Indie Voices · Authors & Books @metareelz.com Notes from the margins of the book world.
Indie stories, wandering writers, soft recommendations, quiet conversations.
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Joel Halldorf @joelhalldorf.bsky.social Teolog, författare, lärare – joelhalldorf.com
Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social ✦ writer | reviewer | book blogger | cheerleader of books, poetry and art | all genres RT’d | resident Tolkien fangirl | linktr.ee/rjcrunden ✦
@chicocat.bsky.social @chicocat.bsky.social 
Barb Taub @barbtaub.bsky.social Caffeine-powered humor & urban fantasy author and border collie wrangler. Following daring daytime escape from US, lived in a medieval English castle, HobbitHouse, and magic Scottish Isle.
Internet hat hung at: https://barbtaub.com
Raymond Williams @rtwilliams16.bsky.social Blogger at Ballasts for the Mind, Book Club Admin for Black Men Read and creator of The Zora and Baldwin Challenges. Opinions are my own.
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Gentleman of a certain age (316 ppm).💚💙💜
Random Interests: Art, crafts, reading, writing, naturism, food, photography, sex/body positivity, ageing well, green stuff, tech scepticism, big ideas.
Your email probably finds me ruminating.
Bella ciao!
Jeremy P. Boggess @jeremypboggess.bsky.social Future Studies, that I hope will help society and all of us through the coming changes and this changing world. Along with necessary actions & responsibilities.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
💚 Spam flag finally removed! 🎉💚
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
A.C. Harper (he/him) @harperac.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Transgender Author
📚 Hi, My Name Is Alex: https://a.co/d/0fD7INpf
www.echopressbooks.com/ac-harper
S.D. Williams (Sci-Fi Author) @sdwilliamsauthor.bsky.social Film Watcher | Book Reader | Photographer | Switch Player | Coffee Drinker.
Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social Historian of colonial America, the Caribbean, and slavery. Professor at UCSC. Lover of cooking, sporting, mountains, and indie bands. Mischievous uncle.
Motivated Savages @motivatedsavages.bsky.social Visit the Indie Author Bookstore
https://motivatedsavages.com/indie-author-bookstore/
Nic the Bookseller @nic-v.bsky.social Part-time bookseller, full-time reader.
Bristol, UK.
When I read a book, I post a little review here.
Matt Weimer @mattweimer.bsky.social Present in San Francisco. Past in theater. Future unknown.
KiKiTheBookNerd @kikithebooknerd.bsky.social #Bookreviewer | #bookblogger | #BBNYA panelist | #disabled | She/Her | 🏳🌈 | #queer Bi/Ace 💜| 20 something or other✨
My Blog: https://kbbookreviews867789450.wordpress.com/
Jeff Sexton @bookanon.com Showcasing Books You (Likely) Won't Hear Of Anywhere Else
Book Blogger/ Book Reviewer of ~2K books & counting across nearly every imaginable genre and interest
QuiteBrief @quitebrief.bsky.social Apparently I am a used bookstore's worth of reviews and the odd technical comment.
May occasionally behave like a Cookie Monster.
"All solutions are easy when you don't understand the problem."
Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social I love microcosm, and macrocosm.
Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social UK writer of fiction (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, atheist, humanist, walker, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts. Porn will be blocked.
Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com 100% Human. Passionate Nature photographer. I run premier, small group photo tours in Patagonia, Namibia, Canada, Greenland & New Zealand.
Website: https://beautysurroundsyou.com
The world is full of beauty. Let me take you there!
Montreal, Canada 🍁
Richard McColl @londomomposino.bsky.social Journalist, Writer, Podcaster, PhD, Analyst and Public Speaker: longtime Brit in Colombia.
Host of the Colombia Calling podcast and the LatinNews podcast. Words in Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy, BBC, CNN, WSJ, Daily Beast...
https://colombiacalling.co
Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social Book recs, reviews, and news. Supporting independent booksellers as a Bookshop affiliate. Thanks for helping us help local bookstores. 🙏🏼 #BooksMatter
https://bookshop.org/shop/matteristbooks https://matteristbooks.substack.com/
https://matteristbooks.com/
Meera Subramanian @meerasub.bsky.social 🌏Journalist. Author. Earthling.
🍃 A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis (March 2026)
🖋️ Bylines: New Yorker, Nature, VQR, Orion contributing ed.
📚 Creative Nonfiction prof at Sewanee School of Letters
🌿 www.meerasub.org
Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social Professing science journalism, directing NYU's SHERP. 62-time loser, 1-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Probably off chasing 🦋 somewhere.
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
The Knowledge is Power Library @knowledgelibrary.bsky.social With book challenges on the rise in these times, knowledge & books are more important than ever - starting with books "they" don't want you to read.
Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social I wrote Sony's getTV blog for 6 years, created Game Show Network's blog, was an arts reporter for NYC weekly The Villager, and have contributed to Slate, 4 books, and many blogs and podcasts. Currently digital marketing for NYC nonprofit New Plaza Cinema.
@ThomasGrantBruso @thomasgrantbruso.bsky.social Storyteller. Book reviewer for Press-Republican. Animal lover. Book: nerd, eater, fanatic. Ingenuity is the fire in my belly. ❤️🏳️🌈📚 🚫 DMs. #writerslift #writers https://www.amazon.com/stores/Thomas-Grant-Bruso/author/B00OGMHLW8?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=
Chad @xuest.bsky.social Just another 🐈⬛ owning, 📖 reading, 🎮 playing 🏳️🌈 🐻 who loves Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pokemon, and Korra
📍Chicago
Instagram.com/chad8513
Australian Book Lovers @australianbooks.bsky.social Celebrating and supporting Australian #writers and #readers. A free platform full of Australian authored books. And a fabulous free podcast hosted by @VeronicaStrachan.bsky.social & @writerLaurieBell.bsky.social
#ReadMoreAussieBooks #AusWrites #booksky
IF a Stone @dougray7.bsky.social Author of Timberline (https://timberlinethenovel.com) "I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point -- race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.' ~ Molly Ivins
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Verso La Luce Books @versolalucebooks.bsky.social Verso La Luce is a book-lover's home. We welcome free thought, embrace creativity, demand kindness, and love freely.
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T.E. Bean @tebean.bsky.social lit-sci-fi novel ♾️ 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙀 𝙉𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝙀𝙔𝙀𝙎 ♾️ arriving Nov 2026 from Black Spring Press (UK) + via Simon & Schuster (US/Can) rep: Katharine Sands
☆ 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀, 𝙏𝙀𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙕𝙀𝘿 (Beacon Press) Autumn 2027 https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/T-E-Bean/269958332
The Bad Apple @thebadappleid.bsky.social Yo mama so old, she invented wheels.
You know Etsy? Yeah, I've a store there: https://thebadappleid.etsy.com.
Or You Could Make a Donation @fjakaon.bsky.social It's not for you, Jen.
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Zane @moochie6us.bsky.social 68 y.o. male, Slower Lower Delaware, need to be more of an avid reader 💙📚 📚💙 #BookSky 📖📚 ➡️ I'm doing my best. Happily partnered🥰 🌈🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇬 I'm a proud peacetime Army vet! Absolutely No DMs**
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MJ Beauchamp @mjnicefield.bsky.social Montréal, QC
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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social Hello, writing community! We are the beta wing for the Darling Axe. Follow us for graphic writing prompts—all art is by actual humans. Find us here: https://tinyurl.com/earthlingbeta 🪓🪓
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Deformed Lunchbox @deformedlunchbox.bsky.social 🍱-WELCOME TO THE LUNCHBOX-🥗
🩸We make horror films🩸
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Horror Makes Us Happy @horrormakesushappy.com We (lightly) psychologically profile creators in the horror biz to uncover the REAL reasons people love horror. https://linktr.ee/horrormakesushappy
⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social Art and trivia for headcases like you
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David Cornford @davidcornford.com Epic dark fantasy author and connoisseur of chilli, red wine and rock music. Get The Forge novella FREE
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#epicdarkfantasy #fantasy #indie #booksky
Slasher Film | Horror Movie @slasherfilm2024.bsky.social WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER NOW on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebbrwb6f (Warning: 18+)
Movie coming soon. Calling all #HORROR fans.
#horrorcommunity
Ottawa, ON, Canada 🇨🇦
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@majlh77.bsky.social @majlh77.bsky.social Music geek. Healthcare worker and nature lover, because we all need a good life. Author of “Samantha’s Voice.” The young girl who tackles the fentanyl crisis and kicks some terrorist ass!!
Sarah Guppy @shortsedinburgh.bsky.social Writer, nature lover, swimmer
Alberto Pupo @authoralbertopupo.bsky.social I am an independent fantasy author https://albertopupo.wixsite.com/alberto-pupo-author
Grafton Carter 🏳️🌈📖 @graftoncarter.bsky.social Grafton Carter is an author of authentic, sexy, and gloriously queer storytelling, crafting heartfelt, captivating MM (male/male) romance novels that explore themes of love, identity, and self-discovery.
Authentic, Sexy, and Gloriously Queer!
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com Novel development & editing services. Our editors are industry experts and award-winning writers. Take your manuscript to the next level.
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Chase Connor Books @chaseconnorbooks.bsky.social Author of the Head Rock Harbor Mystery series, A Surplus of Light, Between Enzo & the Universe, and more! The avocado of gay men. Dreaded Morning Person™. Offensive Queer™. Storyteller.
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sarahblackburn @sarahblackburn.bsky.social I love reading books especially crime / mystery / thrillers and looking after my failed foster / adopted rescue Staffie Domino. xx
Sweat soaked Selina 🥵🔥☀️🌶️ @selina3sticks.bsky.social Litigator and ex-public defender. Lifelong Atlantan, Seinfeld fan, mystery buff, chief of staff for 1 daughter, a German shepherd and a large dilute tortoiseshell cat.
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& inspirational & mystery books, British🎦&📺 Film Noir, movies older than me, opera, symphony & 🩰
Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Kristy Gardner - Queer Sci-Fi & Horror Author @kristygardner.bsky.social Bi writer & reader of much SFF ★ THE STARS IN THEIR EYES ★ THE DARKEST STARS ★ THE STARS INSIDE US ★ Fuck AI ★ She/Her 🏳️🌈🖤🌟
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Pure Nonfiction @purenonfiction.bsky.social Podcast interviewing documentary filmmakers.
Everything Nonfiction @nonfictionreviews.bsky.social My new home for EverythingNonfiction.com where you will find reviews on nonfiction books, films, documentaries, podcasts, and VR gaming.
Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social Ideas that matter, storytelling that lasts. Award-winning fiction and nonfiction. https://www.penguin.com/penguin-press-overview/
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social Bestselling, award winning writer, editor, film producer, podcaster, and showrunner. Board of Directors for Scares That Care charity.
Mary Roach @maryroach.bsky.social Nonfiction author, science goober. Stiff, Bonk, Fuzz, Grunt, Packing for Mars, etc. 
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