Cheryl Sonnier
@cherylsonnier.com
Mothership, wifey, writer. Herder of cats. Working class woman from Yorkshire, fully embracing my hag phase. Does not comply. She/Her. All my socials are here: https://linktr.ee/cherylsonnier
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Letting go | Morning Star
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The link in my pinned post seems to have broken. Here's another link to my story in the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
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
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
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Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063
Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells - The Manchester Review
A timely reminder of the ability of the contemporary short form to move, shock and surprise its reader in a myriad of ways. Best British Short Stories 2025 | edited by Nicholas Royle | Salt Publishing...
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October 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063
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It's not out till Feb but tix are available now. I don't do anywhere near as much self-promo on here as i did on Twatter, esp events, cos at least 50% of my followers are overseas. I'll be giving it plenty of Billy Big Bollox about the book after Xmas tho! 🤣
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Book Launch: Keshed by Stu Hennigan | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Book Launch: Keshed by Stu Hennigan today.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
It's not out till Feb but tix are available now. I don't do anywhere near as much self-promo on here as i did on Twatter, esp events, cos at least 50% of my followers are overseas. I'll be giving it plenty of Billy Big Bollox about the book after Xmas tho! 🤣
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
Today's book mail from @confingopublishing.bsky.social came with inclusions. How very @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Looking forward to this latest city-themed collection!
October 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Today's book mail from @confingopublishing.bsky.social came with inclusions. How very @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Looking forward to this latest city-themed collection!
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And you can grab it from all these places, including direct from us. Affordable eBook you can be reading in mere minutes!
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October 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
And you can grab it from all these places, including direct from us. Affordable eBook you can be reading in mere minutes!
books2read.com/uncertain
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
books2read.com/uncertain
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Vol. 1 of our graphic novel SWEENEY'S PROGRESS is finished. An ecological fable set in C7th Ireland, from one of the great medieval poems. Script by me, art by @zaraslattery.bsky.social.
To read the book online & help with the making of Volume 2, visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/sweeneyspr...
To read the book online & help with the making of Volume 2, visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/sweeneyspr...
October 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Vol. 1 of our graphic novel SWEENEY'S PROGRESS is finished. An ecological fable set in C7th Ireland, from one of the great medieval poems. Script by me, art by @zaraslattery.bsky.social.
To read the book online & help with the making of Volume 2, visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/sweeneyspr...
To read the book online & help with the making of Volume 2, visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/sweeneyspr...
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There's a superb anthology here that's very close to funding. www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)
An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore
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October 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There's a superb anthology here that's very close to funding. www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
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Writing help needed. Any fluent Irish speakers able to correct my mistakes in their language? It's for a thing (not much text: just a few phrases). Go raibh maith agat!
October 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Writing help needed. Any fluent Irish speakers able to correct my mistakes in their language? It's for a thing (not much text: just a few phrases). Go raibh maith agat!
Never seen Top Gun.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Never seen Top Gun.
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It’s true. We are publishing a mini-collection by this talented writer. Normally we publish stories singly, in pairs. If that makes sense. Something made us break that pattern.
My first collection of short stories is out this month (17 October) on @nightjarpress.bsky.social ! Very excited. And nervous. But mostly excited.
October 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It’s true. We are publishing a mini-collection by this talented writer. Normally we publish stories singly, in pairs. If that makes sense. Something made us break that pattern.
Not that the studios know who I am (or care) but I will boycott any film made with AI, in any way, whether it's CGI, script, synthetic actors. Any form at all. Even if it was something I would love to see I would not touch it with a ten foot pole and I will encourage everyone I know to do the same.
October 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Not that the studios know who I am (or care) but I will boycott any film made with AI, in any way, whether it's CGI, script, synthetic actors. Any form at all. Even if it was something I would love to see I would not touch it with a ten foot pole and I will encourage everyone I know to do the same.
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Good Morning Bluesky peeps, today we bring you the first brand new submission for our new interview series. And oh boy @mxrxdx.bsky.social has knocked it out of the park!
gnofhorror.com/matthew-r-da...
This is a fascinating read. Please read and share
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This is a fascinating read. Please read and share
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Matthew R Davis Is Singing Songs Songs Of Shadow, Words Of Woe - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Matthew R Davis about his new collection of horror short stories Songs of Shadow, Words of Woe
gnofhorror.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Good Morning Bluesky peeps, today we bring you the first brand new submission for our new interview series. And oh boy @mxrxdx.bsky.social has knocked it out of the park!
gnofhorror.com/matthew-r-da...
