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Cheryl Sonnier

@cherylsonnier.com

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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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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · Apr 27

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

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 5d

Today's book mail from @confingopublishing.bsky.social came with inclusions. How very @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Looking forward to this latest city-themed collection!

Picture of the book 'Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle, along with some postcards that were inside.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 9d

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...

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 8d

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

www.kickstarter.com

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 11d

I believe you need a comma before the first quote marks in each instance. As for the mixed intention, it looks technically correct but also looks 'wrong' when I see it, so I'm not sure. I would probably reword to avoid it completely.

Do you suppose she meant to say she was the Kwisatch Haderach?

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 16d

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!

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 17d

They do. The ones who follow him are like the ones who follow the American wannabe dictator: they either know and don't care, or they refuse to believe anything that contradicts what they want.

Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 21d

I don't think I've read that. Will add to my ever-growing list. As for Indiana Jones, while I've seen and enjoyed it, watching The Mummy is always the right choice 😄

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 21d

I watched Threads (nuclear war/post nuclear war drama set in Sheffield). I was in my 20s, with two small children. It and 'When the Wind Blows' still traumatise me to this day.

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 21d

Best of luck!

Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 21d

Never seen Top Gun.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 22d

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.

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Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social · 22d

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.

Myriam Frey @dustynewrose.bsky.social · 22d

My first collection of short stories is out this month (17 October) on @nightjarpress.bsky.social ! Very excited. And nervous. But mostly excited.

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 23d

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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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 23d

Suits you Madame!

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 24d

I keep asking/challenging people on the immigration narrative but they can't answer and usually end up demanding to know what I'm trying to hide. Because wanting to know more before I agree to something is suspect activity now.

Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 24d

I, who love my toast dark, could have swapped you this morning when mine came out a bit anaemic and I didn't have time to put it back in and keep an eye on it.

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Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 24d

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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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

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 25d

Got my mammogram results today. Four years clear. I'm so grateful to the NHS.

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Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social · 26d

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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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 27d

If not heard of that one but my Granny had so many of these. Don't cross knives on the table, don't put new shoes on the table, don't send Christmas or birthday cards with birds on. She also threw salt over her shoulder whenever she spilled any. She was the daughter of an Aberdeen fishwife.

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 28d

Looks like they took it down (or were made to)

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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 28d

Me and my husband do that at Christmas. Just on the back cover blurb alone and whether we think the other will enjoy it. It's good fun.

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 29d

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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Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 28d

Here, I don't get a great deal of engagement at all (but then I don't work at it as much as I could) but I do tend to get more eyes/likes/shares on my writing. I don't know the answer.

Cheryl Sonnier @cherylsonnier.com · 28d

I don't think having an algorithm helps writers and artists much to be honest. On Threads, I get barely any engagement when I post work, or general fun posts, but I get tons when I post something even slightly political or controversial. High profile writers have said the same, also.

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