Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The UK’s Biggest Comic Art Festival!
Across Yorkshire 9-15 November 2026, with HUGE Comic Convention 14 & 15 November, Harrogate! Tickets on sale ✨
thoughtbubblefestival.com
Tuatha @tuatha.ie Explore Ireland with us! Visitor guides, itineraries, courses, events — created by archaeologists for people who really want to get under the skin of Ireland.
Start your Irish archaeological adventure:
https://www.tuatha.ie/
(pics all our own work)
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
Claire Hubbard @emseeitch.bsky.social Scottish illustrator, designer and comics creator based in Leeds
She/Her
https://www.emseeitch.com/
MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com Sapphic Scottish specfic duo E&M. Fungi fanatics, lurcher lovers, gin guzzlers.
The Needfire NOW OUT out with Solaris Books!
PREORDER The Haunting of Avis Lovelock TODAY!
Repped by John Baker @ PFD.
https://www.mkhardywrites.com/links/
The Arab League of Misfits 🔜 Spawn! Angoulême @arabmisfits.com 🃏 A satirical 1v1 deckbuilder fueled by Arab pop culture and historical satire.
👡 Expect flying footwear & chaotic cafe politics.
🖥️ In development by a loud pool of actual Arab misfits
🛒Wishlist on Steam go.arabmisfits.com/steam
🌐 https://arabmisfits.com/
@potatobay.bsky.social @potatobay.bsky.social 
Stelliform Press @stelliform.press Award-winning SFFH & literary books engaging with environmental justice. Now: THE OTHER SHORE, THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. www.stelliform.press.
Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com Micro press publisher of science fiction and fantasy novellas. Jennifer Crispin, publisher. Lansing, MI.
www.dancingstarpress.com
Rye Hickman @ryehickman.bsky.social They/them. I make comics!
Portfolio: ryehickman.com
Brave Edit @oluwademiladereade.bsky.social BRAVE BOOK
KB @ktb543.bsky.social F 💅🏼 UK 🇬🇧 Queer 🌈 Neurodiverse 🌶
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Lover of words, laughter and dogs. Usually very friendly unless provoked otherwise
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A bit feral
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Sweary
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
Sign-up for our newsletters: https://www.lrb.co.uk/account/newsletter-signup
Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social MF Pride of the Tyne
🏳️🌈 🚲 😷
She/her.
pfp: black and white photo of me, dark circles painted under eyes as though extremely tired, black lipstick, collar of black faux-fur coat
🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚 @catespice.bsky.social Semper Femina. From Aotearoa. C.M. Scandreth on the NoSleep Podcast.
Tom Staniford @tomstaniford.bsky.social fCMO | Writer | Speaker | Consultant |
Para-Cyclist | double amputee | deaf |
Team Bottrill Nopinz • Trek Bikes •
BromptonBicycle • Albion Cycling
www.tomstaniford.com
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Monique @livinginthewoods.bsky.social I try be human and consider myself thoughtful and sane. Won't shy away from polite and thoughtful discussions even if we have opposing viewpoints. I will not follow you if you have not posted anything.
LeedsBookClub aka Drneevil @leedsbookclub.bsky.social Books, comics, films, crafting!
A small & mighty book club, meeting in Leeds since 2010
#LBC3Reads, #LBCHorsforth, #LBCWSwan
- https://leedsbookclub.com/category/all-posts/
Bestie 📖 - Kingdom of Ash
LBC📖 - Black Wood Blue Sky
- Great Circle *
- Circe
Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social A publisher of science fiction and fantasy, based in Wales.
Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social Writer of sff/solarpunk/nomadpunk, hope addict, dad of twins, constantly fighting writer’s block
Tarot Interviews @tarotinterviews.com A world-first interview series where artists and creatives share their stories through tarot. Listeners in 55 countries. Produced by @finbarre.com. Based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Podcast - https://tarotinterviews.com
Liam Bishop @liamhbishophealth.bsky.social 👨🏻⚕️Striving to make health research and clinical trials more inclusive
https://tinyurl.com/Lbresearchlinkedin
✍️Elsewhere, writer also interviewing writers
https://bsky.app/profile/liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social
Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social ✍️Writer from Leeds with bylines in Irish Times, LA Review of Books, TLS and many others.
