BRILLIANT PEOPLE ON BLUESKY (VOLUME THREE)
A miscellaneous and eclectic selection of tremendous people I follow on BlueSky: writers, photographers, artists, literary bloggers, journalists, and all round good eggs
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@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
@lindamaire.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaking / books / learning Irish / poetry / cinema / art / cats / music / gardening / border collies / politics / yoga / Punjana tea / corvids / the sea 🇨🇦🇮🇪 “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” — Agnès Varda
@arnfinnarnesson.bsky.social
Retired lawyer with some time to spare. Believe in equality and democracy.💙🔵📎 Opponent of fascism/Nazism/MAGA I will block 🚫Sales promotion 🚫Fundraising 🚫DM (without asking) 🚫0-posters 🚫OnlyFans 🚫Porn 🚫Crypto pushers
@nortygirl.bsky.social
I proudly support Democratic party and Ukraine 🇺🇦 #BLM and 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ made in 🇺🇸 lives in London dual national 🇺🇲/🇬🇧 : here's to the nights we'll never remember, with the friends we'll never forget
@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
@miriamocal.bsky.social
Broadcast journalist RTÉ Prime Time & Sunday with Miriam, proud mum, lawyer, occasional piano player.
@sammys-book-nook.bsky.social
Book blogger (insta: Sammys.book.nook) mostly lit fic, prize reads and translation. Dog mama, crocheter, travel lover, remote worker in tech for good, childfree by choice, ex-SCUBA instructor, bougie hotel lover, aspiring book ladder owner
@karendownsbarton.bsky.social
Writer, Minx (@chattobooks), Didicoy (The Poetry Business), Elise Dillsworth agency, I am a mentor, Creative Future steering committee, @kcl.ac.uk, workshop leader Shakespeare and Race. Proudly working class and neurodiverse. #PoetsOnBluesky #MinxOnTheRoad
@hmalagisi.bsky.social
Tudor History Nerd. I love good music, books, and history. Owner of Adventures of a Tudor Nerd. www.adventuresofatudornerd.com
@zimtmaedchen.bsky.social
Fabric manipulator. Renaissance woman. Early Modern girl. Enthusiastic dilettante. Mom. Reader. Listener. PhD. AuDHD. Faceblind. Gaimanite. Baker. Maker. Fan. It's all a blur. She/her.
@jambookshopuk.bsky.social
Made UK's only regular #illustration reportage in @privateeyenews.bsky.social 2011-2020. Created @smallpressday.bsky.social in 2016 & Jam bookshop in 2022-2025. Also a freelance Editor-at-Large. Still draws stuff:
@judisutherland.bsky.social
English writer in Ireland. #FBPE Rejoiner. Cat lady. Lymphoma survivor. Watercolour artist. Former pharma manager. Querying not one but two novels! www.judisutherland.com for more stuff. Occasionally writes for NE Bylines.
@louisemangos.bsky.social
Author of suspense & historical novels Stories in 20+ anthologies MA crime writing UEA Wild swimmer Skate skier Cyclist Fizz drinker
@cdelull.bsky.social
🌈🔗 Pre order Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby novel: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback 📽️I'm like if an old man was a girl. She/her. 🎭Novelist & screenwriter, good at funny with a side of sad. 📍Manchester(ish)
@byddi.bsky.social
Irish Writer - 📚 fiction, 🎭 stage and 🎬 screen. Writes about nature, climate, and local history. Sometimes funny - usually unintentionally. Love my cats and my garden. 📖 Read my latest book & more www.ByddiLee.com
@oliviahopewriter.bsky.social
Dum spiro spero 🇮🇪 Irish writer of children's books. Represented by Mandy Suhr at Storywise Agency.
@mikephilpott.bsky.social
Writer and PR consultant. Ex-BBC News. Hennessy Award winner. Novel Purblind available at www.wordforward.co.uk
@gillplusfive.bsky.social
Bestselling author, freelance writer and mum of five, recently back in the UK after 14 years in France! https://linktr.ee/gillianharveyauthor
@sallytalksbooks.bsky.social
Freelance book and arts PR (non-fiction and kid's books focus). Reader, traveller, parent. Likes a cup of tea and a chat, especially about books. CR: Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed
@bengarrod.bsky.social
Monkey-chaser, TV-talker, author, silly runner, Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement at @uniofeastanglia (He/Him) Managed by: https://knightayton.co.uk/broadcast_talent/ben-garrod/
@drrachelbroady.bsky.social
Working class academic at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). Research focus: epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism & representations of poverty in journalism. NUJ activist. Danny Dyer fan. Views are my cat's.
@lrp.blog
Truth above Delusion, Growth above Comfort, Wisdom and Knowledge above all. 📚 ❯ 🦆 ❯ #Birder, Husband & Blogger. 🐦 Staring at a talking box is not for me 😳📺 Proud Gen Xer. Writing over at... lrp.blog 📧 p@lrp.blog
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018 Website: brokensleepbooks.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 .
@nickymaund.bsky.social
Here for: books 🎧📚 | special edition books 📖| Marvel🦸♀️ | furry babies🐈⬛ 🐕 CR: 🎧 Him / 📖 The Temptation of Magic
@andreapa.bsky.social
Book lover, avid reader, writer of words, nature lover, art and craft, mindfulness practitioner, Reiki, owned by a BorderTerrier. 🚫 annoying DM’s 💙📚
@danigaravelli.bsky.social
Freelance journalist and writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Books, music, sunsets, hills.
@karenkisreading.bsky.social
🇬🇧Reader, Bookblogger, Bookstagrammer, Charity worker, Dog adopter, Chocolate lover
@nikkimarmery.bsky.social
Author LILITH 🐍🍎🌴 ON WILDER SEAS 🌊⚓️🌅 Historical Fiction | Mythology | Ancient Women | Agent: DKW Literary Agency www.nikkimarmery.com
@mgarrett.bsky.social
I have two books out this year: Feral Class & Furtherfield: 30 Years of Art, Technology, & Eco-social Change. Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
@bronterre1.bsky.social
# Chartism #C19th Radicalism #Cooperation #TradesUnions, #WorkingClassLiterature with forays into #Cricket #Punk & #Reggae & a reviving interest in Torquay United FC #COYY "In things essential, unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity."
@jennyknight.bsky.social
Author | Writer | Editor *WILD MOON RISING* - 06/25 @akan_books @HarperCollins Kit de Waal's #CommonPeople Ed & Dev Ed @JerichoWriters Assoc Artist @WritersCentre Twitter/X @knightjennyk Ig @jennyaknight
@wildtwin.bsky.social
Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer. Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books) Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept
@nonwayne.bsky.social
Literary critic in a library. Scholarly publishing, egoism, manifestos, and modernism. My book, The Ego Made Manifest, is available from Bloomsbury. Views my own and mostly on the other one. https://x.com/NonwayneWayne?t=8_wAuQkxi3mzXY2lgoWUbQ&s=09
@mezbreeze.bsky.social
An OG digital artist/writer. Creates in Mezangelle: http://anthology.rhizome.org/mez-breeze. Permaculturalist. Narrative Designer + Developer. Blurrings + imaginings: https://www.patreon.com/mezbreeze + https://mezbreeze.itch.io/
@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
@annlittler.bsky.social
Querying a YA dystopian #ANWH Almost ready: a YA gamer Snow White romance #WriteCBC winner Sept 2024 #Revpit ‘23, ‘24 & ‘25 shortlisted #FallWritingFrenzy HM 2023 & 2024 ❤️ Writing, books, movies, games ❤️ https://linktr.ee/anialittler (she/her)
@debsbookreviews.bsky.social
Bookblogger/reviewer 📚 Allotment keeper 🌱 Theatre goer 🎭 Music lover 🎶 https://linktr.ee/DebsBookReviews
@dannyve.bsky.social
Reader, Europhile, gardener, stargazer, painter, foolish fashionista, determined optimist, lifelong vegetarian & Olympian daydreamer
@catherineby.bsky.social
Author of Ember and Where The Light is Hottest. Freelance writer. Editor-in-chief of Frost Magazine. Words in The Sunday Times, Mslexia, The Bookseller, The Guardian, Metro.
@rosiefiore.bsky.social
Writer, teacher of writing. Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Middlesex University London. Tutor on Jericho Writers' Ultimate Novel Writing Course. rosiefiore.com
@ruthirons.bsky.social
Author and musician. Mother of girls. Likes:☕️📚🍫🕯️🍷 Debut thriller #ThePerfectGuest pub’d by Bonnier Books https://geni.us/ThePerfectGuest
@nickmacwrites.bsky.social
Reader, writer, runner. Tea, trees, and cats. Co-editor Thin Skin magazine. My debut novel Slings and Arrows was published on the 28th March 2024. 📚💙
@trishdevlin.bsky.social
Irish ☘️ Investigative journalist ✍️ Lover of good vibes 🧘♀️Co Derry born and bred 🔴⚪️ The Journal Investigates @ TheJournal.ie 👩🏻💻
@maisiechanwrites.bsky.social
🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths 🐯 Tiger Warrior author 🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices. Lit Rep: @chloeseager https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites
@nadiakbarb.bsky.social
Writer and journalist Author ‘Truth or Dare’ Renard Press, L/L 2021 Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award; Finalist Eyelands Book Award 2024 Also a dreamer and crazy cat lady! https://nadiakabirbarb.com/
@zoesomerville.bsky.social
Author, teacher, editor. From Norwich, live in Bath (I like a pretty city) Novels The Marsh House (2022) and The Night of the Flood (2020). zoesomerville.com
@hayleygullen.com
“This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story” to be published by Bloomsbury Green Tree in 2025. Rep: Julia Silk at Greyhound Literary. insta: HayleyGullen www.hayleygullen.com
@jennikeer.bsky.social
Historical romance author with twisty-turny plots, a splash of romance, and the merest whiff of magic ✨️ Four kids, three cats, one husband. Suffolk/Norfolk border. Dance freak. Be kind always ❤️ (DMs off)
@robedmunds.bsky.social
I'm a Welsh writer of two novels about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa set during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. 🏴 ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ https://linktr.ee/robedmunds
@petchary.bsky.social
I write, I read. Environmental/climate change activist. Crazy about birds. Born in London. Live in Kingston, Jamaica. My blog: petchary.wordpress.com. Also a member of the Global Voices community and on Substack. #StopDeepSeaMining #Arsenal Please NO DMs!
@dunfermlinereads.bsky.social
Dunfermline based book blogger. Lover of crime, thrillers and LEGO
@fallenlibrarian.bsky.social
She/Her💖📚☕️🌿🌳UK 🇬🇧Book blogger, Librarian📚, Trainer, Book worm, cross stitcher, mad knitter, cake baker, garden lover xxx Blog www.thefallenlibrarian.wordpress.com
@christinacourtenay.bsky.social
Aka Pia Fenton. Author - timeslip/time travel, historical romance - Vikings! 1/2 Swede, chocoholic, history buff. Repped by Lina Langlee, The North Lit Agency.
@bookishsam71.bsky.social
Book blogger, cat lover, tea addict, food lover. (Expect photos of all the above) Liberal leftie, no haters 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🍉 (She/Her) https://www.instagram.com/bookishsam71
@tinycharlotte.bsky.social
Bestselling and R&J pick author of If I Can't Have You and If I Let You Go. Short.
@yorkshirecarly.bsky.social
Yorkshire Girl 🌿 Reading Enthusiast Book Blogger Contact via my Blog https://yorkshirecarly.wordpress.com 📸: https://www.instagram.com/yorkshirecarly/
@rachloudriscoll.bsky.social
Author of histfic | Debut novel NEPHTHYS 🇬🇧 out now with Harvill, Vintage, PRH | THE HOUSE OF TWO SISTERS 🇺🇸 coming JUNE 2025 from Ballentine, PRH | Rep: Sarah Hornsley PFD Agency | Victorian woman living in 21st century
@andrewjgreig.bsky.social
No 1 bestselling author, CWA New Blood Dagger listed, multiple McIlvanney Prize listed creator of books. insta @andrew_james_greig http://andrewjgreig.wordpress.com
@natterblog.bsky.social
Hi my name's Gill, reader of good books, book blogger. Please read before following: I don't read fantasy fiction, nor most crime fiction. I most definitely DON'T care about or follow US politics. 🤨 Book Blog at https://abooknbrew2.wordpress.com/reviews/
@lotusbooks.bsky.social
Writer and Book Blogger, love to read crime, historical and literary fiction. Member of Squad POD Collective. Review requests to lotustherapylincs@outlook.com Visit website www.lotuswritingtherapy.com
@peteralanross.bsky.social
New book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland, will be published by Headline on September 11, 2025.
@whusseyauthor.bsky.social
Award-winning author of the SCOTT JERICHO thrillers (KILLING JERICHO; JERICHO’S DEAD; BURYING JERICHO) and YA novels, including THE BOY I LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS, and THE OUTRAGE among others https://linktr.ee/williamhusseyauthor
@yearsofreading.bsky.social
I’m Clare, book blogger since 2017 and full time carer. Life is too short to read books you don’t love, so I don’t.
@tripfiction.bsky.social
Love to travel? Love to read? TripFiction.com matches books with location See a destination through the eyes of an author
@nikkismithauthor.bsky.social
Author of thrillers. Published by Viking, Penguin. Books: Sophie Lambert at C&W. TV/Film: Luke Speed at SLTM. THE GUESTS out now, THEY HAD IT COMING out May ‘25 Co-host of podcast IN SUSPENSE https://linktr.ee/nikkismithauthor
@wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
Independent publisher. South East London. Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social 🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
@brownflopsy.bsky.social
Lover of all things bookish. Book reviewer and blogger at Brown Flopsy's Book Burrow. Cat servant. 🇬🇧 http://linktr.ee/brownflopsy Admin for The SquadPod Collective https://bsky.app/profile/squadpod2021.bsky.social
@louisefein.bsky.social
Author of historical fiction. THE LONDON BOOKSHOP AFFAIR out now! Rep’d by @littlehardman.bsky.social published by @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social International bestseller! Dreams big, drinks a lot of tea. https://www.louisefein.com
@awaiskhan.bsky.social
Award-winning author of 4 novels. Published by Simon & Schuster, Orenda Books and Hera Books | TED Speaker | Founder of The Writing Institute | Represented by Annette Crossland.
@brianmcgilloway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter and PhD candidate. www.brianmcgilloway.com
@jocallaghankat.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestseller In the Blink of an Eye, winner of Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year & CWA New Blood Dagger. Book 2 Leave No Trace. Agent: susanW1F
@bylizzybarber.bsky.social
Richard and Judy best-selling author Out of her Depth / Nanny Wanted / My Name is Anna / Be Mine out ‘25 Rep’d Luigi Bonomi/Amanda Preston @ LBA. Tv & film: Emily Hayward-Whitlock at The Artist’s Partnership
@sarahsteeleauthor.bsky.social
Author of historical fiction, classical musician, crochet fiend, owned by two rescue dogs. @headlinebooks, rep @gaiabanks at Sheil Land
@zoerichards.bsky.social
✍️Debut Author 📚Womens Fiction Writer 🎙️Write Damn It! 🤝Agent: @liverpoollit 👇Buy Garden of Her Heart here and keep up to date with events https://linktr.ee/zoerichardsuk
@oscardad.bsky.social
🌤️🕊️💙🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Please note that DM’s will be ignored PLEASE FOLLOW BACK
@garrettcarr.bsky.social
My novel The Boy From the Sea is out now with Picador. The Rule of the Land was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. I teach in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's, Belfast. www.garrettcarr.net
@swanseastones.bsky.social
Books. Doors. Coffee. Gifts. Events. Zeppelin towers. Albino spiders. Grade 2 listed ex-cinema.
@seventydys.bsky.social
the sea is completely written for me https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
@janisreading.bsky.social
Reader and reviewer of books. Reviewing on my blog, Amazon and Goodreads.
@roisinm.bsky.social
Made in Ireland a long time ago. Cats, books, tea, spotty bananas. Daily recorder of #3goodthings. Pub by Hachette Books Ireland and Sphere UK. Agent Sallyanne Sweeney of MMB Creative, London. Moving On out now. Be kind, it's easy. www.roisinmeaney.com
@bobcoder.bsky.social
Ancient retired aviation electronics engineering trainer and software developer in Australia. Classical music. Amateur classical Virtual Pipe Organist. Leash walker & warming pad for 2 rescued cats. Opinions my own. Formerly BobTheBuilder on X. No DMs.
@northernmailman.bsky.social
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.” Novels To Rise in the Dark and Hunter available now on Amazon or DM for details.
@abdecker.bsky.social
Raised in Devon close to the sea, now landlocked in Switzerland, I write fiction for adults & children and translate. Website: https://abdecker-skinner-books.com/
@datadivajf.bsky.social
Whovian, Trekker, general geek. Culture Vulture (esp classical music, opera). Choral Singer. Veggie. Political Leftie. Counting the Omer AH AH AH. She/her. Bookkeeper - business account @timeoffbooks.bsky.social
@shadesofgreen.bsky.social
A Thousand Shades of Green is a Literary podcast celebrating contemporary writers. Join Susan Richardson to hear her read an array of Gorgeous poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction from writers all over the globe! https://athousandshadesofgreen.com
@thedodgemag.bsky.social
Literary magazine est. 1979, reimagined 2021. Translations & environmental writing. Human, animal, nature connections. https://www.thedodgemag.com/ SUBS OPEN IN FICTION, POETRY, CNF, TRANSLATION, AND ART!
@anmlymag.bsky.social
www.ANMLY.org/ap39 www.medium.com/anomalyblog https://www.anmly.org/newsletter Lit mag. International, intersecting, always interesting.
@lilydunn.bsky.social
Sins of My Father ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Academic. Memoir lover. #lifewriting Co-founder @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find me here: https://lilydunn.substack.com/
@zaffrebooks.bsky.social
Publisher of bestselling fiction of all genres and non-fiction across Zaffre Books and Manilla Press | Imprint of Bonnier Books UK
@thecosymoose.bsky.social
Knitter, Crocheter, Reader, sort-of-Blogger. Cosy crime afficianado. Cat owner. Dog sitter. Hockey watcher. AuDHD. North West UK. I'm all over the place - https://linktr.ee/thecosymoose
@katiehannon.bsky.social
Upfront with Katie Hannon. One third of the Behind the Ballot election podcast. Occasionally heard on Liveline. Working on a second series of The Records Show. Kerry Hospice Patron.
@booksofamber.bsky.social
Professional book recapper for recaptains.com ~ Booktuber, blogger, gamer 🎮, hiker, cat & dog mum
@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating. uk.bookshop.org
@aquilanebula.bsky.social
Public transport specialist, reviewer for Gramophone, occasional traveller & photographer.
@dailyclassicalmusicpost.com
La Patria es Primero 🇲🇽 Slava Ukraini / Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 musicologist➡️social scientist trans parent 🏳️⚧️ DV survivor 🎗️💜 ND ♾️ aka Canyonsfan ✡️ 🇬🇧 Author, https://dailyclassicalmusicpost.com/ Managing Editor, @absjournal.bsky.social Est. el 5 de set. de 2023
@bexbookaholic.bsky.social
Book-obsessed, theatre-loving feminist with a liberal outlook on life. Mental health champion. Award winning book blogger. https://bookaholicbex.wordpress.com/