Chris Scotland @scotlandchris1.bsky.social Bibliophile. Grecophile. Expect books and felines. Countdown to Island life has resumed...
Iain Lowson @embraagain.bsky.social Writer what done 26 years of Star Wars. Still writing for videogames. Working on more of my own stories too, not just playing with other people's toys.
He/him, LG*B*QT+, ADHD, hazel eyes, and no AI.
www.linkedin.com/in/iainlowson
The Crime Writers' Association @thecwa.bsky.social The CWA promotes, supports and celebrates crime writing and writers of crime fiction and non-fiction 🔪🩸👮🏽♀️📚
linktr.ee/crimewritersassociation
Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education
Miles Nipper @milesbsn.bsky.social Bassoon and Contrabassoonist, Venetophile. guidl Musicians Walking Tours.
www.thewanderingwinds.com
Independent Company #232 ex Royal Signals
Author James Fuller @authorjfuller.bsky.social Best Selling multi-genre author.
Cemetery Caretaker, and fitness guy on the side.
One day, I'll write the story you'll all remember me for.
Find my books here and everywhere else books are sold:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-Fuller/author/B006TNSNSS
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
Mark Tedesco @authormarktedesco.bsky.social A writer of historical fiction set in ancient Rome & Greece — and a blog about our adventures in Tuscany. Splitting time with California. Sempre in cerca della prossima storia.
Website: marktedesco.com
Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com Award-winning author of THE COSMONAUT on shelves summer 2027, Crooked Lane Books
Links: https://linktr.ee/kirkraff
Co-host of the podcast @badlitfriends.bsky.social
with @thecrumpet.bsky.social
"Villain, I have done thy mother"
@garv1003.bsky.social @garv1003.bsky.social 
A. J. Payler @ajpayler.bsky.social Author/musician A. J. Payler has published 5 novels, 2 short story collections, & 6 albums of original music to date as well as opened for Silkworm & Schizophonics, among others.
Visit ajpayler.com for more.
Bernie Twomey @mbtwomey.bsky.social Loving this place. It’s like the old Twitter. New retiree - many interests 🚫 DMs 🚫Crypto. 🇮🇪supporting 🇵🇸 and 🇺🇦and 🏳️⚧️/🏳️🌈ally.
typo @waspfactory.bsky.social storyteller
Still life @brynteg.bsky.social 
Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social #NotYourMamasMarthaStewart | Journalism l Politics l Tech + AI | Former Chef |
Connecticut + Massachusetts I
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 🏳️⚧️
Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK
www.mostlybooktalk.com
Evan Graham @evangraham.bsky.social He/Him. Science fiction novelist and purveyor of dread.
Tantalus Depths available now: https://amzn.to/3LUFDRo
Lilja Sigurðardóttir @liljawriter.bsky.social Award winning Icelandic author of “The Reykjavik Noir Trilogy” and “Arora Investigates” series. New book: BLACK AS DEATH - out now!
https://linktr.ee/liljawriter
Tim Ewins @timewins.bsky.social We Are Animals
Tiny Pieces of Enid
Both out now (both books)
Pension Gangster out in March (also a book)
Clare Pooley @clarepooley.bsky.social Bestselling author, speaker and blogger
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 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Rachel Howzell Hall @rachelhowzell.bsky.social OUT NOW: FOG & FURY. THE LAST ONE, the Good Morning America Book Club Pick for December. Coming soon: THE CRUEL DAWN. French Martini lover. Rep: Jill Marsal, @jillmarsal. Playing right now: FALLOUT 76. Find me also at www.rachelhowzell.com
Russ Thomas @thevoiceofruss.bsky.social Author of the DS Adam Tyler books #firewatching #nighthawking #coldreckoning #sleepingdogs
Tim Kinsey @tekinsey.uk Mystery Writer. Dreadful Drummer. Proudly responsible for the Lady Hardcastle series.
https://www.tekinsey.uk
Rosy Dawson @rosydawsonbooks.bsky.social Writer; LL Women’s Prize Discoveries 2023, Malorie Blackman Scholarship City Lit 2023. Agent: @litagentfran Long Covid - bedbound 2.5 years, recovering as of 2023. Former civil servant. Part time trainee lawyer. Book addict. Swimmer on good days. #BOOKS
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
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.
