RAWilliams @rawilliams.bsky.social One curious little Curiosity Rover, wandering this strange new Planet BlueSky. Writer, editor, designer, activist, ex-archaeologist but still forever digging stuff up. #BlueWave #DarkWoke #FuckTrump #FuckAI #FuckGOP
Nicholas Avery @nicholasavery.bsky.social There have been other dogs in my life
Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social Science fiction doings - magazine, publications, events and other odds and sods. Based in Scotland, open to the Universe.
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com
Also SF Caledonia www.sfcaledonia.scot
Also home to SF Caledonia: https://www.sfcaledonia.scot
Gary Gibson @garygibsonsf.bsky.social SF Author living in Taiwan. Out now: Xenopraxis, book 2 of the Echogenesis series (https://mybook.to/Xenopraxis).
Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social Est. 1986, GSFWC is a critique workshop for writers of fantastical literature based in Scotland.
Official website, anthologies and more: https://linktr.ee/gsfwc
Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social Freelance anthologist. Consulting Editor, Tor.com. Reviews Editor, Locus www.locusmag.com. Co-host, The Coode Street Podcast jonathanstrahan.podbean.com. Hugo and World Fantasy Award recipient.
Tom Hunter @tomhunter.bsky.social Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Award book prize / Comms & Marketing / Mostly a personal account (mostly).
beacons.ai/clarkeaward
Marc G @gravesnailyard.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher/editor/designer/author, previously “responsible” for the Black Library, Solaris, Angry Robot, Aconyte, now head of special ops for Trench Crusade. I like new music and old books and clever movies and you.
Darren Nash @darrenanash.com Freelance editor, retired 🏏, ⚽️ tragic, practising 🍺 & 🥃 snob. SFF, comics, facts, science, progressive politics. Views expressed are my own (unless I’ve obviously nicked them).
darrenanash.com
John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com Series Editor of BASFF. Publisher of @lightspeedmagazine.com (+ Editor) and NIGHTMARE. Editor of 50+ anthologies. Co-editor (with Jordan Peele) of OUT THERE SCREAMING.
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Tim Lebbon @timlebbon.bsky.social SECRET LIVES OF THE DEAD out August '25. DEAD RED & RAZOR out September. NY Times bestselling writer. Father, husband, triathlete. Real ale. Cake. Music. The countryside. Love is the fing. Be kind. AMONG THE LIVING out now.
Lou Anders @louanders.bsky.social Author/Game Designer (he/him): NORRØNGARD TTRPG campaign setting. Hugo/Chesley winner. https://linktr.ee/louanders #ProtectTransKids #NoNazisInValhalla
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social Writer. Alston Moor 1st September 2026. Dreams Before the Start of Time - Arthur C Clarke Award. A Calculated Life - finalist Philip K Dick Award. She/her. Books, birds, climate. Rep’d Sarah Such.
https://linktr.ee/annecharnock
https://annecharnock.com/
Jonathan Laidlow @jonlaidlow.bsky.social Cumbrian in Brum, writes a bit. Stories in Strange Horizons, Liminal Stories, StarshipSofa, Interzone and IZ Digital, and more. Codexian. Short fiction reviews at supernova.reviews, short fiction at jonlaidlow.com, webmaster & editor at ultan.org.uk
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
Tony Keen @tonykeen58.bsky.social Teacher/academic/classicist/critic/reviewer/sf fan. Writes on classical reception & popular culture, comics, & Doctor Who. Available for talks. UK. He/him. Professor!
Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social reader, critic, fan, he/him
Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. As a hobby, I also write Criticism and Non-Fiction.
Michael Marshall @michael-marshall.bsky.social Freelance science writer covering life sciences, health and the environment. My first book The Genesis Quest is about the origins of life on Earth.
https://www.michaelcmarshall.com
Des Lewis @dflewis.bsky.social Nemonymous, Weirdmonger, Gestalt Real-Time Reviewing
Daniel Livingstone @d-livingstone.bsky.social games, education, space-laser operations, stuff. This account definately not representative of my employer.
Chris Butler @chrisdbutler.bsky.social Author of ANY TIME NOW and THE FLIGHT OF THE RAVENS. Short fiction in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Interzone, and The Best British Fantasy.
For more info, visit: https://cbutlerwrites.wordpress.com/
Al Robertson @alrobertson.bsky.social Tomorrow's folklore today! Author of psych cyberpunk novels "Crashing Heaven" and "Waking Hell". Copywriter. Wanderer. Ponderer. www.allumination.co.uk
Rosanne Rabinowitz @rosannerabs.bsky.social Writer, reader, ranter. Finalist for British Fantasy & Shirley Jackson awards. Lover of loud music, whisky and chocolate. 
