Andy Briggs @andybriggs42.bsky.social Writer, producer, director. Author of dozens of books and graphic novels, films and TV shows - writes crime as MG Cole and Sam Oman
JD Ryznar @jdryznar.bsky.social Hollywood Writer
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
Lina Chern @linachern.bsky.social Author. Fool. Mary Higgins Clark Award, Lefty & Anthony nominations for PLAY THE FOOL (2023, @randomhouse). 2025: TRICKS OF FORTUNE
http://linktr.ee/linachern
Steph Cha @stephcha.bsky.social Author of Juniper Song novels and Your House Will Pay. Series editor of Best American Mystery & Suspense. TV writer.
Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social Author, THE SHITBIRD (Stanchion Books, 2026), I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (Malarkey Books, 2024) and HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE. Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four. I block scolds and AI sloppers.
Lisa she/her/y’all/ma’am @lisaframe.bsky.social Appalachia born/bred NC Native. Punk AF. Genx Writer. SPJ Science Comms Voracious Reader. Coffee Drinker. Zoom influencer. Museum junkie. OBNOXIOUSLY Liberal.
Writing about Widow's Bullshit and Midlife https://chickenfriedmascara.substack.com
William Boyle @wmboyle4.bsky.social Writer. New novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, out now from Soho Crime. https://linktr.ee/wmboyle4
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
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Shane Joaquin Jimenez @shanejoaquin.bsky.social Writer (novel BONDAGE, stories various). Vicambulist. Somnambulist. Planet of the Apesist.
Stephanie Winter @wintersleep85.bsky.social Fantasy and historical fiction writer. She/they. Millennial. Bi. Anti AI. https://stephaniewinterwrites.blogspot.com
Chris DiLeo @authordileo.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Teacher.
He/Him. ANTI-AI.
Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
Steve King♿️ @stevemking.bsky.social Semi-retired Politics Editor @undertheradar.bsky.social, disabled AF(Progressive MS), Trekkie, Swiftie, Former-Post.news
Least factual, most accurate
https://stevenmking.weebly.com/
Baltimore
Joanna Schaffhausen @joannaschaffhausen.bsky.social Mystery writer. Basset-hound lover. Democracy supporter. She/her.
Gwen Florio @gwenflorio.bsky.social Writes crime novels termed 'gutsy' by the NYT. Recovering journalist. Wanderer. Pie makes everything better. Repped by Richard Curtis, Sarah Yake. gwenflorio.net
Lise Olsen @liseolsen.bsky.social Investigations editor @TexasObserver.org Author THE SCIENTIST & THE SERIAL KILLER @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social & CODE OF SILENCE—the inside story of the first federal judge to be impeached for sex crimes @BeaconPress.bsky.social www.liseolsen.com
Vikki Wakefield @vikkiwakefield.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Doodler. Dreamer.
@screensleuthspod.bsky.social @screensleuthspod.bsky.social 
Epiphany Ferrell @epiphanyferrell.bsky.social The Best Horror of the Year, vol. 17. Shakespeare Unleashed. Samhain Screams. Hiding Under the Leaves. Best Microfiction. Best Small Fictions. Ghost Parachute. Pulp Literature.
Member: Horror Writers Association
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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social Two-bit writer, doc film-maker. From Manchester, now based in Copenhagen.
Novelette: The Cripple Club (Alien Buddha Press; Feb 25).
Words in London Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Litro, New Pop Lit, Punk Noir.
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
b. wolo @bwolo.bsky.social Dilettante, autodidact, librarian, Chicagoan
Raymond J. Brash @rjbrash.bsky.social 🇹🇹🇺🇲 ✍️📖
Crime/Spec/Lit
Stories published at BULL, Rock and a Hard Place, Shotgun Honey, and others
Raymondjbrash.work
Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social Books, baseball, birds
https://www.youtube.com/@booksforthebackporch
S. B. Watson @sbwatsonmystery.bsky.social Writing mysteries, adventure, and suspense! For more information, check out my website at www.SBWatson.com
Sandra J. Cady @sandrajcady.bsky.social Mystery author of A Game of Luck.
