Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books and the Devils. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a jaded literary sewer etc. etc.
Lisa Cottrell @lisacottrell.com Reader, Writer, Dog Mom
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Writing on Substack: https://lisacottrell.com?r=6gzra
Wendy Fontaine @wendyfontaine.bsky.social Writer, reader, mom to a full-grown human. Flash CNF editor at Hippocampus Magazine. Work in Short Reads, Under the Sun, Streetlight Mag, Longridge Review and more.
Boston Celtics forever. ๐
Kelly Caldwell @kkc212.bsky.social Writer; dean of faculty @GothamWriters. she/her I live in NYC but still say gapers' block.
Aimee Pokwatka @aimeepokwatka.bsky.social Author of the novels SELF-PORTRAIT WITH NOTHING (2022), THE PARLIAMENT (2024), and ACCUMULATION (2026) (she/her)
www.aimeepokwatka.com
ACCUMULATION is out now! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788374/accumulation-by-aimee-pokwatka/
Epiphora @epiphora.bsky.social I have a very discerning vagina. Sex writer + sex toy connoisseur for over 18 years. ๐ {she/her}
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Roberta McLain @bmclain.bsky.social Science Teacher, Science Communicator, Freelance Science Writer, Lacrosse Coach
P.A. McTiernan @acemct2.bsky.social Traveling soul interested in health, medicine, food, fitness, writing, and random other things. Repeat jaywalker. She/her.
Donna Cameron @donnacameron.bsky.social I write and speak about kindness. Author of A YEAR OF LIVING KINDLY. Former non-profit exec. We can change our lives and repair the world through kindness. https://ayearoflivingkindly.com/
Hannah White Hannah @hannahwhitehannah.bsky.social Writer - nonfiction in Fourth Genre, Brevity, Barnstorm Journal, Assay, Sundog Lit, and elsewhere.
Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary ๐ Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. ๐ WRITE THROUGH IT out June โ25 ๐๐ picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in โ26!
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Kathleen Schmidt @kathmschmidt.bsky.social President, KMSPR. Book publishing, marketing, consulting, strategy. I write Publishing Confidential on Substack.
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Jeanne Veillette Bowerman @jeannevb.bsky.social Sr Exec Pipeline Media Group @bookpipeline.bsky.social, EiC @pipelineartists.bsky.social, partner Fringe Press, CoHost @recklesscr8tive.bsky.social #podcast. Prev @scriptmagazine.bsky.social + Writer's Digest. CoFndr #scriptchat on X. #HistFic #18thC
Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social Media industry journalist who runs a newsletter and podcast. You can reach me at simonowens@gmail.com
DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social Alter ego of Peter Ginna. Editor, writer, & occasional blogger on books & publishing. Former editor & publisher at several houses. Author of WHAT EDITORS DO: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. Website: peterginna.com 
Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social Writer of fiction - books and digital. Inanimate Alice, Breathe, Forest Green. Academic - Bath Spa University. Books. Food. Sleep. Canadian living in UK. www.katepullinger.com and https://buttondown.email/katepullinger
Guy (aka glecharles) @loudpoet.com Sometimes loud, formerly poet, always opinionated. As in guillotine...
Here via BlackSky, but more active on my blog and Mastodon:
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Paul Bogaards @paulbogaards.bsky.social PR guy. Former Publisher. Representing authors and companies. Knows the business. Find me @ http://instagram.com/paulbogaards; and here http://paulbogaards.substack.com; and here bogaardspr.com.
Katy Hershberger @katyhersh.bsky.social Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
Cassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes.bsky.social Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. ๐
http://pinestatepublicity.com
Pinestatepublicity.substack.com
Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com Freelance editor of YA & Adult fiction (sarah@nextchapteredits.com). Writer, optimist, all-around bookish.
Editing: https://www.nextchapteredits.com/
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/SarahLaPolla
Everything Else: https://linktr.ee/sarahlapolla
Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social Writer, editor,publisher, creative funding expert in Brooklyn. Editor of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. Previously @feministpress & @kickstarter. She/they ๐๐
https://margotatwell.com/
Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
Laura Stanfill @laurastanfill.bsky.social Author, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES (Ooligan Press, Nov. 2026). Publisher, Forest Avenue Press. Publishing consultant. Delete Key is my roller derby name.
Brian DeFiore @briandef.bsky.social Literary Agent, Dad, Geek
E. J. Wenstrom @ejwenstrom.bsky.social ๐คs complicated heroes, horrifying monsters & standing to the right on escalators so the left side can walk. #SFF author. Cohost
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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social "What's she got to stare at now?"
https://newvirago.com/
Darcy Pattison @darcypattison.bsky.social Author of over 70 childrenโs books, including A LITTLE BIT OF DINOSAUR series, the Moments in Science series, and the Another Extraordinary Animal series. See more at MimsHouseBooks.com #STEM #NextGen #Kidlit #TLsky #EduSky 
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social Founding Partner, Neon Literary. Get in, loser, we're making it art. www.neonliterary.com
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
Meg Reid ๐ฆฆ @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
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David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social Crafty southpaw.
Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social Literary agent, #author, travel-junkie, puppy enthusiast, full-time fed up with the rolling back of our rights.
www.knightagency.net
www.luciennediver.com
Sarah Nicolas @sarahnfisk.bsky.social Literary Agent. YA Author as Sarah Nicolas. Queries Qualms & Quirks host. Disability in Publishing Board. ๐๐ค๐๐ค linktr.ee/presidentsarah
Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer. Latest: I review Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/08/arts/emily-st-john-mandel-exit-party/
The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
The Gernert Company @thegernertco.bsky.social The Gernert Company is a literary agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Our client list is as broad as the market. ๐
https://www.thegernertco.com/
Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Independent Publishers Guild @independentpublishersguild.com The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more.
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Literary Agents of Change @litagentsofchange.bsky.social A 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping people from underrepresented groups become literary agents.
linktr.ee/literaryagentsofchange
Authors Alliance @authorsalliance.bsky.social Promoting authorship for the public good by supporting authors who write to be read. authorsalliance.org and authorsalliance.substack.com for updates. 
Iris Blasi @irisblasi.bsky.social Book lover and literary agent at Arc Literary. Say hi here: iris@arcliterary.com.
arcliterarymanagement.com/the-agents#iris
Erin Eggenburg @wrenbirdarts.bsky.social she/her Fiber Artist & Small Business Owner
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
SexEdTalk @sexedtalk.bsky.social Educators! Authors of Vaginas and Periods 101: A Pop-Up Book. Coming in 2025- Penises 101: A Pop-Up Book. Sexedtalk.com
Carla Ciccone @cciccone.bsky.social Writer/strega mamma๐ค๐ผ My reported memoir about ADHDโs lost generation comes out Sept 2025 ๐งฟโจ
Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social reactor mag's resident book nerd. they/them ๐ต๐ท๐ณ๏ธโ๐ nyc
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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social Art activist. Craftivist. Chicagoan. Educator. President of the Joyful Menace Society. My book, Letโs Move The Needle, is out now. ๐๐ผ. Big fan of libraries and dogs. Super ๐ณ๏ธโ๐. Gen X
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Corrinne Bollendorf @corrinneb.bsky.social She/Her. Writer based in northern Nevada. I like dollhouses and donkeys. https://corrinnebollendorf.com/
Writing Jobs @writingjobs.bsky.social Jobs/gigs for writers, editors, and social media managers.
Microcosm Publishing @microcosm.bsky.social Based in #Portland and Cleveland. A Publisher's Weekly's fastest growing publisher 2022-2024. #Autistic founded/owned #ownvoices idealism; Change your life then the world around you; since 1996.
Microcosmpublishing.com
Microcosm.pub/newsletter
Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social reading books, writing books, defending books
https://linktr.ee/maiakobabe
pronouns: e/em/eir
Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social Twin Cities, MN writer. Invisible disability.
Debut FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR (HarperCollins 2024)
Also in Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Newsweek, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, San Francisco Chronicle.
Read my stories & essays at https://paul-rousseau.com
Kelly Sue DeConnick @kellysue.bsky.social Comic Book, Stage & TV Writer. https://linktr.ee/kellysued Rep: Jim Ehrich of RBEL #wgastrong #pdx #visiblewomen Married to mattfraction.bsky.social
ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ canadian writer, game master, gremlin (they/them)
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ co-founder @othersidespec.bsky.social
๐ fantasy, romance, horror
๐ works at Nightmare, Heartlines, PseudoPod, Small Wonders and more
website: https://ash-vale.ca/
Lana Storey @lanastorey.bsky.social Writer. Words in HAD, Joyland, PANK, Found Press.
val - V.M. Ayala ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @spacevalkyries.bsky.social ๐sci-fi/fantasy writer V.M. Ayala (she/they) ๐ฎ streamer, indie games, TTRPGs โจ anxiety/ADHD, chronic pain ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ queer Mexican American ๐ช๐ก๏ธ co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social
๐ https://www.spacevalkyries.com/
๐ spacevalkyries@gmail.com
Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social sff/romance writer - sometimes a librarian - reader for Diabolical Plots - very specific - partly titanium - rep: Ashley Reisinger @ Triada US - http://roseciesla.com
Krystal Sital @krystalsital.bsky.social Author of Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad | Anthologies: A Map is Only One Story & Fury | Essays in NYTimes, ELLE, HuffPost, Salon, Parents & more | Writer on all things immigration, womenโs health & issues, food, culture & parenting | MOTHER
Edvige Giunta @edvigegiunta.bsky.social Sicilian American writer, editor, teacher. Author of Writing with an Accent. Coeditor of Talking to the Girls. Writing in DECEMBER, ADROIT, PITHEAD CHAPEL, FICTIVE DREAM, WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS, ASSAY. Www.edvigegiunta.com
Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social I love horror in all its fictional forms! My occasional podcast Chthonica is on YouTube & Apple Podcasts. Iโm in Nashville, TN. AKA +The Blessorcist+ I sell cool horror merch at threadsofdread.com!