Anna Tambour @annatambour.bsky.social Totally not bestselling author • Crap photographer • Snail wrangler • Noninfluencer of humans but possibly followed by a Fuligo septica community
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Stephen Palmer @stephenauthor.bsky.social Author of music, anthropology & genre fiction books. Musician, atheist & materialist. Likes tea, T Dream, Pink Floyd, Stranglers, Steve Reich. Considers the nature of consciousness a lot. #EmbraceTheRandom
BooksandBacon @booksandbacon.bsky.social Lover of all things Thriller/Horror/Police Procedural.
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Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social He/him. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Awards winner (twice). Collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING out now.
Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social Scottish writer 🐾 Stories in / soon in Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, The Dark, PodCastle, PseudoPod, The Rumpus, Gamut, Uncharted, Fusion Fragment, Interzone & others 🐾 katiemcivor.com
Simon Clark @simonclarkwriting.bsky.social Denizen of Yorkshire. Writer - short stories, novels, scripts - mainly horror, such as The Blood Crazy series and The Protos Experiment, some Sci-Fi, The Night of the Triffids. Some Big Finish, too.
Represented by Dan Fenton: Peters, Fraser and Dunlop
Alastair McCullough @alastair0.bsky.social Data Architect, strategist, technologist, multiculturalist, gastronomer. Fellow at IET, IoD, BCS, RSA. DPhil researcher at Oxford University. Sometime photographer too. Views here my own.
Oxford • London • Wiltshire • Helsinki when I can
Jim Kelly @jaspkelly.bsky.social I write stories, novels and occasionally plays, mostly science fiction and fantasy. Also a column in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine where I pretend to know stuff.
Shahrukh Husain @shahrukhhusain.bsky.social I’m a writer who loves sharing stories - mine and others’. Excited to join Bluesky to connect, explore, and contribute to a growing community!"
Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social #Author at Black Library, Solaris, Tor.com and Angry Robot. Ex-journalist and editor. Screenwriter, world-builder, ponderer. Angry goblin in a human world. Interested in far more things than I can possibly list in this puny box.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch @kristinerusch.bsky.social Award-winning, bestselling writer and editor. Visit me at kriswrites.com
Script Haven LTD @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK!
scripthavenltd@gmail.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scripthaven
5 Crown Passage, Worcester WR1 3LL
scripthaven.co.uk
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Karl Relf @kdrisme.bsky.social 70s kid, 80s teen, still analogue-brained. Author of the DCI Brookes series. Bookworm.
Daphne Silver, Cozy Mystery Author 💙📚 @daphnesilver.bsky.social Agatha-winning author of the Rare Books Cozy Mystery series. I love all things history and art. Visit www.daphnesilver.com to join my newsletter and get a free short story.
Guy Morpuss @guymorpuss.bsky.social Writer. Barrister. Published by @viperbooks.bsky.social. Rep'd by @onechaptermore.bsky.social.
Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social Books & Football, mostly. Literary Agent - Apple Tree Literary. Bookseller Rising Star ⭐️ 2021. Email me - max.edwards@appletreeliterary.com
Nicky Downes Crime Author @nickydownes.bsky.social I write crime featuring DI Jack Kent and set in Birmingham. I have a narrowboat, Chanelle and love cruising the canals in the Midlands. My latest novel, Her Perfect Girl, is now on sale.
AndrewJFieldWriter @andrewjfield.bsky.social Writes by the sea, next to the docks, near three bridges, close to the border ...books include You Are One of Us, a tribute to Mott The Hoople, by the fans, for the fans, and the noir Accidents Will Happen.
https://www.hitthenorth.co.uk/mott-the-hoople
Jared Cade @jaredcade.bsky.social Award winning author. Agatha Christie expert, creator of the Lyle Revel and Hermione Bradbury mysteries, member of the Crime Writers' Association. www.jaredcade.com
Mel Barrett @inbetweenpod.bsky.social TIBP https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-in-between-podcast-with-mel-barrett/id1785257330
Screenwriter | Novelist | Investigative Journo | Podcast Host | Docu Producer #TheInBetweenPodcast #VIRALthenovel
melbarrettwrites.com | inbetweenpod.com
Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social London author. Latest novel Phantom at the Feast out now on No Exit Press. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. No DMs. Mailing list etc.👇🏼
https://linktr.ee/author_tonywhite
Sisters in Crime Los Angeles @sistersincrimela.bsky.social We're here to champion women writers and content creators in mystery, thriller and true-crime genres – and their fans. Join us https://www.sistersincrimela.com or subscribe https://sisters-in-crime-los-angeles.mailchimpsites.com/subscribe
Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social Writer. Editor of Best of British Science Fiction and other things. Chief word wrangler at The Slab Press. Occasionally a comedian. www.donna-scott.co.uk
Brian Price @briancrime.bsky.social Crime writer and advisor on science to other authors.
Callie Kazumi かずみ @callieuntitled.bsky.social Feral book girl. Author. Crafts & trinket goblin. ✩ Get in loser, we're going to go kill Bunny ✩ 🦋
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Bernard O'Keeffe @bernok1.bsky.social Writer of the DI Garibaldi novels. The Carousel of Time out now. Music. Books. Barnes. #QPR. Patron of the Bloody Barnes Crime Writing Festival https://bernardokeeffe.com/
Linda Duncan McLaughlin @flamingredhead.bsky.social Playwright, screenwriter, fiction writer, actor, Glasgow girl…all that jazz. Reps: Gary at https://jflagency.com/ (screenwriting); https://coulterhamiltonrae.com/ (acting)
Writer Sue McCormick @suemcc.bsky.social Writer, Actor, Paintsplasher, Reader, Watcher, Eater, Drinker, Lefty.
The Holly and Ivy Mysteries. Honno Press. Book one - Red As Any Blood - Sept 11 2025
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
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Robert Lopresti @roblopresti.bsky.social Award-winning author of mostly fiction, mostly mysteries, mostly shorts, mostly funny. Retired librarian. Folkie. Cyclist.
Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net Author of Mysteries (Edgar/Thriller/Derringer Nominee). Musician.
Member: MWA (Mystery Writers of America) & NZSA (Aotearoa)
Repped by High Spot Literary
Substack: Cinema555.com
Website: StephenRoss.net
Band: http://deviationengine.com/
Sarah E Doig @sarahedoig.bsky.social Writer - Speaker - Musician
Studying for an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at UEA
David Beckler @davidbeckler.bsky.social Author, humanitarian, socialist.
Drinker of coffee and walker of city streets.
My next book, Trapped, is out 14th Aug 2026.- A AnnBloxwich @annbloxwich.bsky.social This account is no longer active.
Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime.
A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada)
Website: www.deanjobb.com
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
Urban Pigs Press @urbanpigspress.bsky.social Indie press and lit mag focusing on starting small and building a good foundation.
Editors @jamesjenkins.bsky.social, @virginiabwrites.bsky.social & @markburrow.bsky.social
https://urbanpigspress.co.uk/
Stuart MacBride @stuartmacbride.bsky.social Wordmonger. Making sacrifices to the Great Soup Gods since 2005.
www.StuartMacBride.com
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
Book Nook Shenanigans @booknook21.bsky.social I love reading, writing, and blogging.
Joffe Books @joffebooks.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of bestselling books; lover of em dashes — less keen on semicolons
www.joffebooks.com
Janet Alcorn @janetalcorn.bsky.social Author (crime fiction, horror, and romance), librarian, gardener, very amateur photographer, 80s rocker chick. I write and I grow things. http://janetalcorn.com. Sign up for my newsletter to get a free story.
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social International #interdisciplinary network of #crime #academics, #researchers and practitioners.
Upcoming events: #CapCrim13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation.
Bamberg, Germany. 25-27 June '26
https://sites.google.com/view/icfa/home
Rupa Mahadevan @rupamahadevan.bsky.social Award winning author of Psychological thriller. Winner🏆 @JoffeBooks
crime prize 2024. Represented by
@saskia_leach
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Bedford Square Publishers @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social An independent publisher of fiction and non-fiction, founded in 2022.
Anthony Horowitz @anthonyhorowitz.com Author (Alex Rider, Foyle, Sherlock Holmes, Bond and Hawthorne), TV and film writer. So many words...! POSTS by Anthony Horowitz Media Team
https://anthonyhorowitz.com/
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
@courtneypsak.bsky.social @courtneypsak.bsky.social Courtney Psak is a mystery thriller writer. Her debut, The Tutor is currently available in audio and digital with the US paperback available November 11th 2025
Green Party of Suffolk @gpsuffolk.bsky.social Political party
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk 💚 Real hope. Real change.
greenparty.org.uk
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL
Greg Mosse @gregmosse.bsky.social 'Writer & encourager of writers'
#TheComingFire #TheFrenchBookshopMurder
Agents: @ThebksAgency - @LBA_agency
Publishers: @MoonflowerBooks - @HodderBooks
Nathan Dylan Goodwin @nathandylangoodwin.bsky.social Author, mainly of genealogical crime mysteries. Tweets about: genealogy, writing, chickens, Kent, running, DNA, scones and other assorted nonsense. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺He/Him
Faye Brann @writerfaye.bsky.social Author. Performer. Loves fine wine and applause.