My short story, High School Reunion, is in the mystery anthology, Crimeucopia: The Not So Frail Detective Agency. This anthology is a finalist for the 2026 Derringer Award.
www.sandrajcady.com
Steven Lemprière @stevenlempriere.bsky.social Jumbler of letters, baker, sometimes in two minds, and always in one of two locations, SW France and the West of Ireland.
Ex of X.
Author Stephenson & Kitbrick Stop-mo. @authorstephenson.bsky.social Reader, writer, reviewer, coarse angler, blogger, at StephensonHolt.com. Author of 33 mixed genre novels, teaching grandson about fishing. His site on Youtube is @KitBR1CK
Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com Writer of weird things sitting with a cat in Washington, DC
she/her
www.joannatheiss.com
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social Author, horror nerd, queer mom. She/her. ASK A QUEER CHICK (Plume, 2016), THE Z WORD (Quirk, 2024), THIS IS MY BODY (Quirk, 2025). https://www.lindsaykingmiller.com/
Russell Brakefield @russellbrakefield.bsky.social Writer: MY MODEST BLINDNESS (Autofocus), IRREGULAR HEARTBEATS AT THE PARK WEST (Wayne State Univ Press), FIELD RECORDINGS (Wayne State Univ Press).
Prof: University of Denver Writing
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery, Horror & more!
Author events, book signings & more!
For general queries, please contact our booksellers: 619-539-7137
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Justin Eger @fugitivecourier.bsky.social Writer-monkey, action-adventure enthusiast, inveterate smart-ass. Author of:
- The Ethan Shaw thrillers
- The John Ransom adventures
- Novels of the Underground
amazon.com/author/justin-eger
Faye Snowden @fayesnowden.bsky.social Award-winning author of the southern gothic A Killing series mysteries. A Killing Breath due out March, 2026. Pre-orders open now!
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Steve Barr @barrsteve.bsky.social Writer / producer / procrasturbator
https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2003750
The Lahaska Bookshop @lahaskabookshop.bsky.social Indie bookstore located in Peddler's Village,PA. Sister-store to @DoylestownBookshop.Bsky.social
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
Dark Waters Podcast @darkwaterspodcast.bsky.social A podcast dedicated to cross-genre dark fiction & those who love to read and write it
All opinions expressed are those of participants, not any organizations they're affiliated with.
https://linktr.ee/darkwaterspod
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Founder and Editor-in-chief of Ghost Parachute literary journal. Inflatable flamingo supervisor. I knew a girl once.
Jared W @phaserj.bsky.social Writer & Foodie. Gold Wake. Author of Valency (BlazeVox). “Well, that’s just like your opinion, man.” - The Dude 🇺🇸
Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social Writer:
Winner of Santa Fe Literary Award; Family Matters forthcoming from SFWP, 2027.
Pubs: Adroit Journal, Doric Lit, CRAFT,SmokeLong, Fractured
Best Microfic, Best Small Fic, Wigleaf Top 50.
BathFlash HC/Shortlisted; Series Editor: Wigleaf Top 50
SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social Santa Fe Writers Project - globally distributed publisher of fiction & CNF since '98. Subrights repped by @susanschulman.bsky.social
Distributed by IPG. Find out more at sfwp.com
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
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
Agatha Andrews @agathaandrews.bsky.social Writer. Professional Gothic Swooner
Host of the She Wore Black Podcast
Rep: Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
Active HWA member
Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social Muñeca, my queer gothic historical fiction novel, out now: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211/muneca-by-cynthia-gomez/
2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA. Rep @LaurenBajek.
cynthiasaysboo.wordpress.com
Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
J.C. Kenney @jckenney.bsky.social Agatha Award winning whodunnit author, father, husband, and cat dad, not necessarily in that order. Author of the Allie Cobb Mysteries, the Darcy Gaughan Mysteries, and the Elmo Simpson Mysteries.
