Joy Persaud @joypersaud.bsky.social Writer and editor | Author | Biographer | Storytelling coach | Interviewer of humans | Amateur photographer | Tea-loving, sea-loving Londoner in Sussex
Maria Hill @mariaehill.bsky.social #BlueCrew, writer, cultural system coach, healer, and artist. Woke AF, humanitarian, feminist, pro-democracy, supporter of the Commons Movement, animal and nature lover. Looking forward to meeting like-minded people. No DMs. https://mariahill.substack.com
Michael Robb @shelflifemr.bsky.social Author of 'Shelf Life', a history of the British book trade, to be published by The History Press February 2025. Agent Cull and Co Agency. Sales Director, GMC Distribution.
Eowyn Ivey @eowynivey.bsky.social Alaskan, author of The Snow Child, To the Bright Edge of the World, and coming in Feb 2025 ... Black Woods Blue Sky
Amy McElroy @amymcelroy.bsky.social Author of:
☆Educating the Tudors - Jan 2023.
☆Women's Lives in the Tudor Era - Feb 2024.
☆Mary Tudor, Queen of France - Feb 2025.
☆ Desiderius Erasmus - March 2026.
All published by Pen & Sword
Working on the next book!
HWA Crown Awards Judge
Samantha Shannon (Updates Only) @samanthashannon.bsky.social NYT & Sunday Times bestselling author | updates only
York Festival of Ideas @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social Annual award-winning Festival with more than 150 free events. York Festival of Ideas 2026 took place 30 May to 12 June under the overarching theme of ‘Place and Space’.
Cara @woolelephant.bsky.social Northerner, writer, walker, witterer. Wannabe historian. Little pilgrimages and beer, a novel about the 17th C (Wren, shortlisted for the Mslexia 2023 novel prize)
Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
Adam Cesare @adamcesare.bsky.social Horror Enthusiast. Bram Stoker Award-winning author. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, VIDEO NIGHT, DEAD MALL, and more. Please buy a book. https://linktr.ee/adamcesare
Jamie Flanagan @jamieflanagan.com 🏳️⚧️
Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social Author, Doctor, Husband, Father, Friend
Claire Holliday @hooklings.bsky.social Reader, writer, crocheter, chihuahua wrangler, aspiring author, sometime line editor. I live with complex endometriosis. I <3 The Locked Tomb 🦴 The Poppy War 🔥 Arcane 🦈 Captive Prince! 💎 X-Files since way back. 🛸 Hannibal 🔪
Dan Poblocki @danpoblocki.bsky.social #1 NY Times Bestseller. SHADOW PLAY. MY BROTHER’S BUTT IS HAUNTED, JACKSON BRIGHT IN THE SPOTLIGHT. TALES TO KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT and more avail now. Podcast: OUR FIRST FEARS. (Any pronoun.)
Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social Author of 👻 things, recently: THROUGH THE MIDNIGHT DOOR. Whiskey drinker. Hates feet.
Alex Harrison @akharrison98.bsky.social Senior Movies Editor & Film Critic @ScreenRant, formerly film critic @WhatsUpNewp, Masters @edinburghuni ‘21, @brownuniversity ‘20
Reyna Cervantes @jfcdoomblade.bsky.social Writer. Edgelord.
Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net Nebula & World Fantasy Award Finalist, SFF writer, coder, artist. Books: THE RAINSEEKERS, SPACE TRUCKER JESS, HISTORIES WITHIN US, KING OF SHARDS & QUEEN OF STATIC. Creator of Moksha submissions system. Co-host of Fantastic Fiction at KGB. 🥄 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 NOKINGS
Aaron Moorhead @aaronmoorhead.bsky.social Resolution 🎞️🏚️
Spring 💕🐙
The Endless 👬🌕🌕🌙
Synchronic 💊🤝
Something in the Dirt ❔👽
The Twilight Zone 🐙❄️
Archive 81 📹🔥
Moon Knight 🌙⚔️
Loki ४😈
Christopher Buehlman @buehlmeister.bsky.social Word-grouping dogbotherer, garlicky kitchen haint, father of goblins. Non-compliant, secular, cat-whispery, has a kraken-ink tattoo.
Justin Benson @justinhbenson.bsky.social Make stuff with my friend
@aaronmoorhead.bsky.social: RESOLUTION, SPRING, THE ENDLESS, SYNCHRONIC, TWILIGHT ZONE, ARCHIVE 81, MOON KNIGHT, LOKI, SOMETHING IN THE DIRT, DAREDEVIL…
Jeremy Haun @jerhaun.bsky.social Creative Director at IGNITION PRESS.
Host of the CURIOUS HAUNTS podcast.
Creator of THE BEAUTY, MURDER PODCAST, THE RED MOTHER, THE REALM, THE APPROACH, HAUNTHOLOGY, and more.
I write. I draw. I drink bourbon.
Brett Pierce @brettpierce.bsky.social 1/2 of the directing/writing team of THE WRETCHED (Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Shudder, AMC+), THE WRETCHED DEVOURS (in production), DEADHEADS (Amazon Prime, Tubi)
Steph Nelson @stephnelsonauthor.bsky.social Author of ⛏️THE VEIN (out now!) and ✋THE THRESHING FLOOR (fall 2024) from Dark Matter INK, along with ⛰️SAWTOOTH from Cemetery Gates (fall 2023). Stories in HUMAN MONSTERS, and MOTHER: TALES OF LOVE AND TERROR. Reads slush at The Maul Magazine
Cat Delani @catdelani.bsky.social Horror writer in Annapolis, MD
Jeremiah Dylan Cook @jeremiahdylancook.bsky.social Author of A Mythos of Monsters and Madness. You can find all my links and more about me at www.jeremiahdylancook.com.
Tom Rimer @rimertom.bsky.social Horror Author. THE GLOWING Trilogy, MALEVOLENT NEVERS, ODIOUS GHOULS, & BUOYGEIST - all now available. HWA member. He/Him.
www.tomrimerauthor.com
Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social Professor at Columbia; writer of books; poster of thoughts about movies, books, comics, music, other stuff. Stoker-nominated author of AMERICAN SCARY; PRESS 1 FOR INVASION for middle-graders from Simon and Schuster OUT NOW!
Jacob Collins @collinsjacob115.bsky.social Book blogger and aspiring thriller author.
Kate Lord Brown @katelordbrown.bsky.social Writer 
Harriet Griffey @harrietgriffey.bsky.social Writer. Suffolk raised, London based, European. MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature.
www.writersretreats.org
Jenny Kane @jennykaneauthor.bsky.social Cosy crime and romcom author of The Fish & Chip Shop Detectives, The Potting Shed and Mill Grange series', & more.
Jenny writes historical fiction as Jennifer Ash.
Rep. by Keane Kataria agents
www.jennykane.co.uk
Julia Kent @jkentauthor.bsky.social New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedy with an edge. Former history and government professor and higher education runaway. I have more fun making up stories than fighting deans. Immunocompromised mom to medically complex kids.
Samantha Young @authorsamyoung.bsky.social Scottish lass. NYT bestselling author.
Claire Frances @clairefrancesbooks.bsky.social Author represented by Rachel Neely at Mushens Entertainment. Publisher: HarperCollins.
Heidi McLaughlin @heidimclaughlin.bsky.social 🖊️ NYT Bestselling Author
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🎥 Forever My Girl
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Katelyn Brehm @katbrehmwrites.bsky.social Indie Romance Author
Contemporary Meets Extraordinary
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Nisha’s Books and Coffee | Author Services @nishasbookpr.bsky.social Connecting Authors & Readers
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Delta James @deltajames.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Author of Steamy Paranormal, Bodyguard and Small Town Romantic Suspense
Living my best life on the Treasure Coast in Florida with my four basset hour girls, all of whom are named for characters in my books.
The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing).
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
#Nordlichtberaubt- L Lynnda Worsnop @lynnda.bsky.social Author Creative lover of books dogs and chocolate
Alana Oxford @alanaoxford.bsky.social Author of low spice romance and snarky women’s fiction. Public Librarian. I love everything about books. Let’s read!
Caroline @carolinecauchi.bsky.social (It’s 🐄 🔑) Bestselling novelist, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Hull. Wrote MRS VAN GOGH & THE WOMAN WHO WENT OVER NIAGARA FALLS IN A BARREL.
Anna Caig @annacaig.bsky.social Hello 👋 I'm an author of historical fiction about women's hidden lives🐺, a communications consultant and marketing expert 😊
Karen Inglis @kareninglis.bsky.social International bestselling children's author of The Secret Lake series for ages 8-12, and of picture books and chapter books for younger ones. 😊 📚 More at kareninglisauthor.com 
Holly June Smith @hollyjunesmith.bsky.social ✍ Indie rom-com author & spicy audio scriptwriter
📚 CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING? & SEE YOU NEXT WINTER - Out Now
🌍 Herts, UK
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
Elizabeth Strout @lizstrout.bsky.social Author of Olive Kitteridge, the Lucy Barton books, Anything is Possible, & others. My latest book, TELL ME EVERYTHING, is out now. You can also find me on Instagram and FaceBook. For more information, please visit website:
https://www.elizabethstrout.com
Jim Field @jimfield.bsky.social Children’s book Illustrator, author, artist, character designer.