Winner of the 2020 Comedy Women in Print Prize
2021 Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy pub. a HarperCollins
2025 Kiss, Marry, Murder
*COMING SOON* Little Grey Cells June 2026
Insta: @writerfaye
Gilly Pickup @gillypickup.bsky.social Award winning journalist /author. #Animal lover. Believes in chocolate, kindness, books & a dash of magic. London-living Scot.
Former @houseofcommons.parliament.uk aide, researcher. On X as @gilly_pickup www.travellinglady.co.uk #notodigitalid
Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social Retired Curmudgeon at Large. Ne’er do well of questionable morals. Proud purveyor of unmitigated tommyrot. Prone to exaggeration and totally unnecessary embellishment.
TM Logan @tmloganauthor.bsky.social Three-million selling author of THE DAUGHTER, THE DREAM HOME, THE HOLIDAY and others. New novel THE WEEKEND out now! Rep'd by Camilla Bolton at Darley Anderson linktr.ee/TMLoganAuthor
Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social Writing - archaeology - heritage.
British Iraqi.
Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' graduate.
Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025.
Working Classicist of the Year 2025.
She/her
Julie Clark @julieclarkauthor.bsky.social NYT and #1 international bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell. The Ghostwriter forthcoming June 3, 2025.
Matthew Booth @matthewboothauthor.bsky.social Crime writer, Sherlockian, lover of Golden Age/noir crime fiction. Author of the Everett Carr & Alex Priest mysteries. Member of the Crime Writers Association. Co-host of Mean Streets: The Film Noir Podcast.
Martine Bailey Writer @martinebailey.bsky.social Author of psychological crime novels SHARP SCRATCH and ISOLATION WARD. Historical mysteries AN APPETITE FOR VIOLETS, THE PENNY HEART, and THE ALMANACK.
"Intelligent and engrossing" The Sunday Times
Rep'd by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social
Val Penny @valpennyauthor.bsky.social I kill people in my bestselling thrillers - The DI Hunter Wilson Crime Thrillers and The Jane Renwick Thrillers.
www.valpenny.com
Merryn Allingham @merrynwrites.bsky.social Author of the Tremayne Mystery series and Flora Steele Mysteries. Published by @bookouture.
Latest release MURDER BY FIRELIGHT
www.merrynallingham.com
Mike Gerrard @mikegerrard.bsky.social Travel/drinks writer. Rugby fan. Crime writing reader. Latest book: Behind Bars, which is not a prison diary. Half year in Arizona, half in The Fens.
Simon Caldwell @spcaldwell.bsky.social Freelance journalist and author of The Beast of Bethulia Park and Lady Mabel's Gold, OUT NOW from Gracewing (https://www.gracewing.co.uk/page416.html). Master of the Keys. Views are my own.
BOBO @bobo360.bsky.social Author of Three Degrees From Justice (#1 Crime Noir Bestseller on Kindle) and The Best Story Wins (Tower Publishing). Lawyers Weekly calls it “[T]he best book ever written on what it’s like to be a prosecutor.” Member UK’s CWA.
www.johnbobo.com
@suelord.bsky.social @suelord.bsky.social 
Jonathan Whitelaw @jdwhitelaw13.bsky.social Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster.
Rep’d by Northbank Talent.
Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social Atomic Blonde, Can You Solve the Murder, The Dog Sitter Detective, The Exphoria Code, The Organised Writer, Resident Evil Village, etc. I write all the things. Reps: http://antonyjohnston.com/contact
TG Reid @tgreid.bsky.social Author of the Bestselling DCI Bone Scottish crime series.
Samantha Lee Howe @samanthaleehowe.bsky.social Multi-award winning screenwriter and USA Today bestselling thriller author. #TheStrangerInOurBed #bestthriller.
William Shaw @william1shaw.bsky.social Writes books. Lives in Glenbeigh, co Kerry. Mostly. williamshaw.com
Douglas Skelton @dougskelton.bsky.social Author of the Jonas Flynt & the Rebecca Connolly books. Occasional photographer & servant to a cat & dog. Views expressed don't necessarily reflect theirs. Book experts, keep scrolling. No WhatsApp. No bitcoin/Forex. Agent: Jo Bell, Bell Lomax Moreton
Jason Monaghan @jasonthriller.bsky.social Writer, Archaeologist, Traveller. Author of the Jeffrey Flint Archaeological Mysteries and the Room Z 1930s Thrillers.