bsky.social out now: bit.ly/SecretCollector 📚🛋️🕰️ Rep'd: WME Books
Laura Sweeney @lauracsweeney.bsky.social Writer of uplifting, emotional women’s fiction.
Debut novel: My Grandmother’s Secret OUT NOW
Occasional cocktail drinker
Has an out of control TBR pile
https://linktr.ee/laurasweeney
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