lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social I’m not here to post my THOUGHTS. I’m not here to share IDEAS. I’m here to post PICTURES OF MUSHROOMS and BE AN IDIOT
Get your mushie-mail! > cheerful letters filled with mushroom-themed stickers, news, and more! Patreon.com/luke_venechuk
Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social 🎭 theater kid turned
🎮 game dev turned
✝️ Jesuit priest
past: skyrim, fallout, god of war, novitiate, philosophy/political econ, refugee aid (🇱🇧🇮🇶🇯🇴🇸🇾), theology, starfield, migrant care (🇵🇭)
present: pastoral ministry in Portland
https://shaneliesegang.com
X (Xen/Cole McCade)🏳️⚧️He/Him🏳️🌈 @thisblackmagic.bsky.social The dead make better companions.
Queer romance author + artist.
IndigiBlAsian POC.
Call me X.
Level 46 Xennial himbo.
Audiophile.
Bone witch of the woods.
FFXIV Mateus.
AuDHD🏳️⚧️demigray disaster bi.
🔞Minors DNI.
https://ko-fi.com/thisblackmagic
Christine Warren @afgoink.bsky.social Witch, reader, and crispy romance writer. Shoe lover and patriarchy hater. Vintage vibes, not vintage values. I have opinions. she/her
Amanda Deibert 5552 SDCC @amandadeibert.bsky.social Author/TV writer/Comics writer: He-Man, Star Wars, Marvel, DC Comics, Storm King, You Already Have The Answers
Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social They/She.
Wrote some books.
Then didn't.
Love animals, horror, and weird stuff.
Run a cool jewelry store for queer artists.
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
www.peculiarityshop.com
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social critic @vulture
QuadCityPat @quadcitypat.bsky.social Husband, Father, Union Guy, Retired Child Protection. Liberal, beer drinker and liberal beer drinker. Cubs, Bears, Hawkeyes. Sporadic, erratic golfer, the Schoolhouse Rock of using "fuck" in a sentence.
Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social Bestselling, award winning writer, editor, film producer, podcaster, and showrunner. Board of Directors for Scares That Care charity.
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social Perverse prolific profane political pansexual polyamorous dominatrix and writer, Seattle. Sex work is work. Queer. Cannabis. Anti-Misogyny. Gen X, she/her. Not here to “build my brand”
Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social She/her. Queer Romantic Speculative Fiction writer, artsy craftsy person, and certified bog witch. 🚫AI
PFP by @roricomics.bsky.social
Website: lizzieblackwood.com
Links: https://lizzieblackwood.carrd.co/
Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social Raleigh-ish, NC.
I’ll procrastinate later.
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social She/her fat black queer, disabled femme, leftist in my 30s, sometimes publicly slutty, sometimes publicly depressed. I talk about food and books a lot and I try to be kind. 
Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social i'm cliffy
🏳️⚧️ he/him, rodent liker, dinosaur appreciator, eggbug forever in our hearts
avatar by @dochackenbush.bsky.social
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Candace Harper @foxglovefiction.com Queer, Disabled, ND author of Queer Romance. One woman, two pen names! She/Her.
https://shop.foxglovefiction.com
Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Multnomah County Library @multcolib.bsky.social Empowering our community to learn and create.
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Theresa Romain @theresawriter.bsky.social I write historical romance and stay up way too late reading. She/her https://theresaromain.com
Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social Gothic novelist. Ghost-filled non-fiction. Actress. Goth. Narrator. Playwright. NYC Ghost Tour Guide. RAVENFIELD HALL (2/27, Hachette) A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC (USA Today Bestseller, Kensington), STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL (Tor)
Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social Bestselling Award-Winning Adult and YA Romance Author.
YA: SUMMER OFFICIAL now! 🛹🩵🍦| Adult: THE TWELVE LOVES OF CHRISTMAS 9.29.26 ♥️🎅🏾
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Twelve-Loves-of-Christmas/Alexandria-Bellefleur/9781668250419
Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social Advice blogger, soon-to-be-author. You may remember me as CAwkward on that other site, but I have reclaimed my full title and powers! Here to make new internets to push the bad internets down. 