🎧Curating the world’s most interesting writers on the Rippling Pages
Linktr.ee/ripplingpagespod
👨🏻⚕️Elsewhere, health researcher
https://tinyurl.com/Lbhealthbluesky
Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
JW Troemner (she/her) @jwtroemner.bsky.social Indie Author looking to find my people. 🚫AI
Kenneth Luke Hansen @kennethluke.bsky.social Avid reader looking to create a happy place for bibliophiles everywhere 📚 Proud to be 🏳️🌈 Prouder to be a teacher. Hope to be LeVar Burton when I grow up.
Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social Blind painter, tea drinker, and weird hermit. They/He
https://ko-fi.com/karidru
October.Rosehip on discord
Nicky @shanaqui.bsky.social 36-year-old reader, blogger, gamer, self-employed worker, frequent student (BA & MA in English Lit, BSc in Natural Sciences, MSc in Infectious Diseases... for now).
Ace, enby, Welsh, reluctant collector of anxiety disorders. They/them.
cROAissant @croaissant.bsky.social Roa, 30+, she/her. Occasional fanwork creator, part-time fandom appreciator, and full-time human disaster. PFP by mootecky
https://croaissant.carrd.co/
Mark Sheeky @marksheeky.bsky.social In 2007 I decided to take art seriously, I've been a full time artist ever since. Surrealist oil painter. Indie music artist. Writer of stories, poetry, essays. Software developer. Eccentric genius. Links: https://linktr.ee/marksheeky
William Goodby (Comms Open) @williamgoodby.bsky.social Wannabe Artist.
Links here: https://wgoodbylinkpage.carrd.co/
Starfleet Intelligence Meme Analyst @daxarian.bsky.social Autistic, sci fi nerd, horror fan, liberal democracy enjoyer. He/they.
Juliet Kemp @julietk.bsky.social Queer non-binary SFF writer in London.
https://julietkemp.com/ - occasional newsletter with WIP snippets and other news at https://julietkemp.com/newsletter
Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
Elizabeth says ‘they called me a witchy vamp so i became one’ @ohthatelizabeth.bsky.social In the last months of a PhD researching audience autonomy and labour. Autistic and queer? Hell yea. She/ her. Buy me a meal first.
Welcome to Isaiah @welcometoisaiah.bsky.social Someone in your town has been talking to the residents; now they're dying. A horror fiction podcast loosely inspired by AI-related deaths. By @caelan.bsky.social & @bronaghisgay.bsky.social (Coming 2026.)
generalsheenanigans @sheenalouisef.bsky.social 🇳🇴🇵🇭
Momster of Elsebub, Sindre & #SookieTheFarmCat living in the arse-end of Norway.
-I mostly post about (horror)books and cats. Sometimes I review the odd read.
-🚫DMs unless we know each other
Jen @sunnyflourbakes @sunnyflourbakes.bsky.social Baking for fun, family and friends in North Yorkshire, UK
Likes holidays, visiting new places, listening to audiobooks & reading.
Time with family, generally I love feeding people. Also mamma to two cats, one human and one husband 🤣
No DM’s thanks.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com Posts many cat pics. Former scholar of Islamic history who now writes about new SFF at nerds-feather.com and podcasts about SFF history at Hugo History: klaxoncomms.com/hugo-history
Queer/Ace/ADHD. #Vancouver 🇨🇦
Mikky Mycelia @mikkyseventeen.bsky.social 💎She/They
📚Templeofdeadtrees on IG
Just a collection of atoms trying to survive late stage capitalism by reading books.
🎧Podcast: Woodland Corpses
🔪Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, Queer
🌟Disabled, AuDHD, bi/pan, & married to the best cat dad.
🚫MAGA 🚫HP 🚫AI
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦
Abnomrality @abnomrality.bsky.social Writing and revising | Trying to help build better online communities | Getting paid money to play in the dirt | Biology too apparently | Also autism and stuff
All pronouns :)
Trae Dorn - Writer/Witch/Weirdo. @traegorn.bsky.social Nerdy Genderqueer Wiccan Witch in WI. I make (geeky/witchy) podcasts, and write (queer) books and comics
Ryan Kopf sued me twice
They/Them
My stuff: trhonline.com
https://peregrine-lake.com / nerdandtie.com / bsfreewitchcraft.com / patreon.com/traegorn
JT. @joshthompson.bsky.social read a book, turn the page📖
JT (paladin enthusiast) @yarns-and-d20s.bsky.social elder millennial of indeterminate gender | crocheter | writer | swamp witch
AuDHD-powered yapping: books, writing, moral panics, FE3H (Dimilix), VLD (Sheith), BG3, Skyrim.
