Vanessa Global @vanessaglobal.bsky.social 209K LIBRARY: universities,libraries,politicians,scientists,academics, lawyers,economists,linguists,historians,writers,BLUE, ANTIFA!
Me: brown NA,Oregonian,veteran,globetrotter,critical thinker,linguist,teacher,reader,atheist,constructive,ANTI-TRUMPIST
Belle Bookmaxxer @bookmaxxer.bsky.social This is where I rant and repost about books. Mainly Canadian ones ...
Mermaid Writer @mermaidwriter.bsky.social SCBWI NY Eastern Up! Critique Coordinator
Kidlit writer, published poet, gemologist-in-training, wannabe polyglot, occasional mermaid, reluctant zebra 🍰💜🩶🤍💚 #kidlit #scbwi #amquerying #actuallyautistic
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 Pronouns: you choose (anything but he)
Becky Masson @easyrecipesdash.com Easy, #healthy & delicious #recipes to inspire your daily #cooking! 🍜🍽️👨🍳📸
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#food #foodsky #foodie #diet #dinner #lunch #breakfast #drinks #wellness #fitness #lifestyle #cats #birds #gardening #nature #photography 🌿🌱🌾
Hannah 🩷 @sanberfiles.bsky.social chaotic energy, serious cuddle potential 🫠
Na Malum Afrad @namalumafrad.bsky.social Journalist and documentarian posting independently curated and underreported global news.
Amplifying grassroots movements & mutual aid.
Anonymous for safety, vocal for justice. 👇 Drop tips in replies.
@rasaq4212.bsky.social @rasaq4212.bsky.social 
Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social
ottur | edtur | CanCon.
Words is great. I try to use good ones, in the optimal order.
My lovely books: -> https://linktr.ee/leeburton.author
My editing service -> https://www.oceansedgeediting.com/
Edivaldo direita!!! @chapa85.bsky.social Fora Lula, ladrão!
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 92/100
📚 The Mystery at Odd-Doings House
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https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
https://linktr.ee/bigbeardedbookseller
Sunny Sommerset @sunnysommerset.bsky.social Author & Illustrator: Picture Books, Middle Grade.
Winner Golden Gate Writer's Award: Picture Book - SCBWI SF South 2024. Honorable Mention SCBWI SF South Golden Gate Portfolio Showcase 2024.
Elizabeth Botsford @elizabethbotsford.bsky.social Middle grade novel writer. Longlisted, Yeovil Literary Prize 2026. Shortlisted, Jericho Writers Friday Night Live.
Yasemin Gyford @yasemingyford.bsky.social Artist, 👩🎨 Children's Book Illustrator, Urban Sketcher ✍️ Over Thinker📍Between London and Cambridge UK
@fantasybooklife.bsky.social @fantasybooklife.bsky.social 
ClubUltra🌙 @clubultra.bsky.social 
@tfraboni.bsky.social @tfraboni.bsky.social 
Cape & Cowl Comics @capeandcowl.bsky.social Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia 🇨🇦
Comic Shop & Community 🏳️⚧️
Safe haven for rainbow youth 🏳️🌈
Pet friendly 🐈🐕
capeandcowlcomics.ca
Open Tuesdays to Saturdays 11am-5pm
CMHA Halifax Dartmouth Branch @cmhahalifax.bsky.social Grassroots branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).
Offers social connection programs to reduce loneliness & social isolation. #mentalhealthforall Reg. Charity # 124872128RR0001
https://www.cmhahalifaxdartmouth.ca/
Tanyasson @tanyasson.bsky.social Canadian musician and animal conservationist
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Juliana D’Angelo Illustrator @judangeloillustra.bsky.social Children's book illustrations with heart, humor, and a little chaos.
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
📚 Great-ish Books on @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
Anthony Pash (he/him) @anthonypash.bsky.social Academic librarian in Nova Scotia, union negotiator, avid reader, movie buff, news junky, ally, and lover of food and gardens.
Jaime Walsh @jaimewalsh.bsky.social information master, dalhousie university.
halifax, canada.
community, science, & nature.
Sandra @sandykayz99.bsky.social Writer, photographer, traveler
Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social The Dem Voice of Missouri with her 262 Substack https://jesspiper.substack.com/ / @piperformissouri.bsky.social / @reichard4rep.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @morgfair.bsky.social DMs ok 📚
@tallercreativo.bsky.social @tallercreativo.bsky.social 
INKLING ILLUSTRATION AGENCY @inklingagency.bsky.social A small but mighty illustration agency, representing an outstanding team of hand-picked creatives worldwide. If you'd like to collaborate with any of our illustrators, please email hello@inklingillustration.com to discuss your project needs.
Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social Book Writer
True crime - FACES OF FRAUD (coming soon!!!); Hidden Harvest; Tip & Trade
Romance/horror novel - Murder Bugs
Norse saga - The Saga of Halfdan the Black
History of psychedelics - Shroom Boom
markcoakleybooks.com
#HamOnt #Ontario #Canada
Cindy Sommer @cindysommpb.bsky.social Award-winning children's book author of PB SAVING KATE'S FLOWERS (Arbordale) Crystal Kite winner, #KidLit, #SCBWI, #12X12PB Gold Member, ISO Agent, Querying PBs. www.cindysommer.com
Tyler Pennock @pennockty.bsky.social Poet, OCD, former teen-ish sex worker, Queerdo gaymer NDN,
Doctoral student in Communication and Culture
(They/Them)
Author of two poetry books, New one in 2026. tylerpennock.ca
Banner art by @ohmwu.bsky.social
ᓚᘏᗢ ‧₊˚ @brazenthemme.bsky.social archivist, crafter, writer, animist and spirit worker. irish/wabanaki language carrier. learning twospirit, high themme lesbian. audhd, disabled madwoman.
@micasolenne.bsky.social @micasolenne.bsky.social 
@misdai.bsky.social @misdai.bsky.social 
Peggy Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social Ottawa realtor, retired lawyer, mystery author, small publisher, level 6 boxer, doctorate in Indigenous law, Have a TV-watching dog. www.reboundpress.com!
Lonnie Garcia @RCCC🦠💚 @sixgills.bsky.social Illustrator/comic artist in PDX💃
He/Him|Icelandic/Mexican|Villain Enthusiast, figure maker, Lambda Award Winner
PFP: @evulbad.bsky.social
CONTACT🖌️: lonniegart@gmail.com
PORTFOLIO: https://www.lonniegarcia.com/
SHOP: https://sixgillsart.bigcartel.com/
Cat Alyst 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️nonbinary trans person,
they/them (Ex: “They are a friend”), Millennial, atheist, autistic, trauma survivor, volunteer,
🇨🇦ally to 💙Democrats
🇺🇸resources:
momsrising.org
swingleft.org
blackvotersmatterfund.org
fieldteam6.org
iwillvote.com
indivisible.org
Travis M @travismac.bsky.social 
Zita Hildebrandt @roswita.bsky.social Avid all amateur peruser, photographer, painter. Alliterations and photos are mine unless otherwise credited.
Cory and King @kingonesock.bsky.social a lobster fisherman & his dog living in a small seaside community on an island in the north atlantic, settler hoping for a better planet
Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
Homeless Ashes, Witch, JITTERS
QueenKong👑💙🌊🦋 @queenkong24.bsky.social 🦋☮️🦋keep showing up Resisters.
-DEMOCRACY.
NO KINGS
@QueenKong24
#FBaRmy
#Texan
#resist #FBR
#DEMSCONNECT
🚫BOTS-🚫DMz
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saveourlibrarians.bsky.social @saveourlibrarians.bsky.social A grassroots campaign of CUPE 5047 members to save the Library Support Specialist or School Librarians jobs from being cut in #Halifax RCE schools.
