Michele Helene
She/her An ex-Londoner, almost Parisienne. Golden Egg alumni, writer of things, mostly YA, with a penchant for red shoes.
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Kidlit peeps
Here's a list of writers for children, agents, book people... It's a bit of a smorgasbord TBH
@thefoldline.bsky.social
The Fold Line sewing pattern shop is an online community and one-stop sewing pattern shop for makers and designers. You'll find all your favourite brands under one roof, and we can print your PDF patterns with our copyshop service. https://thefoldline.com
@portybooks.bsky.social
An independent bookshop by the seaside in Portobello, Edinburgh. 🌊 Open 7 days, 10am - 6pm. 📚 Browse millions of books on our website. 👉 https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/links
@ianbrownlie.bsky.social
Writer of children's fiction (Times/CH LL 2023) | Poems: http://dirigibleballoon.org/writer/ianbrownlie & The Toy | http://tiktok.com/@ianbrownliewrites | he/him
@anniefox.com
#indieauthor My YA sci-fi novel “Leeta Simtar: A Life on Two Planets” available #KU ebook print audiobook. My paranormal mystery “The Little Things That Kill” is available in all realms. AnnieFox.com linktr.ee/anniefoxauthor #YAauthor #Resist
@theguardian.com
The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com 🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com 🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
@louisemclaughlin.bsky.social
📚 Author of Fantasy novels. Putting the fan back in Fantasy. https://louisemclaughlin.systeme.io/creativelife Debut novel Discovery: UK : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZ2R62DH US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ2R62DH 🐈⬛️ Cat lady 🎨 Landscape painter
@janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social
Writer (Secrets of the Bees out in Jun 2025; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books #FBPE
@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: lfennimore@noelgay.com
@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
@ianrankin1.bsky.social
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
@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
@joeabercrombie.com
Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a Jaded Literary Sewer, etc. etc.
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@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).
@iammilliam.bsky.social
I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Co-host Backlisted podcast @backlisted.bsky.social. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
@mariankeyes.bsky.social
Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
@stephmerritt.bsky.social
Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Formerly of The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
@sarahpinborough.bsky.social
Author and screenwriter. Sunday Times #1, & NYT Bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES on Netflix and INSOMNIA on Paramount+. Ted owner. WE LIVE HERE NOW coming Summer of 2025
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social
Bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist✍🏻 NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE: Pre-order now for September 2025. Posts by N and team. https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
@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
@annamazz.bsky.social
Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe. Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
@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!
@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 . . .
@bertsbooks.bsky.social
Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk
@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!
@davidhheadley.bsky.social
M.D. DHH Literary Agency, Goldsboro Books & Capital Crime. Literary agent, award-winning bookseller & festival founder.
@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
@debharkness.bsky.social
Professor. Novelist. 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 🕰️ #TBBO🐦⬛
@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