Amy Gaffney's Starter Pack
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@amygaffney.bsky.social
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
@kitdewaal.com
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Henry Allen. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
@tacobellquarterly.org
Taco Bell Quarterly is a Literary Magazine more prestigious than the New Yorker and Paris Review. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
@mariankeyes.bsky.social
Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
@rachelahandley.com
Philosopher @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social🦉 SFF Author. Poet. They/Them. Dublin. rachelahandley.com
@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.”
@mariafarrell.bsky.social
Irish writer and keynote speaker: let's rewild the internet! Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her http://www.mariafarrell.com https://buttondown.email/MariaFarrell
@ciaraioch.bsky.social
Cartoonist/Illustrator/Doodler | Sí/í/YerWan | "Keer-ee-uhk" | 🇮🇪 📨 Work Queries: ciaraioch.art@gmail.com 🎨 Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints 📜 Newsletter: https://www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter 🫙 Tip Jar: https://www.ciaraioch.com/tip-jar
@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.
@eliistender10.bsky.social
I write books, films and make podcasts. Happily mediocre
@bigbeardedbookseller.com
a shambling lump of ennui with a beard, tattoos, and cat 📖 Reframing Women Printmakers 📖 How To Survive Camping 📚 91/52 http://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com https://www.instagram.com/big.bearded.bookseller
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Historian,Director of UCD Gender Studies. Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities /feminist & queer histories / she/her / Ireland 🇮🇪 Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
@literaryhub.bsky.social
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
@patriciaodonnell.org
Writer, reader, Mainer. New novel, A Symmetry of Husbands. Author page patriciaodonnell.org
@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.
@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
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
🇮🇪 Writer| Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social
Author of The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF editor, CRAFT Literary Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
@carlowweather.bsky.social
Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather offering weather updates and forecasts for Ireland along with local photos. Brand Ambassador for Autoimage Carlow
@darach.bsky.social
That @theirishfor guy. Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him.
@ronanhession.bsky.social
Rónán Hession. Irish author @1dublin1book Listed @anpostibas @booksaremybag #BritishBookAwards #KerryGroupIrishNovel @Soc_of_Authors @dalkeybookfest @PrizeRofC Contact via www.ronanhession.com
@smokelong.bsky.social
Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters.
@rickoshea.bsky.social
Broadcaster @rte.ie - on @rtegold.bsky.social. Books columnist @independent.ie, runs Ireland's largest book club. Patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI, literary curator UCD Festival 2025. Quizzer. https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
@schwarzenegger.bsky.social
Bodybuilder. Conan. Terminator. Former Governor. I killed the Predator. I told you I’d be back. Join my positive corner of the internet - Arnold’s Pump Club.
@kinsleywrites.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Proofreader, Book Nerd. Specializing in Horror, Mystery, Suspense, Dark Romance, and more. She/Her, DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
@kathyfish.bsky.social
Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink (fmrly Crazyhorse) | Wigleaf | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
@liznugent.bsky.social
No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister. Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt. Strange Sally Diamond in all good bookstores now. And even the bad ones. Ha! As if there was such a thing as a bad bookstore. www.liznugent.com
@davidhheadley.bsky.social
M.D. DHH Literary Agency, Goldsboro Books & Capital Crime. Literary agent, award-winning bookseller & festival founder.
@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.
@fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
USA Today Bestselling Irish author. Fiction/non-fic. Latest novel #TheBooksellersGift, Hachette Books Irl Oct 2024 Lives London, UK/Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland (Gaeilge agus fáilte). Rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
@ruthwarewriter.bsky.social
Still writing books... still drinking coffee... still making stuff up as I go along. The Woman in Suite 11 available to pre-order now at linktr.ee/ruthwarewriter Find me at ruthware.com
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social
@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
@susiesbookreviews.bsky.social
📚💙Book lover and reviewer 🏴Scotland 🙋🏻♀️She/her 📧susiebooks@yahoo.com Buying books and reading books are two different hobbies, don’t judge me. Also manages @hburghbookfest.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/susiesbookreviews?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@claireallan.bsky.social
Writer of thrillers ✍️ Derry Girl ☘️ Izzy’s Human 🐾 aka FREYA KENNEDY, when I'm feeling romantic. 💕 Powered by ADHD, HRT & Maltesers 🤯🥵🍫 Published by @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social New thriller: 📕The Perfect Mother 😱🔪🎈- February '25
@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
@janecasey.bsky.social
Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
@cjtudor.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author. Dog lover. Gin drinker. Tattoo enthusiast. New novel THE GATHERING out now: https://shor.by/CJTudor. THE BURNING GIRLS streaming on Netflix UK.
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for! We always want your trade ins!
@padraigbelton.bsky.social
Journalist. BBC, and a few other places. Buys nappies on eBay.
@jay.bsky.team
CEO of Bluesky, steward of AT Protocol. Let’s build a federated republic, starting with this server. 🌱 🪴 🌳
@pantibliss.bsky.social
Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist National Fucking Treasure Ireland
@amygaffney.bsky.social
It’s me! 🧡🧡🧡 Feminist. Poet. Writer~SL Irish Book Awards Short Story 2019~SL Dalkey Creates 2020~SL Penguin Christmas Love Story 2021~Dooligan~Feminist ~Avon Books 2023 & 2024