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I am off social media for the duration of 2026 (effective 1/17/26). Please email to get in touch!

the real world
Joined June 2014
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I'm leaving social media for the rest of 2026 (effective 1/17/26). Here's hoping I get a book ready to publish while I'm offline enjoying the real world! If I do, you can sign up for updates here: deborahocarroll.com/newslett… Email anytime. May your 2026 be full of wonder & joy. 🥰
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Giveaway! It's Jane Austen's 250th birthday! Enter to win this collection of Austen-themed goodies I've curated from independent creators (plus a DVD). US only. Ends 12/21/25. forms.gle/VkVhCYNrRZACaEBH9
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Hey, I'm taking a break from posting online for a couple months. Just...need to step back from the interwebs and focus on life, family, & hopefully writing again. Anyway, here's a li'l blog post update I just shared, including some upcoming books & films! deborahocarroll.wordpress.co…
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New blog post! Sharing my 12 top-favorite books I read in 2024! thepagedreamer.wordpress.com…
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New blog post! My top 15 favorite reads of 2023!! (Yes, 2023. 😂 I'm finally catching up.) Top reads of 2024 coming TOMORROW! Meanwhile, read about some awesome 2023 books today here: thepagedreamer.wordpress.com…
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I'm giving away a whole series in paperback! Celebrating the paperback release of Prodigies and Legends! This (sub)urban #fantasy series by @invisiblemoth1 is SO good! Kinda cozy, kinda YA, elves, cats, time travel... US only. #Giveaway ends Fri. 4/25/24! thepagedreamer.wordpress.com…
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Flash Sale from Whimsical Publishing in honor of my birthday! 15% off all books (except preorders)! (Use code EDITOR at checkout. Good through 3/10.) Loving doing line/copyediting for them for 3+ years now. Check out the lovely books in the shop! 🤩 whimsicalpublishing.ca/produ…
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Meanwhile, my author seems to be having Twitter arguments with her characters instead of writing their books. 😌
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Please note that Teague the character is also, by profession, an author, sooo. 👀
Authors are so touchy these days. 😌 #characterproblems
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Perhaps you should have not let your book get so long it might need two. 😅 #authorproblems
Most splendid. You hear that, @OCarrollDeborah ? Perhaps you should finish my book, then, mm?
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Inquiring minds (characters?) want to know... 👀 (My character Teague has delusions that I might write him... 😅)
This December will mark precisely one decade since I showed up in my author's head and demanded she write my tale. What should she do to celebrate? (Perhaps write more of it...)
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My character Tare is salty at me for...a variety of reasons. 😅 (Art by @artfulscribbler !)
That moment when your author puts a sticker of you on her laptop. The laptop she keeps NOT using to write your book... It's too cute to be me, obviously... Character problems. *sigh*
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Celebrating 11 years of blogging! With a giveaway for the best fantasy novel I read last year! deborahocarroll.wordpress.co…
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Happy birthday to #DianaWynneJones, author of #HowlsMovingCastle ! She would have been 90 years old today. One of my favorite authors and an inspiration for some of my own writing.
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Not me being four months late posting my #MarchMagics wrapup blog post...because a wizard is never late. Anyway, new post about Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett! thepagedreamer.wordpress.com…
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I'm excited to have my first guest post on my blog! Check out this delightful post by Mara Tran (author of the alternate history Victorian novel The Ward) on the topic of writing alternate history! deborahocarroll.wordpress.co…
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New blog post! In which I interview Hiru Yoshikawa, a certain mysterious footman who is a character in the alternate-history Victorian novel The Ward by Mara Tran! (Set in 1800s alternate Venice and England!) The interview was so much fun! Do check it out! thepagedreamer.wordpress.com…
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