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David A. Lloyd

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Author/Screenwriter

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Lindy Ryan on Slashers, Pink Horror, and the Rise of Violent Fiction by Women For decades, the slasher taught us the rules: Girls screamed. Girls ran. Girls died. The Final Girl lived, yes—but survival was her only reward. She didn’t get joy. She didn’t get closure. She didn…

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27.02.2026 02:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday good sir! 🥳

26.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cross The Line Book 2: "Blood Road" Cross The Line Book 2: "Blood Road" eBook : Lloyd, David A.: Amazon.ca: Books

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24.02.2026 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cross The Line: Book 1: "A Green-Eyed Burn" Cross The Line: Book 1: "A Green-Eyed Burn" eBook : Lloyd, David: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

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24.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cross The Line Book 1: "a Green-eyed Burn" Book By David A Lloyd, ('tp') | Indigo Buy the book Cross The Line Book 1: "A Green-Eyed Burn" by david a lloyd at Indigo

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24.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Pull of Gritty, Authentic Crime Fiction in the Era of AI Slop More than ever before, we crave authenticity. In a world of filters, algorithms, and deepfakes, we seek out honesty and integrity. Fortunately, crime fiction can satisfy that craving. What is real …

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18.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jennifer van der Kleut On Finding Inspiration in Reddit’s “Am I The A$$hole” Forum We all use fiction as an escape from the stress and grind of our everyday lives. But what about the times real life is crazier than a song, wackier than any fiction? That can be just as good—as lon…

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18.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Rise of Female Rage and the Evolution of Masculinity in Modern Fiction Toxic masculinity is one of those terms that can sound heavy and accusatory, but simply put is about the cultural pressure on men to be dominant, unemotional, and in control. For a long time, books…

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10.02.2026 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From Lagos to the American South: 5 Great Thrillers by Black Writers There is a specific kind of alchemy that happens when a thriller grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go. It’s not just about the twist—though we all love a good gasp-out-loud moment—it’s abo…

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05.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Americans will use any thing but the metric system.

30.01.2026 18:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Monsters, Myths, and Our Desire to Be Scared We humans love to make up stories about our lives—things we encounter, things we struggle to understand, things that amaze or frighten us. Oral and written storytelling is a key part of our history…

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28.01.2026 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Find books by David A. Lloyd at your favorite digital store! Books by David A. Lloyd

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28.01.2026 01:55 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Writing Suburban Crime Fiction in the Age of Social Media and Digital Surveillance The suburbs are typically seen as safe—it’s even an adjective; “suburban” is used to describe something as tame, conventional, a little boring. In real life, people gravitate towards th…

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25.01.2026 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Make Our Villains Gayer, Please: Reclaiming the Trope of Queer-Coded Antagonists It’s one of those ‘once you see it, you can’t stop seeing it’ things: a lot of villains in media are…kinda gay. Characters like HIM in The Powerpuff Girls, Jafar in Aladdin, and Scar in The L…

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25.01.2026 16:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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6 Moody, Atmospheric Novels That Explore Womanhood and Societal Expectations My debut novel, Darkrooms, brings the reader into a gloomy, drizzly Irish town to hunt for the killer hidden in a tight-knit community where nothing can stay in the dark forever. When I thought abo…

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25.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Brief, Disturbing History of Universal Monsters Although it’s long been said that Sherlock Holmes, Mickey Mouse and Superman are the most familiar characters in fiction – especially if we take into account all the variants of those characters – …

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25.01.2026 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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David A. Lloyd David A. Lloyd is an independent Canadian author/screenwriter based in the GTA. Growing up in a small Ontario town, David honed his skills writing/directing short and micro-budget films throughout his...

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24.01.2026 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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It’s not Christmas without the Darth Vader Yule log.

24.12.2025 18:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CROSS THE LINE Book 2: “Blood Road”

22.12.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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😏🇬🇧

22.12.2025 03:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CROSS THE LINE Book 1: “A Green-Eyed Burn”

21.12.2025 23:31 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Unputdownable - Finding the Right Editor for Your Book
YouTube video by Draft2Digital Unputdownable - Finding the Right Editor for Your Book

Autumn A. Arnett joins us at the top of the hour to talk about the Editorial Freelancers Association and what you should keep in mind when looking for the right editor for your book.

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18.12.2025 17:43 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ace Atkins On Cold War Childhoods, 1980s Pop Culture, and His New Spy Novel The following interview has been mildly condensed and edited for clarity. Ace Atkins’ latest, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, is drenched in ‘80s nostalgia and style. It centers on Peter Benett,…

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11.12.2025 15:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tom Stoppard’s Secret Indiana Jones Rewrites This past weekend, we lost the great playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard. I can wax long and hard about how Stoppard was one of the greatest creative scholars of literary history, how he was b…

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11.12.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Queer Crime Writers Presents: 10 New LGBTQIA+ Crime Novels to Check Out This Winter As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, it’s the perfect season to pour a hot toddy, don your Snuggie, and disappear into a page-turning mystery or thriller that keeps you up far too late…

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11.12.2025 15:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why So Many Former Intelligence Officers Write Espionage Fiction I had spotted the man earlier on. He didn’t quite fit in the usual mid-morning crowd. I was in one of those medieval European cities full of twisty streets that are useless for cars and little alle…

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11.12.2025 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tracy Clark on Writing a Black Female Detective Writers are always looking for ways to up the tension in their stories. Higher stakes are always better stakes; more conflict works better than less conflict. I thought about all of this while I wa…

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11.12.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gianni Russo on the Mafia, Unions, and Why You’ll Never Find Jimmy Hoffa’s Remains The Mafia has been hell on Union leaders who wouldn’t do the right thing. The most famous example of this is Jimmy Hoffa, who was erased from the face of the earth on July 30–31, 1975. He had been …

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11.12.2025 15:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

06.12.2025 19:57 — 👍 38065    🔁 8956    💬 2702    📌 668

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