Lizzie Frainier @lizziefrainier.bsky.social 🌍 Associate Travel Editor at The Times and The Sunday Times
📖 Author of Main Character: Lessons from a real-life romcom, out February 2025. A memoir about dating, friendship and romcoms 💕
Preorder here: linktr.ee/maincharacterbook
V.V. Ganeshananthan @sugi.bsky.social Writer. BROTHERLESS NIGHT: http://randomhousebooks.com/books/57844/
Silke Harvey @silkeharvey.bsky.social International bestselling author, publisher & writing coach passionate about helping women share their stories.
#Homesteader #UkulelePlayer #InnerHippieBooks #InnerHippieFarm #InnerHippieRetreats #BookPublishing #WritingRetreats #WritingCoaching
Bev Thomas @bevthomas.bsky.social Writer - Good Enough Mother and The Family Retreat (Faber) Clinical Psychologist. Rep Karolina Sutton @ CAA
NancyKay 📚🎸🖖🏼🐕 @nancykayshapiro.bsky.social Books | Soul, Indie, Alternative, Beatles, St Etienne Belle & Seb Records | K/S+Spirk+StarTrek | Dogs |TV | New York City | Queer | Fanfic Writer https://shorturl.at/FNWkW | Novel: https://tinyurl.com/244astcl | Anti-MAGA
David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 💖💛💙 @henninghampress.bsky.social Artist, Author, Indie publisher
(he/him)
my novel Foulness is at the printers
https://linktr.ee/smallfortunepress
Claire Cock-Starkey @nonfictioness.bsky.social Writer (Lore of the Wild, Hyphens & Hashtags &c). Big fan of books, libraries, folklore, history. Also have a PhD on the folklore of death and dying in 19th century England
Lynn Fraser @lynnfraser.bsky.social Author, reader, creative writing teacher, mum. Fuelled by tea and rage.
Abigail Ted @howverynovel.bsky.social PhD Student of Long-18th C Literature. Author of Regency Satire/Sort-of Tragedies. Blogging ‘Race and Regency’ & ‘Character Driven.’ Clarissa (1748) obsessive.
Claire Sheehy Author @clairesheehyauthor.bsky.social Creator of Detective Lizzie Marsh. Writer of short stories and soon to be writer of longer stories
Sandra L. Ireland @slirelandauthor.bsky.social Author of Beneath the Skin, Bone Deep, The Unmaking of Ellie Rook, Sight Unseen and….watch this space!
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Johanna Bell @jobellauthor.bsky.social Author of the Bobby Girls and Blitz Girls series (published by Hodder & Stoughton)
http://tinyurl.com/y274ouz3 Rep.d by Kate Burke at Blake Friedmann #amwriting #writingcommunity
I also source case studies & write features for national newspapers & mags
SW Kane @swkane.bsky.social Author of The Bone Jar (shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2021) and The Drowning Place out 18 Oct 2023. 
Chloë Ashby @chloeashby.bsky.social Author of FAMILY FRIENDS (coming July), SECOND SELF and WET PAINT. Words on art, books and culture in the Times, Guardian, Spectator, TLS et al.
Daniel Sellers @djsellersauthor.bsky.social Crime author, made in Leeds, now based in Argyll
LM Milford @lmmilford.bsky.social Writer of all things crime, including the Allensbury Mysteries
Baker of the World's Best Brownies and corned beef pie.
https://lmmilford.com/my-books
Salharris @salharris.bsky.social Writer of ghost stories and gothic fiction.
Haverscroft, http://amzn.to/3hI2yVe.
Seahurst, https://bit.ly/3X3gmKz
Website, https://saharrisauthor.com/
linktr.ee/salharris 👻
Catherine Chidgey @catherinechidgey.bsky.social Novelist; secretary to @TamaMagpie. Longlisted @WomensPrize; shortlisted @DublinLitAward. Publishers @EuropaEditions, @EuropaEdUK, @thwupbooks. Rep'd @UA_Books.
Patricia Marques @marquesp09.bsky.social Writer and book addict in North London | Represented by Oli Munson at AM Heath.
THE BURNING WOMAN book #4 in the Inspector Reis series OUT NOW! 👉🏽 https://linktr.ee/patriciamarques_author
🌍 https://patricia-marques.com/
Kathleen Whyman Author @kathleenwhyman.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Knackered mum. Espresso Martini fan (may be linked).
@CWIPprize finalist. Has Anyone Seen My Husband That? out now!
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G. S. Jennsen @gsjennsen.com Science fiction author. Futurist, geek, gamer.
John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social Screenwriter, author, knowitall, dilettante. AGENT SEVENTEEN won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of 2022, soon to be a major movie. ASSASSIN EIGHTEEN out now. Tech, math, photography, music. Fan of bicycles and guillotines.
Colette Snowden @colettesnowden.bsky.social Author. Mum of neurodivergent teens. Devoted to my Romanian rescue dog and addicted to coffee. 'The Secret to Not Drowning' and 'Captain Jesus' published by Bluemoose Books. 'Celeste' coming in 2025.