Anisi Baigude | illustrator @anisibaigude.bsky.social 🖍️ Mongolian American KidLit Illustrator
📖 BORN NAUGHTY, Anne Schwartz Books
📖 ODI’S LIBRARY DAY, SDPL
📮 Rep'd by Analía Cabello at ABLA
📍San Diego, CA
linktr.ee/anisibaigude
nova-scotia.bsky.social @nova-scotia.bsky.social Andrew George, Here in Bridgetown Nova Scotia. in Chris D'entremont's Riding, where I went to High School with the former Premier. Google search Arlington Auto Fluff, or McGee Lake Dump Fire. Robert devet Died 46 Days after his 2nd Story about the Dump
ELANA MCDOUGALL 🇨🇦 @elanamcdougall.bsky.social Author of The Eldritch of Hallows series #fantasy 🌶️🌶️#romance #danger #KU
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B088KQMKWZ
Owned by 4 rescue dogs-2 dachshunds, a chihuahua & a chiweenie
Coffee is life ☕️ NO DMs ❌if not friends
Researcher & Kindle Writer @diagarchbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHY17TQL
@combatradio.bsky.social @combatradio.bsky.social Survived Warner Bros Studios/Now Exec Director of Combat Radio/Brigade-Radio-One based at NBC/Universal Studios. MMA practitioner. Terrorist attack survivor. Monk. https://linktr.ee/ethandettenmaier
Joan Marie Galat @jmgalat.bsky.social Author and speaker. 30+ books. Topics include #activism, #astronomy, #darkskies, #nature, #ecology #pollution. #SCBWI Crystal Kite winner #STEM #STEAM www.joangalat.com & moondotmedia.com 
Heather Stigall @heatherstigall7.bsky.social 📚KidLit Author
#SCBWI PA East Critique Group Coordinator
👻GILBERT & THE GHOST (Beaming Books 2025)
🐰PAISLEY'S BIG BIRTHDAY (Clavis Books, 2023)
🚌PAISLEY’S BIG FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (Clavis Books, 2027)
picture book obsessed, creator of stuff
Caleb 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚🧶🎲 @extracandy.bsky.social professional book and craft goblin
school library worker ~ knitter ~ TTRPGer ~ occasional soccer fan
neurodivergent ~ demi bi, trans masc ~ jewish and latine ~ Chicago, IL, USA
beacons.ai/extracandy
@significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social 
Paula Hall 🇨🇦 @pjhall.bsky.social Writer, CNF and Fiction. Communications and Public Engagement Consultant @MagentaComs
Pedro Viaja por todo el mundo @pedrotravels.bsky.social Me: Atheïst Retired
Love: Family, cats
Interest: Food Nature Sport Linux Travel 3Dprinting
Travel: 🇪🇺 🇿🇦🇧🇷🇦🇷🇨🇱🇦🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦
Speaks : 🇪🇸🇿🇦🇳🇱🇬🇧🇧🇷🇵🇹
Boycot: 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇦🇷🇷🇺🇨🇳 , Most of goods and services from “dictator” countries
Stand with: 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇿🇦🇧🇷🇫🇰🇨🇦
Block: DM Dates Funding Porn Crypto
Lydia Sapphire @lydiasapphire.bsky.social Kjipuktuk/Halifax’s Resident Alien 👽💜.
Open For Bookings.
IBPOC Lives > White Feelings
They/Themme
@drjgodin.bsky.social @drjgodin.bsky.social 
It Came From The Maritimes Podcast @icftmaritimespod.bsky.social Evan & Chelsea
Two Nova Scotian’s sharing Atlantic Canada folklore on a weekly podcast.
We love local legends & ghost stories!
Julie Casey @juliecasey.bsky.social High school English, History, and Food Studies teacher. 90s pop culture savant. Sci fi and horror addict. Cat lover. Farm girl. 🇨🇦
Brittni Brinn @brittnibrinn.bsky.social Writing sci-fi and horror in Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia.
Author of Misplaced (@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social)
She/they
brittnibrinn.com
Iryn Tushabe (she/her) @wordsweaver.bsky.social EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE (House of Anansi, 2025) available now from your favourite indie bookstore.
Native of Uganda transplanted to Treaty 4 (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Iryntushabe.com
Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
Myra Barss @esnabe.bsky.social 
@kathymutchns.bsky.social @kathymutchns.bsky.social 
Kate Ashley @kmans.bsky.social Academic. Nova Scotia. Lover of books, beaches, baking, end-of-the-world movies, the 19th century, France, and Scotland. Dix-neuviémiste. Victorianist. Law. RLS.
Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social Narrative Director for videogames at discoglobe.ca. MFA Creative Non-Fic student at UKC. Luddite in the historical sense. She/They www.jillmurray.com
Jillian Wagner - Halifax @swifty448.bsky.social From Halifax, Nova Scotia. Community Builder & Event Planner. Cofounder of Atlantic Canada Swifties.
One of Eight Podcast: 30 years old, fighting breast cancer and advocating for Women’s Health
Lynn Wagner @queenofthebb2.bsky.social Life long Halifax NS resident living in the Halifax Forum District. HFCA. Supporter of the BRAND NEW Halifax Forum Complex due to open in 2030.
Jennifer W. Bull @violinwriter.bsky.social Author-Illustrator & Pro Violinist. 🎻 Creating hybrid MG worlds where misfits find their voice. Currently developing The Wild String trilogy.
Richard Yeomans @richrray.bsky.social Historian interested in science, settler colonialism, and legislation in Atlantic Canada • Editor • Supporting online access to Canada’s documentary heritage @ LAC • sometimes people call me Murray (he/him)
Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social Journalist, editor, food writer, cookbook fan. Lover of pomology, grains, and archives. Author of "Pantry and Palate: Remembering and Rediscovering Acadian Food."
