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Cheryl Rosbak

@csrosbak.bsky.social
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Queer Canadian romance author. Occasionally I make things that aren't books. she/her. Against generative AI for any reason. csrosbak.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4h
You know what I'm going to say: do not watch video of someone being killed for any reason if you don't absolutely have to, and if you do *genuinely* have to, ie for reporting, use every psychological mitigation technique possible: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 2h
Clearly you're meant to write the story of someone finding this
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 3h
I laughed when I heard it
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 8h
It's in the trailer, so easy to find!
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 8h
Yeah, it's weird. Very little pain this time. I never get other symptoms, so I can't compare that.
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Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Got a scam email: "Dear Mark ... My name is Victoria Wenzel and I am an Editor at Pegasus Books. I recently came across your work ... I am always interested in discovering distinctive authors and compelling works that may be a strong fit for our publishing program ..." #scams #scam #fraud #writing
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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware
One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 19h
It really narrows things down, doesn't it
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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 23h
Advanced voting starts tomorrow and this is a fantastic resource to help narrow down your choices. Honestly I didn't even bother considering candidates who couldn't be bothered to respond to this
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 19h
Will lions do?
Two male lions asleep on a wooden platform in the sun.
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Neil Ramsay @neil-ramsay.com · 22h
I love that this video starts off looking like a photograph because NO ONE IS MOVING -- not the kids nor the squirrel they're eyeing through the window. Then, after a moment, Starlet swishes her tail and it breaks the spell.
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can you get a screenshot of it?
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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In 2020, Pamela Anderson Returned to Her Family’s Canadian Estate on Vancouver Island and Built a Massive Garden. Today, the Harvest Feeds Her Local Community people.com/in-2020-pame...
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In 2020, Pamela Anderson Returned to Her Family’s Canadian Estate and Built a Massive Garden. Today, the Harvest Feeds Her Community
Pamela Anderson returned to her family’s long-help plot on Vancouver Island, British Columbia in 2020. In the years since, she’ built a massive garden that grows everything from wildflowers and herbs ...
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey, non-fiction folks! Do you know any agents who'd be interested in this kind of work?
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There's your first red flag: publishers don't hire agents, the writer does. Remember that you don't pay anyone anything in this process. All their money comes from sales, not directly from you.
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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When a cryptid-hunting YouTuber receives a video of the mom who abandoned him as a child, following its trail to an isolated woodland community seems like the perfect (?) escape from the "straight" co-host he drunkenly made out with. A queer horror comedy for fans of Night Film & Twin Peaks Links⬇️
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You need either an agent or a lawyer familiar with publishing contracts. There are a lot of predatory publishers out there. But first, read this: sfwa.org/other-resour... writerbeware.blog Ignore that it's aimed at fiction writers; it's useful information for anyone.
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Everyone I've met who had a Matrix, including me, misses it.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 08/10/2026
The Liberals and Conservatives just voted together to attack labour, environmental, and Indigenous rights to fast-track corporate mega projects. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Conservatives vote with Liberals as Bill C-39 heads to committee
A key piece of the Carney government’s economic agenda, Bill C-39, passed its first vote in the House of Commons Thursday when Conservatives voted with the majority Liberals to send the bill for study...
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Stuart Shaw Creations @stuartshaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At this point, I would gladly make a pact with an ancient entity just to cure my headache. 👹 💆‍♀️ 🤕 --- #BrendaTurnOffTheLight #MigraineRelief #DarkHumorArt
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Ginny Di @ginnydi.com · 08/10/2026
Support D&D and MtG workers UNIONIZING!! 💪 Sign the petition by Oct 13 to add your voice to the demands so Wizards can see that the community supports their employees being compensated fairly and protecting against AI: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the…
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 07/10/2026
At Ebooks.Direct: It's 1895... but not as you know it. A velied lady comes to 221B Baker Street with a unique problem: she's about to be assassinated. *Again.* ...And only Holmes and Watson can keep the next assassination from being permanent! bit.ly/Lioness-Mane #SherlockHolmes #EbookSky
The cover of "The Adventure of the Lioness's Mane" by Diane Duane
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Stickman Communications @stickmancomms.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For all you non-UK followers, although I can't ship abroad anymore, download versions of many of my posters and cards are now available from my website: www.stickmancommunications.co.uk/category/all...
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They just didn't listen to anything in between, did they?
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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 08/10/2026
I love this Satanist. incredible work
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No, because even finding stock photos with a m/f couple who are the same height is next to impossible.
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Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · 08/10/2026
icymi! new book from me this week 🎉 it's got sad old men who want to be less sad but don't think they deserve it--until they start writing together again and realize their home is with each other
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Give them to the kids to make blackout poetry
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is definitely what publishers do with books that are in high demand and not written by a toxically bigoted dented can of spray cheese
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Huh. Interesting.
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
She's so good at writing broken people trying their best.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes!
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Asking a chatbot is not the best climate-related decision in the first place. How do people still not know that?
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think the entire point was to be unsettling. By having only one side of the plate filled you see how little she's being given to eat.
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just finished Cat Sebastian's Star Shipped and I loved every moment of it.
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Dork Tales @dorktales.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey @everyone! At 7 PM PCT, we're going on a camping trip with the kids over on Dork Tales with Hunter the Reckoning: Gone Fishin'! This is a great idea and absolutely not something we might not live to regret. www.twitch.tv/dorktales #hunterthereckoning #worldofdarkness
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Black Sheep
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The one I use in my table sign is "Romance, fantasy, and the occasional eldritch monster."
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's already some effect. Two years ago it took me less than a week to get my first block of numbers, whereas a friend had to wait a couple of months for hers.
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It took me three scrolls for that to click
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My books are right here: bookshop.org/beta-search?...
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was thinking that as I drove by.
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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
SECOND BOOKTOBERFEST! ✨️ kwwritersalliance.com/booktoberfest/
the hobbits second breakfast meme pasted over my booktoberfest poster for old goat books this weekend.Find a new favourite book and support local authors! Booktoberfest. Oct 10, 12-5pm. Old Goat Books, Uptown Waterloo.
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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bank of Canada security officers have been on strike for 100+ days. The Bank has been caught twice violating federal anti-scab law and even hired Pinkertons, a contractor notorious for violent strikebreaking. PM Carney says he stands with workers. Why won't he condemn this corporate lawbreaking?
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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I saw a giant dog skeleton in a yard today. It looked exactly like Clifford The Big Red Dog, Halloween edition.
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Gregory Lynn @needfulwords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think we should start painting everyone who is against UBI as soft on crime. Crime stems largely from desperation. Give people some real hope to improve their lives and crime will go down. Also the billionaires are driving people to desperation and causing the crime.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f
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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia
Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026
Oh good, more slop variety.com/2026/biz/new...
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AI Studio Authors First, Backed by $10 Million, Pledges to Help Writers Faithfully Adapt Their Books
Authors First, founded by venture capitalist Robert Hamwee, promises to let science-fiction and fantasy scribes adapt their titles as closely to their intended vision as possible
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
o hai did you know that the first Jew in Canada (18th c.) was a trans man? and did you know that the very brilliant @sbearbergman.bsky.social has a piece on Jacques LaFargue and many other things in his latest, which you should preorder:
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The Fresh End of a Long Thread / The First Jew in Canada
From legendary storyteller and activist S. Bear Bergman: a remarkable head-to-tail book combining a play and a long essay bridging trans history and trans futuresFor some thirty years, S. Bear Bergman ...
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