Jojo Moyes @jojomoyes.bsky.social writer, parent, eejit
Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social Writer 📚romantic comedies & 🍏📺 writers room Slow Horses Series 5 ✍🏻 Meme slag. Lover of cats. Prosecco goblin. Old Hollywood enthusiast. Don’t trust me with Google Maps & we should be fine.
https://www.mhairimcfarlane.com/
David Jackson @davidjacksonwriter.bsky.social Novelist and scriptwriter. Thirteen crime thrillers published to date.
www.davidjacksonbooks.com
Author: David J Bushman and Willow 🐰 @davidjbushman.bsky.social I read and write LitRPG/Sci-Fi/Fantasy. My office mate is a bunny. Vulnerable to autocorrect. I don't trust DMs, so please don't send them trying to sell me something.
https://linktr.ee/DavidJBushman
Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social Author of LOVE AND OTHER POISONS 'enthralling, a beautifully structured tale' The Scotsman; CLAIRMONT 'Riveting...clever portrait of a fascinating woman' The Times @wildfirebooks.bsky.social Repd by @sheilland.bsky.social ExJoycean Still Glaswegian she/her
Jodie Robins @jodierobins.bsky.social Writer.
Curtis Brown Creative alumna
Lover of all things gothic
Novella, The Off-Season, out now.
Northern and southern in equal parts
https://jodierobins.substack.com
Dax Dagger | Karin Nordin @daxdagger.bsky.social ✍️ Horror & Thriller Author
📖 HOME SWEET HOME (4.9.2026)
📖 RAVENOUS (10.8.2026)
📚Published by HQ Stories / HarperCollinsUK
🖊️ Rep’d by Anne Tibbets; DMLA
🐈 Cats & Cosplay
https://linktr.ee/daxdagger
Ceinwen Langley @ceinwenlangley.bsky.social Reads, writes, makes stuff.
Boorloo/Perth.
Sally Rigby @sallyrigby.bsky.social I’m a writer of UK crime fiction with series set in Cornwall, Market Harborough, and the West Midlands. I’ve also written several psychological thrillers. I’m published by Storm Publishing and Podium.
Justin Woolley @justinwoolley.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Aerospace Engineerer. Author of THE TERRITORY SERIES, SHAKEDOWNERS and Warhammer 40K fiction for Black Library.
www.justinwoolley.com
Jo Callaghan @jocallaghankat.bsky.social Sunday Times bestseller In the Blink of an Eye, winner of Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year & CWA New Blood Dagger. Book 2 Leave No Trace. Agent: susanW1F
LJ Shepherd @ljshepherd.bsky.social 📚ONE OF YOUR NUMBER
💉☣️💚👩⚖️🪑
Out 9 April 2026
Adam Simcox @adamsimcox.bsky.social Films/books/photos/scripts. Spurs masochist.
Literary rep: Harry Illingworth @ DHH Film rep: Emily Hayward-Whitlock @ The Artists Partnership
Stella Oni @stellaonithewriter.bsky.social Writer | Author | Host of ‘Talking Tech With Creatives’ podcast | Foodie | Technologist
https://linktr.ee/Stellaonithewriter
Lola Jaye Author @lolajaye.bsky.social Author of 'The Attic Child' & upcoming novel 'The Manual for Good Wives' (Macmillan Publishers) 📖 I'm also a practising psychotherapist & I like trees ALOT 🌳
Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social Author of Eight Detectives and Ink Ribbon Red. Pronounced Pah-vay-zee.
Sara Collins @saracollinsauthor.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, speaker.
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
Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Tariq Ashkanani @tariqashkanani.bsky.social Writer. Winner of Bloody Scotland Debut and McIlvanney Awards. Co-host of the Page One Podcast. The Midnight King - out now!
https://www.tariqashkanani.co.uk
Fiona Cummins @fionacumminsauthor.bsky.social Writer of thrillers. Seeker of thrills.
