Katya Adler @katbbc.bsky.social BBC Europe Editor. News, current affairs, documentaries, presenter. Coffee lover.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Ovidia Yu @ovidiayu.bsky.social Singaporean Author of the Aunty Lee Mysteries and History Tree Mysteries
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust @worcswt.bsky.social Keep up to date with the goings on of Worcestershire's wildlife (office hours).
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Museums Worcestershire @museumsworcs.bsky.social Discover 3 fantastic museums:
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🏰 County Museum at Hartlebury Castle
👑 The Commandery & 💫 Escape Room: Commandery Quest
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Bromsgrove Today @bromsgrovetoday.bsky.social Photos of Bromsgrove, today.
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Bromsgrove Arts @bromsgrovearts.bsky.social Bromsgrove Arts - the home of Fairfield Flicks - screening films, Event Cinema & hosting great live music & touring drama. https://bromsgrovearts.org.uk/
Bromsgrove @bromsgrove.bsky.social Bromsgrove is a small town in North East Worcestershire, UK (population 99,200 at the 2021 census).
Were mentioned in the Domesday Book. Find out more here: https://opendomesday.org/place/SO9570/bromsgrove/
The Reading Agency @readingagency.bsky.social We are a UK charity that inspires social and personal change through the proven power of reading. In 2025/26, we reached over 2.5 million people.
Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris @stephmerritt.bsky.social Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Steve Cavanagh @stevecavanagh.bsky.social Writer, dog walker, professional procrastinator. Writes the Eddie Flynn books and sometimes other things too.
Rachel Howzell Hall @rachelhowzell.bsky.social OUT NOW: FOG & FURY. THE LAST ONE, the Good Morning America Book Club Pick for December. Coming soon: THE CRUEL DAWN. French Martini lover. Rep: Jill Marsal, @jillmarsal. Playing right now: FALLOUT 76. Find me also at www.rachelhowzell.com
Jamie West | Crime Fiction Author @jamiewestauthor.co.uk 🔍 Crime Fiction Author
🗡️ CWA Dagger Award Shortlisted
📖 Rep: David Headley @dhhlitagency
🎭 @hamiltonwestend
links.jamiewest.co.uk
Polly Crosby @writerpolly.bsky.social Author | The Vulpine | The House of Fever | This Tale is Forbidden | Vita & the Birds | The Illustrated Child | The Unravelling | https://linktr.ee/PollyCrosby
Russ Thomas @thevoiceofruss.bsky.social Author of the DS Adam Tyler books #firewatching #nighthawking #coldreckoning #sleepingdogs
Tim Kinsey @tekinsey.uk Mystery Writer. Dreadful Drummer. Proudly responsible for the Lady Hardcastle series.
https://www.tekinsey.uk
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Rosy Dawson @rosydawsonbooks.bsky.social Writer; LL Women’s Prize Discoveries 2023, Malorie Blackman Scholarship City Lit 2023. Agent: @litagentfran Long Covid - bedbound 2.5 years, recovering as of 2023. Former civil servant. Part time trainee lawyer. Book addict. Swimmer on good days. #BOOKS
Catherine Hokin @cathokin.bsky.social Writer of WW2 & Cold War fiction set in Berlin for Bookouture, reader of all kinds of things, Northener, likes 3 minute songs with loud guitars, everything is better with gravy or custard
Lucy Nichol @lucynichol.bsky.social Writer. Flunked punk. Serial catastrophiser. 📚 WHEN SALLY KILLED HARRY (03/25 HarperCollins) PARKLIFE, THE 27 CLUB, NO WORRIES IF NOT! (HarperCollins) SNOWFLAKE (Hachette). Rep: Jo Bell, Bell Lomax Moreton
Newcastle via Hull
https://linktr.ee/LucyNichol
Olivia Isaac-Henry @oliviaisaachenry.bsky.social Author of Sorrow Spring, The Verdict and Someone You Know https://smarturl.it/SorrowSpring!share
Luca Veste @lucaveste.bsky.social I write about bad things that will *probably* never happen to you...
