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@chrislloydauthor.bsky.social
Author. The Eddie Giral Occupation series. Winner of the HWA Gold Crown for Historical Fiction. Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger. Website: https://www.chrislloydauthor.com
@ecow0rrier.bsky.social
Writer, translator, editor. Find out more at www.alayland.uk
@andreapa.bsky.social
Book lover, avid reader, writer of words, nature lover, art and craft, mindfulness practitioner, Reiki, owned by a BorderTerrier. 🚫 annoying DM’s 💙📚
@leemurraywriter.bsky.social
ONZM. USA Today bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award winner. Monster lover from Aotearoa. Represented by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary.
@gailaldwin.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, scriptwriter. Psychological suspense mystery The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell available now from Bloodhound Books. https://geni.us/SecretCarolynRussell https://gailaldwin.com
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
@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
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
@jonronson.bsky.social
Writer: The Debutante, Things Fell Apart, Last Days Of August, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath Test, Kubrick’s 📦, Lost at 🌊, Men who 😶 at 🐐, Them. https://linktr.ee/jonronson
@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
@gavinesler.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com Contact: [email protected]
@jonathancoe.bsky.social
Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ... https://linktr.ee/coelinks
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
@eliistender10.bsky.social
I write books, films and make podcasts. Happily mediocre
@joeabercrombie.com
Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books and the Devils. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a Jaded Literary Sewer, etc. etc.
@terriwindling.bsky.social
Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for my novel The Wood Wife) and others. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint. US born & raised, now living on Dartmoor (Devon, UK).
@julietemckenna.bsky.social
Writes epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. She/her. All opinions absolutely my own. For more, see www.julietemckenna.com
@effjayem.bsky.social
SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein and Rhetorics of Fantasy. Publishing a book on Joanna Russ's The Female Man with Luna Press in 2026. Pre Order now! Supporter of 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
@gillianredfearn.bsky.social
Deputy Publisher, Gollancz. Hugo nominated editor of diverse and original voices. Chaotic neutral. She/her. Editor by day, supervillain by night . . .
@emmanewman.bsky.social
SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com
@charlottemendelson.bsky.social
New novel WIFE out now, Meanwhile: The Exhibitionist, Almost English, When We Were Bad+ Gardening for New Yorker
@simonguy.bsky.social
Wandering. Wondering. Freelancing. Often acquiring and editing SFFH for Angry Robot Books. Live in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
@robinhobb.bsky.social
Writer of fantasy and SF. Gardener. Chicken tender. Dog Person but cat friendly. Washington state USA. Old and getting older. Stay off my lawn!
@annelouiseavery.bsky.social
Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery
@bellapagan.bsky.social
Publisher @UKTor. Love fiction with a speculative spin, science fiction & fantasy. Wordsmith. Professional geek. ‘Cat person’. Info: https://shorturl.at/rRID9
@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.
@debharkness.bsky.social
Feels too much. Never enough children, islands, mourners, gossips & vegetables. Warms the stars. Essentially a spy. She/her. A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 🧙♀️SHADOW OF NIGHT 🌚 THE BOOK OF LIFE 📖 TIME'S CONVERT 🕰️ THE BLACK BIRD ORACLE🐦⬛ THE FALCON AND THE ROSE 🥀
@dimitrafimi.bsky.social
#Tolkien expert, Professor of #Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow. Co-Director: Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic Website: http://dimitrafimi.com
@paulkane.bsky.social
Award-winning, #1 bestselling author/editor of over 160 books, inc the sellout Hooded Man, Lunar, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Cursed and Her Last Secret, Her Husband’s Grave and The Family Lie as PL Kane. http://www.shadow-writer.co.uk
@marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social
Fantasy author. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/marklawrenceauthor
@marieoregan.bsky.social
Writer, editor of anthologies, managing editor of Absinthe Books, PS Publishing’s novella imprint. Married to @paulkane.bsky.social Fuelled by tea. Represented by @megdavis.bsky.social of https://ki-agency.co.uk/ marieoregan.net
@philipreeve.bsky.social
Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
@jamesbennett.bsky.social
British Fantasy Award winning author. 🏳️🌈 The Ben Garston Novels. The Book of Queer Saints. The Dark magazine. New collection 'Preaching to the Perverted' Out Now! www.lethepressbooks.com 'Inventive and vivid' Publishers Weekly
@davidmbarnett.bsky.social
Writer. Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett Latest books: SCUTTLER'S COVE (Feb 13th): https://www.canelo.co/books/scuttler-s-cove-david-barnett/ WITHERED HILL: https://www.canelo.co/books/withered-hill-david-barnett/
@franceshardinge.bsky.social
Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
@lickedspoon.bsky.social
I write about food, mostly. Did I tell you I live in France now? deborarobertson.substack.com
@lloydshepherd.com
Books like The English Monster. Podcasts at The Curiously Specific Book Club
@johnj.bsky.social
Literary agent for SF, Fantasy and Horror, after 15 years as a publisher in London. http://www.johnjarrold.co.uk/
@portybelle.bsky.social
Scottish #bookblogger, chatting about the #books I've loved. Nature watcher, keen cook, always on the go and love living by the sea! www.portobellobookblog.com
@julieacrisp.bsky.social
Literary Agent of fantasy and science fiction. Reps lovely authors including John Gwynne, Devin Madson and Kell Woods. Reads a lot, edits more. Red pen usually in hand.
@georgeisediting.bsky.social
George as in The Famous Five. Books, nice dinners, flowers, cats and rage against the state of things. Picador person but all views ...