Authors of New Books: Jan-June 2025
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@lollardfish.bsky.social
@alicenuttallbooks.bsky.social
My debut THE ZOMBIE PROJECT is coming out in January 2025! Writer, word witch, feminist werewolf and coffee thief. She/her
@moudhy.bsky.social
Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet. My book is now out! 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
@bmanuel.bsky.social
Writer/critic for hire 📍LA 📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!) 📚 The Male Gazed (2023) 📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020) 🏰 Writer on The Cardboard Kingdom series (2018, 2021, 2023) LAFCA, GALECA, Peabody Awards Juror www.mbetancourt.com
@randeedawn.com
Author, “Tune in Tomorrow” (Solaris Nova),“The Only Song Worth Singing" (Arc Manor) Upcoming:“Leave No Trace" (Arc Manor, 2025); "We Interrupt This Program" (Solaris Nova, 2025) Journalist: Variety, LA Times, Today, Gold Derby https://linktr.ee/RandeeDawn
@greeneland.bsky.social
Labor and migration historian @UMaryland. Pre-order Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal! https://tinyurl.com/Pre-Order-Box-25
@eloracookauthor.bsky.social
IN THE COMPANY OF KILLERS | March 18 (US) 20 (UK) | Canadian 🇨🇦 https://linktr.ee/eloracookauthor
@gabrielledrolet.bsky.social
Writer and cartoonist based in Montreal. My first book is out May 20 :) Gabrielledrolet.com
@lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic. PhD student in Creative Writing. President of the Edinburgh Writers' Club. Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV) Bae: @pegasusunder.bsky.social www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
@sepinwall.bsky.social
He/him Chief TV Critic at Rolling Stone, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III. https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/saul-goodman-v-jimmy-mcgill_9781419777196/?utm_source=author+social+media&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=
@karissachen.bsky.social
Author of HOMESEEKING, coming Jan 7, 2025. Repped by Michelle Brower at Trellis Lit. EIC of Hyphen.
@snowhydro.bsky.social
Writer and editor. "Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist" coming spring 2025 from UAlberta Press. Bylines in LARB, Science, Nature, Orion, Longreads, Terrain.org, and others. http://melt-down.ca snowhydro1 (at) gmail (dot) com
@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
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. The next book is THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, April 2025. Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 48-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
@chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social
Writer. Author of THE PRESIDENT’S VAMPIRE, KILLFILE, FLASHMOB. Books, journalism, screenplays, comics. Married to @goldenpurl.bsky.social. ROBERT B. PARKER'S BURIED SECRETS out now: https://amzn.to/4hMjBz7
@jordanaut.bsky.social
anthropologist (emerging media & place); research director, ADL Center for Tech & Society; CITAP affiliate; she/they. Views my own. book: Mobile City (Cornell UP 2025) www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778704/mobile-city/ www.jordankraemer.com
@barichards.bsky.social
Writing teacher, Romantasy and SFF author from Lebanon, TN. Debut novel "A Happy Beginning" now out from City Owl Press! Abusing the English language daily since 1979.
@maryrajotte.bsky.social
Ink-slinging ✒ insomniac w/a penchant for penning nightmarish tales of Gothic folk horror🦇 Frightmarish: a Gothic Litzine. Debut novel The Bone Key out now linktr.ee/maryrajotte 🇨🇦
@saracharles.bsky.social
Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady. www.teachingmanuscripts.com PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
@kwistent.bsky.social
Author of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW, coming 01/21/25 from Bold Type / critic with words in NYRB, WaPo, NPR, The New Republic, and elsewhere / member Freelance Solidarity Project and National Book Critics Circle / Philly / kristenmartin.net
@nataliekreinert.bsky.social
Your horse girl friend in Florida. Amiable Disney nerd. Author of The Eventing Series - AMBITION, PRIDE, LUCK, COURAGE are all now available at all bookstores from Flatiron Books 🐎🐎🐎 THE JUMP 3/24/2026 nataliekreinert.com Rep: Lacy Lynch
@marksarvas.bsky.social
American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. “ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill. Ex-blogger. NBCC & PEN America. Scold-proof. He/Him/His www.marksarvas.com
@shellymeyer.bsky.social
Colorado Author, unbiased journalist, Supernatural addict, 🏳️🌈. No DMs, please.
@mkmartinwriter.com
she/her #Writer - mostly #SFF * #Editor * #Veteran * SJW * Linguistics * Will work for tea, but not before 9:30 am
@paulawhyman.bsky.social
Author, BAD NATURALIST: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop, Jan 2025 from Timber Press/Hachette. Website: https://paulawhyman.com Newsletter: https://badnaturalistnewsletter.beehiiv.com/
@caitlinrozakis.bsky.social
SFF Author (she/her) of NY Times best-selling book Dreadful. AKA Catherine Beck, author of Leah's Perfect Christmas. Coming soon: The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association! https://www.caitlinrozakis.com/ https://linktr.ee/caitlinrozakis
@fredaepum.bsky.social
✨ Writer, artist, and consultant. 📍OH 🌽 & AZ 🌵 📚 THE GLOOMY GIRL VARIETY SHOW: A MEMOIR (Jan' 25 @feministpress) PhD-ing in English Lit Newsletter @ fredaepum.substack.com #fibromyalgia #chronicillness | 🇳🇬 🏳️🌈 www.fredaepum.com
@slobogin.bsky.social
Art historian of medicine Assistant Professor, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ University of Rochester (Joint Appointment in Art & Art History) plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host she / her
@michalyoudoing.bsky.social
History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI Translating 17th century Astronomy texts Author: -The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it -Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
@remikalir.bsky.social
Associate Director, Faculty Development and Applied Research, Duke University Order “Re/Marks on Power” from MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551038/remarks-on-power/ Keynote Speaker | Author | Researcher: https://remikalir.com/
@julianhoffman.bsky.social
Writing, nature, people, climate, place. New book: LIFELINES (May, 2025) Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS Upcoming: RIVER SONG Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social linktr.ee/jhoffmanprespa
@anniezaleski.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran’s ‘Rio.’ Other books: Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Pink, Christmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
@jameygallagher.bsky.social
AMERICAN ANIMISM out now! https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-animism/19e3bcc5fc6e8b6c?ean=9781960329714&next=t&next=t Community college writing teacher I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
@browneallover.bsky.social
Author of THEY ALL FALL THE SAME (1/7/25 @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social) & HILLBILLY HUSTLE (2020 WVU press) KY Attorney/Pizza Purveyor. Repped by Alice Speilburg. https://bsky.app/profile/alicespeilburg.bsky.social www.wesbrowneauthor.com
@mariekeyn.bsky.social
#1 NYT bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels | nonbinary | 🌈📚 | 🏳️🌈 | ♿ Out now: SPLINTER & ASH | Up next: AFTER WE BURNED 📖: mariekenijkamp.com
@ata225.bsky.social
Professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky. Book on motherhood and peace activism in Cold War Japan forthcoming in February 2025
@agpasquella.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Newest book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. Next up: DEVOURING TOMORROW
@kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social
Writer and academic. New book Pathfinding March 2025. Author of Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader. Writing courses at kerriandrews.co.uk Order Pathfinding here https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/9781783968428-s
@professormitchell.bsky.social
All-around nerd, indie fantasy writer, end product of a lifetime of video games. He/Him. Find out about my web serial here: https://heirsofhyarch.carrd.co/
@pearlbear.com
Black, Trans, Queer, Science Fiction writer (and other genres), Ph.D. Neuroscience. Sensitivity reader. https://author.maxwellpearl.com
@hachepueyo.bsky.social
South American arachnid with a human form 🕸 CABARET IN FLAMES (Tor/Titan, 2026) 🕸 BUT NOT TOO BOLD (Tor, 2025) 🕸 PT/EN/ES 🕸 Rep. Lee O'Brien https://linktr.ee/hachepueyo
@jjclapton.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Crafter 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇮🇨 Chronically ill. Queer. Autistic It's easy to remember, I'm AAAA - agender, ace, aro-spec, & autistic. Featuring: ME/CFS, cats, crochet, f1, SFF books. My YA scifi: A STAGE OVER RUTHLESS STARS out now!
@frauwise.bsky.social
Writer. Focused on the present moment in the US & around the world. Supporter of liberal democracy. Personal account. *opinions my own* re-posts=look at this (vs approval) She/her/ella
@teresempierre.bsky.social
Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur Society. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, FIYAH, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her. www.teresemasonpierre.com Author of MYTH, House of Anansi, 2025 https://houseofanansi.com/products/myth
@darklylem.com
Five authors in an impeccably-tailored trenchcoat (Josh Eure, Craig Lincoln, Ben Murphy, Cadwell Turnbull, and M. Darusha Wehm). they/them https://www.darklylem.com/ https://books2read.com/transmentation-1
@wiswell.bsky.social
Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
@lesliebaynes.bsky.social
Assoc. prof of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism at Missouri State University. My new book forthcoming from Eerdmans: Between Interpretation and Imagination: C. S. Lewis and the Bible (2025). #academicbluesky
@cclim.bsky.social
SFF author. Muddling through the pre-apocalypse. CSFFA SFWA. She/her. 🐙🐾 Unceded Algonquin territory. 🇨🇦 Debut 2025: THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT with Poplar Press (Wolsak & Wynn). Rep’d by Sara Megibow. Views my own. www.christyclimenhage.com
@jmacfee.bsky.social
Begrudgingly here which applies not just here. Despite my bad attitude order THE CONTEST, out now. Rep: @lisarodgers.bsky.social https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774517/the-contest-by-jeff-macfee/
@clh2oars.bsky.social
Québécoise, indie author of platonic queer SFF and Indie Ink Award winner. Creator of the Aroace Database; member of the Kraken Collective. she/elle Direct shop: https://claudiearseneault.itch.io/ All Links: https://claudiearseneault.com/welcome
@toddkeisling.com
Horror writer & designer. Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of DEVIL’S CREEK, SCANLINES, & more. Rep: Becky LeJeune | Bond Literary Agency. He/him. http://linktr.ee/tkeisling
@christafaust.bsky.social
Writer. Pervert. Menopausal Troublemaker. Bisexual Assassin. She Adjacent.