This is a fascinating read. Please read and share
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gnofhorror.com/matthew-r-da...
This is a fascinating read. Please read and share
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Got my mammogram results today. Four years clear. I'm so grateful to the NHS.
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Got my mammogram results today. Four years clear. I'm so grateful to the NHS.
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Huge congratulations to Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social for getting her story “Fabrication” into Best British Short Stories 2025 alongside Ian Critchley, Alison Moore, Pippa Goldschmidt and others. Will definitely buy a copy when I’m back in the UK.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Huge congratulations to Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social for getting her story “Fabrication” into Best British Short Stories 2025 alongside Ian Critchley, Alison Moore, Pippa Goldschmidt and others. Will definitely buy a copy when I’m back in the UK.
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Good morning Bluesky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading the final chapters of the excellent delicious fantasy A Sword of Good and Ruin by Ann Smith Spark. What are you reading at the moment?
September 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Good morning Bluesky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading the final chapters of the excellent delicious fantasy A Sword of Good and Ruin by Ann Smith Spark. What are you reading at the moment?
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Wolf's Path was published in March, 6 months ago! But people are seeing it now.
There is no algorithm here. Like no matter now much I think I am posting my stuff, people are still not seeing them.
www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...
There is no algorithm here. Like no matter now much I think I am posting my stuff, people are still not seeing them.
www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...
Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng
within a running wolf, four-pawed, howling
www.atthisarts.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Wolf's Path was published in March, 6 months ago! But people are seeing it now.
There is no algorithm here. Like no matter now much I think I am posting my stuff, people are still not seeing them.
www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...
There is no algorithm here. Like no matter now much I think I am posting my stuff, people are still not seeing them.
www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...
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Happy Monday, friends. Some folks will tell you to do one thing every day that scares you. I'm here to recommend doing (at least) one thing every day that brings you joy. Especially in these times.
September 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Happy Monday, friends. Some folks will tell you to do one thing every day that scares you. I'm here to recommend doing (at least) one thing every day that brings you joy. Especially in these times.
It's officially my favourite season. 👻💀🍁🍂🎑
September 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
It's officially my favourite season. 👻💀🍁🍂🎑
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Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading a great fantasy novel A Sword of Gold and Ruin by Anna Smith Spark. What are you reading at the moment?
September 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading a great fantasy novel A Sword of Gold and Ruin by Anna Smith Spark. What are you reading at the moment?
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Are you someone who can spot a glitch, dream up a digital solution & guide others with hands-on technical skills?
Then we're looking for you!
Apply to be our new Campaign Technology Officer 👇
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Then we're looking for you!
Apply to be our new Campaign Technology Officer 👇
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Campaign Technology Officer | Good Law Project
Join the team at GLP
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September 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Paid position, hybrid working 👇
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To be a writer, you only have to do one thing: write.
Not break into a big magazine. Not publish a bestseller. Not get an extravagant book tour.
Struggling with discouragement? Rejection? Bad reviews? These are normal. They don't disqualify us.
If you put words to the page, then we are peers.
Not break into a big magazine. Not publish a bestseller. Not get an extravagant book tour.
Struggling with discouragement? Rejection? Bad reviews? These are normal. They don't disqualify us.
If you put words to the page, then we are peers.
September 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
To be a writer, you only have to do one thing: write.
Not break into a big magazine. Not publish a bestseller. Not get an extravagant book tour.
Struggling with discouragement? Rejection? Bad reviews? These are normal. They don't disqualify us.
If you put words to the page, then we are peers.
Not break into a big magazine. Not publish a bestseller. Not get an extravagant book tour.
Struggling with discouragement? Rejection? Bad reviews? These are normal. They don't disqualify us.
If you put words to the page, then we are peers.
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The link in my pinned post seems to have broken. Here's another link to my story in the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...
Letting go | Morning Star
morningstaronline.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The link in my pinned post seems to have broken. Here's another link to my story in the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...
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Can't wait to see all the defenders of women and girls sharing this message.
September 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Can't wait to see all the defenders of women and girls sharing this message.
And here she is at last! The Mothership. Isn't she pretty? I love her so much. 😍
September 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
And here she is at last! The Mothership. Isn't she pretty? I love her so much. 😍
Tattoo day tomorrow. Can't wait to share a pic and show off my son's artwork. 😍
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Tattoo day tomorrow. Can't wait to share a pic and show off my son's artwork. 😍