Elizabeth Spann Craig @elizabethspanncraig.com Winding down my link-sharing here. Thanks to those who followed along! You can still find me at elizabethspanncraig.com
Jennifer K. Morita, author @jenniferkmorita.bsky.social Mystery author & mom. Member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of American & International Thriller Writers.
Jen Christine @jenchristine.bsky.social Co-Founder of The Clue Crew Mystery Book Club📚📚📚
Hairstylist by trade✂️✂️✂️
Harley Davidson enthusiast🏍️🏍️🏍️
My sense of adventure & fun are insatiable!!!🎉🎉🎉
Eclectic Witch 💫💫💫
Reiki Healer 💜💜💜
Jean Hanff Koreitz @jeanhanff.bsky.social Novelist (The Plot, The Latecomer, etc.), theater person, mom (regular + stage), BOOKTHEWRITER proprietress, occasional mudlarker, mainly enraged, washed up here after the not-so-good ship Twitter sank…
March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social The premiere yearly tournament of music and memory. 2026's tournament features Xmas, holiday, and seasonal songs and runs in December 2026.
Selection committee: @meganc.bsky.social & @angermonsoon.bsky.social
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
Megan Burbank @meganburbank.bsky.social reporting on culture & post-Roe abortion policy at Slate, The Nation, NPR, The New Republic, Axios. helping out at The WSJ. girl about town at Burbank Industries. previously Crosscut, Seattle Times, Portland Mercury, The Stranger.
meganburbank.substack.com
Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this
John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social Independent Documentary Photographer
Bearing witness without permission.
No badge. No distance.
📍Minneapolis
https://linktr.ee/john_abernathy_
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social Interests in ML and social aspects of tech.
Building For You feed: https://foryou.club
https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/feed/for-you
Hobby project: linklonk.com
Paul D Storrie @storrieville.bsky.social Writer of comics & prose: Storm King, Source Point Press, Lerner Books, DC, Marvel, Moonstone Books, & more. TTRPGer.
Leftie. Atheist. He/Him. 🚫AI 🚫 NFT 🚫Cypto
https://Storrieville.com l https://Ko-fi.com/Storrievile
Whiskey Leavins @whiskey-leavins.bsky.social Self-styled humorist & author of the Santa Lacrimosa/Rock Cobbler books.
Paul Reeves 🏴 @paulartreeves.bsky.social Artist 🎨 Actor 🎙🎭 Writer 🖊 Video Game Developer 🕹 Film-maker 🎥
𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 🖖
https://linktr.ee/paulreeves
https://ko-fi.com/paulartreeves ☕️
John Hornor Jacobs @johnhornor.bsky.social Author of The Night That Finds Us All, A Lush and Seething Hell, Murder Ballads
Shirley Jackson, Bram Stoker, World Fantasy Award Finalist
CLOSED TO BLURB REQUESTS, for now at least
website: http://www.johnhornor.com
Literary Garage @literarygarage.bsky.social Writing with a serrated edge.
Like the rock and roll garage bands of the 1960’s and 1970's (as well as the modified versions that showed up in the 1980’s) – straight ahead story telling with a purpose.
www.literarygarage.com
Point of Impact Publishing @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social Hi! I'm Joe! I'm the editor/overlord of Point of Impact Publishing, heroic purveyors of trashy action fiction, including the Frenzi series by R. J. Calder, and Lash, by Clint Reno! Check us out: www.pointofimpactbooks.com
Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social Stories w/ LittlebrownYR / Mystery fiction w/ EQMM / Shotgun Honey / Mystery Tribune / Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine / Starlite Pulp
2023 Derringer #Flashfiction winner
Best American Mystery & Suspense 2024
www.karenharringtonbooks.com
Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social (she/her) THE FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS (2022) / THORNS: A BOOK OF POEMS (May 2026) / Gothic cosmic horror author / William Godwin and Charles Maturin are my patron saints / https://ko-fi.com/colinharker
Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)
buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social Buy KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST from my local bookstore now:
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
Grace E. Ludlow @grace-e-ludlow.bsky.social Author of the odd and ordinary
29 | PNW | conservator of memory
DeafeningUnknown on AO3- Oshamir/Devil's Minion
Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social Writer of prime crime and horror fiction. Former chemist (if there is such a thing) breaking bad on the page. Stories in Mickey Finn, Unnerving Magazine, Starlite Pulp, SNAFU, The Yard...