Rachel Edwards @racheledwards.bsky.social Author of DARLING and LUCKY (4th Estate, HarperCollins). Inspired by hanging with my hens: Ella, Etta, Billie, Toni, Maya and Alice…(they give me wings) ✍🏾
Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social Crime writer, procrastination fighter, hill walker, fast talker. Author of The Long, Long Afternoon and This Wild, Wild Country. Via German by chance, Glaswegian by choice 🇩🇪❤️🏴 Recently mummy-fied.
Bonnie MacBird @macbird.bsky.social Write Sherlock Holmes novels for HarperCollins, paint watercolours in my kitchen, and am a theatre/Shakespeare nerd. Original writer of TRON, long ago. And have done many other things since. Liberal Californian living in London.
Lou Hall(ow) Author @louhallauthor.bsky.social Author of fiction, non-fiction & short stories. Currently writing #cozyfantasy as Lou Hallow.
Rep’d by @gaiabanks.bsky.social
Sheil Land Associates, London
www.louisehallauthor.com
Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social Author of Eight Detectives and Ink Ribbon Red. Pronounced Pah-vay-zee.
Katie Marsh @katiemarshauthor.bsky.social Novelist and maker of misshapen cakes. ‘Murder on the Menu’ coming January 2025.
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 
Tenille McDermott @tenille.bsky.social Bookseller. PhD candidate in creative writing. Critical AI, LLMs and time perception. Co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social. Co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social. She/her.
Rebecca Thorne @spookyrebecca.bsky.social Author of The Grief House
Lover of all things ghostly
Sophie Haydock @sophiehaydock.bsky.social Author, journalist, marathon runner, mudlark | Curator Folkestone Book Festival | debut The Flames @DoubledayUK #EgonSchiele | agent Juliet Mushens | Madame Matisse coming in March 2025
Carole Johnstone @carolejohnstone.bsky.social Award-winning writer; lover of islands and WINE. Author of Mirrorland and The Blackhouse.
“Dark and devious” Stephen King
Rep Hellie Ogden at WME /
carolejohnstone.com
IG: carole_l_johnstone
Lia Louis @lialouis.bsky.social Author.
Gilly Macmillan @gillymacmillan.bsky.social NYT & SUNDAY TIMES bestselling writer of thrillers
Laura Kay @lauraekay.bsky.social Gorgeous Author and Journalist
MAKING IT my fourth novel out now
Running for Buns and Other Mental Health Clichés on Substack
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.
CoyoteWallace @coyotewallace.bsky.social Amazon Best Selling Low Fantasy Author, Gonzo journalist, creator of The Dispatches From Appalachia, Occasionally a Game Designer, Humorist, Appalachian activist, part-time historian, Dirty liberal punk, and wizard's apprentice.
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Rebecca Rowland @rebecca-rowland.bsky.social Author, editor, vodkatonicmaker.
Bram Stoker & Shirley Jackson Award 🪨 finalist. Active HWA & ITW, Semi-colon lover, Awkward Gen Xer, 🏳️🌈, Snow hater, Ocean lover, Sun shyer. Quiet bad ass from Mass. My cat bit your honor student.
Shawn White @spwhite.bsky.social Author of the dark dinner novel A Good Meal and the upcoming novel Disappearing. Tea-drinking synthesizer enthusiast who has failed to learn jigs and reels on the Irish tenor banjo. 
Rochelle Wilcox @rochellewilcox.bsky.social Mom, wife, daughter, friend. I used to write legal briefs at DWT. Now, I write about dragons, elves, and gods, with a closed-door romance series, The Road to Ragnarök, released in 2022 and a spicy romance series, Tales of the Vanir, rapid-released in 2025!
Sarah E. Matthews—Author Extraordinaire @superbfinch.bsky.social What it says, bub. Author of horror and weird fiction from Southern Indiana. She/her.
www.sarahematthews.com
Brooklyn Ann @brooklynannauthor.com Romance & Horror author. Series: Scandals with Bite, Brides of Prophecy, Hearts of Metal, & The Final Couples. Repped by The Knight Agency. HWA Member. https://linktr.ee/brooklynannauthor
Christopher Bond @christopherbond.bsky.social Family man. Horror & Dark Fiction Author. Used bookstore explorer and thrift archaeologist. The Devil Came Down the Mountain via Horrorsmith Publishing 2024. BLACK OUT THE STARS coming 2025.
christopherbondauthor.com
C.C. Winchester @ccwinchester.bsky.social Horror Writer
multiversedream.com
Hysteria Lives! @jakerswell.bsky.social JA Kerswell. Slashers. Trash. Gialli. Author: The Slasher Movie Book and the upcoming The Nanny Has a Knife!: The From Hell Psycho Thriller (1987-1996). Hysteria Continues podcast. 27 years of Hysteria Lives! website. https://www.hysteria-lives.co.uk