Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social Author/editor/'cultural historian'/carer, S Wales, probably autistic:
NEW BOOK!: Into the Groove, OUT NOW.
Textcast archive: https://firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
Email: whenisbirths@yahoo.com
ko-fi.com/firstlastanything
Caroline Venezia @caroline-venezia.bsky.social Happily retired, reading, eating, drinking, snoozing. Author's wife, cat's mother, she/her.
🇪🇺 Still European, proud new Italian 🇮🇹
🏳️🌈 Ally of all good-hearted people 🏳️⚧️
Pamela Petro @pamelapetro.bsky.social Writer and artist treading water in the Atlantic between New England (live there) and Wales (love it there). Books include The Long Field — a Best Travel Book of 2021 — Travels in an Old Tongue, Slow Breath of Stone and Sitting up with the Dead.
Waterstones Wolverhampton @waterstoneswton.bsky.social Wolverhampton's bookshop. A friendly community of book lovers on Victoria Street. Follow us for news of books, offers, and events! 📚
13-15 Victoria Street, Wolverhampton,
WV1 3NP.
Tel: 01902 427219
Email: wolverhampton@waterstones.com
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Gary Dorr - TARDIS Cabinets @tardiscabinets.bsky.social Cabinetmaker | Founder of TARDIS Cabinets. From Llangyfelach, Wales to Myrtle Creek, Oregon. Crafting boxes & cabinets inspired by the Doctor’s blue box.
An old man - living alone - building boxes.
www.tardiscabinets.shop
National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social A gift beyond words.
National Book Tokens and Bookily gift cards can be spent in bookshops and online.
https://www.nationalbooktokens.com
OXFAM, Castle Street, Swansea. @oxfamcastlestreet.bsky.social Oxfam Shop selling books / music / DVDs / stamps / random stuff...
Also a #ShopOfSanctuary, a creative hub and a campaigning base.
Open 10-5 Monday-Saturday. 11-3 Sunday.
Waterstones Ormskirk @waterstonesorm.bsky.social We are located in the historic town of Ormskirk, Lancashire. A small but mighty shop. Dogs allowed, but well-behaved owners only. Posts by Bookseller Hannah 📚
David Frankel @daveyfrankel.bsky.social Prize-dodging writer of stories. Here despite popular demand. 'Forgetting is How We Survive' pub'd Saltpublishing.bsky.social . Shortlisted @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Chapbooks @nightjarpress.bsky.social & @salopress.bsky.social .
www.davidfrankel..co.uk
Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social Author of the Nathan Sutherland Venetian mysteries. Currently investigating "The Magus of Sicily" with Nedda and Calogero.
Here for Italy, music, old horror films and prog rock!
https://linktr.ee/pgjonesvenice
https://philipgwynnejones.com
Gemma Parry @gemmaparry4.bsky.social Freelance Journalist and Qualified Mental Health Nurse | Ex BBCWales & WalesOnline NPT reporter | Wales Media Awards Winner | Words MailOnline, Nursing Times & others | #cardifftrained
Swansea via Merthyr Tydfil
Waterstones Coleraine @wat-cole.bsky.social 
Karen Bultiauw @karenbultiauw.bsky.social Unrepenting book pusher & Howard Ashman fangirl. Writer. Chocolate connoisseur. She/her. Views own.
https://karenbultiauw.com/
Waterstones Doncaster @waterstonesdon.bsky.social Updates from the booksellers and baristas in Waterstones Doncaster.
Ali Hancock @alihancock.bsky.social Nerd with too many hats. Real ones and metaphorical ones.
Comedy writer, comedian, voice actor and miscellaneous artist.
https://www.alihancock.co.uk/
Gareth L Evans @garethllevans.bsky.social Swansea boy at large in London. Lawyer (partially retired). Public law. Mostly skeeting on music/lit/culture. Sometimes church and a few photos
Annie Garthwaite @anniegarthwaite.bsky.social King's Mother, Times Book of the Month July 2024.
@VikingBooksUK Agent @immmy @marjacqscripts
http://linktr.ee/AnnieGarthwaite
Chris Lloyd @chrislloydauthor.bsky.social Author. The Eddie Giral Occupation series. Winner of the HWA Gold Crown for Historical Fiction. Twice shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger.
Website: https://www.chrislloydauthor.com
Grumpy Old Books @grumpyoldbooks.bsky.social Loves a book review😁👍🏼📚. Check out our site at https://grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2020/10/intro.html?spref=tw&m=1
Also Cymro
Waterstones Argyle Street @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social Three storeys of books to discover in the heart of Glasgow 📚 with a charming cafe and exciting programme of events.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Waterstones Fort Kinnaird @waterstonesfortk.bsky.social Bookshop and Cafe in busy Fort Kinnaird! Browse our shelves with a coffee in your hand from the mezzanine café. Pick up a card for a special occasion, to go with a book or gift you have chosen from our diverse selection. 