#JTwrites for fics
pfp by @simyunie.bsky.social
https://ko-fi.com/yarnpenguin
RD Fester | Fantasy Author 📚⚔️👑 @festeringrat.bsky.social Queer fantasy author 🇿🇦 25.
Archaeologist. Gamer. Artist
Anti-AI. Free 🇵🇸
My debut, Ne'er-do-wells, is available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS7HX1FX
Website: https://rdfester.wordpress.com/
Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social She/Her. Bi/Omni. Yorkshire lass. Reader of books. Writer of books. Lover of happy metal
Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social writer * teacher *mother * immigrant
friend of democracy
enemy of kakistocracy
lover of the American Dream,
living somewhere between the dream and the nightmare
BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Jeri Westerson @jeriwesterson.bsky.social Author of medieval, Tudor, Sherlockian and LGBTQ mysteries, always with humor and heart. 46 books in print so far. ANTI-AI. Trekkie forever. Democratic socialist. She/Her JeriWesterson.com
Justine van der Leun @justinevdl.bsky.social Author of Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival: https://www.justinevdl.com/
T. M. Chalk @tmchalk.bsky.social Writer • Ontario, Canada
Phenomena Press @phenomenapress.bsky.social Phenomena Press is an indie book press focusing on aromantic and asexual speculative fiction stories
Run by @megthewriter.bsky.social
Designs by @harperkinsley.bsky.social
Editors: @faerywhimsy.bsky.social and @dragonediting.bsky.social
V.C. Willow 🏳️🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social Writer. Feminist. LGBTQ+. She/her. Socialist. Whovian. Rebel scum. No AI. From the UK 🏴
Unapologetic bookworm, word nerd and lover of humour. Human rights, equality
👋🏿👋🏻👋🏽🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Writing novels one word at a time.📚
Author contact: vcwillow@gmail.com
Scandal from Bohemia @scandalfrombohemia.bsky.social writer, teacher, performer. Author of The Last Year of the Rest of My Life #enemiestolovers #genx and And Here We Are #genx #family #secondchance https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0CTX2GMWM/about?ccs_id=52aa87fc-646a-43fa-8dac-ab8e2ae95435
If I Ain't Readin' @ifiaintreadin.bsky.social If I ain't readin', then I'm watchin' anime, loom knittin' and writin'. Expect recs & revs for amazing books, mangas and more😎
Find more of my work at https://open.substack.com/pub/ifiaintreadin
The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social Combating antisemitism and protecting democracy
Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social Nano-publisher & provider of self-publishing services based in Ilfracombe, Devon.
Submissions open for books with a strong focus on Devon and the South West.
https://www.bluepoppypublishing.co.uk 
TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social Love to travel? Love to read?
TripFiction.com matches books with 2,890 locations around the world
See a destination through the eyes of an author
Truman Books @trumanbooks.bsky.social A friendly local independent bookshop and cafe in Farsley, West Leeds.
Co-founder of Farsley Literature Festival.
www.trumanbooks.co.uk
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Love freedom of expression, digital ownership, libraries, and fun.
Avatar by @carmenjohns.bsky.social
maria |at| flaminghydra |dot| com
mariabustillos.com | flaminghydra.com
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
ThistleBee @thistlebeereads.bsky.social Reader, wellness, plant-based food, anti-fascist.
Setting up a small business so not operating yet. Let's talk books in the meantime. Retreat • Refresh • Regrow
Weirdpunk Books @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social Weird Horror
Queer | Leftist | DIY
These Books Kill Fascists | This Press Runs on Spicy Pickles & High Life
Minneapolis.
All posts @sammytotep.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/weirdpunkbooks
Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social Welcome to a new home for horror! Cat Eye Press is an indie horror press, aiming to celebrate horror’s subgenres and diversity.
Website: cateyepress.com
Links: https://bio.site/cateyepress
Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Dispatches from the warehouse and other news. http://linktr.ee/subterraneanpress
Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social Queer-run indie horror micropress, publishing anthologies since 2020. Firmly anti-AI.
Find us at sliceduppress.com
SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION out now!
Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com Cambridge, UK-based indie publisher of horror, gothic and supernatural fiction. EIC: Antonia Rachel Ward.
ghostorchidpress.com
⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com I share the Horror & spread the Dread.