Caitlin Eliza (C.E.) McKenna @ce-mckenna.bsky.social Find my essays, short stories, and an occasional novel @ cemckenna.com
Kendall Brunson @kendallbrunson.bsky.social Stories in Rock and a Hard Place | Savage Waves of Spring; writer of chills and thrills; overly caffeinated; Florida girl, 📚☕️🐊
Wilson Koewing @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social notable, Best American Essays. distinguished, Best American Mystery and Suspense // books JADED, QUASI and ROLLING ON THE BOTTOM // editor of Bottle Rocket Literary Magazine
Sara DiVello @saradivello.bsky.social 📚Author, “Broadway Butterfly”
🗞️Ft: @vanityfair & @entertainmentweekly
👩🏻💻Social Media Director
#internationalthrillerwriters
🎙️ Mystery and Thriller
Maven series host
Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social Critic for 2017 & 2018 winners of the Eisner in Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism / Writer of Fantasy / They/Them / https://linktr.ee/teganoneil5000
Jenniferr Brown @jenniferrbrown17.bsky.social Works as Author & book📚 Reader ......
https://bookspreader.com
https://www.facebook.com/jenniferrbrown017
https://www.instagram.com/jenniferrbrown17?igsh=MTJqd2o3N2luajJ5dQ==
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Keith Lansdale @keithlansdale.bsky.social 
Jennifer Gatewood Writes @jennifergatewood.bsky.social Upmarket fiction writer represented by Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency.
Marianne Baretsky Peterson @skybarett.bsky.social e.g. Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader
(all true, might as well leave this until I think of something better! Oh I guess I should add Lead Editor @rfpress.bsky.social)
https://www.roifaineantpress.com/
Tiffany @tiffanymarie.bsky.social A little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll. Sucker for a stomp-clap. EIC @rfpress.bsky.social Comedy student. Day-writer, night-writer, night rider, night reader, lover of many things.
JBtheBoombastic @jbthecape.bsky.social Father to 3 beautiful daughters. Star Wars rules! All of it! DC sports fan and Texas Longhorns 🤘 Love Video games and all types of ill nerdy stuff. Working towards enlightenment everyday. "BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER"😊 No DMs
Kellie Scott-Reed @kelkel.bsky.social Writer, Songwriter, AEIC for Roi Faineant Press, Yoga Instructor
Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social Mother, sometime writer, mediocre flute player, misplaced Texan. Words in more than two dozen literary magazines and counting.
Stephanie Austin @stephanieaustin.bsky.social Formerly @lucysky on Twitter
IG: @stephanie.d.austin and @mugshot_writers2
SOMETHING I MIGHT SAY, essays, WTAW Press
BURN, a novel, out now from Cowboy Jamboree Press
stephanieaustin.net
Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social Digital lit mag & more. 5 editors in a trenchcoat. 2 indie lit 2 quit. Submissions open. https://www.roifaineantpress.com/ EIC @tiffanymarie.bsky.social Masthead: @skybarett.bsky.social @kelkel.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @maybemargot.bsky.soci
JohnFosterFic @jfoster.bsky.social I write horror and crime fiction, live in Brooklyn and love cooking and martial arts. My wife is the actress Linda Jones and our dog is half pit, half Dutch shepherd and all clown. Though I may wince, you really can choose any pizza toppings you like.
Nathan Pettigrew @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social Writer. Author of TALES FROM TERREBONNE, forthcoming in 2026 from @rhppress.bsky.social. Managing Editor at Mythic Picnic. Awarded 2nd Place in the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for his story "Yemma."
Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social writer & bug enthusiast 
Finbarr O'Reilly @finoreilly.bsky.social Irish science fiction writer (possibly the world's slowest). Squid, spaceships, síntí fada -- what's not to like? https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/author/finbarr-oreilly/
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright