Agatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social Official news page for the Agatha Christie Festival, taking place between 12 and 20 September 2026 #AgathaFestival
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Harrogate International Festivals @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social MOTHER TONGUE, out now.
Also TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR
🧏🏻 deafie | they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly
https://buttondown.com/signs+wonders/archive
https://linktr.ee/Novic
Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social Novelist and journalist. Author of Bog Queen, Outlawed, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, and America Pacifica.
Nancy Jooyoun Kim @nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social Umma / Author of LA Koreatown novels
WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES
THE LAST STORY OF MINA LEE
https://bio.site/nancyjooyounkim
Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social Author, most recently, of "The Weedy Garden" (for children) and "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" (for adults).
Jasmine Guillory @thebestjasmine.bsky.social Writer, Oakland.
Laura Taylor Namey @laurataylornamey.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow. 🇨🇺out now: With Love, Echo Park
https://linktr.ee/laura.taylor.namey
Adrienne Young @adriennebooks.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author of SKY IN THE DEEP, THE GIRL THE SEA GAVE BACK & FABLE @wednesdaybooks // Rep'd by @bpoelle @IGLAbook
Andrea Bartz @andibartz.bsky.social NYT bestselling thriller author of Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here, The Spare Room, The Herd & The Lost Night. The Last Ferry Out coming May '25. Unapologetically queer, progressive, feminist.
Bolu Babalola @beebabs.bsky.social Big B and the B stands for bodacious. Writer, Girl About Town, Purveyor of Prose & Pose. Not Here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/juicebybolubabalola/p/coming-soon?r=ajg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Patricia Engel @patricia-engel.bsky.social Author of 5 books, most recently THE FARAWAY WORLD and INFINITE COUNTRY | Professor of Creative Writing, University of Miami 🇨🇴
Sadeqa Johnson @sadeqasays.bsky.social 
YamileSMendez @yamilesmendez.bsky.social Author. Mom. Fútbol. Animals. 
Rainbow Rowell @rainbowrowell.bsky.social Yes! My mother named me this!
Author of Eleanor & Park, Slow Dance and the Simon Snow Trilogy. Writer of She-Hulk and Runaways. My new book is called Cherry Baby, and it is good 🍒
Tia Williams @tiawilliams.bsky.social NYT bestselling author. NAACP Image Award nominee. Former beauty editor. Wife and mom. Sleepy but productive.
Liv Constantine @livconstantine.bsky.social Sisters and NYT bestselling authors and Reese’s book club alumni. Audio original EVERYBODY IS A LIAR out now. www.livconstantine.com DON'T OPEN YOUR EYES coming summer 2025
Kirstin Chen @kirstinchen.bsky.social NYTimes bestselling author of Counterfeit, Bury What We Cannot Take & Soy Sauce for Beginners. Tech Wives forthcoming 🌸
Emma Lord @dilemmalord.bsky.social sentient cookie, nyt-bestselling author of TWEET CUTE and other dessert-based rom coms, senior writer at buzzfeed 
Lauren Ling Brown @laurenlingbrown.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Author of SOCIETY OF LIES, a @reesesbookclub pick 📖✨
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Austin Channing Brown @austinchanning.bsky.social Author of NYT and RBC pick- I’m Still Here: Black dignity in a world made for whiteness. There’s also a YA version. Working on the next book now. austinchanning.com
@amandaeyreward.bsky.social @amandaeyreward.bsky.social 
Cesca Major 📚 @cescamajor.bsky.social Novelist. Screenwriter. Mum of many. Coffee snob. Delight. MAYBE NEXT TIME - a Reese’s Book Club Pick & optioned by Hello Sunshine/Apple Studios. Latest 📖 IF I WERE YOU out now! #BookSky #scriptsky
Sally Nicholls @sallynicholls.bsky.social Author of books inc 'Ways to Live Forever', 'Things a Bright Girl Can Do', 'The Button Book', 'A Chase in Time'. 'Leaving the House' out now. Lives in Liverpool with husband and two kids, Quaker, bridge-player, woolly liberal. Profile pic by Ellie Snowden.
Lisa Unger @lisaunger.bsky.social NYT bestselling author. Co-president of ITW.
SERVED HIM RIGHT is on sale now.
Gillian McAllister @gillianmauthor.bsky.social Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer. I always delete my first draft.
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
Sarah Pinborough @sarahpinborough.bsky.social Author and screenwriter. Sunday Times #1, & NYT Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES on Netflix and INSOMNIA on Paramount+. Ted owner. WE LIVE HERE NOW coming Summer of 2025
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Alexandra Benedict @alexandrakbenedict.bsky.social Also A K Benedict. Internationally bestselling writer of crime/strange/spooky novels, stories and scripts. Pan, audhd. MURDER ON THE CHRISTMAS EXPRESS. THE CHRISTMAS JIGSAW MURDERS. LITTLE RED DEATH out Feb 2025 from S&S. Agent @dianabeaumont.bsky.social
Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris @stephmerritt.bsky.social Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Erin Young @erinyoungauthor.bsky.social Crime writer - currently writing dark thrillers set in Iowa. THE FIELDS (shortlisted for ITW novel of the year, in development for TV), ORIGINAL SINS (NYT book of the week, Times thriller of the month). Also writes historical fiction as Robyn Young. 
Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social does words and music, though not always at the same time. Jimmy Cake noisenik. relax in a panic-free atmosphere.
Amer Anwar @ameranwar.com Author of crime thrillers. Avid reader. Huge movie and TV fan. Buy books faster than I can read them. My house is one big TBR pile. London, UK.
‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social 📚Award-winning, Sunday Times Bestselling Author | Writer ✍🏾 l Reader 📖 | TV & Film Lover 📺 | Podcaster 🎙️| Latest book Give Him To Me out now 📚⚡️
William Ryan @williamryan.bsky.social Writing books, reading books, eating quickly, cycling slowly, standing on hands. Sometimes all at once. 
Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
Lisa Hall @lisahallauthor.bsky.social Writer/reader/reviewer. Bestselling author. Rep’d by Lisa Moylett @ CMM Agency. The Mysterious Double Death of Honey Black is out now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-Double-Death-Honey-Black-ebook/dp/B0CH8ZJ5SF 
S J Watson @sjwatson.bsky.social Writing. Photography. Drinking. Bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep. Podcaster. Substacker. Procrastinator. Dog dad. Tired.
Just your ordinary average everyday sane psycho super-goddess.
Lisa Cutts @lisacutts.bsky.social Retired detective turned crime writer.
Author of 6 police procedurals, 3 cosy crime mysteries and one non-fiction. NEW THRILLER OUT NOW! Twisted Lies.
Sarah Hilary @sarahhilary.bsky.social THE DROWNING PLACE | ‘Happy Valley, but haunted’ Anna Mazzola | Out now from Harvill | ND. She/her | www.sarahhilary.com
Erin Kelly @mserinkelly.bsky.social my job is book
Sophie Orme @sophiemorme.bsky.social Publisher, Manilla Press, Bonnier Books UK
Jack Jordan @jackjordanbooks.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of 8 thrillers 🫀Do No Harm ⚖️ CONVICTION 🦂 REDEMPTION out now! Rep: Madeleine Milburn. He/him🏳️🌈
Zoe West @zoeannewest.bsky.social Books Editor
@womanandhome @Womans_Weekly @WomanMagazine @Womansown
Travel writer. Always looking for an adventure
Bay Tales @baytales.bsky.social Visit http://baytales.com
Bay Tales Live 2026 happening in Whitley Bay on 27/02/27 tickets available now!
Visit our website for the best tickets at the best price. £44.55 for the WHOLE DAY!
Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
Jo Jakeman @jojakeman.bsky.social Coffee drinking, Cornwall dwelling, cat wrangling, novelist and screenwriter. All views stolen from someone cleverer than me. ONE BAD APPLE 🍎 out now 📕
Anita Chaudhuri @anitachaudhuri.bsky.social Mostly on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anitachaudhuri?igsh=MXFuYTh1ZW9pdDE3ZQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr- S @stuartneville.bsky.social @stuartneville.bsky.social
Mrs C @tracymearns.bsky.social Irish. Animal lover, horror movie fan, "Cool Mom" with the attention span of a goldfish.
Rachel Wolf @rachelwolfauthor.bsky.social FIVE NIGHTS coming at you Feb 29th 
Sarah J.Harris @sarahjharris.bsky.social Author of Meet Me On The Bridge, The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder and One Ordinary Day At A Time. Writes YA as Sarah Wishart - Four Good Liars and The Murder Hypothesis
Book and charity shop lover, karate black belt!
Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social All about the books
Alison Hennessey @alisonhennessey.bsky.social Publishing Director of Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books. Lover of the gripping & the gothic, the contemporary & the cunning. Comprehensive school girl in literary world. Easily bribed with a chocolate orange. 
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons.
https://joannanadin.com/
https://instagram.com/jonadin
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social THE CASTLE! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
Lucie Whitehouse @luciewhitehouse.bsky.social Writer of the Robin Lyons crime series and psych suspense including Before We Met. Englishwoman in Brooklyn. 
Diana Beaumont @dianabeaumont.bsky.social Literary agent @DHH and human (mostly). Here for the books and other larks. Find me on insta: agent_dianab
Ed Wood @edwoodagent.bsky.social Literary Agent and Director of Fiction Development at The Blair Partnership.
Fiction, crime, thriller, mystery, book club, gothic, horror. All views my own.
Submissions: https://www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-agents/ed-wood/
Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social Author. Scottish, Bengali, generally confused. “The Godfather of Anglo-Asian Crime Writing” (Daily Express) Rep’d by @stubbleagent
From Glasgow.
More here: abirmukherjee.com
and here: https://www.amazon.com/author/abirmukherjee
Rob Parker @robparkerauthor.bsky.social Author, host, podcast hyena.
www.robparkerauthor.com
A.A. Chaudhuri @aachaudhuri.bsky.social Amazon bestselling thriller author rep’d by Annette Crossland, pub’d by Hera Books - She’s Mine, The Loyal Friend, The Final Party, Under Her Roof; Isis Audio/Joffe Books - The Lawyer,The Partner aachaudhuri.com
The School Gates OUT NOW!