She/Her/Weirdo/Horror Lover/AuDHD/TradArtist/Reviewer/Malcontent/Misanthrope 🤷🏳️🌈🤷♂️
🚫 No AI No NFTs No Crypto 🚫
💙📚 #MSReview
🎨 https://stinasdemons.bigcartel.com
🎨 Art feed 😈🎨🦇
Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
@crossroadpress.bsky.social @crossroadpress.bsky.social Publisher of Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, Military adventure, parapsychology, biographies, childrens books and so much more. In business for over 15 years. 3000 plus titles, hundreds of authors from #CliveBarker to new voices.
Cemetery Gates Media @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social Publisher of horror fiction. Fans of urban legends and creepy locales.
Anarchist Bookfairs of the World @anarchistbookfairs.bsky.social An attempt to help publicise radical and anarchist bookfairs from wherever on this platform.
Jane Mansour @janem.bsky.social Reading, writing, tea and all the biscuits
Winner: W&A/whitefox'23|LWB p100 Prize'22|#EWPP '22
Uphill Into A Headwind (he/him) @intoaheadwind.bsky.social I rode off on my bicycle because I wanted to live deliberately...to put to rout all that is not life, & not, when I come to die, discover that I had not lived
#BicycleTravel account of @bioalex.bsky.social.
Support my journey:
https://ko-fi.com/bioalex
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Zebedee’s Mom @zebedeesmom.bsky.social Pet parent, avid reader, apathetic gardener, over 40, out of forks, very very tired
H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social Indie Gamedev Artist
Webcomics: Amphiox, RAWR! Dinosaur Friends
They/she
hello@hmcgill.art
http://hmcgill.art
Do NOT use my art to train AI
SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
Views mine, contact via website
Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social Trans kiln witch™
Ceramics artist based in London
www.roseschmits.com
she/her
Boog @das-boog.bsky.social Cartoonist, writer, ttrpg and horror dweeb. Fond of bugs and old machines. Links at https://linktr.ee/das_boog
Mary 🍉🦖 @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social Museum gremlin, word-arranger, picture-maker.
🌈🇨🇦🏳️🌈🍉
marysanche.com
Anna Moshak @aizelkonart.bsky.social Freelance illustrator and cover artist.🇺🇦
https://aizelkonart.com/
Gill Searl @gillsearl.bsky.social Dog-lover, runner, cyclist on occasion, veg grower, slow at orienteering.
Citizen of the world. Spreche auch deutsch and a few other languages too.
Cassie/Nova @cassiehart.bsky.social Award winning Māori/Pakeha queer writer of speculative fiction, editor, and mentor from Aotearoa New Zealand.
she/they/ia
Kāi Tahu/Kāti Māmoe
Canal Cryptid @canalcryptid.eurosky.social Ancient Eldritch Abomination. Asexual. Autistic. Boatie. Changeling. Feminist. Genderqueer-Agender. Ineffable Auncle. Misfortune Teller. Parent of shinyshinyleaf. Space Monkey. SteamGoth. TBI Survivor. Therian.
paypal.me/CanalCryptid
Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com Historian in Tkaronto (Toronto). Likes bats, monsters, sincereposting, alt text, and DEIA. Genderqueer. Trans. Autistic. 40s. 👬 🧛 nicomaramckay.com
There will be typos.
Subscribe for queer and trans culture and histories: patreon.com/ephemeralrecord
Frank Oreto @frankoreto.bsky.social Dad, author, maker and eater of tasty food. frankoreto.com
The Conversation with Nadine Matheson @theconversation.bsky.social ✨ Deep dives into writing, creativity & life
🎙️Host @nadinematheson.com
🎧 New episodes every Tuesday—listen wherever you find your podcasts
📬 Subscribe, like, follow, and share!
🎧 https://linktr.ee/ConversationwithNadineMatheson
Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com North East British author of foul-mouthed queer fantasy The Cruel Gods and The Chosen One Con 📚 They/Them 💛🤍💜🖤 Trans rights! 🏳️⚧️ AI 🚫
Learn more at TrudieSkies.com
Cats: Bayley and Gustave 🙀
Brent Mail @brentmail.bsky.social Full time pro photographer, film maker and story teller from East Coast of Australia (originally from South Africa). My another account showcasing the best wildlife photos bestwildlifephotos.bsky.social
Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.co.uk gay dandy. white & welsh. he/him. 18+.
check pinned for fantasy fiction, queer romance, and erotica.
cymru am byth.
my website: https://johannestevans.co.uk/
Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social Not Sapphic as in Poetry but Dyke as in General Strike.
Leftism, Autism & Luddism | Gender Apathetic | Right-Wing Policies Kill, Trans Rights Are Human Rights, BLM, End Genocide 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
Before DMing me please read this: https://nohello.net/en