Portobello Literary
A literary agency based in Edinburgh.
https://linktr.ee/portobelloliterary
@thebookseller.com
At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚 News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
@charliclement.bsky.social
disabled, ND & queer speaker, writer, creative ♾️ imperfect capitalism hater + arts & culture enjoyer 🎞️ author of ALL TANGLED UP IN AUTISM & CHRONIC ILLNESS 📖 views own, they/them. mostly random thoughts - work elsewhere! https://linktr.ee/charliclement_
@ellasgordon.bsky.social
currently: acting publisher at brazen books | usually: editorial director @wildfirebooks | books + other things | views my own
@salenagodden.bsky.social
poet & author: latest books ‘Mrs Death Misses Death' 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' 'With Love, Grief and Fury' & ‘Springfield Road’ books & gigs: https://linktr.ee/salenagodden Substack: https://salenagodden.substack
@hamzajahanzeb.bsky.social
📘: The Rise and Rise of Chappell Roan 🗓️: September 2025 📍: Kew, England 🎭 : Writer #WestEnd #Broadway 📖 : Authenticity (née Sensitivity) Reader 🔗 : https://linktr.ee/hamzajahanzeb
@bookywookydooda.bsky.social
Publicity Director for all the imprints of Headline Publishing Group Find me also on Instagram: caitlinraynor Fast talker, hot temper, symmetry lover. If I was a stick of rock - geek outside with a Jane Austen core.
@lucydauman.bsky.social
Deputy Publishing Director for Crime & Thriller at Headline Books 📚 All views my own.
@ange-harker.bsky.social
📕'Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West' publ. Cicerone - out 30th Sept '25! Farm-raised, hearing-aid wearing, neurodivergent, #RuralWritingInstitute & #OpenMountain alumni, likes the dark side. She/her. Lakes/Dales/Nidderdale
@ariellcacciola.bsky.social
Publisher: Wild Hunt Books.🦌 @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Writer & Reader. 📚 Freelance Developmental Editor. ✒️ London.☔ theshapeofwords.blog
@katiebedwards.bsky.social
✍🏼 Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine, @uk.theconversation.com |📰 Freelance Columnist, bylines in The Independent, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The i Paper |📚Writer, represented by Rogers, Coleridge and White Literary Agency
@mmdotcox.bsky.social
Professional romantic and Commercial Fiction Publishing Director for Zaffre, part of Bonnier Books UK. Not as online as I used to be.
@rachelpmann.bsky.social
Literary agent | Sheffield / London | Opinions my own | CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS for 2025 (& on parental leave from April)
@jennychambles.bsky.social
Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Senior Lecturer in Film & Media. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. Certified DISCO DIVA (IYKYK). I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
@kiagency.bsky.social
Boutique literary and scriptwriting agency based in London. Find us online at www.ki-agency.co.uk Agents @megdavis.bsky.social and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @helenlane.bsky.social
@robinmorganbentley.bsky.social
Head of Originals, Books and Scripted Drama @ Audible. Husband to Paul, daddy, disabled, (audio)book obsessed, write a bit myself. I am not an octopus.
@islaybookfest.bsky.social
Fèis Leabhraichean Ìle: where whisky, birds and literature meet. Next festival taking place 28th August - 31st August 2025. 📚
@jedapearl.bsky.social
🖌️ Poetry • SFF • Fiction • Art • https://linktr.ee/JedaPearl • ⚡ Disabled • Fibromyalgia 🥄 💫 Collaboration •Community • 🏴🇯🇲
@annaframe.bsky.social
Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Rowe Irvin, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk. Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social
Writer, Reader, Hybrid creature https://linktr.ee/HelenMcClory
@pascalepetit.bsky.social
BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
@qmanivannan.bsky.social
Scottish Greens candidate for Fountainbridge-Craiglockhart by-election June ‘25 🌿 [email protected] Promoted by Dave Owen on behalf of the Scottish Green Party, both at 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN
@nucosi.bsky.social
bookish emo bisexual: writer, bookseller/barista. NO ONE’s NO-ONE a novel (2024) HEARTBREAK IS A UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE… Scumbag Press (2023). https://ko-fi.com/nucosi
@alisonhennessey.bsky.social
Publishing Director of Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books. Lover of the gripping & the gothic, the contemporary & the cunning. Comprehensive school girl in literary world. Easily bribed with a chocolate orange.
@sojseaside.bsky.social
Literary editor & writers' mentor. Sarah Waters, Viv Albertine, Jacqueline Crooks and other fab authors. Cheshire Novel Prize judge. Black Girl Writers Mentor. www.sallyoj.com
@jojojojojo.bsky.social
@sarahmanguso.bsky.social
Writer: Liars, Questions Without Answers, Very Cold People, 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, The Two Kinds of Decay, Siste Viator, etc. Work with me: shipmanagency.bsky.social
@edpr.bsky.social
Professional Book Champions 📚 A multi-award-winning agency specialising in books, culture and inclusive storytelling
@hugorifkind.bsky.social
Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
@rtraister.bsky.social
Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack.
@bramwelllawes.bsky.social
Book lover. Cat mother. Swiftie. Always writing. 🕯️ Head of Online Sales @ Bonnier Books UK 📚 Agent: Anna Dixon @ YMU Literary ✨
@womenintranslation.bsky.social
A book prize celebrating writing by women translated into English. Winner announced 21st November 2024. From SCAPVC at the University of Warwick. Posts by Holly Langstaff.
@book-ish.bsky.social
2 bookshops, Crickhowell and Abergavenny. Known for ranting, banging on about books and the odd humorous observation since 2010…. www.book-ish.co.uk
@ruthaylett.bsky.social
(she/her) Author, poet, socialist, feminist, Heriot-Watt emeritus professor with research in AI, social robotics/agents, affective computing All views personal; likes/shares are not support
@marbledmayhem.bsky.social
Poet, publisher, essayist, crip—PhD on gender, genre & disability at NTU, Singapore. Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham. Digital Editor at Osmosis Press. Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023) (they/them)♿️🏳️⚧️
@saraupstone.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Director Postgraduate Research, Kingston School of Art. Researching transglossic literature, disability, social and environmental justice. All views my own. Masking against Covid until no one has to.
@chitgrrl.bsky.social
Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
@theothersambaker.bsky.social
One of the millions of journalists who’s defected to Substack and started a podcast. https://theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/
@tinajordan.bsky.social
Deputy editor, New York Times Book Review. Reader, writer, archives fiend.
@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
@caileansteed.bsky.social
Pronounced ‘Kaylin’ | #TheMirrorHalls coming 2026 in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 | #Home🏚️ out now from Bloomsbury Raven | Writer, teacher & dog owner | Agent Oli Munson AM Heath | They/them | 🏴🏳️⚧️
@profdevisridhar.bsky.social
Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni. Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer. Views own.
@helensedgwick.bsky.social
Author, editor, physicist. Books: The Comet Seekers, The Growing Season, The Burrowhead Mysteries trilogy. linktr.ee/HelenSedgwick 🏳️🌈
@timothycbaker.bsky.social
Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
@therealaverie.bsky.social
Co-chair of SYP Scotland. Queer, trans, cat parent, etc. he/they
@eleanorthom.bsky.social
#Author of Connective Tissue (Taproot, 2023) and The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009). Carer and swim mum #writingcommunity #jewishcommunity 📚💦🏊🏻♀️🐋🎗️ www.eleanorthom.com
@kathyburke.bsky.social
Burkey with the good hair. My woke take brings all the c*n*s to the yard. Profile pic by Nancy fancy pants
@emmaflint.bsky.social
Writer. Awkward but terribly keen. LITTLE DEATHS | OTHER WOMEN Books, history, coffee, cats, stories, gin 🐈⬛ 📚 Agent: Antony Topping Longlisted: Women’s Prize | CWA Gold Dagger | Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year | Guardian Not The Booker
@aliking.bsky.social
Data botherer & code tinkerer in Edinburgh. Queer Code Scotland organiser, support diversity in tech as I live here. Opinions model's own. They/them Mastodon: [email protected] Twitter: @ali_king
@jonmcgregor.bsky.social
I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.) There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/ Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
@tramppress.bsky.social
Independent book publisher. Latest: Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick www.tramppress.com Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Newsletter eepurl.com/bjjdND