Book Pleasures @bookpleasures.bsky.social 
ReadiLN – Discover & Share Books @readiln.com 📚 Where Readers & Authors Connect!
Discover new books. Share reviews. Connect with authors
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Readers: Explore indie gems & bestsellers.
Authors: Promote books, get reviews & grow your audience.
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Author Craig Read @craigread.bsky.social Dwayne And The Dinosaur Dilemma now available, either from myself paperback £10 each, or Hardback £15 each, or Amazon at £15 & £25
ashleylaffin @ashleylaffin.bsky.social Debut PB The Balloonimals available now!🎈Wife & mom💗 MFA Grad. Writer. Marketer. SCBWI member & guest blogger April ‘24. Kids’ Choice KidLit Writing Contest HM ‘24📚
🌊 WordsRI.com | Where Books Find Their Perfect Mood Match @wordsri.com WordsRI.com is rewriting how readers find books through mood sliders, character-plot balances, and emotional wavelengths. Authors: Get your work into the hands of readers who crave exactly what you’ve created. Readers: No more mismatched books search.
Your Story Match @dreamverseland.com Helping stories meet the readers they’re meant for.
A calm discovery space for authors who value alignment over noise.
List your book → https://unread.cloud
Sonja McGiboney, Author @sonjamcg.bsky.social Sonja McGiboney is an author and photographer with a focus on children's literature. She created a series of concept PB called "Jazzy’s Books." She is focused on building her PB library with new stories.
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
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👧 Parents & Teachers: Find the best books for young readers.
✍️ Authors & Illustrators: List & showcase your books to a global audience.
Rob Ellis 🐇… @robellis.bsky.social Custom books, comics, horror films & bunnies 🐇…
Jacqui Sydney 📚 @jacquisydney.bsky.social Ex KS2 teacher, children’s book blogger and lover of undunked biscuits and Lego. Currently reading all the books. Autistic. She/her.
Blog: https://worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/
Hilary Hawkes - author @hilarymhawkes.bsky.social Children's author. Writing picture books and Middle Grade. Repd for foreign rights by Wellread and Boekenreis. Also lover of nature, gardens, mugs of tea and peaceful places. GEA, Scattered Authors, CWIG
Veronica Price @vonprice.bsky.social Chartered librarian, MCLIP. NHS Knowledge &Evidence Specialist. Former School Librarian. Posts about library matters and books.
Blog: https://vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/
Home education for all HEFA @hefa21.bsky.social We are peer to peer support for all things home education. Feel free to ask us questions.
Education Otherwise @educationotherwise.bsky.social The UK’s foremost home education charity.
📞 0300 1245690 (free helpline)
🌍 www.educationotherwise.org
📧 enquiries@educationotherwise.org
IBBY UK @ibbyuk.bsky.social UK section of the International Board on Books for Young People
Find us elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/ibbyuk
Katharine Quarmby @katharineq.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist: https://muckrack.com/katharine-quarmby; Shortlisted, New Angle Prize for Literature 2025, for historical novel The Low Road; literary agent, non-fiction, Andrew Lownie; website: katharinequarmby.com.
We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
JohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social ✏️Graphic novels makers
📚Wilomina: The Land of Dreams and Nightmares
Out now from Scholastic UK
⭐️Order ➡️ https://linktr.ee/wilomina
Rep’d by United Agents. Scottish + French. Glasgow
#KidsGN📚💬
Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
Steven Bristow @sbristow87.bsky.social Hi, I am an artist creating my own manga and you can check it out on my patreon.
https://patreon.com/StevenBristow?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
Also available for commissions.
Elvy Fox @elvyfox.com ✨ Fantasy artist Illustrator
🌟 Book illustration and cover design | Game art | DND
💫 Commissions & prints are available
🌝 Speedpaints on YouTube
All links below 👇🏼
https://elvyfox.com
#art #illustration #conceptart #fantasyart #noai #bookcoverdesign
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
✨ KURU KURU ✨ | Anime Illustrator & Artbook Author 📚🎨 @kurukurukurn.bsky.social 🎨 Anime art & whimsical worlds! "Enchanted Mansion" creator.
📚 Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/KURU-KURU/author/B0CQPNZPKV
💖 Support here: https://buymeacoffee.com/kurukuru
Carrie from Hookable Books @hookablebooks.bsky.social I'm a primary school teacher, book blogger and avid reader of children's books. Would love to connect with people who want to chat about children's books and education.
Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com Novel development & editing services. Our editors are industry experts and award-winning writers. Take your manuscript to the next level.
DarlingAxe.com
Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social Author. Scottish, Bengali, generally confused. “The Godfather of Anglo-Asian Crime Writing” (Daily Express) Rep’d by @stubbleagent
From Glasgow.
More here: abirmukherjee.com
and here: https://www.amazon.com/author/abirmukherjee
CP @caitpol.bsky.social Mum of 2 bookworms, library catalogue addict and charity shop rifler.