Author of ten novels, bass player in the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
Lucie Whitehouse @luciewhitehouse.bsky.social Writer of the Robin Lyons crime series and psych suspense including Before We Met. Englishwoman in Brooklyn. 
Jojo Moyes @jojomoyes.bsky.social writer, parent, eejit
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com 
Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social Writer 📚romantic comedies & 🍏📺 writers room Slow Horses Series 5 ✍🏻 Meme slag. Lover of cats. Prosecco goblin. Old Hollywood enthusiast. Don’t trust me with Google Maps & we should be fine.
https://www.mhairimcfarlane.com/
David Jackson @davidjacksonwriter.bsky.social Novelist and scriptwriter. Thirteen crime thrillers published to date.
www.davidjacksonbooks.com
Author: David J Bushman and Willow 🐰 @davidjbushman.bsky.social I read and write LitRPG/Sci-Fi/Fantasy. My office mate is a bunny. Vulnerable to autocorrect. I don't trust DMs, so please don't send them trying to sell me something.
https://linktr.ee/DavidJBushman
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
Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social Author of LOVE AND OTHER POISONS 'enthralling, a beautifully structured tale' The Scotsman; CLAIRMONT 'Riveting...clever portrait of a fascinating woman' The Times @wildfirebooks.bsky.social Repd by @sheilland.bsky.social ExJoycean Still Glaswegian she/her
Linwood Barclay @linwoodbarclay.bsky.social Writer, former trailer park operator
Kia Abdullah @kiaabdullah.bsky.social Author. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE DARK out now.
Catriona Ward @catrionaward.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of LOOKING GLASS SOUND 🪞💀🪞, THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, SUNDIAL & more Rep @jennysavill1 & @RStrausAgency Film/TV @mldean_& @unitedtalent
Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social Crime writer among other strange things.
Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social Writer & musician. 20th novel Ghost Notes out now. Tombstoning and The Ossians also re-published in 2026. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
Attica Locke @atticalocke.bsky.social Writer, page and screen. #FromScratch #LittleFiresEverywhere #WhenTheySeeUs #Empire NY-Times bestselling author of six books.
https://linktr.ee/atticalocke
Alessandra Ranelli @alessandraranelli.bsky.social Crime Writer. American in Vienna. Woman in the Red Dress.
Debut MURDER AT THE HOTEL ORIENT is out 2/26.
Rep: Harry Illingworth/DHH 🏳️🌈
Frances White @franceswrites.bsky.social Award winning USA Today & Sunday Times bestselling Author of VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED 🐟 THE BONE DOOR (2026)💀 She/Her 🏳️🌈
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Jodie Robins @jodierobins.bsky.social Writer.
Curtis Brown Creative alumna
Lover of all things gothic
Novella, The Off-Season, out now.
Northern and southern in equal parts
https://jodierobins.substack.com
Dax Dagger | Karin Nordin @daxdagger.bsky.social ✍️ Horror & Thriller Author
📖 HOME SWEET HOME (4.9.2026)
📖 RAVENOUS (10.8.2026)
📚Published by HQ Stories / HarperCollinsUK
🖊️ Rep’d by Anne Tibbets; DMLA
🐈 Cats & Cosplay
https://linktr.ee/daxdagger
Ceinwen Langley @ceinwenlangley.bsky.social Reads, writes, makes stuff.
Boorloo/Perth.
Sally Rigby @sallyrigby.bsky.social I’m a writer of UK crime fiction with series set in Cornwall, Market Harborough, and the West Midlands. I’ve also written several psychological thrillers. I’m published by Storm Publishing and Podium.
