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Charlotte Chambers | #BookSky
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Newsletter: HAVING WRITTEN (having-written.ghost.io)

Website: charlottechamberswriter.com

WIP: WHAT THE BODY WANTS

✍️ Iowa Writer’s Summer 2025 Workshop✨
✍️ Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference 2025 ✨
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Charlotte Chambers | #BookSky @having-written.bsky.social · 29d
I'm so, so honored to be included in Volume 99 of streetcake magazine! Help a girl out, and head on over to read my short fiction, "User Error." 😘 #booksky #writersky #shortstories
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I'm so, so honored to be included in Volume 99 of streetcake magazine! Help a girl out, and head on over to read my short fiction, "User Error." 😘 #booksky #writersky #shortstories
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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One of my favorite magazines is open for submissions!
havenspec.bsky.social Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · Nov 8
ICYMI, our general submission window is open this entire month!

We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more!

Guidelines & schedule:
www.havenspec.com/submit/
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Does Anthropic owe you money? No, for real; more people are included in the settlement class than you would think! Please go check! #booksky #newsletter #noaiart #anthropicsettlement
Get Your Money! (GenAI Copyright Lawsuits Edition) + My 7 October Reads
A few months ago, one of the biggest criminal enterprises responsible for intellectual property theft—Anthropic, owner of the Generative AI program Claude—agreed to settle to the tune of billions of d...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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YOU MUST READ 'KATABASIS' NOW!!!! #booksky #katabasis #rfkuang #bookreview
My Six-Week Convalescence From Social Media + Why you must read 'Katabasis' NOW
If you follow me on Instagram, you also know I'm in an abusive relationship with it. I just can't quit that darn app. I intend to use it in a very limited way, and that's to stay in touch with the wri...
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September 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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In defense of seeking your people. #booksky #havingwritten #dorothyparker #bookreviews
Have you found your weirdos yet? 🫶🏻 + My 9 August reads
About a year ago, I joined a two-hour writing class. It was a cold, grey Saturday afternoon, and I was praying that the class's 12-2 PM time block would result in a full nap for the youngest member of...
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September 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
June 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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So get on it, people.
June 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Someone got confused and accidentally accepted me to this summer program. My shock continues. Plus I read some good books while I was there! #booksky #writersky #authorsky #writingworkshops #bookreviews
My Time at the Iowa Writers' Workshop + 3 book reviews
Since the internet is terrifying, I withheld the location of my previously mentioned writing adventure, and I'm so excited now to share that I was accepted to (and attended) the first summer session a...
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June 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Seriously, proceed with caution if you don't want this book to MESS you up. #booksky #readinglist #mayreads
CAUTION: This book DESTROYED me + 13 additional reads from April and May
I've read some absolute bangers in the last two months, so today I present to you a book list without much ranting. You're disappointed, I know, I'll make it up to you next time. The absolute 10/5 ba...
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May 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Are you a #bookpervert too?
Are you a book pervert too? + 3 AI cautionary tales that should scare you
The elder millennial in me is embarrassed that twice in a row now I've used rage bait from Threads as a topic for this newsletter. But it really is very egregious. You see, looks like I'm a book perv...
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May 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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My online indie bookstore haul from #independentbookstoreday. Which one first? 🤗
May 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Wherein I rant about jerks who steal from writers.

#booksky #payforbooks #writersky #intellectualpropertycrimes
You're Just Going to STEAL IT?! + 3 books I loved in April
It takes a lot for me to clutch my pearls. I'm almost 40, and the world is insane. But clutch my pearls I did when, this weekend on Threads, a user I follow (@mommacusses, who is hilarious, by the way...
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April 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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How I rate my books, but most important: a bunch of books you’ve not heard about and SHOULD! 📖

#booksky #read #bookskyreviews #writersky #authorsky
To Each His Own: Ratings In A Subjective World + 6 book reviews ranging from no rating to 5 stars
A very dear friend of mine apologized for not having read all Having Written's posts yet. She'd left a few of them flagged, and planned to work through, but hadn't caught up. So I realized: if this pe...
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April 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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March reading list! One book stood out. First 10 stars out of 5 ever.
#booksky #booklist #marchbooklist #bookreviews #readbannedbooks
March reads that left me shook (and the ones that didn't)
Bereft of inspiration for a witty topic, I figured since we're starting a new month, I'll share my March reading list with a quick review of each (9 total). They span a pretty wide range, so there's r...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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THIS. #noai #hayaomiyazaki
March 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Seriously, if you refuse to read this, there is nothing I can do for you. Don't let this be you. 🙏

#booksky #bookskyrecommendations #bookreviews #readingbooks #writersky
If you refuse to read this, I can't help you + 3 criminally underrated series
I never needed convincing that reading Fantasy was for me. If you're a hyperactive, knobby-kneed, glasses-wearing little girl with oceans-deep levels of anxiety, you're apt to sink into worlds full of...
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March 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Find joy in the simple things
Tesla Stock declining 38% year to date with calvin and hobbes sledding off the hill of falling stock
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Calling all authors!!! Look look look just in case!
meredithmooring.bsky.social Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Mar 20
IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION

Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member:

Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800
Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]
A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064) Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108) Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371) Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007) JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP 601 California Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, California 94108 Telephone: (415) 500-6800 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com cyoung@saverilawfirm.com kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953) 1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406 Los Angeles, CA 90027 Telephone: (323) 968-2632 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: mb@buttericklaw.com Counsel for Individual and Representative Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class" A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION Richard Kadrey, an individual; Sarah Silverman, an individual; Christopher Golden, an individual; Individual and Representative Plaintiffs, v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Case No. Complaint Class Action Demand for Jury Trial Defendant."
March 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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🖤🖤🖤🖤
March 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
March 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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"I hate writing, I love having written."

Truer words have never been spoken...

Want recs/reviews for three amazing books you're not seeing online? 👇

#dorothyparker #writersky #booksky #underratedbooks #bookofjoan #fig #theheartsinvisiblefuries
Why crying over my keyboard is worth it (I guess) + 3 great books you don't know about
Dorothy Parker had it right when she said: "I hate writing, I love having written." Truer words have never been spoken, at least for me. We've got some new folks here, so a quick reintroduction is ...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This is one of my main points in this weeks edition of 'Having Written.' And it's so, so (sadly) true.
March 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Horror is THE underrated genre. Read these five books. Seriously! 😱
You should read Horror + 5 books that scared the absolute crap out of me
When I mention I love Horror (whether in film or in books) to someone, they usually react in one of two ways: either with instant, joyous agreement, or they wave their hands, plug their ears, tell me ...
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March 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Whodda thunk it?
mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 10
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM