Cornerstones is the #1 transatlantic literary consultancy. We are the writer’s friend, and we believe your story matters.
A home for working-class readers and writers
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Salt | Est. 1999 | One of the UK’s leading independent publishers.
High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction.
Redefining independent publishing for the 21st century.
Available in all good bookshops.
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Senior #editor at DarlingAxe.com. Award-winning #author, Ironman #triathlete. michellebarker.ca
Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
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Chatter of 💩, writer of books. Author of Sunday Times bestselling #WashingtonPoe & #TillyBradshaw / #BenKoenig / #JamesBond and the Secret Agent Academy series. Winner of CWA Gold/Steel Dagger/ #Theakstons OP Crime Novel of the Year Award #mwcraven
Probably talking to animals. Or reading a book 💙📚 Book blogger - fan of crime thrillers and psychological thrillers, the grittier the better! On 🐦 as @CoffeeCurls and @ReadandRated book reviews at www.readandrated.com
"Atlantic Furies" coming soon, Scribe UK - early women who flew the ocean. Existing Books: biogs of Amy Johnson, Marie Lloyd, Piccadilly Circus, #POWs ("The Barbed-Wire University") etc. #WW2 Creative writing tutor Cambridge. https://midgegillies.com/
Creator of Queen Camilla's favourite fictional detective.
Global best-selling author.
Red socks aficionado.
Makes a mean vodka martini.
https://www.peterjames.com/
Reader, crime-writer and advocate for libraries and the Reading for Wellbeing project. Creator of Vera Stanhope, Shetland and Matthew Venn, among others.
2x Shortlisted Freelancer of the Year 2024 & 2025 (The Bookseller) 📚 Award-winning marketing consultant ✨ Publishing professional ☕ Writer ✍️ Herder of 🐱🐶🦔
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1/3 of Everything Is Content pod. Author of Romanticise Your Life (2024) & How To Come Alive Again (2019). 🖊️ for hire.
Future Bestselling Author of FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN ☀️🧡Out with Penguin Michael Joseph, Oct 23, 2025
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Writes magical middle grade fiction. Often found wandering the woods in search of an adventure. Loves cats, tea, and D&D. Rep'd by Amber Caraveo at Skylark Literary. Debut MG novel Crow: Thief of Magic out May 2026 with HarperCollins Children's Books.
66y, Wannabe author, poet & allround nice guy. Father of four, and a few grandkids. 🇿🇦South African. Blessed, sports fan and reader. Love good movies, music and the occasional whiskey.
Nosy and inconsistent word juggler
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The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Site)
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Writer, performer, elderly model. Enjoys late Victorian fiction and breath play.
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Natasiarose on X. Read my stories @ www.natasiarose.com
The Spot for Writers. Follow along at https://thewritersspot.substack.com/
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KathySteinemann.com
Kathy Steinemann is a #writer who loves #words, especially when they're frightening or futuristic or funny. #Author of The Writer's Lexicon series.
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A KISS OF HAMMER & FLAME 📘 Out now!
A CROWN OF BLOOD & MAGICK 📕 15 Sep 2026
(Canelo, DK, Penguin Random House)
Whimsigoth #SpecFic writer. She / her 🇦🇺 🏳️🌈 🇬🇧
SL: Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2024
Rep: PFD London
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✍️ Writer and faith-based storyteller
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❤️ Vivid fictional worlds like Silo
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PHD in distribution of memes😁
Warning ‼️, I might make you laugh
Writer, scientist. She/her. LGBTQI.
Open Book Publishers • ScholarLed • Copim • Open Access Books Network • All things open access books • Also on Mastodon (@alittleroad@hcommons.social) & LinkedIn (lucy-barnes-01670473) • She/her
I work in TV whatever that means now. Cinephile. News junkie. Treehugger. Brooklyn NY. Hating on fascists and authoritarians. I follow tons of folks to grow a great news/culture feed for myself to read, so there.
Writer. PhD in religion and narrative from Bristol University; I post about writing, reading, philosophy, current affairs, business, and more. jsbaker.co.uk | figuration.al | helios360.co.uk
NE England Co - created to tour Meggie Magicia to 6 theatres & 3 schools in 2022. Premiered at @alphabettitheatre.bsky.social in 2021.
Writer/founder/producer: Wendy Errington (Assoc Artist @ Alphabetti)
#theatre #playwright #producer
Independent bookshop in Halifax's The Piece Hall.
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01422 414443
Link to our events: https://bookcornerhalifax.com/events/
International prizes for emerging writers
✨The Bath Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 31 May
✨The Bath Children's Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 30 Nov
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Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT OUT NOW
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Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction)
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Kerry via San Francisco
Welcome to the positive side of Writing. Author & Author software that helps people write. My Sci-fi + MG novels. Cool, clean, fun Writing Software for all. My page, 4 me, for writing motivation, writing connection, helps me write. Creator of Storyfyre.com
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We connect ideas, talent and finance to develop a pioneering creative culture for London.
We're all about story. News, opportunities, advice and training from BAFTA-winning John Yorke - from #scripted and #unscripted TV to #games and #podcasts.
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We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
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Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Book lover, film watcher, food maker, image taker
flip-flop is my nature
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Award-winning video game wordslinger | not-so-award-winning author | Oxford comma enthusiast | baseball nut | son of Detroit | DMs [regrettably] Open
Director, Producer & Writer | CatDog dad | Historian | Official Unofficial Spokesman for Digiorno |
https://www.TrevorBrowning.com
Project Director @ D11. Prev. Narrative Director @ Ubisoft. Game Designer, Narrative Designer, Writer, Creative Direction @ Supermassive, Blitz Games, Frontier, Acclaim, Software Creations. DM & lifelong supergeek.
Author. Microfarmer. ‘Under a Metal Sky’ (Granta UK Feb ‘25, US Nov ‘25) also ‘The Summer Isles’, ‘Rising Ground’ etc. Lives in Cornwall.
Small and noisy Mancunian. Writes crime fiction. Teaches creative writing. Does a lot of gardening (not a euphemism).
Screenwriter: Scarygirl, OH YUCK!, One Eyed Girl & others.
Acting: Furia: Resurrection, The Babadook, Deadline: Gallipoli, all the way back to Scooby Doo.
I coach creative peeps to help them make big leaps.
https://www.craigbehenna.com
Author / Env Historian / TURNING, TWO TREES MAKE A FOREST, DOG HEARTED, DISPERSALS, A GARDEN CALLED HOME / Queries to David Godwin Associates please
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Writer. Editor at Aeon. Midlife trilogy (Middlepause, Insomnia, A Little Give) &c. Essays in Granta, Aeon, Paris Review. New work cooking. Rep Rebecca Carter
Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons.
https://joannanadin.com/
https://instagram.com/jonadin
"The John Lewis Christmas Advert of Authors." Historical fiction/SFF Author. PhD Creative Writing (Science Fiction)/Lecturer. ME/CFS, late diagnosed ADHD. He/Him. Liverpool-based. Rep’d by Liverpool Literary Agency
https://linktr.ee/mikehollows
Freelance journalist (mostly for the Guardian Long Read) and author of Karachi Vice. I am also on Substack @samirashackle.
Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
🍿🎬❤️🥰 Movie junkie & romance writing queen who loves a happy ending!
Writer. Educator. Dreamer.
Writer of many things.
YA: The Other Girl, is coming from Penguin in May 2025.
Sci fi in the US as Evie Green
Backpack, The Sleeper and various others, back in the day (and working on more)
Screenwriting is incoming...
Chinese Scottish Londoner. Mum of 4. Author of 3. A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage out Jan'25. Curtis Brown 📚 Alice Lutyens 📺 Camilla Young/ Katie Battcock
Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
📚Award-winning, Sunday Times Bestselling Author | Writer ✍🏾 l Reader 📖 | TV & Film Lover 📺 | Podcaster 🎙️| Latest book Give Him To Me out now 📚⚡️
New Writing South is dedicated to inspiring, nurturing and connecting all kinds of creative writers in southeast England.
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Worker, friend, nutter 😊
Writer. Awkward but terribly keen.
LITTLE DEATHS | OTHER WOMEN
Books, history, coffee, cats, stories, gin 🐈⬛
📚 Agent: Antony Topping
Longlisted: Women’s Prize | CWA Gold Dagger | Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year | Guardian Not The Booker
A celebration of the crime and thriller genre. 🔎 13th - 14th June 2025. Info@capitalcrime.org Tickets on sale now: capitalcrime.org
Writer of novels, history, plays, ghost stories ~ Interviewer & Performer ~ Founder Director Women’s Prizes ~ Trustee British Library
Find me at www.katemosse.co.uk
Crime-writing duo Highly commended Detective
Consultant BAFTA winning dramas inc #HappyValley
Voted #8 Best #Crime #Thriller Authors of all Time #WHSmith Advisors to authors, broadcasters, journalists & true crime doc. makers
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Author. Latest book is Carnegie shortlisted THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND: ‘Compulsive, poignant YA dystopia’ Guardian. RLF Writing Fellow.
Agent: Catherine Clarke, FBA
www.clarefurniss.com
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The Stranger Beside Me; The Sinner; Truth Games; Betray Her; My Husband's Lies; Beneath the Skin Also writes as CE Rose: The Attic at Wilton Place; The Shadows of Rutherford House; The House on the Water's Edge;The House of Hidden Secrets
London based independent publishing house.
Dedicated to new authors, great storytelling & fabulous ideas 📚
📚 Award-winning #book & #theatre critic.
✍🏻 #Writer querying my first novel.
🎭 Often pretend to be someone else on stage.
💻 Day job: global #marketing.
All my links: https://linktr.ee/Paradise_Library
We publish a broad and vibrant range of books for audiences of all ages.
Author of many books, teacher, mentor, #Curae, campaigner, doctored, mum of 3. Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89 rep. Clare Coombes at Liverpool Literary Agency
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Author of crime novels. Writer of history podcasts. Resident of seaside town.
Author of The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman & The Lost Passenger, agent Alice Lutyens, Curtis Brown. Keen on cats.
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Bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE: out now in the UK. Posts by N and team.
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New book THE CASTLE can be preordered now! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them https://linktr.ee/jonronson
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
author, marshall scholar, phd @ Yale
sinophone + asian american lit
BABEL, YELLOWFACE, etc...
https://linktr.ee/kuangrf
#1 New-York-Times-Disqualified & Hugo-Award-disqualified author of IRON WIDOW and ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR (They/Them)
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping people from underrepresented groups become literary agents.
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Writer, dreamer, PhD student exploring working-class voices. Northern lass. Words @Northerngravy.com @nffr.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @fictiveDream.bsky.social @SoFloPoJo.bsky.social Winner @Bathflashaward.bsky.social
https://kathyhoyle.com
your book editor friend 💪📚
formerly at Penguin Random House and The Book Group
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Author of THE BOOK OF WITCHING, THE LIGHTHOUSE WITCHES, and others.
Where every story matters 📚
orionbooks.co.uk
Publicity Assistant @ Hodder & Stoughton
Flash nonfiction, emailed weekly.
https://short-reads.org
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a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*)
Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
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Writer & illustrator @ The Atlantic, Sierra, Audubon, etc. Edits @ High Country News. Subscribe to Terra Affirma for comics and visual essays @ https://sarahmgilman.substack.com Art @ http://etsy.me/3llAmpO and www.instagram.com/hiddendrawerdesigns/
The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com