Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social Writer of the Marlow Murder Club novels and TV show, and creator of Death in Paradise, Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise.
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Black Rat Books @blackratbooks.bsky.social Indie publisher of crime fiction.
Stench: The Axe in The Head Murder by G.M. BARDEN released Jan 2026
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40 years in IT : coder, sys eng, cybersec researcher
BA(Hons) Modern Language Studies
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David Warriner @thewarrinerd.bsky.social French-to-English translator of books and more.
Gillian McAllister @gillianmauthor.bsky.social Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer. I always delete my first draft.
Will Thompson @homeindouai.eurosky.social Atheist. Humanist. Idiot. Woke lefty and citizen of nowhere. Immigrant. LGBTQIA+ ally. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ YNWA.
Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social Writer, PT-EN literary translator | 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award | Translations in Words Without Borders, Michigan Quarterly Review, LALT, Asymptote Journal | Author-Member at Betty Books | ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com
Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social Independent UK publisher and author consultancy (since 2017) for literary and climate-aware fiction. Interested in place, consequence and how environmental change reshapes everyday life. www.cliftop.co.uk
Peter Fleming @easthullpete.bsky.social Reader, blogger, fanzine contributor
Sharon Somerville #IAmAntifa @arcticlass.bsky.social 🏴🇨🇦 ☮️ Have lived here & there. The flags represent my citizenship. I love books, dogs and Nature. I am 78, and a grandmother to 4. Have been a social worker and a teacher, mostly in remote places…..And, I sleep in a hammock :-)
Matí @maticol.bsky.social #translator #writer #exteacher #naturelover #doglover #hiker #reader & #paint covered much of the time
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Alice Banks @alice-banks.bsky.social Midlander/Madrileña
Literary Translator from French and Spanish into English
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, REVERSAL, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Lit: Paula Weiman at Ash Literary. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother
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The Conversation with Nadine Matheson @theconversation.bsky.social ✨ Deep dives into writing, creativity & life
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Gallovidia Books @gallovidiabooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore- supplying the folk of Kirkcudbright SW Scotland with books, gifts and blether 🏴📚
We like tea, dogs…..and books.
Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @handle.invalid Norse grimdark and historical fantasy author. Queer from the Tortured Authors Department. Queen's Book Asylum and Before We Go Blog contributor. ’Land’ (The Ten Worlds book 2) out now! https://www.bjornlarssen.com
Keith Roberts @peelhilllibrary.bsky.social Reader, writer, would be many things - when retirement comes.
BBC In Our Time - Coffee or Tea? @bbc-beverage.bsky.social A feed dedicated to answering the question: Did the guests (and host Melvyn Bragg) on BBC In Our Time request coffee or tea from producer Simon Tillotson?
Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social Almost literally the man who once knew too much 🤯 with In Our Time now adjusting to knowing less in my own time 🙂
Miranda Bryant @mirandeee.bsky.social Journalist
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🇨🇦🍁 Fictionophile - #Booksky 💙📚 @fictionophile.bsky.social Retired public library cataloger - more time to read! Now full time fiction reader and reviewer. I read mostly mystery/crime/thriller and historical, women's or contemporary fiction.
I have submitted 784 reviews to NetGalley so far...
& 603 to Edelweiss
Pots and Plots @inthebookgarden.bsky.social One half of Agents of Sigmar on YT, Book Reviews at PotsandPlots.blog and gardener at home.
Ben Bergonzi @benbergonzi.bsky.social Writer and reviewer, Reviews Editor for Historical Novels Review. First published novel, A Cruel Corpse, now available from Holand Press.
James McCrone @jmccrone.bsky.social Author of political thrillers, Faithless Elector, Dark Network, Emergency Powers and Bastard Verdict. Lives in South Philly.
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Sarah Cook - Historical Fiction Author @sarahcookwrites.bsky.social I write about the Victorians in japes! 🎩
Out Now: Diary of Murders 📕
A Maze of Monsters & Men 🐂
Out Feb '26: The Elaborations 🐑
She/Him - Pan 💗
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling. 
Writing.ie Online Writing Magazine @handle.invalid Award winning magazine for writers at all levels http://www.writing.ie - based in Ireland but for writers everywhere. Featuring book and writing news, tips, technique, competitions, submission opportunities and much more. We want to help! 📚💙
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Jill Johnson @writerjilljohnson.bsky.social 🥀Crime Writer🥀Creator of Toxic Botanical Mayhem🥀DEVIL’S BREATH+HELL’S BELLS+BELLA DONNA+BLOOD ROOT🥀
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BBC Between the Covers book club pick
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SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
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Views mine, contact via website
Rufus Purdy @rufuspurdy.bsky.social Northerner on the Sussex coast. Crime/thriller editor (who also does a bit of horror) at @titanbooks.bsky.social. Long-suffering #swfc fan.