Neil Lancaster @neillancaster66.bsky.social Black Isle based crime writer of The Max Craigie series, occasionally known for writing spy thrillers as Max Connor
Repped by Kerr Macrae at LPA
www.neillancastercrime.co.uk
Neil Broadfoot @nlbro.bsky.social Crime writer, reader. Whisky lover…
Lin Anderson @linanderson.bsky.social A free spirit. Also crime writer & co-founder of the @BloodyScotland international crime writing festival.
Twitter: Lin_Anderson
Instagram: LinAndersonWriter
Threads: LinAndersonWriter
Web: http://www.lin-anderson.com
Helen Fields @crimediva.bsky.social Writer of all things criminal. Recovering barrister. Carlsbad/Edinburgh/Arundel. Fan of long, late night chats and reading books that scare the bejesus out of me. Licorice is the way to my heart. Here for Luc & Ava info. 
Sarah Crossan @sarahcrossan.bsky.social Writer based in Sussex.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Essie Fox Writer @essiefox.bsky.social
Catherine: A retelling of Wuthering heights is my latest novel, exploring the classic book through the voice of Cathy's ghost.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catherine-Retelling-Wuthering-Essie-Fox/dp/1917764421/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Luca Veste @lucaveste.bsky.social I write about bad things that will *probably* never happen to you...
Author of ten novels, bass player in the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
Emer McL @emerthescreamer.bsky.social I wish I hadn't committed to EmerTheScreamer as my Twitter handle in 2007, but here we are.
Writer
Dublin, Ireland 
Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author. Amazon #1 bestseller.
🇬🇧 Mantle, Pan-Macmillan
🇺🇸 Atria, Simon & Schuster
Agent: Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social
https://www.laurashepherdrobinson.com/
Steve Cavanagh @stevecavanagh.bsky.social Writer, dog walker, professional procrastinator. Writes the Eddie Flynn books and sometimes other things too.
Olivia Isaac-Henry @oliviaisaachenry.bsky.social Author of Sorrow Spring, The Verdict and Someone You Know https://smarturl.it/SorrowSpring!share
Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Susie Day @susieday.bsky.social Children's books and charity comms. Bristol, UK. Nerdy gay. Cats, food, hobbies I never do but mean to, beer. Tired. Like a nan but one who's really into trans rights.
Murder By The Book @murderbooks.bsky.social Located in Houston, Texas, MBTB is one of America’s oldest and largest bookstores dedicate to crime fiction.
https://linktr.ee/murderbooks
Stella Duffy @stellduffy.bsky.social Pākehā Londoner; Dr (not the medical kind), existential psychotherapist, supervisor, doctoral research in postmenopause; writer of 17 novels/70+ stories/15 plays, yoga for writing workshops; 2 x breast cancer; knee, hip, & some brain mended with metal
Luisa Plaja @luisaplaja.bsky.social Writer, editor, linguist, book-lover (she/her). Words are my... something.
Capital Crime @capitalcrime.bsky.social A celebration of the crime and thriller genre. 🔎 13th - 14th June 2025. Info@capitalcrime.org Tickets on sale now: capitalcrime.org
David H Headley @davidhheadley.bsky.social M.D. DHH Literary Agency, Goldsboro Books & Capital Crime.
https://linktr.ee/davidhheadley
Goldsboro Books @goldsborobooks.bsky.social An award-winning independent bookshop with branches in London (23-27 Cecil Court) and Brighton (22b Ship Street) The book collectors bookseller.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social An unofficial bot of BBC News (UK).
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Graham Bartlett @gbpoliceadvisor.bsky.social 🚔 Advising authors, TV writers, doc makers.
✍️ Award-winning crime writer: BAD FOR GOOD, FORCE OF HATE & CITY ON FIRE. Repped by DHH Literary Agency.
🤓 Mentor with Jericho Writers.
🕵️♂️ Retired police C/Supt.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/grahambartlett
Sophie Hannah @sophiehannah.bsky.social Bestselling crime writer
Coach for writers (dreamauthorcoaching.com)
Host of ‘How to Hold a Grudge’ podcast
Liz Nugent @liznugent.bsky.social No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister.
Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt.
The Truth About Ruby Cooper in all good bookstores in Uk, Ireland and Commonwealth except Canada now. North America Sept 1st.
www.liznugent.com
Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths.bsky.social Crime-writer 
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Emma Darwin @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social Writes fiction & non-fiction, teaches, blogs @ This Itch of Writing https://linktr.ee/emmadarwinwriter
Martyn Waites/CB Everett @martynwaites.bsky.social Writer. Crime. Horror. Doctor Who for Big Finish. Was once Tania Carver. New novel THE FINAL CHAPTER out now under the CB Everett name. Agent: James Wills at Watson Little. #MDANT and proud of it.