Alyssa Miller 🦄👩✈️ @alyssam-infosec.com Hacker, CISO, and commercial pilot. Certified Bluesky Elder. Author and International Speaker, Chief advocate of #DoBetterBeBetter
Compassion and empathy are traits in short supply but necessary to make this world a better place.
alyssasec.com
nsqe @nsqe.bsky.social Head of Privacy @Incode. Board member @ Engine.is. Does the infosec law stuff too. Queer. Dorky. Lawyer, not really searching for redemption. @nsqe basically everywhere.
Be less toxic on bsky challenge, difficulty level pretty easy actually
Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS DFIR at Dragos, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts my own. Enby. 🏳️🌈
Bee 🌙 @avoidbee.bsky.social They/Them
🐸 Professional Frog 🐸
✨ Story Artist, Animator, Illustrator ✨
KCAI 21’ | Sheridan Computer Animation 25’
Currently a storyboard lead on a short film coming out in November
Links: https://avoidbee.carrd.co/
Tags: #oc | #art | #sketchbook
Allen Childers- Artist & Illustrator @chilidraws.bsky.social
He/Him, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Ally, /|\ , Fantasy Artist, Art Educator K-5, Army Veteran, Geekdad, Booknerd, TTRPG alt: @SpellhawksPress
👉 childersartstudios@gmail.com
https://www.allenchildersarts.com
https://lnk.bio/allenchildersarts
📍Pittsburg, Kansas
Jennifer Dionisio @jenniferdionisio.com Freelance artist and illustrator
Clients include: Criterion, BFI, STUDIOCANAL, Arrow, BBC, Penguin, MIT
Check out my website for more info & my art shop: jenniferdionisio.com
Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social https://www.esthervanhulsen.com/
Professional wildlife and paleo artist, working mainly in traditional media
Assignments include natural history museums worldwide, Nature Magazine, National Geographic and more than 25 books published.
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater 
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social THE CASTLE! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
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
Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
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
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social I write books, films and make podcasts.
Happily mediocre
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
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.
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
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 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard
Books read: 89/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
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
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social Writes epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. She/her. All opinions absolutely my own. For more, see www.julietemckenna.com
Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Gillian Redfearn @gillianredfearn.bsky.social Deputy Publisher, Gollancz. Hugo nominated editor of diverse and original voices. Chaotic neutral. She/her. Editor by day, supervillain by night . . .
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk 
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Author FRHistS
WW1/WW2/20thC Royalty
Runs @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
@15minutebook.club 🎧
www.istoriatravel.org ✈️
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷
https://achurchill.substack.com
Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social New novel WIFE out now, Meanwhile: The Exhibitionist, Almost English, When We Were Bad, gardener
Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelance SFFH editor. Commissioning for The Broken Binding. Living in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
Robin Hobb @robinhobb.bsky.social Writer of fantasy and SF. Gardener. Chicken tender. Dog Person but cat friendly. Washington state USA. Old and getting older. Stay off my lawn! No AI ever. All posts from me.
David H Headley @davidhheadley.bsky.social M.D. DHH Literary Agency, Goldsboro Books & Capital Crime.
https://linktr.ee/davidhheadley
Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Oxford & Dorset. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery
Bella Pagan @bellapagan.bsky.social Publisher @UKTor. Love fiction with a speculative spin, science fiction & fantasy. Wordsmith. Professional geek. ‘Cat person’. Info: https://shorturl.at/rRID9
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Deb Harkness @debharkness.bsky.social Feels too much. Never enough children, islands, mourners, gossips & vegetables. Warms the stars. Essentially a spy. She/her. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 🧙♀️SHADOW OF NIGHT 🌚 THE BOOK OF LIFE 📖 TIME'S CONVERT 🕰️ THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE🐦⬛ THE FALCON AND THE ROSE 🥀
Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social #Tolkien expert, Professor of #Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow. Substack: https://dimitrafimi.substack.com
Website: http://dimitrafimi.com
Paul Kane @paulkane.bsky.social Award-winning, #1 bestselling author/editor of over 170 books, inc the sellout Hooded Man, Lunar, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Cursed and Her Last Secret, Her Husband’s Grave and The Family Lie as PL Kane.
http://www.shadow-writer.co.uk
Mark Lawrence @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social Fantasy author.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/marklawrenceauthor
Marie O’Regan @marieoregan.bsky.social Writer, editor of anthologies, managing editor of Absinthe Books, PS Publishing’s novella imprint. Married to @paulkane.bsky.social Fuelled by tea.
Represented by @megdavis.bsky.social of https://ki-agency.co.uk/
marieoregan.net
Philip Reeve @philipreeve.bsky.social Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night" @jamesbennett.bsky.social British Fantasy Award-Winning author 🏳️🌈
The Ben Garston Novels. The Dark magazine.
"Mother of Night" March 2027 from Evil Twin (Zando Books)
Web: https://james-bennett.org/
'Inventive and vivid'
Publishers Weekly
🚫 AI
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
Sophie Hannah @sophiehannah.bsky.social Bestselling crime writer
Coach for writers (dreamauthorcoaching.com)
Host of ‘How to Hold a Grudge’ podcast
‘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 📚⚡️
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social I write about food, mostly. Did I tell you I live in France now?
deborarobertson.substack.com
James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social I write stuff
He/Him
https://jamesoswald.co.uk
Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social Writer, singer songwriter and sparkly little optimist in a dark, dark world... Six-times Sunday Times Bestseller, vlogger, podcaster and million-copy-seller. Also daft!
Jules Swain @thereadingpara.bsky.social Paramedic/Team Leader (views my own)
Runner (including crazy distance runner!)
Book reviewer #TheReadingParamedic™️
UK Book Blogger of the Year 2023 🏆
All my links here: https://linktr.ee/thereadingparamedic
Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths.bsky.social Crime-writer 
William Hussey @whusseyauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author of the SCOTT JERICHO thrillers (KILLING JERICHO; JERICHO’S DEAD; BURYING JERICHO) and YA novels, including THE BOY I LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS, and THE OUTRAGE among others
https://linktr.ee/williamhusseyauthor
Sarah Hilary @sarahhilary.bsky.social THE DROWNING PLACE | ‘Happy Valley, but haunted’ Anna Mazzola | Out now from Harvill | ND. She/her | www.sarahhilary.com
C.J. Tudor - Author @cjtudor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author - The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne, The Other People, The Burning Girls (Netflix), The Drift and The Gathering. Dog lover. Gin drinker. Tattoo enthusiast. Disturbingly cheery. Serenity Falls out Sept 10, 2026!
Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social Maltese born, Edinburgh novelist. ASD. Lapsed journalist. PhD St Andrews. Writes as Jonathan Grimwood, Jack G & Jon Courtenay G. Owns cat that’s a drug addict.
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com Books like The English Monster. Podcasts at The Curiously Specific Book Club
John Jarrold @johnj.bsky.social Literary agent for SF, Fantasy and Horror, after 15 years as a publisher in London.
http://www.johnjarrold.co.uk/
Val Mcdermid @val-mcdemid01.bsky.social Author of Crime fiction 💫
Joanne - Portobello Book Blog @portybelle.bsky.social Scottish #bookblogger, chatting about the #books I've loved. Nature watcher, keen cook, always on the go and love living by the sea!
www.portobellobookblog.com
Linda Hill @lindasbookbag.bsky.social Book blogger at https://lindasbookbag.com and fanatical tea drinker
X Lindahill50Hill Insta ljh50hill 📚❤️
Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social Sunday Times and NYT best selling novelist and screenwriter. FROM UNTIL FOREVER (UK) coming 3/7/25 Also Stella Hayward THE GOOD BOY coming 8/7/25 (US) Loves Brontes. Loves Horror. Loves dogs. #ADHD #Dyslexic she/her. Supports 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️rights. Fan of equality.
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Elizabeth Fremantle @lizfremantle.bsky.social I wrote a book, QUEENS GAMBIT, they made a film, FIREBRAND
DISOBEDIENT on Artemisia Gentileschi – HWA Gold Crown winner
SINNERS out now
Rep: Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown
Londoner, dogs, films, Spurs, HWA 🏳️🌈
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/lizfremantle
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.
Julie Crisp @julieacrisp.bsky.social Literary Agent of fantasy and science fiction. Reps lovely authors including John Gwynne, Devin Madson and Kell Woods. Reads a lot, edits more. Red pen usually in hand. 
George Morley @georgeisediting.bsky.social George as in The Famous Five. Books, nice dinners, flowers, cats and rage against the state of things. Erstwhile publishing person.
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
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.
Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author from Pembrokeshire, Wales 🏴 www.tonyriches.com Visit my #Writing #Blog The Writing Desk https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/ #Podcast https://tonyriches.podbean.com/ #Tudors #Elizabethan #HistoricalFiction
Katie Espiner @kesp.bsky.social Publisher
Awais Khan @awaiskhan.bsky.social Award-winning author of 4 novels. Published by Simon & Schuster, Orenda Books and Hera Books | TED Speaker | Founder of The Writing Institute | Represented by Annette Crossland.
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. 
Nydia Hetherington @nydiawriter.bsky.social Novelist. Sycorax out 27/02/25 pre-order now published by Quercus | A Girl Made of Air published by Quercus | Bowie fan | Chronic illness: RA | Cat friend. 
Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social Author of queer dark novels, aka Victoria Hawthorne. Non-practicing English person living in Scotland. Owned by golden retrievers. Views mine. she/her
https://linktr.ee/vikkipatis
Liz Fenwick @lizfenwick.bsky.social Novelist and cat servant
David Hewson @davidhewson.com Books n stuff. Venice, Rome, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Dover. In 2025... back to Venice. Stay tuned.
www.davidhewson.com
AJ West Author @ajwestauthor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling novelist: THE BETRAYAL OF THOMAS TRUE #AlwaysTogether 🦚 📚 Broadcaster 🏳️🌈 Homosexual
Linktr.ee/ajwest
Emma Darwin @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social Writes fiction & non-fiction, teaches, blogs @ This Itch of Writing https://linktr.ee/emmadarwinwriter
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
James Barclay @barculator.bsky.social Author, actor, gamer. Lover of dogs, sport and scuba diving. Avid follower of Ipswich Town FC.
'One of the Godfathers of modern British fantasy.'
Zoë Somerville @zoesomerville.bsky.social Author, teacher, editor.
From Norwich, live in Bath (I like a pretty city)
Novels The Marsh House (2022) and The Night of the Flood (2020).
zoesomerville.com
Amanda Geard @amandageard.bsky.social Author of R&J pick THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE and THE MOON GATE, lover of big books 📚 THE GLASS KEY coming May ‘26 👀 Agent: AM Heath
www.amandageard.com
@mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social Novelist: ANY HUMAN POWER Mytho-political thriller. Boudica: Dreaming, A Treachery of Spies, winner: McIlvanney, shortlisted: Orange, Edgar, Saltire
#Thrutopian narratives: toward a future we'd be proud to leave behind
Podcaster @AccidentalGods
#LBTQIAA+
Lucy Inglis @lucyinglis.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin.