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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I have a phone booth in my house, the kind you see in old movies: beautiful wood and lead-glass doors with a level switch, the fan works too. My grandkids might be the only ones their age who can dial a rotary phone.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Thanksgiving to our neighbors to the north. As a citizen of the country now run by a rapist, pedophile, felon, grifter, liar, traitor, cheater, and all-around moron, I thank you all for your tolerance and graciousness.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Broadcasting a barbaric execution is essentially making a snuff film. Snuff films are illegal. Someone arrest Hegseth if this goes through.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"fuckbilled twatypus" is now my new favorite insult.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gregory Frost has been a finalist for every award out there including the Nebula and the Hugo. I've admired his stunning prose for over 30 years. This comment sent me over the moon! #booksky #steampunk

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Book 3 of the Twins of Bellesfées series brings surprises and new horrors to face. Fall in love with steampunk France! #booksky #steampunk

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He does; he just thinks SA stands for Sexual Assault and will claim he knows nothing about it.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last I saw, that's not his name; it's pubic hair on a slanted confession about how much he and his pedo-bestie like raping little girls.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I expect that when our Rapist-in-Chief finally faces the Epstein fallout, they will make him write an essay about why it was wrong. And he’ll appeal.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Twins of Bellesfées face off with a vampire and assassins in 1843 France.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meet the Twins of Bellesfées in this wild adventure!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

High praise from one of horror's best authors. Dive into vampire obsession, political assassination, kickass heroinnes, airships and weddings and monsters, oh my! buff.ly/5zgHwZL #steampunk #booksky #vampires

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Found family and haunted locomotive and a mad scientist… Read and enjoy!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jacqueline and Angélique are the Twins of Bellesfées. Meet them here in Esprit de Corpse. Spirits and ghosts and lycanthropes in 1843 France, the start of the age of steam! #steampunk #writers #booksky buff.ly/xgtpuxF

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Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bringing a bit of the surreal to science fiction – Mike McPhail's Cling Peaches #TheDieIsCast @especbooks.bsky.social buff.ly/4x56672 "If you like David Drake, Joe Haldeman, or Jack Campbell, you’re bound to like this anthology." –Don Sakers, Analog @dackleymcphail.bsky.social

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Meet the brilliant Twins of Bellesfées!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I loved writing this novel the most. Try it! You'll like it!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very chuffed to be signing bookplates for an upcoming anthology Lovecraft's Dark Dreamlands. A fantastic TOC coming soon to a con near you!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Depression is real and is broadly misunderstood. Sometimes it's not about self-harm or sadness. Sometimes it's staring at the bathroom sink wondering why bother brushing teeth? Curling on the sofa thinking why bother doing housework? Reading AI fiction and wondering why bother writing? It's real.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My little tale combines the historical facts of Conan Doyle's family heritage and the Night of the Big Wind in Ireland, 1839, with the ongoing adventure of Jacqueline and Angélique in "Night of the Howling Wind." I loved writing this adventure!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

France 1843. The opening of the Paris-Orléans railway brings engineering genius Jacqueline Duval face to... skull in a rousing steampunk adventure. How can she trust the charming railway agent Alain de Guise if he's really a threat to France? How does she stop a clockwork army? #steampunk #books

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Screw that. Americans are just standing by? We're letting it continue? What would you like to see happen? What do you imagine all 343 million Americans should be doing? Getting angry? Yep. And that accomplishes what? Dump money? What money when most of us are fighting just to have food on the table?

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I dunno... I don't think there's a single person in this administration who knows what they're talking about.

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Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The heart loves where it will even when words spar like daggers in “Rhymes with Lenore” by Ef Deal in A Cast of Crows, Poe-inspired steampunk fiction buff.ly/arodgty #SteampunkCommunity #EdgarAllanPoe @efdeal.bsky.social

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I had writer’s delight composing in trochaic octameter as the clockwork raven scolds Edgar. Please check it out!

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eSpec Books, LLC @especbooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Clockwork technology and ingenuity are not the sole purview of Jolly Ol' England. By airship or locomotive, prairie schooner or steamboat, it’s time to explore the global landscape through lenses polished in the Age of Steam in Other Aether buff.ly/XD4O74r @esepcbooks.bsky.social @efdeal.bsky.social

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

More clearly, although he doesn’t know what year it is. All told, the neurologist and speech neurologist feel his chances for full recovery are good. I shall now allow myself to fall apart. He has been in my life 63 years. I don’t know what I would do if.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Woke up at 5am when DH fell off the bed and stayed down. He was paralyzed along the right side and couldn’t talk. Called 911 and said stroke, so they followed stroke protocol. He was in surgery before 7 and when he came back he could move and make out some words. By this evening he was speaking…

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The most horrendous attempt at assassinating the French King could have been much more devastating if Jacqueline Duval hadn't worked out the solution! Read my little tale "Ghosts in the Infernal Machine."

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

How well do you know your vampire lore? Meet the vampire Mircalla in Book 2 of the Twins of Bellesfeés series.

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Meet the Twins of Bellesfeés in book 1, then go on to books 2 & 3. Book 4 coming soon!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One would hope the ratio of pupils to students would be 2:1, no?

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just saw this in a news roundup about California schools: "But the state landed dead last for its pupil-to-student ratio, according to the study."

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Quagmired in depression right now, but at least I have lost 50+ pounds on Zepbound and I can walk up and down stairs. I'm hoping I can dig out of the pit soon. I have two chapters to rewrite on Book 4 and I just discovered I used the wrong diagram to base my plot points abord the Indiaman. Sigh.

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

How to Effectively Use a Writing Process When Writing Fiction #amwriting #author #write #writer #writing www.amazon.com/dp/1948872374

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

How to Protect Yourself Against Book Marketing Scams #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #indieauthor www.amazon.com/dp/1948872714

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eSpec Books, LLC @especbooks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Need something new, exciting, and free to read? Check out The Mirror of Yu-Huang by Christine Norris buff.ly/F0TDUz0

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sad to hear of Ted Oliphant's passing. I've enjoyed his work for longer than I can remember. Like this from 2017.

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

How to Protect Yourself Against Book Marketing Scams #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #indieauthor www.amazon.com/dp/1948872714

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Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The heart loves where it will even when words spar like daggers in “Rhymes with Lenore” by Ef Deal in A Cast of Crows, Poe-inspired steampunk fiction buff.ly/DtlRsHb #SteampunkCommunity #EdgarAllanPoe @efdeal.bsky.social

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Imagine you are poor melancholy Edgar and you discover that an electrical therapy is available to cure you! What could go wrong? Read "Rhymes with Lenore," my little tale in this wonderful collection!

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Ef Deal🪐📚 author @efdeal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Sure wish American politicians would do this.

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