Hank Phillippi Ryan @hankphillippiryan.bsky.social USA Today bestseller author of 16 novels of suspense. Winner of 37 Emmys for television investigative reporting, as well as 5 Agathas, 5 Anthonys, and the Mary Higgins Clark award.
Watch for ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS coming in 2025.
hankphillippiryan.com
Anna Caig @annacaig.bsky.social Hello 👋 I'm an author of historical fiction about women's hidden lives🐺, a communications consultant and marketing expert 😊
Jonathan Whitelaw @jdwhitelaw13.bsky.social Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster.
Rep’d by Northbank Talent.
Alie Dumas-Heidt, Author @aliedh.bsky.social Author of the detective thriller, The Myth Maker.
Host of The Writer's Journey podcast.
Wife, mom, dog mom, forest dweller.
Forever Ally.
Short but fierce. www.aliedh.com
Josie Lloyd @josielloydbooks.bsky.social I write novels, parodies and screenplays. 'Miss Beeton's Murder Agency' is out now. Co-host of 'Show Us Your Bits' podcast about the stories behind jewellery. Married to Emlyn Rees. Keen sea-dipper, tea-drinker, pub-goer, cheese-on-toast maker.
Kate Sawyer @katesawyer.bsky.social Author: Getting Away (coming 3.7.25!), This Family & The Stranding. Podcaster: Novel Experience. Programme Curator: Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.
Courtney Reece @courtneywrites.bsky.social author of MEET ME IN THE WOODS 🩸 (Out Now! Wild Ink Publishing) | she/her | former English teacher | currently querying RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME 🌊🥀 (81k spec thriller)
Andrea Carter @andreacarter.bsky.social Ex-lawyer turned crime writer. Inishowen Mysteries. Agent David Headley. The Artists Partnership for TV & Film. There Came a-Tapping. Little, Brown UK. Lurcher loving veggie.
Guy Morpuss @guymorpuss.bsky.social Writer. Barrister. Published by @viperbooks.bsky.social. Rep'd by @onechaptermore.bsky.social.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Alex Segura @alexsegura.com New York Times and USA Today-bestselling/award-winning author of many comics and novels.
https://linktr.ee/alex_segura
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, uncoupled since February 2020. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
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
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
Alyssa Cole @alyssacolelit.bsky.social Writer of thrillers, romance, and more! Next release: IT TAKES A VILLAGE (Wildthorn): February 9, 2027.
Dawn O’Porter @hotpatooties.bsky.social CHOOSE LOVE. 
Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
Sophie Hannah @sophiehannah.bsky.social Bestselling crime writer
Coach for writers (dreamauthorcoaching.com)
Host of ‘How to Hold a Grudge’ podcast
Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social Edgar-and-steel-dagger-winning author of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, EVERYBODY KNOWS, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS.
A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE: "The Noir Novel of Our Times" -- The New York Times
Claire Allan Author @claireallan.bsky.social Writer of thrillers ✍️
Derry Girl ☘️ Izzy’s Human 🐾
aka FREYA KENNEDY, when I'm feeling romantic. 💕
Powered by ADHD, HRT & Maltesers 🤯🥵🍫
Published by @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
New thriller: 📕The Perfect Mother 😱🔪🎈- February '25
Chris McGeorge @chrismcgeorge.bsky.social Book writer 💙📚| Dungeon Master (D&D - not anything sinister) | Occasional game streamer | Terraced zoo owner.
Represented by Hannah Sheppard (HSLA)
www.chrismcgeorge.com
Mary Aspinall-Miles @mambarlife.bsky.social Running from the Law 
SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social No 1 bestselling Irish crime writer (adult & YA) 💙📚
Chair Society of Authors, views my own.