Acadien. Queer. Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS
Deleted old account due to b*ts, starting fresh.
fazmid @fazmid.bsky.social Reilly | they/them | NS 🇨🇦 | 📽️🎮📚🏳️🌈
tumblr is my online home, but I've made a cottage here on bluesky so I can yell at local government from my porch.
Charles @macdegaulle.bsky.social Valley boy acadien.
TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social ⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
⋆WHITE TRASH WITCHCRAFT (HH Fall, 2027)
⋆Rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social at Azantian
⋆✒️WTMP & 🩵 SmoochPit Mentor
https://linktr.ee/RowanBrightonBrown
Kathy Jo Watson @kathywatson.bsky.social Kid Lit Writer. Music and theater fanatic. Space Nerd.
Author of MY CITY IS A FORT and featured in BOY MOMS.
#SCBWI
#365PictureBooks
Heather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
Winluck Wong @winluckwong.com I word stuff. Stuff become stories. I become smile.
🚀⚔️🖊️
Science fiction & fantasy is my jam.
With poems on the side.
Find out what I'm writing next: https://winluckwong.com/
@moh-kay.bsky.social @moh-kay.bsky.social 
Judith Henderson @judithhenderson.bsky.social ✍️ author/illustrator, Composer🎹TV Producer. Wrote theme song for PBS show, Arthur.🏆
Scope and Content @fuchsin-von-mond.bsky.social If you know me, no you don't.
Record keeper.
Thing maker.
Not an important person.
She/her 🏳️🌈
Maritimes.
Zach Daniek @zachdaniek.bsky.social Hi! My name is Zach and I am an illustrator with a focus on children’s publishing.
https://www.zachdaniek.com
Fernwood Publishing @fernpub.bsky.social Critical Books for Critical Thinkers https://linktr.ee/fernwoodpublishing
The Kel @kelthulhu.bsky.social I'm a 31 year old Canadian who is here...sometimes. They/them.
(Icon made with the Taeko2 picrew maker)
ValleyCAST @valleycast.bsky.social An inclusive arts community in the Blackstone Valley. Arts & Culture wing of Open Sky https://openskycs.org
50 Douglas Rd Whitinsville Massachusetts
Craig McCormick @craigmccormick.bsky.social Virologist and cinnamon bun baker.
@mplswaytogrow.bsky.social @mplswaytogrow.bsky.social 
ObindoMag @obindomag.bsky.social Welcome to Obindo Magazine, where stories find a home. We are a resting place for stories, poems, and art from far and wide. Submissions are open! https://obindomag.com/issue-two/
Nadia Ali @nadiaawriter.bsky.social KidLit Author:
RAISAH AND THE BOAT TRIP (2023),
HUMPHREY THE EGG_SPLORER (2023)
THE ANIMAL SOCIETIES SERIES (2023)
12x12 Challenge
Holly B @hbmyself.bsky.social A very good friend of mine
Told me something the other day
I'd like to pass it on to you
Cause I believe what he said to be true
He said:
We're here for a good time
Not a long time
So have a good time
The sun can't shine every day...
-Trooper
Ganesha @ganesha.myatproto.social Seeker. Mystic. My mind is my sangha.
ॐ एकदन्ताय विद्धमहे, वक्रतुण्डाय धीमहि,
तन्नो दन्ति प्रचोदयात्॥
Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Kjipuktuk|Halifax. Inventor #DSPBposts. @tricon-hfx.bsky.social exec. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. Salty. I turn tea into words: steampunk Pride and Prejudice reimagining AETHER AND EGO, Sept 2026, Inanna. https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com Viet-Canadian writer, multidisciplinary artist, general goblin on Treaty 1 territory. Queer, neurodivergent, she/they. SCBWI. https://tiffbartel.com
Rep: Katie Blagden @ The Ampersand Agency
Milo (he/xe) 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦 @milosometimes.bsky.social Horror/dark fiction writer and film tech who sometimes has A Thought.
Nova Scotian | Transmasc | Gay | 23
https://linktr.ee/milosometimes
BradynDraconis @bradyndraconis.bsky.social Writer, dude, sometimes I think good, sometimes I talk good. Other times it is not so great. Trying to chill and let my work speak for me in this new self-aware era of my life.
Kathleen @halifaxkat.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Sometimes runner, Big fan of my dog, Blueberry, and slightly addicted to baseball cards.