Lesley Parr @lesleyparr.bsky.social Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
Gollancz @gollancz.bsky.social Gollancz is the sci-fi, fantasy & horror list of @orionbooks.bsky.social ✨
The UK’s No. 1 SFF publisher by TCM sales since 1927 🏆
linktr.ee/Gollancz
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Bonnie Helen Hawkins @bonniehawkinsart.bsky.social Illustrator & Artist. I love stories, poetry, films and food. | Soc_of_Authors | Currently illustrating Under Milk Wood | Dylan Thomas. https://www.bhhawkins.com
His Royal Huwness 🏴🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social Author(struggling), HUWmourist, poet
Some of my work at huwmilitypress.wordpress.com
With Marx(Groucho) on clubs & Isms
Ex: butter juggler, physicist, systems analyst
Future: ?
Working class
No Bitcoins, Sex, Fascists
NEVER AGAIN
Don't follow I'm lost
Jellybooks Ltd @jellybooks.bsky.social Book candy for readers, software candy for publishers and bookshops.
Waterstones Guildford @w-stonesguildford.bsky.social I am a bookshop. In Guildford. Come buy some books. Bring your dog.
Waterstones Bath @waterstonesbath.bsky.social Our beautiful shop is located in the centre of Bath and has the largest range of books in the city, spread over 3 floors.
Open 9-6 Mon-Sat (Cafe 9-5.30)
11 - 5 Sunday.
https://www.waterstones.com/bookshops/bath
email: Bath@Waterstones.com
Grub Street Publishing @grubstreetuk.bsky.social Indie publisher of scrumptiously delicious cookery books and fascinating military-aviation titles ready for take-off. News, events and recipes on our website!
www.grubstreet.co.uk
Elaine Canning @elaine-canning.bsky.social Literary prize director; writer and editor.
Belfast, Ireland and Swansea, Wales.
Books ~ travel ~ languages.
The Sandstone City (novel, Aderyn Press) and Maggie O’Farrell essays (Bloomsbury)
https://www.elainecanning.co.uk
Rhys Williams @rhyswilliamsnews.bsky.social Swansea-dwelling Wales Reporter for ITV National News
Posting mainly about: Wales, Wrexham AFC, Rugby and Music
Not great at social media but trying to improve #content
Rhys.Williams@itn.co.uk
Petit Dictionnaire @petitdictionnaire.bsky.social Divorce warrior, uncloseted romantic, language teacher, bookish mum of three boys. From 🇳🇱 living in 🇫🇷. Definitely not single.
Studying 🇸🇪. Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️.
Hannah Sheppard @hannahlitagent.bsky.social Founder and Literary Agent at www.HS-LA.com @HSLANews.bsky.social
#WeNeedDiverseBooks.
Story lover. Vintage typewriter obsessed. Feminist. She/Her/Ms
https://linktr.ee/hannah_litagent- B bookseller emma @bookselleremma.bsky.social
Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com 📚Book lover & whatnot📚
BarnesandNoble.com
Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴
Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social Book distributors for US & UK indie publishers including fiction, art, graphic novels, and everything in-between! Impudently independent since 1984 & employee-owned since 2022. 📚
https://linktr.ee/turnaround_books?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAab4W9C8mGvdr0Z
CraigBookwyrm 📖📚 @craigbookwyrm.bsky.social Girl dad, husband, cat dad (He/Him)
Avid reader of mostly SFFH
Humanist
Vote Green 💚
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
🚫Gen AI
All thoughts are my own and subject to change, based on reasoned arguments and new evidence.
Honno Press @honnopress.bsky.social Established in 1986 Honno is a non-for-profit press with a mission to champion the voices of Welsh Women writers. We publish award-winning fiction and non-fiction in English and Welsh.
Atlantic Books @atlanticbooks.bsky.social Independent British publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Also the home of imprints Corvus Books, Allen & Unwin UK, and Grove Press UK.
Sign up for our newsletter: https://atlantic-books.co.uk/
Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow, Amgueddfa Cymru • Antiquarian book collector • Rheibio'n Gymraeg • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) • Represented by jonathanclowes.co.uk
folklorewales.com
Terrie Chilvers @cowfishdreams.bsky.social Children's Author ⭐ MICHAEL THE AMAZING MIND-READING SAUSAGE DOG, illustrated by @mrtimdraws ⭐ KOALAS IN CAPES! illustrated by David O'Connell ⭐SNAILS OF THE UNEPECTED illusted by Brenda Figueroa
Website: terriechilvers.com
Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social Author 🐺 Poet. English teacher ♥️ Writing for pleasure. Folklore of Sweden 🇸🇪 and Wales. 🏴 Host of ‘First Draft’ at Bro Radio 📻 Co-founder of These3Streams arts festival ✍️ MA in creative writing from Swansea. www.sarahpersson.com
Divia @thelifeofdivia.bsky.social 📚 7 years publishing experience in book sales, marketing, publicity and rights - open to opportunities
🎖️London Book Fair Trailblazer Shortlistee 2022
All opinions are my own
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 92/100
📚
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
https://linktr.ee/bigbeardedbookseller
Julie (Mae) Cohen @juliecohen.bsky.social Author. Immigrant. Queer. Owned by dog. PhD student University of Reading.