Heidi Amsinck @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social Danish-British author of Copenhagen crime novels 🇩🇰🇬🇧
Amysbooketlist @amysbooketlist.bsky.social Opinionated bookworm with a caffeine problem and a baking obsession.
carlo lucarelli @carloluc.bsky.social Scrittore
Rosemarie Cawkwell/Everything Is Better With Dragons book review @betterdragons.bsky.social Reader and writer of fantasy and sci fi, reviewer of mostly sci-fi and fantasy, some crime, and non-fiction. Butler to a rescue feline called Phoenix. Collector of books, yarn, and dragon stuffies. Neurodivergent and Queer. Based in Lincolnshire.
@sisterofbert.bsky.social @sisterofbert.bsky.social 
Canadianj 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @canadianj.bsky.social Humanist. Psychologist. Social Worker. Dog mom. Friend. Ally. Political enthusiast. Foodie. Always curious!
Waiting for someone to laugh hysterically and exclaim “April Fools”. 🤡
If this is our truth, I’ll take fiction. No one can make this 💩 up!
The Epiphany Times @theepiphanytimes.bsky.social Account run by an unhinged queer 🏳️🌈
Conservative religion poisons everything
Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
Book Off! @ohdobookoff.bsky.social A lighthearted book podcast hosted by Joe Haddow, where two authors discuss their work and get three minutes to pitch a book they absolutely love and think everyone should read!
Arman Chowdhury @armanchowdhury.bsky.social Writer 🇧🇩 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Finalist. Associate Fiction Editor, West Branch magazine 2023-25. Notre Dame MFA ‘23. Tin House ‘22. Loft literary Fellow ´21.
📍South Bend, IN | armanchowdhury.com
Central Coast Writers’ Conference @ccwriterscon.bsky.social 📝 The Central Coast Writers’ Conference has been helping new & established writers fulfill their dreams for 42 years!
📚 Join us Sept 25 & 26, 2026 at Cuesta College in picturesque San Luis Obispo, California.
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S&S Indie B👞👞ksellers @simonsaysbooks.bsky.social The home of the Simon & Schuster UK Regional Manager team - Rich, Nicola, Andrew, Rhys, Naomi, Erin and Kitty.
Sharing the love for Independent Booksellers across the UK!
Proofs, reading copies, special editions, POS and book gossip our specialty!
Stephen Candy @stephencandy.co.uk Photographer of events, screams & cool stuff! Special needs educator & former electrical retailer.
Something of a geek & occasional writer on all of the above.📸
Elisabeth Wolf @elisabethwolf.bsky.social Writing gothic fiction. Spending time in graveyards. Eating ice cream. Edinburgh. Writes crime as @alisonbelsham.bsky.social
Website: https://elisabethwolf.net/home
TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social Feminist (not a TERF) cat botherer, reader of books. Bringer of cake.
A beautiful snowflake/neurodivergent little weirdo. 🏴 She/her
Sandra's Bookish Corner @sandrasbookcorner.bsky.social Bookworm 📚 Book reviewer 📚
2025 Reading Goal: 20/100
Mum to 1 boy and 2 cats 🐈⬛🐈⬛
Loves a croissant 🥐
Burhan Sonmez @burhansonmez.bsky.social P E N ✒️ 📚 International
Peter Bertlessen @peterbertlessen.bsky.social Lover of books and films, especially those in the genres of Transgressive Fiction, Western, Horror and Punk. A counterculture enthusiast who writes sometimes.
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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.
Babs @babs-v.bsky.social Librarian. Autistic. Spanish.
Lover of books, cats and cakes.
Can be found lost among the bookstacks at an Oxford University College.
String Bean Arts Scene @sbartsscene.bsky.social String Bean Arts Scene is a literary and arts journal founded in 2025 by Billy and Stacey Mitchell, two passionate writers eager to make their mark on the world.
Submissions are now open for Issue 1: Revelry
Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social Literary translator 🇧🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 to EN. Words in The Stinging Fly, Wasafiri, MPT, Circumference, Asymptote, & more. PEN America Grant Winner 2025 & English PEN Presents 2026 ✨
Languages are my jam🫙🍓, opinions my own. Send dog pics. 🐕
www.bethhicklingmoore.com
A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES coming in 2028 from Seven Stories Press
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The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social On the lookout for info about new and forthcoming books, author projects, and distinctive crime-fiction-related sites.
John Flanagan @watfordjohn.bsky.social Grandpa, Carer, Watford fanatic, ex-teacher and gardener.
Waterstones Liverpool @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social Bookshop and coffee shop over two floors in the very heart of Liverpool. Come & talk to us about books and let us help find you your next favourite read. Regular book events held in store & externally - waterstones.com/events/liverpool 
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social Literary translator, reformed academic, tangata tiriti, she/her.
