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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 20h

True dat. It's also not healthy to try to re-dye those flags; e.g., thinking something will change or that you can change it.

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 21h

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Appeal to sense of sound when writing

When writing descriptions, one of the five senses that you can appeal to is sound.We’re surrounded all day by sounds, though most of it is tuned out. When we do hear something out of the ordinary –…

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 21h

I wish I knew what they were saying. I guess that makes it a murder mystery.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 2d

We named our faculty room printer Bob Marley cuz he be jammin’ all de time, mon.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 2d

Just added a Hallowe'en treat to the website store. Check it out! at www.efdeal.net/product-page...

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 3d

Whoo hoo! Got a request for a full ms. This is a first!

two women are standing next to each other and one of them is wearing an orange coat and the other is wearing a brown shirt .

ALT: two women are standing next to each other and one of them is wearing an orange coat and the other is wearing a brown shirt .

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 6d

DANG!!! I wish I'd seen this earlier!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 6d

I am confused. My story "Czesko" was initially listed as one of the works involved in the Anthropic class-action suit. Today, as I go to file my claim, they tell me the story wasn't listed. What the heck??
Bad enough to get pirated, but then to get stiffed on top of it?

a cartoon character with an angry look on his face and the words freetopsticker below him

ALT: a cartoon character with an angry look on his face and the words freetopsticker below him

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 6d

How is the ICE raid on Chicago not trending? A militia assault on an entire apartment building, dropping in commando style, dragging people and kids out of their beds at 1am, "F... them kids," then destroying their apartments?

When do we stop demanding action and rise up and force action?

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow! If you're in the Philly tri-state area, come out to the Collingswood Book Fair! It's an amazing four blocks of books, readings, music, and fun on the Collingswood main street, Haddon Avenue. Minutes from the BF bridge.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 7d

A loaf of chow chow.

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 9d

When the ghosts of slaughtered children take Jacqueline, the self-styled Order of Duval must confront the specters of the past or risk all being lost to the aether. The Order of Duval by Ef Deal, book 3 in the Twins of Bellesfées series. buff.ly/VvoOTd1 @dackleymcphail.bsky.social

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 8d

I'm ashamed to admit I don't recognize the voice. The slight lisp, though, sounds like Kate Mulgrew?

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 9d

almost 40 years ago, Greg took me aside and told me everything I was doing wrong with my writing. It thrills me that he has been so enthusiastic about The Twins of Bellesfées.

NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 9d

On Esprit de Corpse by Ef Deal: “A wild, steampunky adventure with laugh-out-loud moments and a perfect set of heroines. Hold on and enjoy the ride!” ~ Gregory Frost, author of Rhymer buff.ly/V8NK9zB #Steampunk #Paranormal #Supernatural @dackleymcphail.bsky.social @efdeal.bsky.social

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(If you are placing a digital-only order, please email us before placing your orderfor a discount code to remove the shipping.)What secrets lay beneath Parisian Streets? And who will kill to keep…

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 12d

Ow.
Carpal tunnel release and trigger finger release on the right hand.
I won't be posting by keyboard!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 17d

So I'll cling to the old rugged cross...
And exchange my soul for a clown.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 18d

I will be honest: The fascist policies and practices initiated by our current regime have shut me down creatively. Every day I learn of more blatantly criminal behavior from our Felon-n-Chief, and I am sickened to the point of curling into a fetal position. I need him to be gone. I don't care how.

Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 18d

What a beautiful, wonderful, joy-filled weekend with 84 other authors and some 40 readers at the Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity conference!

Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 20d

Having such a wonderful time at the Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity con @c3md.bsky.social so many great authors!

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 21d

Next month will see Charlotte Baker returning for her latest short course, with two weeks exploring CHARACTER AND WORLDBUILDING IN HORROR! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/character-... #horror #horrorwriting #horrorwriters #writingcourse #writingcourses

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 22d

The red was Moonlight, or Princess. The black is Corbin aka Korbin Mah Man aka Goofball. The blue was Lieutenant Kijé, aka Lord Fluffybutt. We also now have a red chow x cattle dog mix named Rory, but he must be called "Rawray!!!" as Amy Pond would call her Rory on Doctor Who.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 22d

"Ef" is my nickname, but I've been called Ef for 55 years. It was how my baby brother, whom I raised, said "Ethel."
Here are some cute chows for you, a black, a red, and a blue, plus the red's puppy pic.

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

Jacqueline Duval must battle darkness when a private celebration for her twin sister’s marriage turns fraught with assassins and vampires. Intrigued? Get Aéros & Héroes by Ef Deal. amzn.to/3Mtq0Bp #steampunk #supernatural #vampires @dackleymcphail.bsky.social @efdeal.bsky.social.

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

The cost of industrialization in 1843 is life itself as Jacqueline is lost to the aether and Angélique must lead the Order of Duval in a battle against a cannibalistic madman to find her in The Order of Duval by Ef Deal.
buff.ly/ZjDjAgo @dackleymcphail.bsky.social @efdeal.bsky.social #steampunk

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 23d

It bothers me much that Bobby Hart's obituary features a photo of the Monkees, but not Bobby.

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