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Steve A

@stegan.bsky.social

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Archivist-for-hire, romance novel historian, freelance writer about romance history, general ne’er do well, scalawag. He/Him. Blog: romancehistory.com Podcast: blackromancehistory.com

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · Jun 21

Okay, here’s my plan. I’ve not read a lot of La Nora, so I’m going to try and score as many squares as possible on the @smartbitches.bsky.social bingo card with Nora Roberts books. As many old categories as possible, too. This feels really doable.

Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Me: maybe I’ll do one of the romance reading bingos this year!

Also me: Here are ten parameters I can set myself to make it far too complicated to even start!

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 7m

Every once in a while, a football youtuber who usually trades in the very silly will hit upon a great video. Here’s a great one where Ellis goes to the Homeless World Cup. Keep hankies handy. youtu.be/Ryxiv-V73wg?...

The REALITY Of Modern Football

YouTube video by AwayDays

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 19m

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1h

How to be an educated, informed, and pro-library voter in the upcoming election cycle: bookriot.com/library-elec...

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2h

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks!

Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 19h

Tried playing around with Procreate. I call it “Federal Records, 2025”.

Sketch of a grey Hollinger records box with orange and yellow flames coming out of the top.

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 1d

Do you like found objects, epistolary fiction, or workplace humor? I have a little treat for you today in @theflytrapmedia.com!

Hell in a Handbook

EXCLUSIVE: leaked documents show inner workings of the Underworld's largest afterlife services conglomerate.

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 1d

Sad news. Greenie’s career coincided with me falling in love with baseball. I remember seeing him both in Pawtucket and Boston. Imagine trying to follow Jim Rice at the Green Monster? Jeesh.

Alex Speier @alexspeier.bsky.social · 1d

RIP, Mike Greenwell. The former Red Sox outfielder - the successor to the incredible Williams/Yaz/Rice lineage of left fielders who spent their entire careers with the Sox, passed away at 62: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/s...

Former Red Sox left fielder Mike Greenwell dies at 62 after cancer diagnosis - The Boston Globe

Greenwell, who spent his entire 12-year major league career with the Red Sox, announced in August that he had been diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer.

www.bostonglobe.com

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

*waves* hey whats up, we are a worker-owned feminist publication! check us out: the-flytrap.ghost.io

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 3d

Wisconsin Data Center fight update, Charlie Berens still has some of the best civic engagement content I've seen in a minute.

Worth the watch and a good 101 on public meeting points challenging data centers anywhere

youtube.com/shorts/jPqUI...

Manitowoc Minute Special Report: AI questions for policymakers

YouTube video by Charlie Berens

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 2d

I should’ve also mentioned that there’s some real racist shit in there too, but that’s propaganda for you.

Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 2d

And gobs of them are digitized already! catalog.archives.gov/id/513498

The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.

catalog.archives.gov

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great reminder that the vast number of WWII propaganda posters are government works free of copyright and therefore available to remix!

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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J. Effingham Booweather @jeffinghambellw.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Young and smoking hot Jack and Roz Kirby

#comics

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 2d

Worcester.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 3d

I love this so so much. @lenikauffman.bsky.social you’ve truly outdone yourself!

Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 4d

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If you order SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE from @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social by 11/15, you'll receive a dust jacket inspired by old-school romances, with gorgeous new artwork by @lenikauffman.bsky.social and lots more '80s-inspired fun!

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The graphic has a peachy-pink background and shows the dust jacket for Olivia Dade's SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE. The dust jacket features a naked, hot, fat man on one knee embracing a pretty fat woman, whose hair flows out behind hair and whose suit jacket is falling off her shoulder.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 12d

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 3d

keep copies on your computer, and preferably also an external hard drive. The idea is that if one things dies, you've got another copy to access.

Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 3d

Another good approach is to save the writing itself in a word/google/whatever document along with the info on when and where it was published.

As for digital files themselves- LoCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) is the goal. Cloud storage is okay, but you should also at least-

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 3d

Great question! Printing copies of your online writing isn't the worst idea, to be honest. But you can also do a couple of other things. One, you can make sure the page is captured by the Wayback Machine: go to web.archive.org and you can enter a URL to save under "Save Page Now". Also screenshots.

Wayback Machine

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 3d

I love this so so much. @lenikauffman.bsky.social you’ve truly outdone yourself!

Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 4d

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 4d

Also, even though I wrote this several years ago, I’m still happy to talk with authors who’ve got questions! Info in the post.

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 4d

It's October, aka American Archives Month, and while it's been a bit warm to don our cardigans, the shrines to Henry from RED are up and it's time to remind romance authors (and authors of all stripes!) about what kinds of things they ought to be preserving. romancehistory.com/2021/10/15/a...

Archives Month: Tips for romance authors (and others!)

October is always American Archives Month, which is of course when archivists don their colorful costumes and dance in the stacks after assembling their shrine to Henry the Record Keeper, as portra…

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for sharing, Bev!