Tess Gerritsen @tessgerritsen.bsky.social Thriller novelist, traveler, gardener, proud Mainer. Oh, and medical doctor. Author of the Rizzoli & Isles series and the Martini Club series.
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
Folk Horror Revival 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social "Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live"
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#FolkloreAgainstFascism
No AI 🚫🤖
Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
Dawn O’Porter @hotpatooties.bsky.social CHOOSE LOVE. 
Liz Nugent @liznugent.bsky.social No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister.
Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt.
The Truth About Ruby Cooper in all good bookstores in Uk, Ireland and Commonwealth except Canada now. North America Sept 1st.
www.liznugent.com
@weirdosbookclub.bsky.social @weirdosbookclub.bsky.social 
The Conversation with Nadine Matheson @theconversation.bsky.social ✨ Deep dives into writing, creativity & life
🎙️Host @nadinematheson.com
🎧 New episodes every Tuesday—listen wherever you find your podcasts
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Vaseem Khan @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social Author: Q novels (from Bond franchise). Malabar House & Baby Ganesh agency series. The Girl in Cell A. Cricket mad. UCL Security & Crime Science. Website: www.vaseemkhan.com 
Natasha Pulley @natashapulley.bsky.social Fiction writer of quite a lot of novels plus some short stories.
Kia Abdullah @kiaabdullah.bsky.social Author. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE DARK out now.
Steve Cavanagh @stevecavanagh.bsky.social Writer, dog walker, professional procrastinator. Writes the Eddie Flynn books and sometimes other things too.
@niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social Frightening people for a living
Andrea Mara @andreamara.bsky.social Sunday Times, Irish Times, and Kindle bestselling author. Someone in the Attic, No One Saw A Thing, All Her Fault out now with Transworld. Agent: Diana Beaumont.
Susi Holliday @susiholliday.bsky.social Scottish crime/thriller author and horror fan.
Not currently spending time on here 🤷🏻♀️
https://linktr.ee/susiholliday
Lin Anderson @linanderson.bsky.social A free spirit. Also crime writer & co-founder of the @BloodyScotland international crime writing festival.
Twitter: Lin_Anderson
Instagram: LinAndersonWriter
Threads: LinAndersonWriter
Web: http://www.lin-anderson.com
Erin Kelly @mserinkelly.bsky.social my job is book
Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
CL Taylor @callytaylor.bsky.social British crime author. Sunday Times bestseller. Richard & Judy pick. Mum, dog owner, knitter, crocheter, maker, watches a lot of TV.
Holly Seddon @holly.bsky.social Author. Former journalist. THE SLEEPER COMING NOV '26 🇺🇸 AND JULY '27 🇬🇧. 59 MINUTES out now. Honest Authors pod. Represented by Camilla Bolton at Darley Anderson.
Linwood Barclay @linwoodbarclay.bsky.social Writer, former trailer park operator
Ruth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Still writing books... still drinking coffee... still making stuff up as I go along. The Woman in Suite 11 available to pre-order now at linktr.ee/ruthwarewriter
Find me at ruthware.com
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
Bearded Badger Books @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social Derbyshire based indie publisher | indie press champion | pop up bookshop
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Maura McHugh @splinister.bsky.social Writer. Works across media. Lives in the West of Ireland.
https://splinister.com/easylinks 
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
Max Elwood @maxelwoodauthor.bsky.social Essex-based author whose debut crime novel, Dark Waters, is out now. Sign up to be a VIP reader and receive a free download of a new Abraham Hart story as well as fortnightly newsletters with interviews, info and news...
https://maxelwoodauthor.com/
Neil 'Full Time Spectre' Chambers @neilchambers.bsky.social They/he
Rabid poet/writer
Lover of frogs
Autistic
AI losers get lost
Paul Bradley Carr @paulbradleycarr.com Bestselling author of The Confessions (Atria/Faber) etc. Ex- tech journo. Shopkeep at Best Bookstore in Palm Springs/Union Square. NEW BOOK JULY 2027!
BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Readit Club @readit.club If you’re into books - welcome 🤗
Everything about books, writers, reviews, literature discussions.
📚 ReadIt.club
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
Caroline James Author @carolinejames1.bsky.social Author of women's fiction #THECRUISE - RNA, SWWJ, SoA - Agent:
@lblaUK
newsletter sign up: https://www.carolinejamesauthor.co.uk/giveaway-and-newsletter/
www.carolinejamesauthor.co.uk
Richard Jerram @richardjerram.bsky.social The Makoto Murders out in July 2026 … CWA Debut Dagger 2024 winner … UEA Crime Fiction MA … rep’d by Lisa Moylett at CMM … PhD economist …
Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
Homeless Ashes, Witch, JITTERS
Stuart Millard @franticplanet.bsky.social World's Deadliest Man. Master of the Dim Mak. Writer.
https://www.youtube.com/@StuartMillard
Alia Papageorgiou @eurocentrique.bsky.social Artistic Director writefest.be / Cyber MSc, newspapers , EU diplomacy / Board journalismfund.eu, displaced Melburnian ☕️ #amwriting first book ‘Ducks on the roof’ (c) out in 2025 🦆
https://t.mbjms.com/331727/4080/0?po=6456&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
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. 
Tatiana Marco @tatianamm.bsky.social She/Her ✨ Traductora editorial y escritora ✨ Coautora de la trilogía #DeSeúlAlCielo ✨
💌: tatianamarcomarin@gmail.com ✨ Agencia: Tormenta
S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social writer (she/her)
Danielle Svetcov, LGR Literary Agency
Jim Rion・ライオン ジミー @jimrion.com Peace, please, peace for all.
Translator (Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, etc.). Japanese horror devourer. Bird picture taker
Co-host of Sake Deep Dive podcast.
英訳者：「悪魔がきたれて、笛をふく」「変な家」「変な絵」等等
執筆者：「Discovering Yamaguchi Sake」
20年以上日本在中
山口県万歳🙌
Hazell Ward @hazellward.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Student, (not that kind of doctor) Doctor, Mother, Grandmother, Wrexham fan, @The_CWA Dagger winner. Literary Agent: @sarahsuch
Russell Gascoigne @russgascoigne.bsky.social Scriptwriter ~ MG/YA author ~ Worked for BBC Drama/European Script Fund #Screenwriting support here http://bit.ly/38B8neZ Rep'd @ Curtis Brown https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/russell-gascoigne
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social Games, Movies, Music and Books 🍅-approved, coffee and whisky-driven culture wordsmith. Words in IGN, NME, Radio Times, DIY, Clash, Metro, Yahoo and others. Member of the UK Film Critics Association.
まの瀬 島ロック ジャンプラ火曜日！ @manosejiro.bsky.social 『島ロック』の原作です。
『この復讐にギャルはいらない 』1-4巻（完結） 『顔がこの世に向いてない』1-3巻（完結）
YOUCHAN @youchan.bsky.social Illustrator, sometimes graphic designer
https://profu.link/u/youchan
MAIKO KOZUKA @kozukata.bsky.social Mystery, Food, Cat, Radio. A member of the BARTONS
早川書房公式 @hayakawa-online.co.jp 出版社・早川書房の公式blueskyです。中の人は今のところ2名。お問い合わせはこちら https://www.hayakawa-online.co.jp/contact から
街野優森 @yousing-machino.bsky.social 電子回路を紡ぎながら、小さな物語を紡いでいます。複数名義にて、ハードウェアデザイン分野での参加作品がございます。第28回新美南吉童話賞受賞。
Michael Northrop @michaelnorthrop.bsky.social NY Times–bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels for young readers, starting a new chapter with my 1st mystery series for adults! Rep’d by @saracrowelit.bsky.social. Research editor at Dance Magazine. More coffee, please!
Erin Jori is querying @erinjori.bsky.social Writer, Chicagoan, coffee addict. Member of Sisters in Crime. linktr.ee/erinjori
Elmar Safi @elmarsafi.bsky.social Author & Creator. Adapting my book into a visual series for TikTok & YouTube/Rumble. E-book on Spotify.
BookBlast® Official @bookblast.org Championing world literature since 1997. Book Club ; reviews, interviews, podcasts by publishing insider Georgia DC & friends & special events. Instagram @bookblastofficial www.linktr.ee/bookblast Accept no imitations
Dominic Nolan @dominicnolan.bsky.social Crime fiction
Jane McLoughlin @jbmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer of Gothic suspense, psychological thrillers, and other crime. The Perfect Couple, Lume/Joffe out March, 24.
Writers & Artists @writersandartists.bsky.social The best industry advice for writers & artists!
WritingPIs @writingpis.bsky.social Legal investigators, writers, dog & cat lovers. Lovin' these blue skies...
Richard Banks @lyricalbankster.bsky.social Reader, writer, rubbish runner.
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
Paul Reeves 🏴 @paulartreeves.bsky.social Artist 🎨 Actor 🎙🎭 Writer 🖊 Video Game Developer 🕹 Film-maker 🎥
𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 🖖
https://linktr.ee/paulreeves
https://ko-fi.com/paulartreeves ☕️
Evelyn Scott @evelynscott.bsky.social Author and Disability & Women’s Health Advocate (Rep’d by Orli at DHA @davidhighambooks)
A Bloody Scandal - ‘an explosive investigation into gynaecological neglect’ - to be published by 4th Estate/HarperCollins in August 2026
♿️ 🏳️🌈
Whodunnit Whisperings @whodunnitwhispers.bsky.social Reviews of classic and more modern crime fiction, celebrating the Golden Age. https://whodunnitwhisperings.substack.com/
M J Lee @mjlee2307.bsky.social Writer of crime novels, dad, flaneur. Occasionally may be found in the bottom of a wine glass.
Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025
https://linktr.ee/sadiehartmann
Ryan Malik 🎃 @ryanmalikwriter.bsky.social Screenwriter | QF: Emerging Screenwriters Competition 2026 | The Dead List 2024 | BFA in Film from The School of Visual Arts in NYC
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp.
2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks.
Passable organist.
https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
Wary of folk w/o profiles!
Faye Brann @writerfaye.bsky.social Author. Performer. Loves fine wine and applause.
Winner of the 2020 Comedy Women in Print Prize
2021 Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy pub. a HarperCollins
2025 Kiss, Marry, Murder
*COMING SOON* Little Grey Cells June 2026
Insta: @writerfaye
@jcbriggsbooks.bsky.social @jcbriggsbooks.bsky.social 
@lucilla.bsky.social @lucilla.bsky.social Interested in law and public services 😎
Nev Fountain @nevfountain.bsky.social Writer of satire (Private Eye/Dead Ringers) and Murder. New book ‘Lies and Dolls’ is out now in all good bookshops. 'The Fan Who Knew Too Much' is also there, probably nearby. Graphic novel ‘The Furnace’ out eventually.
Waterstones Leicester Highcross @waterstoneslhx.bsky.social We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Publishing at University of Derby | Editor of SHARP News | Editorial theory & practice, book history, educational publishing | Proud mum | Lover of semicolons | Views my own.
Balancing the Books @balancingthebooks.bsky.social A podcast to help writers balance the books … along with everything else in life ⚖️
Hosted by @caileansteed.bsky.social
https://tinyurl.com/4wk29w3z
Charles Todd @charlestodauthor.bsky.social Author of the Ian Rutledge Series, Bess Crawford Series and many more.- L Leslie S. Klinger @lklinger.bsky.social Editor, author, anthologist, and the world's first consulting Sherlockian
Mandy McHugh @mandymchugh.bsky.social Author. It Takes Monsters. Chloe Cates Is Missing.
Penzler Publishers @penzlerpublishers.bsky.social Independent publisher of mystery fiction, thrillers, and true crime. Home of The Mysterious Press, American Mystery Classics, and Crime Ink, with offices in NYC's legendary Mysterious Bookshop. penzlerpublishers.com.
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Script Haven LTD @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK!
scripthavenltd@gmail.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scripthaven
5 Crown Passage, Worcester WR1 3LL
scripthaven.co.uk
Also on Insta, Facebook and Twitter
Charlotte Lunn (she/her) @charlottelpoet.bsky.social 🌙Queer, disabled, poet
✨📖 seller @scarthinbooks
🌙Co-host of Rebel Riot Poetry
✨Metamorphosis with Verve Poetry Press
🌙Specialist Academic Notetaker 📝
Chloe Timms @clotimms.bsky.social Writer at Inside Soap Magazine | Author of THE SEAWOMEN (HodderBooks) she/her ♿ | Agent: Nelle_Andrew | Podcast: Confessions of a Debut Novelist
James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social I write stuff
He/Him
https://jamesoswald.co.uk
Beverley Knight @beverleyknight.bsky.social The BK Fam is inclusive & diverse. You are My Luvs❤️
https://beverleyknight.komi.io
Chicks on the Case @chicksonthecase.bsky.social Eight cozy mystery authors with a killer sense of humor! Check out our blog at www.chicksonthecase.com. We are: Ellen Byron, Jennifer Chow, Marla Cooper, Vickie Fee, Leslie Karst, Cynthia Kuhn, Lisa Q. Mathews, and Patricia Sargeant.
Newark Book Festival @newarkbookfestival.bsky.social 📚 Newark Book Festival
📍9-12 July 2026 | Newark-on-Trent
💷 Donate to our 10th birthday fundraiser
💖 Become a Festival Friend & support the story
🌐 www.newarkbookfestival.org.uk
Leeds Big Bookend & Northern Short Story Festival @bigbookend.bsky.social Writers, books, small publishers, readers - that's what we are about! Here to engage with and platform writers, books and all things lit. Leeds Lit Fest founder partner. Champions Leeds, Yorkshire and the North.
@budlitfest.bsky.social @budlitfest.bsky.social 
Bradford Literature Festival @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social explore words, discover worlds
11 - 20 June 2027
https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/
@claphambookfest.bsky.social @claphambookfest.bsky.social 
@ghoststoryfest.bsky.social @ghoststoryfest.bsky.social 
Brightlingsea Literary Festival @bsealitfest.bsky.social Literary festival on the north Essex coast, held Feb/March in association with WinterFest
Foreword Festival UK @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social Welcome to the Foreword Festival – the first literary fringe festival in the UK!
Join us for year-round literary events: http://forewordfestival.uk
Huddersfield Literature Festival @huddlitfest.bsky.social Award-winning annual community festival held in the Spring in venues across Huddersfield and online. Championing accessibility, diversity and under-represented groups and showcasing emerging artists alongside major names https://www.huddlitfest.org.uk
Bournemouth Writing Festival @bmthwritingfest.bsky.social Bournemouth Writing Festival - 24-26 April 2026
Plus lots more throughout the year
www.BournemouthWritingFestival.co.uk
www.RomanceWritingFestival.co.uk
StokeyLitFest @stokeylitfest.bsky.social ‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social * We are most active on Instagram * Thanks for joining us and making this year our biggest, buzziest festival yet. Save the dates: July 9-16 2027
https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
olivia @no-shelfcontrol.bsky.social book reviewer 📚
sunny babe pr influencer ☀️
formerly no__shelfcontrol on ig