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Oh God, I should probably be doing one of my jobs right now.
@miriamgershow.bsky.social
Writer w FOMO. SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). Next: CLOSER (Regal House June 3 2025). www.miriamgershow.com 📚💙 Wrangling “100 Notable Small Press Books 2025” into existence. #100smallpress
@suebavey.bsky.social
Author of Lucky Jack (1894-2000) and Kookaburras, Cuppas & Kangaroos (now available in audiobook) Free prequel can be downloaded from www.SueBavey.com BBNYA panelist. SFINCS judge Proofreader/copy editor
@heathervickery.bsky.social
💙 🏳️🌈 “If there are no good people left in the world I want to be the last one.” - AOC • Board Certified Coach • NLP Practitioner• Human Design • Community Builder • Retreats. Podcast: Was It Chance? www.YouTube.com/heathervickery www.vickeryandco.com
@winchesterlunch.bsky.social
Work in IT but also write historical novels. Debut book out May 2025, published by Harper Collins. Alter ego Jane Loftus. London Irish. You can take the girl out of Cricklewood but she’ll always miss it.
@kellymustian.bsky.social
Author of the USA TODAY bestseller THE GIRLS IN THE STILT HOUSE and THE RIVER KNOWS YOUR NAME. Lover of trees, mountains, and rivers. kellymustian.com
@aletheakontis.com
NYT & International Bestselling Author 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇰🇷🇧🇷🇲🇽🇮🇹🇬🇷🇫🇷🇳🇱🇯🇵🇬🇧🇦🇺 Storm Chaser 🌪️ Adventurer 🚀 K-drama #CoffeePrincess 🌸☕️🌸 배너 VVS & Black Rose 🥀 🎵 Greek/Fr. Canadian American 🧿 Optimist she/her Alethea’s Moving Castle: https://linktr.ee/aletheakontis
@martypadgett.bsky.social
THE MANY PASSIONS OF MICHAEL HARDWICK, W.W. Norton, 6/3/25 Pre-orders: https://tinyurl.com/mr3njp25 A NIGHT AT THE SWEET GUM HEAD, W.W. Norton, 2021 https://tinyurl.com/2txrjwb2. Musical adaptation TK PhD/MFA, FWIW I'm an OK baker
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social
Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner Aug 12: A GAME IN YELLOW Sept 16: TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS she/her; rep: Lane Heymont haileypiper.com
@daviddemchuk.com
Fine writing for foul minds. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. #NSFW. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk
@profgabriele.com
Professor, medievalist, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), BETWEEN PROPHECY & APOCALYPSE (2024), & now OATHBREAKERS (Dec 2024) nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him. profgabriele.com buttondown.com/modernmedieval
@jamesrileyauthor.com
New York Times Bestselling author of HALF UPON A TIME, STORY THIEVES, REVENGE OF MAGIC, ONCE UPON ANOTHER TIME, and THE DRAGON'S APPRENTICE jamesrileyauthor.com
@heatherchristle.bsky.social
It’s a two-book year! IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf coming in April. PAPER CROWN: Poems coming in August. https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
@ceruleancynic.bsky.social
she/her. Helsing books: STRANGE PRACTICE, DREADFUL COMPANY, GRAVE IMPORTANCE, BITTER WATERS; STRANGE NEW WORLD (2025) Orbit; THE HELIOS SYNDROME (Lethe); short fiction (Uncanny, PseudoPod, The Deadlands); editor; jeweler. Rep: https://x.com/Stephen_Barbara
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
@erikaswyler.bsky.social
Novelist. Garden variety weirdo. Unrepentant typo queen. Books: We Lived On the Horizon (Atria, 1/14/25), Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation. She/her (all pronouns are fine) https://linktr.ee/erikaswyler
@jillianscudder.com
Astrophysicist, author (40 Ways to Know A Star, Milky Way Smells of Rum & Raspberries), artist, sewist, science communicator. English/Français/子供の日本語。Associate Professor. hEDS ♿️. She/her. 🏳️🌈. Opinions all mine. https://www.jillianscudder.com/books
@deannaraybourn.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author. I still believe if I spin fast enough I’ll turn into Wonder Woman. She/her. https://www.deannaraybourn.com
@alisongaylin.bsky.social
Book writer, Edgar Award winner. She/her. WE ARE WATCHING is out NOW!
@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
@slanders.bsky.social
Poet, pedestrian. suelanders.com (she/her) WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE—a love letter to NYC’s subways, trees, and waterways—out now from Roof Books. Buy on Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/110446/9798991501101
@dskamper.bsky.social
Avuncular unionist, uxorious husband, labor historian, cat guy. "Who's Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions" coming in 2025 from New Press. Lives in Minnesota. Posts are personal. The cat in the profile pic is Laverne, aka Peanut.
@byzantienne.bsky.social
speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (New Mexico, all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true). unfortunately, I care about power lines now she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
@skateellis.bsky.social
She/her. Words in Analog, Fusion Fragment and Shoreline of Infinity. Forthcoming in F & SF. Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow 2011. Milford '17 & '22. SFWA. Codex. 日本語もOK. Comics, food, film and fic. Debut novel coming in 2025.
@rmccarthyjames.bsky.social
rachel mccarthy james. WHACK JOB: A HISTORY OF AXE MURDER comes out 5/13/25. prev: THE MAN FROM THE TRAIN
@elongreen.bsky.social
Edgar Award-winning author, LAST CALL (2021) and THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (out now) http://www.elongreen.com
@shawnlevy.com
Author (The Castle on Sunset, Paul Newman: A Life, Dolce Vita Confidential, &ct). Film guy. Soccer nut. Burner. Poet. Portlander. Board member @opipdx. Dad. Grouch. Oh, and: I'M NOT THE SHAWN WHO MADE THAT MOVIE/SHOW!!!! https://shawnlevy.com
@anghyflawn.net
Linguist | Cànanaiche @schoolofppls.bsky.social. Migrant | Neach-imrich: 🇷🇺➡️🇳🇴➡️NI➡️🏴. Tin whistle tragic | Droch-chluicheadair na fìdeige. 🇺🇦.
@suecowley.bsky.social
UK based writer, teacher, trainer, presenter. Helps to run a preschool. Loves gardening and my allotment. She/her. Author of 30+ books for teachers. Please contact me via my website for CPD/INSET bookings and writing queries. www.suecowley.co.uk
@scatterall.bsky.social
Writer. MLIS. So many interests. She/her. Author of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon, out now from Belt Publishing. saracatterall.com
@vriccithode.bsky.social
aka Vanessa Ricci-Thode. Nebula finalist & queer SFF writer, SFWA & TWUC. Dogs, gardening and Canadian rage. she/they I'm only here for the food thodestool.ca
@burrata.bsky.social
Associate professor of music and sound in Asia/anthropology. Crossword puzzle editor; TNG watcher.
@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social
Journalist. Used to work for the Home Office, now report on it. 'Anywhere But Here', my book on the small boats crisis, out now. Pre-order: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/14936/9781783968558 My Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/notanothersnowflake
@greenwell.bsky.social
My book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream comes out June 10, 2025. Preorder it here: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351
@rmidura.bsky.social
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
@laminda.bsky.social
Science writer/editor at Scholastic, previously Live Science & the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her. And I wrote a book! Rise of the Zombie Bugs: https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
@davidmack.bsky.social
NY Times bestselling author of f/sf, pro Star Trek nerd, papa to a cat clowder. Politics-free feed: @davidmack.pro | Agent: Lucienne Diver, Knight Agency. Member WGA & SFWA. he/him | davidmack.pro
@finalbossediting.bsky.social
Devving Worldseekers.io - GPS Deckbuilder. Storytelling, game design, narrative and more!
@kateelliottsff.bsky.social
Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her. Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide: https://imakeupworlds.com/index.php/2015/02/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
@cstross.bsky.social
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner, over a million books sold. Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
@lilithsaintcrow.com
I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.") https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com
@hntdove.bsky.social
Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
@matociquala.bsky.social
Multiple award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat. Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/matociquala Next book: THE FOLDED SKY June 2025 https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
@sarahkapit.bsky.social
Author of GET A GRIP, VIVY COHEN! and other books for young readers. RACHEL FRIEDMAN chapter books currently available wherever you get books. Rep: Jennifer Laughran www.sarahkapit.com
@lollardfish.bsky.social
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #Oathbreakers: https://tinyurl.com/oathbreakersHC. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval