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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social A publisher devoted to producing, uncovering, and revitalising good books.
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Meredith Harris | Client-First Editing @merediththeeditor.bsky.social freelance academic editor | clarifying language & verifying references so academics can share their ideas with less friction | I don't use AI in my work, just my brain | www.clientfirstediting.com
Alexandra McCollum @anmccollum.bsky.social INTO THE MIDNIGHT WOOD (2026, Dutton/PRH)
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The Pillow Book, by Sei Shōnagon @thepillowbookbot.bsky.social Excerpts from The Pillow Book posted every day. Bot created by @thejasonkelley.com via https://bluebotsdonequick.com/
Brianna Privett @russetpomme.bsky.social Indie web maker, suburban gardener, avid reader, cheerful podcast guest & slow emailer.
JL George @jlgeorge.bsky.social Author of THE WORD and various other things. She/they | hi/nhw. http://www.jl-george.com
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Stephen Saperstein Frug @stephenfrug.bsky.social I am writing essays (http://stephenfrug.substack.com) and a mosaic story (https://tinyurl.com/5n8h9a89) & wrote a graphic novel, Happenstance (https://happenstance.thecomicseries.com/)
Hannah Lock @hannahlock.bsky.social Illustrator. Chaotic Egg. Clients include NYT, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Mother Jones and Politico. 
Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social SFFH Author | Winner-Apex Reader's Choice Award | SFWA & Codex Member | Bibliophilic ghost haunting libraries | she/her
Work forth/in Apex, The Dark, Heartlines, Small Wonders, Flash Point SF & more
Links: https://catherinetavares.com/links/
C.S. Poe @cspoe.bsky.social Award-winning mystery, romance, and spec-fic author. Gilded Age NY historian. Victorian Society of New York board director. NYC. SVA ‘09. NO AI.
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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com Science Fiction. Fantasy. Antifascism. Now open for submissions!
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer of THE WEST PASSAGE, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Preorder WHERE FIRE REIGNS, out February 2027 from Tor!
Ellipsus @ellipsus.com Write like a human. Ellipsus is an easy-to-use collaborative writing tool made by writers, for writers.
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Ginny @vbruth.com Writer of queer genrebendy stories. THE CITIZEN OF EASTPORT out now and available to buy just about everywhere!
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Isa Chandra Moskowitz @isachandra.bsky.social Born growing out my bangs✂️
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
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Carly J Dubois 🦋 @carlyjdubois.com Words at newspapers and magazines. Prior editing paychecks from CBS, The Athletic, and The New York Times. How people use a language is what the language is. FFS, check voter registration status regularly! She/her. Be kind.
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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social An independent online bookstore and blog showcasing and selling Canada's best in indie books. Visit us at alllitup.ca
✨Tallulah L MacRae📚📖✨ @tlmacraeauthor.bsky.social ✨Author & Poet
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✨In her dark fantasy vampire smutty romance era
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS & the novella FES IS A MIRROR. She/her
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/
A. J. Hodges @secondworldedits.bsky.social Author + developmental & line editor | Writes: horror, fantasy & queer romance 🌈 Published by Asymptote Journal & Foofaraw. he/they | PhD Social Anthropology | Academic DE: https://www.thenarrativecraft.com | Fiction: https://www.andyjhodges.com
Shayne Nicholai - Indie Poet @shaynenicholai.bsky.social Self-published queer, trans, disabled poet, mental health advocate and motivational speaker, songwriter, nerd, avid cat and exotics-lover, and EDS and fibromyalgia destroyer.
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social Sometimes I make YouTube videos. Right now I play a lot of chess!!! Tomorrow, who knows?
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social Professor, Political Science, Brock University
Knowledge governance, IPE, Sydney Swans tragic
Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Bloomsbury, 2023). Open Access.
Anna Butler @annabutler.bsky.social Writer of LGBT Scifi and steampunk, geek, getting far too old for this shit.
Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social 📚🐈 (they/them)
I’m that friendly acquaintance from way back when—hope you’re doing well! I write whatever tickles my fancy.
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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social Posting Science Fiction, Fantasy, Geekery, bookshop life, occasional cats.
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social She/her/elle. Alto, ADHDer. Interested in politics (esp.TOpoli), stories, disability, food, knitting, geekery, cats. Unrepentant leftie in 🇨🇦
Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out 10/26) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social An interesting thing to read on the internet.
Steph 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Editor 🦦✍️ @ottersediting.com Freelance editor, writer, reader |
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
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Dr Jasmin Kirkbride @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social Debut THE FOREST ON THE EDGE OF TIME out with Tor 2026. Agent Alex Cochran at Greyhound. Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Tech at UEA. Research: hope, climate fiction, dystopia, fungus. https://www.jasminkirkbride.com/
Editors/Réviseurs Canada @editorscanada.bsky.social Canada's national editorial association. Editors/Réviseurs Canada is a not-for-profit organization promoting professional editing and supporting editors at every stage of their careers. #HireAnEditor www.editors.ca / www.reviseurs.ca
Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social ⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social 
Isaac Fellman @isaac-fellman.bsky.social Writer and archivist. NOTES FROM A REGICIDE (Spring '25), THE TWO DOCTORS GÓRSKI (Fall '22), DEAD COLLECTIONS (Spring '22), THE BREATH OF THE SUN ('18, Lambda winner). He/him. 🏳️⚧️ Rep Kate McKean.
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Emily M-H @aislinglady.bsky.social Recently completed an editing certificate and a technical writing certificate. Books of all sorts. Local food and drink. Animals are better than people. I am not my illness (though I have many). My words are my own (no AI/LLM). She/Her.
🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator and Art Director
represented by UsFolk and MA World Group
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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - Now available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBLTY4TJ
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citrus sapling 🍋 seconds sale 19th @citrussapling.bsky.social UK watercolour illustrator of creatures 🌱 any pronouns 🏳️🌈 Next event: MCM London
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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com little canadian rat goblin woman (she/they)
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Agent: @stephaniewinter.bsky.social
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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
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
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Vanessa North @vanessanorth.bsky.social Romance novelist. Knitter of strange and wonderful things. Twin & mama to twins. Mastiff whisperer. She/her. 🩷💜💙
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Jae-in Hwan | Strangekind Studio @strangekindstudio.bsky.social KIND: An LGBTQ+ Mythical Noir Audio Drama || MERCY: A Queer Eldritch Western
Strangekind Studio is an award winning creative collective creating subversive audio dramas.
Website: https://strangekindstudio.weebly.com/
Stephanie Caye @kittensyay.bsky.social Writer, reader, wanderer, constantly wanting to rearrange my furniture. 82% sarcasm. She/her/elle.
Author of the urban fantasy series GRAVITY'S DAUGHTER.
https://stephaniecaye.com#books
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social Spec Fic author | PhD Environmental Engr | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Host: Bright Green Futures podcast
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"AI is a lying machine made out of crimes"(used to perpetuate more crimes).🔨
Working on a feminist romantasy with plant magic.
Conscious Style Guide by Karen Yin @consciousstyleguide.com The essential guide to conscious language, by @karenyin.bsky.social.
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Sienna Tristen (they/them) @siennatristen.bsky.social Poet. Witch. Difficult beauty. One half of The Shale Project.
Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social She/Her
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
Jersey girl.
Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social Ecologist & Evolutionary Biologist. previously DPhil @ Oxford: insect social evolution 🐝
Books on GIF @booksongif.com I use GIFs to review books.
Here: booksongif.com
Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com 🌱Tasty Teas for Thirsty Nerds!🌱
Seattle's geeky tea hangout, featuring premium, ethically-sourced, synesthesia-based teas 🍵❤️🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Se habla español/On parle français.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
Replies limited to followers only.
Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com We review a curated collection of quality indie fantasy and sci-fi books. Discover unique worlds, hidden gems, and new adventures.
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Posts by @nils.readindiefantasy.com and @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com
columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social just a little account for a little guy. curated screengrabs, etc. now in bluesky flavor
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Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social that girl in real life | @famu_1887 alumna | words in: @wsj @refinery29 @thecut etc.
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
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Emily Inkpen @emilyinkpen.bsky.social Sci-fi and fantasy author, writer of The Dex Legacy BSFA Award-winning audio drama, Social Media Officer @BSFA, gamer, bi, proud epileptic and aspiring grown-up 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
350 Canada @350canada.bsky.social 🌍 We’re tackling corporate greed and the climate crisis. Let’s build a liveable future for all of us. https://linktr.ee/350canada
Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre
Contact: leah.gazan@parl.gc.ca ✉️
Instagram: leahgazanMP / X: @LeahGazan.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
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Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Amistad, Aug '27)
THESE HOLLOW BODIES (Neon Hemlock, Nov '26)
writer & psychiatrist M.D. (she/her)
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Cinema Worms podcast!
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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social She/her. U.S. Southerner. Mouthy, but soft. Editor of Intergalactic Mixtape and others: https://heyheyrenay.carrd.co / https://patreon.com/cw/heyheyrenay
Hope Rehak @hoperehak.bsky.social @hoperehak on X/Twitter, Instagram, Substack, and now here
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
kai*Starlight 🌟this little piggy makes comics🌟 @kaistarlight.bsky.social (they/them)
Comic artist/illustrator. Sometimes R18
Disabled, queer, loves their cats
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social ocean horror | they | english in california | represented by Kate McKean
Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social Books, video games, anime, and me! NO AI!!
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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social Flee, all is discovered.
By @tanaudel.bsky.social. Automated, not AI. Same as old code, but via @bluebotsdonequick.com (so won't exactly mirror legacy posts).
Gothic (and other) art at tanaudel.redbubble.com
Patreon: patreon.com/tanaudel
Sirens @sirensconference.org Speculative fiction gives us blueprints for worlds full of hope, joy, justice, and revolution for people of all genders. Join us July 28-August 1, 2027: sirensconference.org
OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. 🪐🗡️🌈
https://patreon.com/othersidespec · https://othersidespec.com
Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social queer SF/horror writer - first reader (Diabolical Plots & Small Wonders) - con stuff (Rainbow Space Magic & Can*Con) - settler - she/they - notwhereilive.ca
Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social An online queer science fiction and fantasy convention that's free to all. More info (including videos from past years) at www.rainbowspacemagic.org
Ginn Hale @ginnhale.bsky.social Lesbian author of science fiction & fantasy. Prone to wandering around, drinking coffee and celebrating LGBTQIA stories. She/her
Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social お化け博士 (Ghost Scholar) based in Tokyo. Gothic in Asia Association co-founder. Variously juggling research on: Emily Dickinson, Shirley Jackson, Jewish folklore, Japanese gothic/folklore, poetry & the gothic. Poet and opera singer. (Opinions mine)
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social Writer/illustrator/cheese enthusiast.
stories: https://highflyingpoultry.wordpress.com/
website: https://www.sharonjgochenour.com/
newsletter: https://buttondown.com/SharonJGochenour
Rachel Bowdler / Bonnie Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social she/her🌈 • AKA Bryony Rosehurst & B.B. Woods • pan romance author, editor, and author Swords & Sapphics co-host • THE SCOTTISH STRAWBERRY FARM out now! 🎆
Sarah Matthews @sarahmatthews.bsky.social Reader, Braille tutor, interested in assistive tech, publishing and accessible art.
Trying to use this new place while totally blind so please be patient with me and add alt text to your photos
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/
Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social I make a living writing science fiction and fantasy. Mostly fantasy. It's been said I've never met a trope I didn't skewer. I'm good with that. Also, there's cats. And knitting. she/her
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social Line and copy editor at Radical Care Editing. Abolition and social criticism. Free Palestine. Passionate about making AI/LLM use socially unacceptable. Minneapolis. She/her.
Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social I am a high school teacher. Earnest posting (at the moment it’s mostly grief-posting) until the end. Profile pic is my mom. (she/they)
Escape Pod @escapepod.org Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast magazine. New stories every week in audio and text. Find us wherever you get your podcasts!
Noah Hawthorne (they/them) @noahhawthorne.bsky.social fantasy punk and historical fiction author, a host on the Right Here Write Queer Podcast, and perpetual gremlin.
🧭 The Voice of Wild Places 🏳️⚧️
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Sian M. Jones @serennical.bsky.social Writer of things speculative and literary (she/her) 🏳️🌈 jonessian.com
Melara Dark @melaradark.bsky.social LGBT+, she/her
Indie sci-fi, fantasy, and horror author.
Artist, disabled, gamer, happily married.
Vhantalya now available!
www.Melaradark.com
books2read.com/u/4jG2WZ
Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social Stoker nominated horror writer; editor of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️🌈
Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them
https://linktr.ee/wendynwagner
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. 💗💜💙
AI is not welcome here
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com