Usually pissed off, but like in a funny way. Latest novels: BODY COUNT (UK), PARADISE (UK), EAT SLAY LOVE (US). Next novel: THE BEST OF ENEMIES
Juliet Butler @bookliterati.bsky.social Hi, I’m a book blogger and avid reader who loves talking about books. I am also obsessed with my four Cocker Spaniels who are my constant companions.
Juliet Greenwood @julietgreenwood.bsky.social Historical novelist with Storm Publishing. Dogwalker in the rain. Rep'd Judith Murdoch.
'The Last Train from Paris' 'The Secret Daughter of Venice'
https://geni.us/290-al-aut-am
Kate Barker @katebarker.bsky.social Literary agent. Always looking for something interesting. www.katebarker.net.
Kate Kenzie @kakenzie101.bsky.social Author of A Blend of Magic, blogger, dreamer and book addict. Usually found wearing snuggly socks drinking tea.
Creator of the Enchanted Emporium's witches 🎃📚🧙🫖👻
https://linktr.ee/katekenzie
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Kate Mosse @katemossewriter.bsky.social Writer of novels, history, plays, ghost stories ~ Interviewer & Performer ~ Founder Director Women’s Prizes ~ Trustee British Library
Find me at www.katemosse.co.uk
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Angela C Nurse @angelacnurseauthor.bsky.social Crime fiction author and Writing Craft Coach
Www.Angelacnurse.com
Louise Kennedy @louisekennedy.bsky.social Writer, galoot, sunscreen aficionado
north by northwest
Louise Mangos @louisemangos.bsky.social Author of suspense, satirical & historical novels
Stories in 20+ anthologies
MA crime writing UEA
Wild swimmer
Skate skier
Cyclist
Fizz drinker
Karen Louise Hollis @karenlouisehollis.bsky.social Writer, reader, book blogger. Loves gymnastics, Doctor Who, sewing, cats, the Royal Family, reading, writing, photography, animals, nature.
Hattie Grunewald @hatteatime.bsky.social Literary Agent at The Blair Partnership
Sam Humphreys @sjheditor.bsky.social Editorial consultant and freelance editor with 20+ years in-house experience including PRH & Pan Macmillan: sjheditor@gmail.com
Likes: books, birds, babies, sun, v weak coffee
Collects: doors, dogs, clutter
Opinions: mine
Pronouns: she/her
Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social Poet, Editor (samueltongue.com) and Co-Director of Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat kalewatercottage.co.uk
Sam Baker @theothersambaker.bsky.social One of the millions of journalists who’s defected to Substack and started a podcast. https://theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
Emma-Claire Wilson @ecwilsonwriter.bsky.social ✍️ Author 📚Reader 👩🏫Mentor
#ThisChildofMine and #WhenYouWereMine OUT NOW
@AvonBooksUK / @KNLitAgency
http://linktr.ee/ecwilsonauthor
Founder : The Glass House Online Magazine.
Claire Hennessy @chennessybooks.bsky.social Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator.
Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press).
Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/
Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/
Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
Sophie Claire @sophieclaire.bsky.social Writes contemporary romance with a French connection.🇫🇷 Loves patchwork quilting. 🧵
She/her. RNA, HodderBooks.
Sophieclaire.co.uk
John Alex Taylor @johnunworded.bsky.social Author, Apples in the Dark series. Contemporary fiction drawn from my own experience of epilepsy. Ex-social care worker, believer in people. South Wales is my home. Returning Cymraeg learner 🏴
https://linktr.ee/wordswithjohn
Alex Brown @alexbrownauthor.bsky.social Million copy No.1 bestselling author ❤️ | 16 books in 23 countries 📚 | Partial to a French Martini 🍸
www.alexbrownauthor.com
Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social Crime writer among other strange things.
Sarah Bennett @sarahbennettauthor.bsky.social I write romance stories set in gorgeous, escapist locations. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sarah-Bennett/e/B01N6J6ZE1
Out 28 August - The Perfect Gift
I like cricket 🏏, The Wheel of Time ☸️ , Romance books, podcasts, crochet 🧶 and big beers 🍺
Sarah Ward @sarahwardcrime.bsky.social Crime writer and storyteller. Also Rhiannon Ward. 🏴 13th book, Grave Intent, out in June with Canelo. It’s books, churches, genealogy, knitting & cats.
Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social Writer, reader. Debut novel 'The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands' published by W&N (UK) and Flatiron Books (US). https://linktr.ee/sarahbrookswriting
Sarah Collins @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social Commissioning editor and journalist at Prospect Magazine. Writer for The Week, The Guardian, The i paper etc
https://authory.com/SarahCollins
Agent: @annapallai.bsky.social
Signal: sarahcollinswrites.94
Sarah Franklin @sarahefranklin.bsky.social Writer (SHELTER, HOW TO BELONG, other shorter things). Teach publishing & storytelling at Oxford Brookes Uni. Sometime event host, book reviewer, general enthusiast. 
betty writes stuff @bettywritesstuff.bsky.social Ex-comedy, comms and Milkybar connoisseur. Musings on books, culture, cats, and having Big Fridge Energy.
Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social (she/her) Author of Last One At The Party and Love & Other Human Errors. Lover of five word titles 😊
Mary Picken @bethsy.bsky.social Book blogger at Liveanddeadly.net. Book fairy @bethsy everywhere. 
Mark Stay @markstay.bsky.social Author, screenwriter and podcaster. https://markstaywrites.com/all-the-links/
Mark Brownless @markbrownless.bsky.social Horror and psychological thriller author.
Witch, The Shadow Man and The Hand of an Angel available at Amazon.
Whispers available 2025 (that's the cat out of the bag!).
Animal wrangler. Dad and husband when not in cricket season.
markbrownlessauthor.com
Mark Rutterford @markrutterford.bsky.social Writer-Performer.
Stories. Love. Props.
Badgers. Lucy. Daylight and fresh air.
Mark West @markewest.bsky.social Dad, husband, son, brother - I write thrillers, I read, I watch films and I walk a lot. I also have a deep love for trashy horror from the 70s and 80s (paperbacks and films).
My latest novel, TO SEE TOO MUCH, is out now!
https://mybook.to/ToSeeTooMuch 
The Bishop @nomuskplease.bsky.social Education, Lecturer, Councillor. Interests are many but specifically are : Early modern political history ( print, Parliament and Succession) , London history, politics and the natural world. West Brom Fan. Not in any particular order. #Skystorians
Melissa Roske @melissaroske.bsky.social Mah Jongg-playing, Twizzler-loving, NYC-dwelling #kidlit author
📗Kat Greene Comes Clean
✡️ Coming of Age: 13 B’Nai Mitzvah Stories
✏️ Blogger for the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors
https://www.melissaroske.com
Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social London. Book-related (sells, reads, hoards, writes). Macaroni cheese. Trans rights are human rights. Fix your hearts or die. Redhaired stepchild. Proud slop despiser. Punch up.
https://www.moonflowerbooks.co.uk/news
https://www.thebksagency.com/lucyfisher
Lucy Waverley @so-last-century.bsky.social Writes, reads, looks at the pictures.
Shortlisted Cheshire Novel Prize ‘23.
MSt Lit & Arts Oxford ContEd.
IG @history_is_so_last_century
Lucy Mitchell Author @lucymitchauth.bsky.social Writes romance 💘 5 published books. Always on the look out for cake 🍰 Loves good books, her 3 cats & over excited dog
https://linktr.ee/LucyMitchAuth
Lucy Nichol @lucynichol.bsky.social Writer. Flunked punk. Serial catastrophiser. 📚 WHEN SALLY KILLED HARRY (03/25 HarperCollins) PARKLIFE, THE 27 CLUB, NO WORRIES IF NOT! (HarperCollins) SNOWFLAKE (Hachette). Rep: Jo Bell, Bell Lomax Moreton
Newcastle via Hull
https://linktr.ee/LucyNichol
Katy Moran @katyjamoran.bsky.social Creativity, imagination, the past, material culture and community. I write historical fiction and work in heritage. Welsh borders. Views mine. She/her
Liz Fielding @lizfielding.bsky.social First there was award-winning romance, now there's award winning crime. Maybridge Murder Mysteries.
Lizzy Dent @lizzydent.bsky.social Author with Penguin Random House
Liz Mistry @lizmistry.bsky.social Crime Fiction Author, Avid Reader and reviewer rep'd by Lorella Belli Literary Agency
hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social they/them and mayhem
writing kidlit and romcoms. queer disabled joy always. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️🏴 audhd
📚 Reality Check, Make You Mine This Christmas, Under the Mistletoe With You, Hits Different, Vivi Conway
www.lizziehuxleyjones.com
https://linktr.ee/littlehux