Kylie Scott @kyliescott.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Romance Writer. Australian. Rep'd by Amy Tannenbaum at JRA. she/her www.kyliescott.com
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social (she/her) Historical romance author. Freelance editor, book doctor, researcher. Camp is a tender feeling. Repped by @millercallihan.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roselerner
#mybooks
Cathy Yardley @cathyyardley.bsky.social Romance author and writing coach. She/her. www.cathyyardley.com
www.rockyourwriting.com
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Katherine Locke @katherinelocke.bsky.social Author, writer, reader, cat owner, horse owner. Mostly made of rage and salt. Red Sea pedestrian. They/them.
Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com YA and Romance Author/Anthologist. LGBTQReads founder. Macaron aficionado. SOON BY YOU out now. SUMMER CAMP ROMANCE coming 7/6/27. Rep: Patricia Nelson. She/her. Update your website.
Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com Writer of queer romance and sff. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR: #RomanceColumn OliviaWaite.com
Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social WSJ bestselling author. Goofs and balls combined with rage.
BALD-FACED LIAR is out now and I’M HERE TO HELP drops on Oct 27!
www.VictoriaHelenStone.com
Sarah Hollowell @sarahhollowell.bsky.social Cryptid. Buy my books www.sarahhollowell.com
Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling fantasy author, artist, nerd, and armchair medievalist. She/her.
www.anniebellet.com
b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social Public Servant. Romance Reader.✨. Fainting couch? I'm on it. She/her.
campsite.bio/b.andherbooks
Deanna Raybourn @deannaraybourn.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author. I still believe if I spin fast enough I’ll turn into Wonder Woman. She/her. https://www.deannaraybourn.com
@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social Detroiter. Spartan. Writer. NAACP IMAGE AWARD nominee. Lifetime Achievement Award Romance Fiction. Slayer of Words.
Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social Aussie USian Novelist & clothes wearer, who loves the WNBA. The Mortons published by Penguin (ANZ, Canada, USA) is out NOW. Fascism=bad. @DrJustineFancyPants on Insta. She/her/hers.
https://justinelarbalestier.com/books/the-mortons/
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
https://imakeupworlds.com/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social Queering up your shelves, one rec at a time. Check it out at LGBTQReads.com
Vanessa North @vanessanorth.bsky.social Romance novelist. Knitter of strange and wonderful things. Twin & mama to twins. Mastiff whisperer. She/her. 🩷💜💙
https://linktr.ee/vanessanorth
Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social She/her. Erstwhile entertainment reporter (as Mala B.). Ribald romance writer (also writing as Kali Decker). Copy editor/Reviewer at Booklist. Occasionally serious person. https://linktr.ee/suleikhasnyder
https://ko-fi.com/suleikhasnyder
erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat. https://linktr.ee/erinmorgenstern
A. H. @ahreaume.bsky.social Disabled writer & feminist. Bi 🌈. Pub. in Disability Visibility (Vintage). Passionate about experimental lit & vintage. Twitter: @a_h_reaume she/her
Web: www.ahreaume.com
Newsletter: https://ah-newsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Lily Meade @lilymeade.bsky.social Homeless novelist. Author of: THE HEX GIRLS: A ROGUE THORN 🐾 (Aug 26 2025) and THE SHADOW SISTER 🦋 (out now!). Here for books, equality, and Taylor Swift. @LilyMeade on most other platforms.
Learn more: lilymeade.com
Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social Writer, editor, semi-professional fat person.
SFF/spec/soft horror/whatever. Here for the weird stuff.
she/they
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Isobel Carr @isobelcarr.com Best-selling historical romance author & Mastiff/Pug owner. she/her Some form of IsobelCarr on pretty much every app. My only good mayor was Jerry Brown. She/Her
Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social Romance critic & freelance editor. Half of Fated Mates. Chicagoan. She/her.
www.jenreadsromance.com
Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All
Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente
Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com
TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social They pay brisk money for this crap?
MAKE ME BETTER and NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH on sale now
Hellraiser, Eat the Rich, Echo Wife, Spread Me @ your local bookstore and comic shop
Viola Smart @smartvpants.bsky.social Romance writer, teacher. AL. Public schools are vital to a functioning democracy. In my Bluey mom era. Find some of my free books on Wattpad. 🍋 Others on Kindle. lnk.bio/smartvpants she/her. I block AI on sight.
K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com The (reluctantly) official BlueSky account of award-winning author (Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion), editor, teacher (@writingtheother.com), and freelance adventuress K. Tempest Bradford (she/her).
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social Writer. Reader. I live in a box of paints. She/her. Banner: a detail from Remedios Varo’s Vampiros Vegetarianos. Three vampires in fantastical golden outfits sip fruit through extra long straws.)
Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social your friendly neighborhood soft butch // she/her // @thesicktimes.org engagement editor // http://theheatherhogan.substack.com // #LongCOVID
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📝📚 Author of back-to-back instant NYT bestsellers Dirtbag, Massachusetts + American Rambler (+ others)
📺 Talking books on @todayshow
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Erica Berry @ericajberry.bsky.social Writer of feelings & the environment (Orion, NYT, Guardian, etc), teacher, author of Wolfish (winner of 2024 Oregon Book Award). Portland, OR. She/her. www.ericaberry.com
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
Helena Moran-Hayes – Author @ohhelenita.bsky.social Romance author.
Life is cruel enough to write non-fiction.
Travel, books, movies, series, music and food, good food.
English/Spanish
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
misha fletcher @mishafletch.bsky.social same as i ever was. writer, editor, knitter, spinner, garden murderer. stereotypical cat-obsessed dyke. singularly unlikable. always ready to bag on thoreau. melbourne. they.
i wrote cooking is terrible: https://books2read.com/cookingisterrible
Sarah 💫 @harrietvane.bsky.social Like many others who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various railway termini.
Writer represented by Bridget Smith at Jabberwocky Literary Agency. Interested in mysteries, EM Forster, Star Trek, and trains. She/her
Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social freelance illustrator and educator making art✎
oregon/california
samanthamashillustration@gmail.com
www.samanthamash.com
❌👑 Suz Brockmann @suzbrockmann.bsky.social romance writer, indie film & tv writer & producer, mother of a SAG strike captain & a nurse, liberal Dem, activist, she/her. Still masks.
Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social Romance reader/writer. She/her. jackielaubooks.com
Adele Buck @adelebuck.com Author. Librarian. My books have been featured in Entertainment Weekly and BookRiot and reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, & Booklist.
Books: https://adelebuck.com/books-3/
Newsletter: https://adelebuck.com/sign-up-for-my-newsletter/
she/her
Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social I make art, try to raise my kids to be Good Humans, and yell about disability. Maker of Santa Dinos and whatever else I feel like. She/they #art #knitting #3Dprinting 🧶
https://linktr.ee/measuredandslow
Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com Romancing the Vote, coming to save a democracy near you in July 2026. (We run an auction to raise money for voting access, because voter suppression is BAD.) Run by Courtney Milan & Kit Rocha more info @ romancingthevote.com
Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social sex & culture critic. author of BUT HOW ARE YOU, REALLY. host of the REBEL EVER AFTER podcast about progressive romance novels. she/her. support me on patreon: patreon.com/brosandprose
everything else: https://linktr.ee/brosandprose
Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social Call me Gigi! (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ Best selling author of diverse LGBTQ+ romance books and episodic serials. I also publish dark romance and paranormal romance books as Jasper Hyde. 🔞ADULTS ONLY! https://tinyurl.com/ypee4v36
Fated Mates @fatedmates.net A romance recommendation machine and podcast.
Discover your next favorite romance novel
fatedmates.net
Follow in your fav podcast app
mf.fatedmates.net/listen
Random Romance Recommender
fatedmates.net/rrr
Book Club
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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social Hope punk books for witches.
Magic is real. Justice is worth fighting for. Love always wins.
🏳️🌈✨📚✨🏳️⚧️
Get my books ⬇️
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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social She/Her. I Love LA. Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man, Viviana Valentine Goes Up the River, & Viviana Valentine & the Ticking Clock. The NYT says I "write with flair." I podcast about movie sleuths. New Haven Pizza Evangelist. More: linktr.ee/msemilyedwards
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)