Ef Deal🪐📚 author

Rob, you let me down!

Writers don't infer; they imply, and the reader must infer.

I love that the cc has her as Miss Gnome.

Your editorial in today's Inquirer should have been front page. Excellent work. Thank you!

Caledon celebrates 20 years in Second Life. I've been living there almost since the beginning.

If you go, look for Gwynna Cleanslate in Port Caledon.
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What is Jacqueline Duval to make of the young women who look to her for guidance and leadership? It doesn't take long for them to show her they are a force of nature all their own as the Order of Duval.
#steampunk in 1843 France.

Sheridan LeFanu got it all wrong. Come meet the real Mircalla as she pursues Jacqueline Duval for her own lusts. #steampunk in 1843 France.

Book 4 is in the works. Come meet the Twins of Bellesfées in their debut novel! Science, the supernatural, and political intrigue as Jacqueline Duval falls in love for the first time. This is #steampunk in 1843 France.

Like this FOTUS gives two * for getting authorization from Congress.

An Assembly of Monsters (Forgotten Lore) edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail | eSpec Books (If you are placing a *digital-only* order, please use discount code NOSHIP to remove the shipping.)Monstrous Is a Matter of Perspective… Classic tales throughout time pit humanity against creatures…

In conjunction with the Tell-Tale Steampunk Festival, we bring you fourteen tales inspired by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, with
James Chambers, Michelle D. Sonnier, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Ef Deal, and more! especbooks.square.site/product/an-a... #Steampunk #Horror @efdeal.bsky.social

When my two sons were young teens, they once conducted an entire conversation with grunts variously intoned as to indicate meaning. The conversation should have sounded like this: "Want some gum?" "No, thanks." "What have you got?" "This." "Cool. Can I have a bite?" "Sure." "Thanks." "Whatever."

How to Make Dialogue Sound Realistic Since dialogue in fiction is contrived, a challenge facing authors is to find ways to make it sound realistic. Try these techniques:• Pay attention to speech rhythms – Read the dialo…

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How did we end up with so many stupid people in office? Do these states have no intelligent people to nominate? No intelligent people to vote intelligent nominees into office?

I am physically sick from this whole past year of hatred, of violence against the innocent, of incompetence.

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And yes, I've heard all the 'Big Ef'n Deal' jokes as well!

When my first professional publication appeared, one of the reviewers wrote, "What kind of fake name is 'Ef Deal?' Well, I've been called Ef since I was 15, and I married Jack Deal. What can I say? My legal name is Etheljean, but only the nuns called me that. Or my mom when I was in trouble.

Should You Use a Pen Name for Your Book? Your name will appear all over your book – the cover, the title pages, the preface, the author’s bio, probably on a at least half of the book’s main text. So before you actually start putting …

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I have a similar photo from Seattle!

Esprit de Corpse by Ef Deal | eSpec Books (If you are placing a *digital-only* order, please use discount code NOSHIP to remove the shipping.)What secrets lay beneath Parisian Streets? And who will kill to keep them?When a malfunctioning…

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/sArqcXM Voted Best Steampunk Novel of 2023! #Steampunk #Paranormal #Supernatural @efdeal.bsky.social

On Aéros & Héroes by Ef Deal: "For all the rock hard talent in the first book, this one is even better.” Voted Best Steampunk Novel of 2024! amzn.to/3Mtq0Bp #steampunk #paranormal @efdeal.bsky.social

The Order of Duval by Ef Deal | eSpec Books (If you are placing a *digital-only* order, please use discount code NOSHIP to remove the shipping.)A Family, Bound by Blood, Though Not Born of BloodLost souls abound at Bellesfées, some found, and…

On The Order of Duval by Ef Deal: “Steampunk adventure chockful of unexpected twists.” — Caitlyn Rozakis, author of Dreadful especbooks.square.site/product/the-... Voted Best Steampunk Novel of 2025! @efdeal.bsky.social #steampunk #paranormal

They represent the foundation of the state of this union under a pedophile raping felon.

Done! Grrrr!

Most writers write because they want to (they don't want or need AI to do it for them), because they NEED to. It was a perk of that sometimes lonely existence to receive an email out of the blue telling you someone had read and loved and 'got' your work. DAMN these blooduckers who have taken that.

I really hate those narratives that use and ellipses to mean "Dunt Dunt DAAAAAH!"

Organ Music Won’t Create Suspense in Your Story Sometimes when attempting to create tension and suspense in a story, writers can undercut their own efforts by adding “organ music.” A term coined at the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop, or…

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Writing Success: Is it Talent or Hard Work? You’ve written story after story, but none of them ever seem to measure up to your favorite authors’ pieces. Meanwhile, the few of your stories that you thought were actually decent won’…

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Our Lady of the Shroud brings fortune to two graverobbers, but Hogg's ingenious new tin-type apparatus peels back the shroud to reveal...

Read my little tale in this amazing collection featuring Bram Stoker's great-grand-nephew Dacre Stoker's contribution.

#horror #booksky #steampunk

HAH! I even made my own!
#SOTU bingo

For those of you watching tonight, how quickly can you get BINGO? Play your TURMP card!

A BINGO card, each square of which mentions a topic that will be raised during the State of the Union, with Trump's mug shot as the free square.

How quickly will we get a "Bingo!" ?