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! ๐ค๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ๐งฌ http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Hildur Knรบtsdรณttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com Series Editor of BASFF. Publisher of @lightspeedmagazine.com (+ Editor) and NIGHTMARE. Editor of 50+ anthologies. Co-editor (with Jordan Peele) of OUT THERE SCREAMING.
Newsletter Signup: https://robotwizardzombiecrit.com
Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of Road of Bones, The House of Last Resort, Ararat, and many others. Writes a lot of comics with Mike Mignola. Screenwriter. Anti-fascist. New novel CARRY ME TO MY GRAVE out 7/21/26.
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social Author and reviewer. Stoker and Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK.
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025
ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025
FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026
HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026
NoSleep Podcast.
Author M. I. Verras @miverr.bsky.social Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer.
If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name.
THE HIDDEN FACE is the metaphysical mystery book that STUNNED even people who didn't like reading! Get it here:
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John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social Writer. All monsters, all the time. Filthy liberal.
Steve Niles @steveniles.bsky.social https://steveniles.net/
Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.com (He/They) Sunday Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Wretch
ericlarocca.com
Matt Ruff @bymattruff.bsky.social Author of Lovecraft Country, Fool on the Hill, Bad Monkeys, and various other novels.
https://www.bymattruff.com
Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, writer, poet (because of Linda D. Addison), former feeder woman to Neo (who was the one).
(she/her)
#ProtectTransKids
#LoveIsLove
Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social Writer / Librarian
Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc
Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Novel: Living in Cemeteries
Collection: Haunted Ecologies
CoreyFarrenkopf.com
Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social Horror loving mom. Author of that mothman book, BELOW. Also WHISPERS IN THE DARK, CROSSROADS, EVERY WOMAN KNOWS THIS, SILENT KEY, SPIRIT COVEN, and THE DAY OF THE DOOR
Bracken MacLeod ๐ค โฐ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social Recovering lawyer. Author of STRANDED, COME TO DUST, & CLOSING COSTS. A new collection, LET NOT YOUR SORROW DIE, out NOW from Bad Hand Books! Represented by Howard Morhaim at http://morhaimliterary.com He/Him
Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com Cambridge, UK-based indie publisher of horror, gothic and supernatural fiction. EIC: Antonia Rachel Ward.
ghostorchidpress.com
๐ Hailey Piper ๐ @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
Oct 27: SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
max booth will never die @interrobangbus.bsky.social "max booth is a fiend haunting the midwest" โ jeff vandermeer
writer & editor
publisher @ ghoulish books
they/she
interrobangbus.com- R Ramsey Campbell @ramseycampbell.bsky.social I write horror.
Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social Horror writer (SHE SAID DESTROY, RED SKIES IN THE MORNING, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY). Co-editor of WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE.
๐ DC, raised in Jakarta/Nebraska, she/her โ ๏ธ๐
https://linktr.ee/nadiabulkin
Reyna Cervantes @jfcdoomblade.bsky.social writer. critic. programmer. degenerate.
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
Candace Nola @candacenola.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Editor. Creator of UncomfortablyDark.com. Zero ai. Do not send it. Human created art only.
Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Thomas Ligotti Online and Grimscribe Press. Ligotti narrator for Penguin Random House Audio. Author of THE SECRET OF VENTRILOQUISM. he/him.
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Gordon B. White @gordonbwhite.bsky.social Horror/weird fiction writer. Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award nominee. Best Horror, Clarion West, dog dad, critically acclaimed (not in that order). He/him. 
Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social USA Today bestselling horror noveler (MARY; NESTLINGS; REST STOP; WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME). TV actor. Musician. Out now: I KNOW A PLACE, May 5, 2026, Shortwave Books. (he/him)
Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net Nebula & World Fantasy Award Finalist, SFF writer, coder, artist. Books: THE RAINSEEKERS, SPACE TRUCKER JESS, HISTORIES WITHIN US, KING OF SHARDS & QUEEN OF STATIC. Creator of Moksha submissions system. Co-host of Fantastic Fiction at KGB. ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ NOKINGS
Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Bram Stoker Awardโwinning author | MFA, PhD English(c) | SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, Sept 29 | Rep-Lane Heymont | cynthiapelayo.com
Emma J. Gibbon @emmajgibbon.bsky.social "Shirley Jackson meets Johnny Rotten" - NPR. Award-winning author of Dark Blood Comes from the Feet. Represented by Caitlin Mahony at WME. She/They.
Ally Ally Oxenfree @allymalinenko.bsky.social She/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @Horrorwriters #SpookyMG Rep'd by @renarossner. GHOST GIRL, the Bram Stoker nominated THIS APPEARING HOUSE, THE OTHER MARCH SISTERS and Stephen King endorsed BROKEN DOLLS