Steph Cherrywell
@stephcherrywell.com
They/them. Author, librarian, text game creator. UNBOXING LIBBY and THE INK WITCH are out now! Represented by @marielamba.bsky.social. See my projects at stephcherrywell.com.
This arrived yesterday in time to get snow dumped on it (yay for Bookshop's thick envelopes) - The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt by @badmachinery.com and @maxsarin.bsky.social. A mystery involving feuding rival quilt shops. I just love this writer/artist combination so much!
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This arrived yesterday in time to get snow dumped on it (yay for Bookshop's thick envelopes) - The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt by @badmachinery.com and @maxsarin.bsky.social. A mystery involving feuding rival quilt shops. I just love this writer/artist combination so much!
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Every time I accidentally see a clip from Fortnite it's like "at long last, we have created Ready Player One from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create Ready Player One"
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Every time I accidentally see a clip from Fortnite it's like "at long last, we have created Ready Player One from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create Ready Player One"
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TIL: In Catalan, they have a tradition of a cute log that poops small gifts for children.
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A Catalan Log That Poops Nougats At Christmas
Catalan holiday tradition involves a log that's fed scraps of food for several weeks leading up to Christmas. Then, it's beaten with a stick and implored to poop out a Spanish nougat called turrón.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
TIL: In Catalan, they have a tradition of a cute log that poops small gifts for children.
www.npr.org/sections/the...
www.npr.org/sections/the...
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Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Wow, thanks, "Malcolm Gladwell," I definitely believe you want to do a feature on The Ink Witch based on your rapturous appreciation of several early plot elements mentioned in the book's blurb. And I'm sure if I replied you wouldn't cheapen things by raising the sordid issue of payment, would you?
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Wow, thanks, "Malcolm Gladwell," I definitely believe you want to do a feature on The Ink Witch based on your rapturous appreciation of several early plot elements mentioned in the book's blurb. And I'm sure if I replied you wouldn't cheapen things by raising the sordid issue of payment, would you?
I just finished Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit by Kim Hyun Sook and @ryanestrada.com! If you loved Banned Book Club, you should read this! (If you haven't read Banned Book Club, it'll still make sense--it's a different story with some of the same characters.)
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I just finished Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit by Kim Hyun Sook and @ryanestrada.com! If you loved Banned Book Club, you should read this! (If you haven't read Banned Book Club, it'll still make sense--it's a different story with some of the same characters.)
I just read Zed Moonstein Makes a Friend by @lancerubinparty.bsky.social because you know I have to read anything with robots and AIs in it. A kid uses an experimental app to generate an AI friend which goes badly wrong. It's unfortunately very timely! #kid #middlegrade
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I just read Zed Moonstein Makes a Friend by @lancerubinparty.bsky.social because you know I have to read anything with robots and AIs in it. A kid uses an experimental app to generate an AI friend which goes badly wrong. It's unfortunately very timely! #kid #middlegrade
They put BOTH of them on their best books list! New York rocks!
Best Books for Kids
✨ UNBOXING LIBBY by @stephcherrywell.com
✨ HOW THE WORD IS PASSED (ADAPTED FOR YOUNG READERS) by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social and @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social
✨ THE INK WITCH by @stephcherrywell.com
✨ UNBOXING LIBBY by @stephcherrywell.com
✨ HOW THE WORD IS PASSED (ADAPTED FOR YOUNG READERS) by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social and @sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social
✨ THE INK WITCH by @stephcherrywell.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
They put BOTH of them on their best books list! New York rocks!
This is awesome! Easy enough for even me to do and it seemed to work fine.
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is awesome! Easy enough for even me to do and it seemed to work fine.
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Middle Fiction
✨ THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST by Aubrey Hartman
✨ UNBOXING LIBBY by @stephcherrywell.com
✨ THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST by Aubrey Hartman
✨ UNBOXING LIBBY by @stephcherrywell.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Middle Fiction
✨ THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST by Aubrey Hartman
✨ UNBOXING LIBBY by @stephcherrywell.com
✨ THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST by Aubrey Hartman
✨ UNBOXING LIBBY by @stephcherrywell.com
Check it out, Unboxing Libby made it onto the Booklist Editors' Choice 2025 youth list! It's such an honor to be in such great company.
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Check it out, Unboxing Libby made it onto the Booklist Editors' Choice 2025 youth list! It's such an honor to be in such great company.
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
Wow, dang, thanks, Chicago Public Library!
Best Fiction for Younger Readers
✨ ROCK PAPER INCISORS by Amy Timberlake and Jon Klassen
Best Fiction for Older Readers
✨ WILL'S RACE FOR HOME by @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social
✨ THE INK WITCH by @stephcherrywell.com
2/4 #CPLBest
✨ ROCK PAPER INCISORS by Amy Timberlake and Jon Klassen
Best Fiction for Older Readers
✨ WILL'S RACE FOR HOME by @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social
✨ THE INK WITCH by @stephcherrywell.com
2/4 #CPLBest
![SUPERSTAR READS OF 2025
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOKS OF 2025
[book cover] ROCK PAPER INCISORS
[book cover] WILL'S RACE FOR HOME
[book cover] THE INK WITCH](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:us3l2l5krwafsa6tvz7igswf/bafkreihzzqklyd7tyrhxs6vn7s5qemmyonkqosrmltvorzvpceu5vxcq4m@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Wow, dang, thanks, Chicago Public Library!
Donate to help fight book bans!
Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
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For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Donate to help fight book bans!
One modern thing that gets me cranky is the phenomenon of making random changes and referring to it as a "refresh." It's never an improvement, or they could call it an improvement. It's just screwing with what you're used to for the sake of it, all packaged with a gross buzzword.
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
One modern thing that gets me cranky is the phenomenon of making random changes and referring to it as a "refresh." It's never an improvement, or they could call it an improvement. It's just screwing with what you're used to for the sake of it, all packaged with a gross buzzword.
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This was such a cool project and I'm really proud to have art in this incredible book with so much amazing art and writing! Was amazed when Brian told me that my pictish byrehouse illustration would be one of less than five detailed depictions in existence!
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This was such a cool project and I'm really proud to have art in this incredible book with so much amazing art and writing! Was amazed when Brian told me that my pictish byrehouse illustration would be one of less than five detailed depictions in existence!
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Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence (okay, two, in order to make a neater cutoff!) Share yours if you want.
This is from THE INK WITCH.
This is from THE INK WITCH.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence (okay, two, in order to make a neater cutoff!) Share yours if you want.
This is from THE INK WITCH.
This is from THE INK WITCH.
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New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
You Gotta Eat by @margareteby.bsky.social. This is amazing! A cookbook for very simple recipes that take almost no time or money but still feel like a finished meal. Everyone should just be issued this in their teens. It has opened my eyes to the possibilities of bean salad.
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
You Gotta Eat by @margareteby.bsky.social. This is amazing! A cookbook for very simple recipes that take almost no time or money but still feel like a finished meal. Everyone should just be issued this in their teens. It has opened my eyes to the possibilities of bean salad.
Rodeo Hawkins and the Daughters of Mayhem by John Claude Bemis and @nicolemillo.bsky.social (middle grade graphic novel.) A wild multiverse adventure about rebel kids taking on morally compromised paladins; the art and the tech/magic mix give it a bit of a Nimona vibe. Read it!
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Rodeo Hawkins and the Daughters of Mayhem by John Claude Bemis and @nicolemillo.bsky.social (middle grade graphic novel.) A wild multiverse adventure about rebel kids taking on morally compromised paladins; the art and the tech/magic mix give it a bit of a Nimona vibe. Read it!
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NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! 🥳
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
As your politicians caved in Washington, comrades across Texas came together to support trans healthcare by building out 800 HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits.
Fund a kit here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
See their post here: www.instagram.com/p/DQ220LxgP4v/
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My phone has these obnoxious text auto-response prompts which you can't turn off, and it's awful. Except! I discovered that they go away if you swear. So now I have to swear in every conversation to drive them off, like a superstitious peasant invoking a protective charm. Thanks a heap, technology.
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
My phone has these obnoxious text auto-response prompts which you can't turn off, and it's awful. Except! I discovered that they go away if you swear. So now I have to swear in every conversation to drive them off, like a superstitious peasant invoking a protective charm. Thanks a heap, technology.