Cali Warham @cali-warham.bsky.social ✍️ Writer and @cbccreative alumna
📖 WIP ‘The White Crow’. A slice of gothic fiction that reads like M R James
🏴 Welsh girl living on the Pennines
👻 Happiest at Halloween
Literary Leicester 2025 @litleic.bsky.social The University of Leicester's annual festival of literature, featuring free lectures, talks and readings.
Save the date 18-21 March 2026!
Brighton Book Festival @brightbookfest.bsky.social Brighton's best festival.
Making the marginalised mainstream since 2022.
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Murder One International Crime Writing Festival @murderonefest.bsky.social Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival, based in the LexIcon Library, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin and supported by the Arts Council, DLR Libraries & Dubray Books. 🔊 15-18 Oct 2026 www.murderone.ie
Kamuka @kamuka.bsky.social Lefty, plant based, Buddhist, reader
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https://friendshipwithshams.blogspot.com/
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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.
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Joe Haddow @schmotime.bsky.social Blue Sky Thinker
Nicole Love @nicolelove.bsky.social PhD candidate researching Gray, Murakami, invisible cities and secondary selves at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
🏴 🇧🇪 🇺🇸 🇸🇬
nicolelove.co.uk
Kathryn Havelock @kathrynhavelock.bsky.social Marketing & Comms Specialist @ Pallant House
ex V&A, IWM, British Museum, Design Museum, Wallace Collection
Trustee at Collections Trust & Estorick Collection
Studying art history at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
📚Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez trans by Robin Munby
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
Cllr Salman Shaheen @salmanshaheen.bsky.social Author of bestselling novel Freebourne. Cabinet Member for Environment, Transport & Public Realm on Hounslow Council. CEO of Carter Fleet. Journalist. FRSA
Promoted by Ted Wall on behalf of Hounslow Labour cllrs
nb Magazine @nbmagazine.bsky.social An independent literary magazine illuminating new and notable reads 📚
🖌 Quarterly zine
🖌 Monthly book club
🖌 Online interviews & reviews
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Anne Sénès @annesenes.bsky.social French writer. To be published by Orenda Books in the UK the 19th of June 2025 translated by Alice Banks
@engerthomas.bsky.social @engerthomas.bsky.social 
AuthoriView.com: Free Author Interviews @authoriview.com Discover in-depth author interviews and insights into their writing journeys at AuthoriView. Submit your interview for free and connect with readers worldwide!
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Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social We’ve got everything, and the books! Anyone can use our libraries, whatever your age. We've 11 libraries across the city that provide a fantastic range of activities https://www.hulllibraries.co.uk/
Harmony Kent @harmonykent.bsky.social 🇺🇦Multi-Genre Author of Fiction & Non-Fiction. Poet. Editor. Proofreader. Book Formatter. Cover Designer. Writing Coach.
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BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social A website from @publishingscotland.bsky.social dedicated to championing the best new writing in Scotland.
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York Literary Review 2025 @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social Submit to our creative writing review! 2025 Theme: Roots! More info below
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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
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NoniMarie @nonimarie.bsky.social Educated as a teacher
ME/CFS resident of troubling times
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Photography & history
Books & music
Birds & beasts
Psychology/therapy/(Marion)Rosen method
-Trying to make sense of things
Which I admit is not too easy
David J Griffin @davidjgriffin.bsky.social Multi-genre author ☞ gothic * supernatural * literary * sci-fi * magical realism • urban fantasy • I drink (too much) tea • Loves logic, truth, nature & imagination; oh, and reading • am I a Kentish man or a Man of Kent? > davidjgriffin.co.uk
William Campbell Powell @willcampowell.bsky.social Author of TEARDOWN🌈📚 (NineStar), EXPIRATION DAY (YA/SF, Tor), also writes short SFF, long SFF/HF/Crime/contemporary.
Software engineer (retired).
Politics Green #FBPE
bit.ly/TeardownBook
https://williamcampbellpowell.com
He/him
Cotswold Book Room @cotswoldbookroom.bsky.social Independent book shop in Wotton-under-Edge 📚
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Thea Lyons 🌈 Updates Only. Please 👀 at my 📚. 💜 @alethearlyons.bsky.social SFF Writer | Author of the dark fantasy Seer of York series published by @BrigidsGatePress.bsky.social | Querying cyberfae Legend of the Bard | Ze/She | Trans Rights are Human Rights | BLM
linktr.ee/alethearlyons
Bookphace @bookphace.bsky.social Avid Reader, constant writer, bad reviewer, appalling book blogger and general all round failure.
On Twitter as @Chedgee
bookphace.blogspot.com