Balancing the Books
✨Coming soon!✨ A podcast to help writers balance the books … along with everything else in life. Hosted by @caileansteed.bsky.social
@harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Mutinous mutterer. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. New Cal Sounder novel SLEEPER BEACH is OUT NOW. UK pb Karla’s Choice coming May 22nd. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
@suchmayer.bsky.social
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. TRUTH & DARE out now with @cipherpress.bsky.social 💘 SPACE CRONE (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 💜 Website & newsletter: somayer.net.
@dlibris.bsky.social
Weegie bookseller and book enthusiast. SFF reader. Buying books and reading books are two separate, imperfectly correlated hobbies. Angry queer. Nonbinary. They/them.
@rainewilson.bsky.social
Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE LAST TO DROWN 🌊 and WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST 👻 out now | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
@katieam.bsky.social
Historical novelist, book lover & freelance writer/editor with ME/CFS. Currently writing about a 1930s spirit medium. 📚 CBC breakthrough mentee 2024 📚 MMA mentee 2022 https://linktr.ee/katieandersonmorrison
@patsycollins.bsky.social
Writer of cosy mysteries, other novels, and short stories. Travels in a campervan, eats cake and drinks tea a lot. Also gardens and photographs stuff. https://patsycollins.uk/
@katherinehudson.bsky.social
Writer, reader, cat wrangler l Working on poverty and inequality in Scotland l Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2024 l LL Mslexia Novel Competition 2023
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
Author - http://amzn.to/2kqeKwz - journalist, filmmaker and human rights campaigner. Strategic advisor at Trans Media Watch, commissioning editor at Eye For Film and DEI lead at the Bylines Network. #NUJ #OFCS #CherryPicks #binders #writer #author
@bcdreyer.social
America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his • abstruse in the sense of recondite • 🏳️🌈 benjamindreyer.com
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
Award-winning science writer, author of the New York Times bestseller "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," and an upcoming book on cystic fibrosis, "The Taste of Salt."
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@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.
@nigelslater.bsky.social
A cook who writes. Observer columnist. Author. Gardener. Books: The Kitchen Diaries, The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book, A Thousand Feasts. Instagram.com/nigelslater
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@emmakennedy.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter, Lego builder. I’m @emmakennedy from the Bird Place.
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | Eeyore at the gay club | Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
@hjm.bsky.social
Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she
@thatdocphoenix.com
That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
@drcarpineti.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social He/him
@theguyliner.bsky.social
Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him) theguyliner.com theguyliner.substack.com
@katebradbury.bsky.social
Garden/Nature writer/presenter 🏳️🌈 @Froglifers and @BumblebeeTrust patron. @savebutterflies and @the_RHS ambassador. Agent @DFMTalent. Born at 342.54ppm
@paullisicky.bsky.social
My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social
writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
@eggsbened.bsky.social
Cultural talk and typing. And singing. Biographer of Stephen Sondheim. Variety, London theatre critic. The Stage, Associate writer. Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers. Somewhat gay.
@brianbhalley.bsky.social
Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here don’t reflect them. Feminist, progressive, 🏳️🌈, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more.
@simonjamesgreen.bsky.social
Author & screenwriter. Boy Like Me, Finn Jones Was Here, Gay Club!, Heartbreak Boys, and more! www.simonjamesgreen.com
@michelletea.bsky.social
DOPAMINE Books: OUT NOW Days Running by Shawn Stewart Ruff NEXT UP WITCH Anthology Dopaminebooks.org Me: Modern Magic Knocking Myself Up Against Memoir Modern Tarot Black Wave Valencia + more
@tawseefkhan.bsky.social
Immigration Solicitor & Author https://linktr.ee/tawseefkhan Buy Muslim, Actually: How We Get Islam Wrong and Why It Matters - https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/muslim-actually/
@christiangullette.bsky.social
Poet and author of COACHELLA ELEGY from Trio House Press “Cool, elegantly controlled poems” -The Washington Post Buy a copy here: https://linktr.ee/christiangullette www.christiangullette.com
@jeffreyricker.bsky.social
#Queer writer of #YA and speculative fiction. Expect lots of Star Trek references. Can I pet your dog? https://linktr.ee/rickerje
@writerandhounds.bsky.social
📚🖊️🥂🧙🏽♀️ Writer YA Fantasy 🏳️🌈 Peters Fraser & Dunlop Queer Fiction Prize 2023 Shortlistee Guest Editor, Mentor & Workshop Facilitator: Writing Our Legacy
@specificityarchives.com
Filmmaker Author | SPSFC Quarter-finalist. Sloth on the run www.specificityarchives.com
@yeoldemother.bsky.social
Custodian of @musicOMH.com, {blank-or-blank} at The Guardian. Here for musics, (UK) politics, infrastructure geekery, and whatever else. 📍London | Same handle on Zucksites, &c., but meh to those
@terribleman.com
Irish literary translator, editor, writer, advisory editor to the Stinging Fly, and The Paris Review, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
@drewgum.bsky.social
Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025. Indie Press supporter. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 MD ANT 📍Enderby,UK https://linktr.ee/drewgum
@bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social
'Our Big Day' LGBTQ+ award-winning picturebook published 2022. Currently working on a gay novel for adults. Husband, dog lover, cat misser, biscuit eater, previously @gutterbookshop ... he/him. www.bobjohnstonbooks.com
@luketurner.bsky.social
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
@ryandonovan.bsky.social
Author | BROADWAY BODIES and QUEER APPROACHES IN MUSICAL THEATRE Assistant Professor of Theater Studies | Duke University ryan-donovan.com
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@aidenheung.bsky.social
Chinese poet, gay, reader, squash player, Poet at WashU, Assistant Poetry Editor of The Parentheses Journal. Winner of 2024 Levis Prize in Poetry from Four Way Books. Debut All There Is To Lose forthcoming 2026
@allenblackwood.bsky.social
Horror novelist and curator of ghosts and other specters. 🌲PNW🌲🏳️🌈 Tell your dog I said hi.
@elisastoneleahy.com
Peruvian-American author of middle grade books (TETHERED and MALLORY📚), library event specialist, mom to the coolest kids, vacuumer supreme for my scruffy dog 🏳️🌈🇵🇪
@andrewwille.bsky.social
Reads, writes, edits, gardens, cooks. Natural history, nice people. Whippet person 🌈🇪🇺🌹🥮🐺 Also Andrew Wille Writing Studio www.wille.org https://linktr.ee/andrewwille
@hamzajahanzeb.bsky.social
🪅: Personal account 📍: Kew, England 🇬🇧🇵🇰☪️🏳️🌈 🎭 : Writer #WestEnd #Broadway 📖 : Authenticity (née Sensitivity) Reader 🏆 : UK CWA Judge 🔗 : hamzajahanzeb.co.uk ✍️ : hamzajahanzeb.substack.com
@dbfreelance.co.uk
Senior editor (print) Cycling Weekly Freelance work dbfreelance.co.uk Fitness, sight loss, personal essays, podcasts 📍Lewes, UK | 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/deebeefree
@andresordorica.com
Writer & Poet Based in Edinburgh. Proudly Queer and Latinx. 🏳️🌈🇲🇽 Author of HOW WE NAMED THE STARS (2024), AT LEAST THIS I KNOW (2022), and HOLY BOYS (2025) Top 10 Debut Novelist of 2024 The Observer UK. https://andresnordorica.substack.com/
@janamperkins.com
founder, @womenofletters.org. computational social scientist writing a book (DEEP LITERACY, DIGITAL TIME) for Routledge