Bookish People to Follow!
Some favorite writers and publishing insiders to make your feed more creative, less stressful.
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@aswinn.bsky.social
@rachelstuhler.bsky.social
Screenwriter & Author. Maternal advocate. Ginger malcontent. Bios are hard.
@kaytsukel.bsky.social
Freelancer. Ghostwriter. Author THE ART OF RISK (NatGeo, 2016) and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SEX (S&S, 2013). Thwarted explorer. Nerd. Dog Mom. "A bucket full of f'in sunshine."
@lacycrawford.bsky.social
Author of fiction & nonfiction, including NYT Notable NOTES ON A SILENCING (Little, Brown 2020). PhD dropout with lingering love for criticism & cultural theory. UK based. Raising sons. Always with a Malinois & sometimes the corgi, if she can be bothered
@kathmschmidt.bsky.social
President, KMSPR. Book publishing, marketing, consulting, strategy. I write Publishing Confidential on Substack.
@samisagesays.bsky.social
🏝️out of touch coastal elite 🫶🏼cofounder of Betches Media & Betches News 📚author of Democracy in Retrograde 🎙️host of Morning Announcements & American Fever Dream
@jfkane.bsky.social
Novels (Rules for Visiting, The Report). Story collections (This Close, Bending Heaven). New novel, FONSECA, out August 12, 2025, from Penguin Press.
@harlancoben.bsky.social
Next Netflix series: MISSING YOU Next novel: NOBODY’S FOOL HarlanCoben.com
@everywhereist.bsky.social
James Beard Award-winning writer, bestselling author, and all-around weirdo behind Everywhereist.com. Author, ALL OVER THE PLACE (Hachette, 2017) and IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT (PRH, 2024)
@thebookmaven.bsky.social
NEW PODCAST: The Book Maven: A Literary Revue https://thebookmavenpodcast.substack.com/ Critic @LATimesBooks LIFE B memoir: https://bookshop.org/p/books/life-b-overcoming-double-depression-bethanne-patrick/1874245 https://linktr.ee/bookmaven
@alafairburke.bsky.social
Criminal law professor. NYT bestselling author of 20+ crime novels. I like dogs and food (separately). Www.alafairburke.com. New book is THE NOTE–you should get it.
@tinajordan.bsky.social
Deputy editor, New York Times Book Review. Reader, writer, archives fiend.
@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.
@connieschultz.bsky.social
Columnist, novelist, j-prof. NYT bestselling novel, The Daughters of Erietown. Children’s book, Lola and the Troll. On Substack at Hopefully Yours. I love Sherrod Brown. https://connieschultz.substack.com/
@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
@sarahmmccoy.bsky.social
📚NYTimes bestselling author. 🐾Cat and dog mom. 🇺🇸Puerto Rican-Irish woman living in the American South. 💙Loves liberally. www.sarahmccoy.com
@thenormannation.bsky.social
Author of Charm City Rocks, All Together Now, Last Couple Standing, We're All Damaged, and Domestic Violets. Next up: Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon (Oct 14) - Baltimore, MD
@julieclarkauthor.bsky.social
NYT and #1 international bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell. The Ghostwriter forthcoming June 3, 2025.
@rochwein.bsky.social
USA and Amazon Bestselling author of eight contemporary novels. Monthly book columnist for Miami's AQUA Magazine and Women Writers, Women's Books.
@kristinariggle.bsky.social
Bestselling author of THINGS WE DIDN'T SAY, REAL LIFE & LIARS and more. Latest is historical fiction about Broadway, VIVIAN IN RED. I like to run and read, but not at the same time. Rep: Carly Watters at P.S. Literary
@saraconfino.bsky.social
Bestselling author of Behind Every Good Man, Don’t Forget to Write, She’s Up to No Good, and For the Love of Friends. Off social media, I’m probably on my Peloton, frantically parenting my two young sons, or writing!
@amymasondoan.bsky.social
Novels @HarperCollins THE CALIFORNIA DREAMERS 4.8.25 📚 Out now-LADY SUNSHINE, THE SUMMER LIST, SUMMER HOURS Writer, reader, runner in Portlandia. 🖊️ amymasondoan.com
@kyradavis.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of Just One Night, Just One Lie, The Pure Sin series, The Sophie Katz mystery series and upcoming release, The Great Mann (June 3rd pub date)
@laurazigman.bsky.social
@abbymcdonald.bsky.social
New York Times Bestselling novelist & screenwriter. England > LA. Bridgerton | Jingle Bell Heist.
@allielarkinwrites.bsky.social
Author of The People We Keep and several books as Allie Larkin. Obsessed with my dog. she/her
@sarajhenry.bsky.social
Wrote some books, won some awards. Tennessee-born Vermonter. Three dogs, 2 cats, 1 teen. Acquiring editor - query at submissions@CrookedLaneBooks.com. Bio pic is me at 16. Other pic is our yard before the flood scoured it clean and left a sand dune.
@jennifergilmore.bsky.social
Novelist, Prof, New Yorker in PA (that was fun) Jennifergilmore.net
@andibartz.bsky.social
NYT bestselling thriller author of Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here, The Spare Room, The Herd & The Lost Night. The Last Ferry Out coming May '25. Unapologetically queer, progressive, feminist.
@theresewalsh.bsky.social
co-founder and director of Writer Unboxed; novelist (The Moon Sisters); believer in science, democracy, and semi-colons; backyard birder and dog mom; chaotic good human of New York 🗽
@stevenrowley.bsky.social
New York Times Bestselling Author of five novels and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. stevenrowley.com
@tmcallister.bsky.social
Author of novels HOW TO BE SAFE and THE YOUNG WIDOWER'S HANDBOOK. New book of essays IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE coming from Rose Metal Press in May 2025. Co-host of Book Fight! podcast. @Barrelhouse.bsky.social NF Editor. South Jersey. Tom.mcallister.ws
@julieklam.bsky.social
New York Times Bestselling author, NYC 🗽, gun control, mom of trans person 🏳️⚧️, intake coordinator for Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue, WNBA. I only have 1 kidney. She/Her
@antoinewilson.bsky.social
Novelist (Mouth to Mouth, Panorama City, The Interloper), Contributing Editor (A Public Space), Photographer (Slow Paparazzo), Struggle Rapper.
@erikatwurth.bsky.social
Writer. Prof. Ghost Kat. 📚WhiteHorse TheHauntingofRoom904. NYT editors & GMA buzz pick. IndieNext. Target & BOTM. Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent.
@chrisbohjalian.bsky.social
Novelist and playwright. Third most talented artist in a family of three. Jesse the Wonder Dog's Dad. Have you met THE JACKAL'S MISTRESS? Learn more at www.ChrisBohjalian.com .
@aswinn.bsky.social
Bestselling author of ten novels. THE INSOMNIACS coming in 2026. Not aspiring to be humble.