Justin Woolley @justinwoolley.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Aerospace Engineerer. Author of THE TERRITORY SERIES, SHAKEDOWNERS and Warhammer 40K fiction for Black Library.
www.justinwoolley.com
Jo Callaghan @jocallaghankat.bsky.social Sunday Times bestseller In the Blink of an Eye, winner of Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year & CWA New Blood Dagger. Book 2 Leave No Trace. Agent: susanW1F
LJ Shepherd @ljshepherd.bsky.social 📚ONE OF YOUR NUMBER
💉☣️💚👩⚖️🪑
Out 9 April 2026
Philip Gray @philipgraybooks.bsky.social Author of THE HOUSE WITH NINE LOCKS (2025) and TWO STORM WOOD, A Times Book of the Year (2022), and other stuff. Pub: Harvill (Penguin Random Hs). Rep: Nicola Barr
#TheHousewithNineLocks #TwoStormWood
Web sites: philipgraybooks.com &
philipgrayauthor.com
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
Adam Simcox @adamsimcox.bsky.social Films/books/photos/scripts. Spurs masochist.
Literary rep: Harry Illingworth @ DHH Film rep: Emily Hayward-Whitlock @ The Artists Partnership
Lola Jaye Author @lolajaye.bsky.social Author of 'The Attic Child' & upcoming novel 'The Manual for Good Wives' (Macmillan Publishers) 📖 I'm also a practising psychotherapist & I like trees ALOT 🌳
Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social Author of Eight Detectives and Ink Ribbon Red. Pronounced Pah-vay-zee.
Samuel Burr @samuelburr.bsky.social Author of the instant Sunday Times and USA Today Bestseller, THE FELLOWSHIP OF PUZZLEMAKERS 🧩
Proud #BookSky recruit 💙📚
https://linktr.ee/samuelburr
Sara Collins @saracollinsauthor.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, speaker.
Cesca Major 📚 @cescamajor.bsky.social Novelist. Screenwriter. Mum of many. Coffee snob. Delight. MAYBE NEXT TIME - a Reese’s Book Club Pick & optioned by Hello Sunshine/Apple Studios. Latest 📖 IF I WERE YOU out now! #BookSky #scriptsky
Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social Writeroonie
Christie J. Newport @christiejnewport.bsky.social Author of The Preston Murders crime thriller series. Book One: The Raven’s Mark Book Two: The Ordinary Man. An historical thriller coming soon. Represented by Northbank Talent Management. Published by Joffe Books & Storm Books. Lives in Grimsargh Village.
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
Fiona Cummins @fionacumminsauthor.bsky.social Writer of thrillers. Seeker of thrills.
Hank Phillippi Ryan @hankphillippiryan.bsky.social USA Today bestseller author of 16 novels of suspense. Winner of 37 Emmys for television investigative reporting, as well as 5 Agathas, 5 Anthonys, and the Mary Higgins Clark award.
Watch for ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS coming in 2025.
hankphillippiryan.com
Anna Caig @annacaig.bsky.social Hello 👋 I'm an author of historical fiction about women's hidden lives🐺, a communications consultant and marketing expert 😊
Jonathan Whitelaw @jdwhitelaw13.bsky.social Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster.
Rep’d by Northbank Talent.
Mandy Byatt Author @mandybyattauthor.bsky.social Crime fiction writer. The Gallery of Bones, Book 1 of The British Heritage Mysteries out spring 2026.
Alie Dumas-Heidt, Author @aliedh.bsky.social Author of the detective thriller, The Myth Maker.
Host of The Writer's Journey podcast.
Wife, mom, dog mom, forest dweller.
Forever Ally.
Short but fierce. www.aliedh.com
Diane Jeffrey Author @dianejeffreyauthor.bsky.social Mum of 3, Wife of 1, Mistress of a black Lab. USA Today bestselling & ITW award-winning author of 6 psychological thrillers.
Josie Lloyd @josielloydbooks.bsky.social I write novels, parodies and screenplays. 'Miss Beeton's Murder Agency' is out now. Co-host of 'Show Us Your Bits' podcast about the stories behind jewellery. Married to Emlyn Rees. Keen sea-dipper, tea-drinker, pub-goer, cheese-on-toast maker.
Caz Frear @cazzifwrites.bsky.social Crime Author. Everything Reader. Cautious Optimist. Occasionally annoying. Five Bad Deeds paperback coming March 25 (Simon & Schuster). Agent: Eugenie Furniss
Kate Sawyer @katesawyer.bsky.social Author: Getting Away (coming 3.7.25!), This Family & The Stranding. Podcaster: Novel Experience. Programme Curator: Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.
Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social author of MEET ME IN THE WOODS 🩸 (Out Now! Wild Ink Publishing) | she/her | former English teacher | currently querying RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME 🌊🥀 (81k spec thriller)
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ 
Andrea Carter @andreacarter.bsky.social Ex-lawyer turned crime writer. Inishowen Mysteries. Agent David Headley. The Artists Partnership for TV & Film. There Came a-Tapping. Little, Brown UK. Lurcher loving veggie.
Guy Morpuss @guymorpuss.bsky.social Writer. Barrister. Published by @viperbooks.bsky.social. Rep'd by @onechaptermore.bsky.social.
Peter James Official @peterjamesauthor.bsky.social Creator of Queen Camilla's favourite fictional detective.
Global best-selling author.
Red socks aficionado.
Makes a mean vodka martini.
https://www.peterjames.com/
Louise Minchin @louiseminchin.bsky.social Author, Journalist, Presenter who loves being outside. Formerly BBC Breakfast and now Rip Off Britain. Thriller Isolation Island is out now.
Matt Wesolowski @mattjwesolowski.bsky.social Author of unpleasant books, spooky kickboxer, flawed human. Dungeon Synth and Black Metal; Crows, Cats and Bats.
Agent: Sandra Sawicka (Marjacq)
Film/TV: Luke Speed (SLTM)
Imran @imranmahmood777.bsky.social Author screenwriter barrister
📚. 🎬. ⚖️
Karin Slaughter @karinslaughter.com Internationally bestselling thriller writer. Watch WILL TRENT on ABC/streaming on Hulu. Watch PIECES OF HER on Netflix.
Lauren Ling Brown @laurenlingbrown.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Author of SOCIETY OF LIES, a @reesesbookclub pick 📖✨
@penguinrandomhouse
Black and Chinese
Editor 🎞️
Rhiannon Barnsley @rhiannonbarnsley.bsky.social Psychological writer ✍️ Author of The Clique. Lawyer by day. 
John Vercher @jverchwrites.bsky.social Author: THREE-FIFTHS; AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT; DEVIL IS FINE (PEN/Faulkner and Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist); Artist-in-residence, Monmouth University; Faculty, Randolph MFA; Rep: David Hale Smith; Film/TV: Will Watkins; Speaking: The Tuesday Agency
Martta Kaukonen @marttakaukonen.bsky.social My debut psychological thriller FOLLOW THE BUTTERFLY has been sold to 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇩🇰 🇬🇷 🇪🇪 🇭🇺 🇵🇱 🇭🇺 🇵🇾 🇨🇿 🇱🇻 🇱🇹
Harrogate New Blood panel 2024
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Alex Segura @alexsegura.com New York Times and USA Today-bestselling/award-winning author of many comics and novels.
https://linktr.ee/alex_segura
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
Sarah Pinborough @sarahpinborough.bsky.social Author and screenwriter. Sunday Times #1, & NYT Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES on Netflix and INSOMNIA on Paramount+. Ted owner. WE LIVE HERE NOW coming Summer of 2025
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com Bestselling Novelist. Writer of Video Games & TTRPGs. Hank Hill Apologist. Rep by ANA/CAA.
NO MAN'S SKY | SIXTEEN HORSES | DARK SOULS: EYES OF DEATH | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Cats: Bucket, Table, and Mop.
gregbuchananwriter.com
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, uncoupled since February 2020. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias