Alison Cherry
@alisoncherry.bsky.social
Editor, author of novels for kids and teens, producer of the We're Not Over Six Feet Under podcast.
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Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
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Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful.
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
September 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful.
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
File your claims, my friends!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
File your claims, my friends!
I would be a fantastic wedding planner. Unfortunately I would also hate it.
What job are you extremely unlikely to ever get that you think you would kick ass at?
I think I could book compelling wrestling storylines.
I think I could book compelling wrestling storylines.
July 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I would be a fantastic wedding planner. Unfortunately I would also hate it.
@maris.bsky.social @joshgondelman.bsky.social Loved your episode of The Dream! Thanks for helping to normalize the child-free life I am very happily living. (And Maris, I am enjoying your book so much!)
June 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
@maris.bsky.social @joshgondelman.bsky.social Loved your episode of The Dream! Thanks for helping to normalize the child-free life I am very happily living. (And Maris, I am enjoying your book so much!)
It's the best feeling when you just happen to have your phone in your hand at the exact right moment.
June 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It's the best feeling when you just happen to have your phone in your hand at the exact right moment.
I sat at a communal restaurant table with Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie. My friend asked Kit what dessert he had ordered cause it looked really good. It was a nectarine tart.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I sat at a communal restaurant table with Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie. My friend asked Kit what dessert he had ordered cause it looked really good. It was a nectarine tart.
@joshgondelman.bsky.social At this very moment my nieces are giggling over your donkey voice on Circle Round. I told them I know you and it blew their little minds 😊
June 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
@joshgondelman.bsky.social At this very moment my nieces are giggling over your donkey voice on Circle Round. I told them I know you and it blew their little minds 😊
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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
bookshop.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility
The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.
www.newsobserver.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
What is the point of April Fool's Day when everything I read every day seems fake
April 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
What is the point of April Fool's Day when everything I read every day seems fake
@emilystjams.bsky.social Just finished your book, and I loved it a lot. Can't wait to shove it into other people's hands!
March 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
@emilystjams.bsky.social Just finished your book, and I loved it a lot. Can't wait to shove it into other people's hands!
Today I took my phone in for repairs because it keeps spontaneously shutting itself down, and the tech told me it was because my "logic board is panicking."
Never have I related to my phone so much.
Never have I related to my phone so much.
March 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today I took my phone in for repairs because it keeps spontaneously shutting itself down, and the tech told me it was because my "logic board is panicking."
Never have I related to my phone so much.
Never have I related to my phone so much.
You know it's time to buy a humidifier when you get an electric shock from a bag of chips.
February 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You know it's time to buy a humidifier when you get an electric shock from a bag of chips.
I just need you all to see this picture from my aunt's wedding in 1989.
January 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I just need you all to see this picture from my aunt's wedding in 1989.
Pressing rewind on a tape deck for exactly the right amount of time so you can start your favorite song over again.
what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?
January 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Pressing rewind on a tape deck for exactly the right amount of time so you can start your favorite song over again.
I read exactly 100 books this year: 68 for adults, 7 young adult, 7 middle grade, 7 nonfiction, and 11 graphic novels. Here are some of my favorites!
Let's start with adult.
Let's start with adult.
December 31, 2024 at 3:39 AM
I read exactly 100 books this year: 68 for adults, 7 young adult, 7 middle grade, 7 nonfiction, and 11 graphic novels. Here are some of my favorites!
Let's start with adult.
Let's start with adult.
Copy editor pro tip: There's no need to write "He audibly groans." If it's not audible, it's just a breath, not a groan.
December 24, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Copy editor pro tip: There's no need to write "He audibly groans." If it's not audible, it's just a breath, not a groan.
True love is googling "Do sharks have penises" for your friend who's curious but doesn't want to see any photos.
December 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
True love is googling "Do sharks have penises" for your friend who's curious but doesn't want to see any photos.
My mom tasked me with finding a new cat for her, and I did an excellent job.
December 10, 2024 at 5:07 AM
My mom tasked me with finding a new cat for her, and I did an excellent job.
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The new law guarantees fundamental rights for sex workers, including the ability to refuse clients, set the conditions of an act, and stop an act at any moment.
Belgium becomes first country to give sex workers robust labor rights and protections
The new law guarantees fundamental rights for sex workers, including the ability to refuse clients, set the conditions of an act, and stop an act at any moment.
www.npr.org
December 2, 2024 at 6:24 PM
The new law guarantees fundamental rights for sex workers, including the ability to refuse clients, set the conditions of an act, and stop an act at any moment.
My kingdom for just one female main character on television who doesn't pursue romance because it isn't important to her, not because she's emotionally unavailable/traumatized/massively overworked/a terrible person/lying to herself about what she wants.
December 2, 2024 at 2:55 PM
My kingdom for just one female main character on television who doesn't pursue romance because it isn't important to her, not because she's emotionally unavailable/traumatized/massively overworked/a terrible person/lying to herself about what she wants.
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Just a reminder that Amazon workers are striking tomorrow through Monday, and that none of the “deals” are good enough to justify crossing the picket line.
November 28, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Just a reminder that Amazon workers are striking tomorrow through Monday, and that none of the “deals” are good enough to justify crossing the picket line.
Last book you read: Rainbow Black, Maggie Thrash
Current read: There Is a Door in This Darkness, Kristin Cashore/The Knockout Queen, Rufi Thorpe
Last book added to your TBR: Comics Will Break Your Heart, Faith Erin Hicks
Current read: There Is a Door in This Darkness, Kristin Cashore/The Knockout Queen, Rufi Thorpe
Last book added to your TBR: Comics Will Break Your Heart, Faith Erin Hicks
- last book you read: Ingrained by Callum Robinson
- your current read: By the Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social
- last book added to your TBR: Big Chief by Jon Hickey
- your current read: By the Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social
- last book added to your TBR: Big Chief by Jon Hickey
Bookish checkpoint
- last book you read: Small Things Like These by Clare Keegan
- your current read: A Living Remedy by @nicolechung.bsky.social and Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
- last book added to your tbr: The Language of Climate Politics by @doctorvive.bsky.social
- next read: Unknown
- last book you read: Small Things Like These by Clare Keegan
- your current read: A Living Remedy by @nicolechung.bsky.social and Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
- last book added to your tbr: The Language of Climate Politics by @doctorvive.bsky.social
- next read: Unknown
November 18, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Last book you read: Rainbow Black, Maggie Thrash
Current read: There Is a Door in This Darkness, Kristin Cashore/The Knockout Queen, Rufi Thorpe
Last book added to your TBR: Comics Will Break Your Heart, Faith Erin Hicks
Current read: There Is a Door in This Darkness, Kristin Cashore/The Knockout Queen, Rufi Thorpe
Last book added to your TBR: Comics Will Break Your Heart, Faith Erin Hicks
Another day, another copy edit during which I have to get down on the floor to fact check whether a sexual position is physically possible. Try asking AI to do that.
November 18, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Another day, another copy edit during which I have to get down on the floor to fact check whether a sexual position is physically possible. Try asking AI to do that.