Book Peeps of BlueSky
Book Talk on Blue Sky: critics, reviewers and authors who love talking about books and building book community. Big thanks to Olivia Waite for collaborating and suggesting many of these names.
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@cvbell.bsky.social
@malindalo.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author, National Book Award winner. 🏳️🌈 My brand is lesbians. https://www.malindalo.com/
@dhowellsin.bsky.social
Co-Founder of Beyond Publishing Caribbean Creator of the Offset series & Loose Change series Lover of cinematic violence https://offsetseries.com/
@authornalinisingh.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of paranormal & contemporary romance. Also writes murdery books set in New Zealand. https://www.nalinisingh.com
@folger.edu
The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
@silviamg.bsky.social
Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
@angryalgonquin.bsky.social
Creator of "A Booklovers Guide to Independent Bookstores" at angryalgonquin.com. Please support independent bookstores! Nordic/Scandi Noir, Iceland, polar history & exploration fan. Museums. Libraries. Animal rescues. #bookblogger angryalgonquin.com
@chanda.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof.: Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Physics ⚛️ 🔭 & Black Feminist Science Studies 🧪 Writer 📚: #DisorderedCosmos #EdgeOfSpaceTime #CosmosIsABlackAesthetic Web: chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. queer/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
@anitafelicelli.bsky.social
author of the short story collection HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and other works of fiction. books editor at Alta Journal, critic, essayer.
@shgmclicious.bsky.social
reader | editor | writer | pilates teacher | once librarian | occasional professor | phd | she http://about.me/mclicious
@jodimca.bsky.social
Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, An Academic Affair, will be out June (Aus/NZ), Sep (UK), Nov (US).
@laurenleblanc.bsky.social
Writer, critic, National Book Critics Circle board member She/Her Formerly: Alfred A. Knopf, Atlas & Co, Penguin Random House Digital, Times-Picayune, Guernica, Brooklyn Book Festival Chapel Hill, NC
@mollytempleton.com
I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at Reactor (formerly known as Tor.com); publicity, prize, & more for the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX. https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/
@iaspr.bsky.social
The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance is dedicated to fostering and promoting the scholarly exploration of all popular representations of romantic love. Publishes @jprstudies.bsky.social https://www.iaspr.org/
@davidmarcus.bsky.social
Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
@substockman.bsky.social
BLM. Teaching Prof., Northeastern. Reviewer @nytbooks @washpost @BostonGlobe, elsewhere. he/him Newsletter at https://sebastianstockman.substack.com/
@adamdalva.bsky.social
Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Fiction Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
@paperhaus.bsky.social
Books books books. Editor, writer, Los Angeles. Latest: 1996 in Books https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-04-14/1996-infinite-jest-oprahs-book-club-festival-of-books-2025
@ggwynterwrites.bsky.social
Thoughts @ the intersection of publishing & politics • 2025 Mystery Writers of America Barbara Neely Award Recipient • 2024 Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award Finalist • 92%• Rep: Rock Inked Literary • 🇯🇲🇺🇸💙 • https://gracewynter.com/get-to-know-gg/
@bookcritics.bsky.social
Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974. bookcritics.org
@readbookpage.bsky.social
Our monthly magazine recommends the best new books across genres, as chosen by our editors. Discover your next great book! Sign up for our enewsletters: bookpage.com/enews Official merch is now available: bookpage.com/shop
@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
Award-winning Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. • Home of #FiyahLitMag, #FIYAHCON. • Submissions CLOSED. Publisher + Executive Editor: @davaun.bsky.social
@giovannid.bsky.social
Writing slowly, aging fast. Latest a memoir, THE ARCHEOLOGY OF A GOOD RAGÙ. Others include THE COLOR INSIDE A MELON, novel, & MOVIEOLA!, stories. Praise from Salman Rushdie, Marlon James. Other work all over, Lit Hub, etc. https://www.johndomini.com.
@rebeccamakkai.bsky.social
Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too. rebeccamakkai.substack.com https://rebeccamakkai.com
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
@kelliemagnus.bsky.social
Writer ED, Caribbean Culture Fund Lover of wine, books, art & culture
@adamgolub.bsky.social
American Studies professor at Cal State Fullerton. Pop culture, true crime, monsters, music, creative work. Writing a cultural history of the doppelgänger. Also a runner who blogs about fatherhood. https://www.everydayfictions.com/bio
@nikkimaywriter.bsky.social
Author | Officially funny | Owned by 🐕🐩 - Fela & Lola | WAHALA - green-lit BBC series | THIS MOTHERLESS LAND - a Read With Jenna pick | Rep'd @AriellaFeiner
@profchander.bsky.social
@courtneythorsson.bsky.social
I study, teach, and write about African American literature. **The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture** hc 2023, pb 2025 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-sisterhood/9780231204729 https://www.courtneythorsson.com
@literaryhub.bsky.social
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
@charliejane.bsky.social
Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Tor Books, 2025), about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. New York Magazine writer.
@craigtimes.bsky.social
WELCOME TO FLORIDA now available! Other books: NYT bestseller OH, FLORIDA! & CAT TALE. Columnist, Florida Phoenix. Florida man.
@wandamowrites.bsky.social
Award-winning author of ALL HER LITTLE SECRETS & ANYWHERE YOU RUN & WHAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND. Wife, mom to the 3 best kids ever! Rep: Lori Galvin of Aevitas Creative Management
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
@christinajcooke.bsky.social
Author of BROUGHTUPSY | Winner, Journey Prize | Finalist, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize | shit-talker & snack monster | all snark & unpopular opinions 100% mine | https://linktr.ee/christinajcooke
@mjerkins.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author of four books. ZEAL is my latest.
@michaelschaub.bsky.social
Journalist, @bookcritics.bsky.social vice president/online, nervous, sleepy. [email protected].
@vanessariley.com
Vanessa Riley, award-winning author, explores hidden narratives of Black women, sisterhoods, and power in historical fiction, romance, and mystery genres.
@race-regency.bsky.social
The Race & Regency Lab raceandregency.org posts by tricia matthew
@gabino.bsky.social
Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD/New York Times horror columnist. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me! https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
@atticalocke.bsky.social
Writer, page and screen. #FromScratch #LittleFiresEverywhere #WhenTheySeeUs #Empire NY-Times bestselling author of six books. https://linktr.ee/atticalocke
@lisaunger.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author. Co-president of International Thriller Writers (ITW) lisaunger.com
@crimewoc.bsky.social
A group of over 350 of today and tomorrow’s crime writers of color. Follow to stay up-to-date on our new releases, recognitions & other good news. Crimewritersofcolor.com
@lydiakiesling.bsky.social
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). Writing in NYTMag, The Nation, The Cut, and elsewhere. www.lydiakiesling.com
@hveditorial.bsky.social
Editor of academic nonfiction and fiction novels, helping publishers, authors, and scholars. I like correcting citations a weird amount and reading kissing books a more understandable amount. | www.hveditorial.com | [email protected]
@jbakernyc.bsky.social
New Yorker, Editor, Writer, host/creator Minorities in Publishing podcast. Books: FORGIVE ME NOT (2023), EVERYDAY PEOPLE (2018). www.jennifernbaker.com
@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 .
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
@rebel19.bsky.social
Writer, cultural critic, podcaster. Author of the memoir, Surviving the White Gaze. Founding member and Editor-at-Large of The Meteor storytelling media collective.
@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
@paultremblay.bsky.social
Writer person. Horror Movie, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club. Not actively planning the demise of John Langan. Eats too much cereal.
@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
librarian, archivist, historian, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere bookjockeyalex.com
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
@lhertzel.bsky.social
Book reader, book critic, author "News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist." Next memoir, "Ghosts of Fourth Street," pubs in 2026. I review for StarTribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LATimes and elsewhere. Teach in MFA program at UGA-Athens.
@amalelmohtar.com
Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War. Next book: The River Has Roots, March 4, 2025. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
@paperalphabet.bsky.social
Culture writer: buzzfeed, new republic, la times, boston globe, etc. | content strategist for hire | still writing that novel! | [email protected]
@libertyhardy.bsky.social
Raised by wolves who watched Reading Rainbow. Reader to the nth degree.📚 She/her. https://linktr.ee/LibertyHardy
@jamiattenberg.bsky.social
Author of 10 books.The latest: 1000 WORDS and A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. Come write with me May 31-June 13: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of American Lit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Political Economy of Media & Culture Industries TheAmericanVandal.substack.com
@rafaelwalker.bsky.social
I write on literature and issues in higher ed || Assistant Professor at Baruch College, CUNY || Editor of Nella Larsen’s *Passing* for Broadview Press https://tinyurl.com/2s3kt7w9 || Still fun! 🎡 🌈 baruch.academia.edu/RafaelWalker
@kellylink.bsky.social
unserious moonlight www.kellylink.net Always happy to make book recommendations if you tell me two writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. If you'd like signed copies of my books, you can find them at www.bookmoonbooks.com.
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
English Prof at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” under contract with the Omohundro Institute for Early Am History and Culture and UNC Press. https://www.bu.edu/english/profile/joseph-rezek/
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@cornellwriter.bsky.social
Nebula, Aurora, and World Fantasy-nominated Chilean-Canadian writer. Winner Short Works Prize. SFWA, CSFFA, ALCiFF Chile. Odyssey ’02. Codex. Stories in Apex, Fantasy, Lightspeed, and others. Linktree: http://linktr.ee/pacornell
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@philipleventhal.bsky.social
Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own.
@triciamatthew.bsky.social
Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
@marthawells.com
SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
@kwissoker.bsky.social
Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
@pretensesoup.bsky.social
Author (Dionysus in Wisconsin, 2023; Old Time Religion, 2024; Troth, 2024), poet, podcaster (Ask a Medievalist), pansexual, psychopomp. She/they. Website: http://ehlupton.com Books: http://ehlupton.com/links/
@juliadahl.bsky.social
Novelist, NYU journalism prof, boy mom, knifemaker’s wife. Born in Fresno, now the Hudson Valley. www.juliadahl.com
@alexsegura.bsky.social
I write comics and novels. SECRET IDENTITY, ALTER EGO, ENCANTO, DICK TRACY, SPIDER-SOCIETY, THE QUESTION, STAR WARS, and more. He/him. https://linktr.ee/alex_segura
@caitluce.bsky.social
Bookseller in Seattle, lost in a stack of books. Please bring me fries.
@juliettewade.bsky.social
Novelist, linguist, anthropologist, Ph.D. Fascinated by social systems. Rep'd by K. O'Higgins The Broken Trust series begins with Mazes of Power (DAW 2020) Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JulietteWade Naarm she/her
@katiewardwriter.bsky.social
Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk #WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/
@theotherrbg.bsky.social
📖author, Dear Miss Perkins (Kensington, Jan. 2025) 🐻Brown postdoc🤎 ✍🏼writing a book on the American Revolution in popular culture, 1976-2026 www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
@malloryomeara.bsky.social
Author • Host of Reading Glasses and Reading Smut • she/her 🌴LA www.malloryomeara.com
@harlancoben.bsky.social
Next Netflix series: MISSING YOU Next novel: NOBODY’S FOOL HarlanCoben.com
@meganabbott.bsky.social
NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com
@cairdiul.bsky.social
Former terror of the high seas, now a cannibal king. 🇮🇪🇺🇲🏳️🌈 author (You Ruin It When You Talk) in London, very publishable pleasant lady Sarahsnewideas.com
@lacymb.bsky.social
Entertainment journalist and pop culture critic | TCA Member | 🍅Approved | Books Editor and all around TV enthusiast @PasteMagazine | Ninth Doctor evangelist | Cat lady 🐈⬛ | #wahoowa
@suzbrockmann.bsky.social
romance writer, indie film & tv writer & producer, mother of a SAG strike captain & a nurse, liberal Dem, activist, she/her. Still masks.
@authoremmabarry.bsky.social
Novelist, college lecturer, and former political staffer. Lives with her high school sweetheart and a menagerie of pets and children in Virginia, where she occasionally finds time to read and write. she/her https://linktr.ee/authoremmabarry
@millercallihan.bsky.social
Literary agent at Handspun Literary. She/her. Currently yelling about AI a lot. Every conversation comes back to crafting in some way.
@jamiecanaves.bsky.social
📚TBR Coordinator: https://mytbr.co/ 📖 Book Riot CE: https://bookriot.com/author/jamie-canaves/ 🔪 Unusual Suspects newsletter: https://bookriot.com/newsletter/unusual-suspects/ Multitudes Contained newsletter: https://multitudescontained.substack.com
@lauravivanco.bsky.social
Independent scholar of popular romance fiction (https://www.vivanco.me.uk/), member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies (https://www.jprstudies.org/) My database of scholarship about romance novels: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
@kellyekell.bsky.social
Sarcastic black chick writing award winning mysteries about sarcastic black chicks. Crime Writers of Color cofounder. Missing White Woman (Out now in US & UK) My site I don't update: KellyeGarrett.com