Agent: Simon Trewin RIP
https://linktr.ee/SamBlakeBooks
Rob D. Smith @robdsmith.bsky.social Writer of crime, horror, and dark speculative fiction. Editor at Rock and a Hard Place Press. Author of pulp thriller Good-Looking Ugly. Find more about me at https://robdsmith.carrd.co/
Louise Mumford @louisemumford.bsky.social Author. New Audible Original THE COFFEE SHOP DETECTIVES out now. Thrillers with HQ HarperCollins. Welsh 🏴 Agent: Kate Shaw. Committed insomniac. Care Bear devotee. Website: www.louisemumfordauthor.com
Edel Coffey @edelcoffey.bsky.social Author and journalist
https://linktr.ee/edelcoffey
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 📕
Jenny O’Brien @scribblerjb.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Books! Read them. Write them. Breathe them. Also cats and sea swims. Follow for bookish chat. Newsletter sign up: https://jennyobrienauthor.com
Alex Shaw @alexshaw.bsky.social Bestselling Thriller Author of the WOLF SIX, SOPHIE RACINE, AIDAN SNOW, JACK TATE, & CODENAME 61 series
Published by HarperCollins, Luzifer Verlag, & Boldwood Books.
Represented by: Justin Nash of The Kate Nash Literary Agency
Based in Dubai/Kyiv/Sussex
Rachel Louise Driscoll @rachloudriscoll.bsky.social Author of histfic | Debut novel NEPHTHYS 🇬🇧 Harvill, Vintage, PRH | THE HOUSE OF TWO SISTERS 🇺🇸 Ballentine, PRH | Rep: Sarah Hornsley PFD Agency | THE SPIDER AND LILY coming March 2027
Liz Mistry @lizmistry.bsky.social Crime Fiction Author, Avid Reader and reviewer rep'd by Lorella Belli Literary Agency
John Brownlow @johnbrownlow.bsky.social Screenwriter, author, knowitall, dilettante. AGENT SEVENTEEN won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of 2022, soon to be a major movie. ASSASSIN EIGHTEEN out now. Tech, math, photography, music. Fan of bicycles and guillotines.
Ola Tundun @olatundunx.bsky.social Reader, writer and cookie lover. Prone to indulging in things that bring me joy. Agent Emily Glenister, DHH Literary Agency.
My debut trilogy Roommates 🫣 Complicated 😳 and Endgame 😜, are out now. I know, I don’t believe it either.
Yasmin Angoe @yasminangoe.bsky.social Author of Her Name Is Knight and Not What She Seems. Writer of thriller & suspense. Books, film, & TV all day! Let’s go!!
Tina Baker @tinabakerbooks.bsky.social Author, Fitness Pro, Cat slave
Amy Suiter Clarke @amysuiterclarke.bsky.social Author of psychological thrillers GIRL, 11 and LAY YOUR BODY DOWN. Minnesota ➡️ Melbourne. Twin mom; send coffee. she/her
G. S. Jennsen @gsjennsen.com Science fiction author. Futurist, geek, gamer.
Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social Writer of the Marlow Murder Club novels and TV show, and creator of Death in Paradise, Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise.
https://linktr.ee/robthor
SW Kane @swkane.bsky.social Author of The Bone Jar (shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2021) and The Drowning Place out 18 Oct 2023. 
Emma Robinson (Author) @emmarobinsonuk.bsky.social Published by Bookouture.
My books might make you cry.
Sam Holland @samhollandbooks.bsky.social Writer of dark stuff. Moonlights as Louisa Scarr. Owner of Max.
Out now:
🔪 THE KILLER IN ROOM FIVE
🎧 SLEEPING BEAUTIES
🐕 BROKEN HOUSE
Agent: Ed Wilson.
Alex Brown @alexbrownauthor.bsky.social Million copy No.1 bestselling author ❤️ | 16 books in 23 countries 📚 | Partial to a French Martini 🍸
www.alexbrownauthor.com
Kathleen Whyman Author @kathleenwhyman.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Knackered mum. Espresso Martini fan (may be linked).
@CWIPprize finalist. Has Anyone Seen My Husband That? out now!
amzn.to/45bP5sZ
Kellye Garrett @kellyekell.bsky.social Sarcastic black chick writing mysteries about sarcastic black chicks. Anthony, Agatha, Lefty, Thriller & IPPY winner. Edgar, Barry, & Macavity nominee.
My site I don't update: KellyeGarrett.com
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84