OnThisDate @onethisdate.bsky.social Historical Events On this Date. (Need help applying for grants? Visit www.onegrant.co)
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Launched in 1980, we review hundreds of new children’s books each year and publish articles on every aspect of writing for children. Explore new issues and our 40 year archive for free on our website www.booksforkeeps.co.uk
Laura Velasco @laura4ever.bsky.social Software developer. Cat, dogs and horse enthusiast. Living each day to the limit. Livie & Swiftie
My life in 10 emojis 🏳️⚧️🐈🍕💜🎮👩💻🫶🏼♟️🦮📺
Jasbir Shah @jasbirshah.bsky.social Maybe I use a little social media.
Hachette Children's Group @hachettechildrens.bsky.social Official feed for Hachette Children's Group, publishing for every child 📚
Shirley Hottier💫 Illustrator @shirleyhottier.bsky.social French illustrator based in Edinburgh, UK.
2021 FAB PRIZE Illustration winner. Represented by Emily Talbot @unitedagents
#kidlit illustration, #editorial and everything in between. Also a placemaker/urban designer in a previous life
Judith Eagle @juditheagle.bsky.social Children’s author: The Secret Starling; The Pear Affair; The Accidental Stowaway; The Stolen Songbird. Published by Faber; rep’d by Lucy Irvine at PFD
Orion Starfell @orionstarfell.bsky.social Fishing mage trying to make rent. Specializes in levitation magic, bad timing, and questionable partnerships.
Not a hero, not a villain. Just someone with bills to pay.
“Magic doesn’t come cheap, and neither do I.”
#BeyondTM
@madloki.bsky.social @madloki.bsky.social 
Becky @pinklotus1.bsky.social ✨️Seeker of silver linings! ✨️
📚 Lover of books & dogs 🐕
Mum Nana ME/fibro 👩🦽
Disability Mental Health Writing Kidlit Art Buddhism Bristol
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Lisa J Allen @lisajallen.bsky.social Children's author. UNDERCOVER ANGEL books 1 and 2 out NOW for ages 9-12!! https://amzn.to/3QmPi6q & https://amzn.to/3NreKcM with Tiny Tree!!! www.lisajallen.com
halfmagical @halfmagical.bsky.social Shares content about the great outdoors.
Loves old-growth trees and boreal forests.
Please drive carefully around cyclists! 🚲
Hull Noir @hullnoir.bsky.social A regional, national and international crime writing festival. Monthly evenings running at Hull Libraries featuring debut authors through to bestsellers.
Manly Writers' Festival @manlywritersfest.bsky.social Stories Across Manly. A literary festival for readers, writers, and thinkers. March 18-21, 2027. Gayamagal & Garigal Land, Manly (Sydney).
www.manlywritersfestival.org.au
Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
Sign up for the festival newsletter to hear news about what's coming!
Stockport Noir @stockportnoir.bsky.social Crime fiction festival in the North West. Saturday 31st January 2026 at Stockport Masonic Guildhall
Harrogate International Festivals @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
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
StokeyLitFest @stokeylitfest.bsky.social ‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social ...a world of different...
hayfestival.org 
Chiltern Kills Crime Writing Festival @chilternkills.bsky.social The UK’s biggest one-day crime writing festival, just 18 minutes out of London and featuring some of the biggest names in UK crime fiction.
Every penny of every ticket sold goes to help Centrepoint end youth homelessness in the UK.
Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest.bsky.social We are an annual autumn book festival on Scotland's whisky isle. Next festival taking place 27th - 30th August 2026. 📚
Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The UK’s Biggest Comic Art Festival!
Across Yorkshire 9-15 November 2026, with HUGE Comic Convention 14 & 15 November, Harrogate! Tickets on sale ✨
thoughtbubblefestival.com
South Warwickshire Literary Festival @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social The Local Festival for Local Authors
Affordable, accessible, and tremendous fun. Main festival Saturday 20th September, evening events 12th June & 18th Sept Leamington Spa Warwickshire www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com
Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
www.cymerafestival.co.uk
Dingle Literary Festival @dinglelit.bsky.social Arguably the best book festival in the west!
#DingleLit will take place again on November 21st, 22nd & 23rd 2025
Portobello Book Festival @portybookfest.bsky.social Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
@flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Online and in person flashfiction events. Next online festival day Oct. Next in person festival 17-19 July 2026 flashfictionfestival.com
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
Murder One International Crime Writing Festival @murderonefest.bsky.social Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival, based in the LexIcon Library, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin and supported by the Arts Council, DLR Libraries & Dubray Books. 🔊 15-18 Oct 2026 www.murderone.ie
Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
Jacky Collins @jackycnoir64.bsky.social 
Capital Crime @capitalcrime.bsky.social A celebration of the crime and thriller genre. 🔎 13th - 14th June 2025. Info@capitalcrime.org Tickets on sale now: capitalcrime.org
Helensburgh Book Festival @hburghbookfest.bsky.social Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
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
Canterbury Children's Literature Festival @canterburykidslit.bsky.social A brand new festival to celebrate childrens and YA books in all their forms & connect kids and families across Canterbury and beyond with the amazing world of books. July 11th & 12th 2025,crowdfunding now!
York National Book Fair @yorkbookfair.bsky.social 12th - 13th September 2025
www.yorkbookfair.com
The UK's largest rare & secondhand book fair. Organised by the PBFA. 
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
Brightlingsea Literary Festival @bsealitfest.bsky.social Literary festival on the north Essex coast, held Feb/March in association with WinterFest
@ghoststoryfest.bsky.social @ghoststoryfest.bsky.social 
@claphambookfest.bsky.social @claphambookfest.bsky.social 
Bradford Literature Festival @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social explore words, discover worlds
11 - 20 June 2027
https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/
Agatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social Official news page for the Agatha Christie Festival, taking place between 12 and 20 September 2026 #AgathaFestival
@budlitfest.bsky.social @budlitfest.bsky.social 
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie
https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com Iowa City's home for 47,000 used/rare books, puzzles, games, and two famous cats. 😷 Masks required - 12-6 Central, Mon-Sat - https://www.thehauntedbookshop.com
Firefly Bookstore, New & Used @fireflybookstore.bsky.social Located in downtown Kutztown since 2012, Firefly Bookstore is an independently-owned and operated new and used bookstore. Re-located in a bigger store in 2017, we now have almost 3000 square feet of space for over 65,000 items.
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks
king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social Order books online or shop in-person at Canada's hardest to find indie bookstore, co-operatively run in Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring $5 flat rate shipping across Canada!
www.linktr.ee/kingscoopbookstore
Bakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social Canada's oldest Speculative Fiction bookstore, founded in 1972. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com. We are located in Toronto, Ontario.
Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2026 Living Wage employer.
Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
Tree House Second-hand Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social Read, Recycle, Rediscover
Second-hand bookshop and music venue in Kenilworth, Warwickshire run by Victoria Mier. Profits to charity. Patron is glorious Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Posts by Victoria.
Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
An Post Bookshop of the Year 🏆
Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis.
https://leviathanbookstore.com/
The Scribbling Lion @thescribblinglion.bsky.social An online and event based bookstore focusing on small press and self published books of high quality with an emphasis on minority voices.
Queer and woman owned.
thescribblinglion.com
The Wandering Albatross @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social A tiny indie bookshop in Bloomfield, Ontario, Canada. Translated literature, travel, offbeat history, walking, geography, folklore & other interesting finds.
287 Bloomfield Main St, around the back. Open Friday - Sunday.
www.wanderingalbatrossbooks.com
P.G's Storybook Emporium Bookstore @pgstorybookem.bsky.social We live our lives in stories,surrounded by stories and loving stories!This is where we all come together to celebrate those stories through sharing and adopting. Find us at storybookem.com, Bookshop.org and Libro.fm!
queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social Your queer and trans owned liberation bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin. We ship anywhere in the US.
Green Feather Book Company @greenfeatherbooks.bsky.social We’re an Indigenous woman owned indie bookstore in Norman, Oklahoma. We’re building community around words and the worlds they create.
300 W. Gray Street, Ste 108
Norman, OK 73069
for in-store pickup: greenfeatherbooks.com
Green Apple Books @greenapplebooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore in San Francisco since 1967.
Our Sunset location is @booksonthepark.bsky.social
https://greenapplebooks.com/
Write Blend Bookshop @writeblendbookshop.bsky.social We are an independent bookshop just outside Liverpool. We love all authors, trad or indie
@oldbankwigtown.bsky.social @oldbankwigtown.bsky.social 
The Book Seller @thebooksellergv.bsky.social A local, independent bookstore in Grass Valley, CA. Proudly providing our community with quality reads since 1976.
www.thebookseller.biz
https://www.redbubble.com/people/TheBookSellerGV/explore?page=1&sortOrder=recent
The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social Keeping Melbourne in good books since the 1960s.
60 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC, Australia
https://paperbackbooks.com.au
BH6 Books And Home @bh6booksandhome.bsky.social Bookshop in Southbourne Dorset by the sea.
Open 9-5 Monday to Saturday
69 Southbourne Grove
BH6 3QU
01202 418403
Grimsby Books @grimsbybooks.bsky.social A new & used bookstore owned by two best friends in Grimsby, ON 🇨🇦
https://www.tiktok.com/@grimsbybooks
instagram.com/grimsbybooks
www.grimsbybooks.com
4 Ontario St.
Dave Shoots Books @daveshootsbooks.bsky.social Wendy, not Dave (he's my dad). Old broad. Selling interesting old and local history #books since 2000 (now online only). Other interests - music, cooking, baking, crocheting, writing, community. Saint John, New Brunswick. http://daveshootsbookseller.com
The Little Apple Bookshop @littleapplebkshop.bsky.social Indie Bookshop in York. 🍏 Selling new books for adults and kids. 🍏 Signed books a speciality. 🍏 Next to York Minster. 🍏 Not quite as old. 
@thecraftyreader.bsky.social @thecraftyreader.bsky.social 
Rare Mags @raremags.bsky.social Magazines, books, stationery, coffee, Stockport.
5 Lower Hillgate, SK1 1JQ
www.raremags.co.uk
Golden Leaf Books @goldenleafbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 A small bookstore in upstate NY. Just outside Albany.
Next to a Stewart's. ☕