David R. Yale
@davidryale.bsky.social
Writes award-winning novels about working folks organizing 4 their rights, resisting fascists, winning strikes. Pro-union, anti-racist, pro-feminist, progressive, working class outlook.
Website: DavidRYale.Com.
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Website: DavidRYale.Com.
Authors Guild.
#1u #BookSky #WritingCommunity
I worked in a soda pop bottling plant. Had to grab used bottles between fingers of each hand, put them in washer to be reused. Conveyor bringing bottles to me didn't work, so I carried heavy crates running. Stood all day. Low wage. Non-union. Exhausting.
1 reason I write about factory workers.
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1 reason I write about factory workers.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I worked in a soda pop bottling plant. Had to grab used bottles between fingers of each hand, put them in washer to be reused. Conveyor bringing bottles to me didn't work, so I carried heavy crates running. Stood all day. Low wage. Non-union. Exhausting.
1 reason I write about factory workers.
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1 reason I write about factory workers.
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Judge Woodruff shook his head. “They acted illegally? Enforced non-existent regulations? Defied Judge Havemeyer’s injunction? Covered badge numbers? Didn’t write summonses? I can’t believe this.”
From my novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps”
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From my novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps”
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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Judge Woodruff shook his head. “They acted illegally? Enforced non-existent regulations? Defied Judge Havemeyer’s injunction? Covered badge numbers? Didn’t write summonses? I can’t believe this.”
From my novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps”
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#BookSky📚💙 #Resist🐸
From my novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps”
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#BookSky📚💙 #Resist🐸
There is no word for opposite of bullying! To help strengthen the anti-bullying culture in my novel-in-progress, the age 9 kids make one up: To swun is the opposite of bullying! When they see a friend's upset, they conspire to to non-stop nice things for them. That's swunning!
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
There is no word for opposite of bullying! To help strengthen the anti-bullying culture in my novel-in-progress, the age 9 kids make one up: To swun is the opposite of bullying! When they see a friend's upset, they conspire to to non-stop nice things for them. That's swunning!
“In 1900, Minneapolis workers won 142 strikes. But 3 years later, Fat Cats ran the unions right out of the flour mills. We. Can’t. Let. That. Happen. Again! No, Bosses! You ain’t doing it! Not this time!”
From my award-winning novel, davidryale.com/getting-back...
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From my award-winning novel, davidryale.com/getting-back...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
“In 1900, Minneapolis workers won 142 strikes. But 3 years later, Fat Cats ran the unions right out of the flour mills. We. Can’t. Let. That. Happen. Again! No, Bosses! You ain’t doing it! Not this time!”
From my award-winning novel, davidryale.com/getting-back...
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From my award-winning novel, davidryale.com/getting-back...
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“Us nine-year-olds voted to picket with you,” Kurt shouted from the side of the room. “We have loud voices, and all 38 of us know how to chant strike slogans!”
“Us girls too!” Tess roared.
From my novel about a general strike
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“Us girls too!” Tess roared.
From my novel about a general strike
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November 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“Us nine-year-olds voted to picket with you,” Kurt shouted from the side of the room. “We have loud voices, and all 38 of us know how to chant strike slogans!”
“Us girls too!” Tess roared.
From my novel about a general strike
buy online: books2read.com/u/m2JY5k
#WritingCommunity📚💙 #1u🛠️ #Resist!🐸🐸🐸
“Us girls too!” Tess roared.
From my novel about a general strike
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#WritingCommunity📚💙 #1u🛠️ #Resist!🐸🐸🐸
“I'd never thought of our neighborhood as violent or dangerous, but the number of women and girls who told me they’d been groped, hit, beaten up, raped, stalked, or threatened was overwhelming. Usually their attackers were people they knew.”
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November 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“I'd never thought of our neighborhood as violent or dangerous, but the number of women and girls who told me they’d been groped, hit, beaten up, raped, stalked, or threatened was overwhelming. Usually their attackers were people they knew.”
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“Joe gave us a voice. He listened. Took us seriously. What we said mattered. First it was small things. We wanted a weight-lifting club. He showed us how to organize one. Then bigger things. We wanted jobs. He helped us find them.”
From my novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM
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From my novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
“Joe gave us a voice. He listened. Took us seriously. What we said mattered. First it was small things. We wanted a weight-lifting club. He showed us how to organize one. Then bigger things. We wanted jobs. He helped us find them.”
From my novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM
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From my novel: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM
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How to describe inner conflict:
The mix of fury and fear on Harley Blecher’s face was like two tornadoes colliding.
From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires”.
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The mix of fury and fear on Harley Blecher’s face was like two tornadoes colliding.
From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires”.
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#BookSky #WritingCommunity📚💙
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
How to describe inner conflict:
The mix of fury and fear on Harley Blecher’s face was like two tornadoes colliding.
From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires”.
books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#BookSky #WritingCommunity📚💙
The mix of fury and fear on Harley Blecher’s face was like two tornadoes colliding.
From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires”.
books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#BookSky #WritingCommunity📚💙
5 of my characters are gandy dancers (railroad track maintainers). They're interesting, smart guys. When the railroad cuts their pay below minimum wage, their community helps them organize a strike.
"Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps"
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"Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps"
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November 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
5 of my characters are gandy dancers (railroad track maintainers). They're interesting, smart guys. When the railroad cuts their pay below minimum wage, their community helps them organize a strike.
"Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps"
books2read.com/u/m2JY5k
#BookSky📚💙 #Resist!🐸🐸 Please re-post!
"Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps"
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Joe has this amazing way of bringing out the kindness and strength in people, and most everyone he touches passes it on to others, like a highly infectious kindness virus.
From award-winning novel, “Becoming JiJi.”
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From award-winning novel, “Becoming JiJi.”
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November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Joe has this amazing way of bringing out the kindness and strength in people, and most everyone he touches passes it on to others, like a highly infectious kindness virus.
From award-winning novel, “Becoming JiJi.”
Buy online at: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM
#BookSky #WritingCommunity📚💙
From award-winning novel, “Becoming JiJi.”
Buy online at: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM
#BookSky #WritingCommunity📚💙
In the early 1920s, “We had the legal right to #strike on paper. But the bosses made and enforced their own unwritten laws.”
-- Clara, remembering her days as a union organizer, in a new novel:
No Free Soup for Millionaires
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-- Clara, remembering her days as a union organizer, in a new novel:
No Free Soup for Millionaires
books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙 #1u🛠️
November 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In the early 1920s, “We had the legal right to #strike on paper. But the bosses made and enforced their own unwritten laws.”
-- Clara, remembering her days as a union organizer, in a new novel:
No Free Soup for Millionaires
books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙 #1u🛠️
-- Clara, remembering her days as a union organizer, in a new novel:
No Free Soup for Millionaires
books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙 #1u🛠️
“Father’s law firm did all the dirty work for the bosses. I saw firsthand how they busted unions and blacklisted workers. Whenever I could, I stole copies of top secret papers and mailed them to unions.”
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
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From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
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November 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“Father’s law firm did all the dirty work for the bosses. I saw firsthand how they busted unions and blacklisted workers. Whenever I could, I stole copies of top secret papers and mailed them to unions.”
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
#WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙 #1u🛠️ #Resist🐸🐸🐸
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
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Bosses like neighborhoods with bad schools, view them as suppliers of obedient low-wage workers. That’s why workers set up their own school in my novel: “They Break the Laws We Must Obey.”
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November 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Bosses like neighborhoods with bad schools, view them as suppliers of obedient low-wage workers. That’s why workers set up their own school in my novel: “They Break the Laws We Must Obey.”
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#Booksky #WritingCommunity
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“It's not possible to pursue happiness when you pluck six of our finest young men, and ship them off to die in a war nobody wants, fought solely so defense contractors can make big profits. We will not let that happen again. And we will not give up our right to joyousness.”
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November 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“It's not possible to pursue happiness when you pluck six of our finest young men, and ship them off to die in a war nobody wants, fought solely so defense contractors can make big profits. We will not let that happen again. And we will not give up our right to joyousness.”
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Ever wonder how union organizers pull together general strikes? It’s dramatic, and you can read about it step-by-step in my anti-fascist resistance novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps." Read the opening chapters FREE!
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November 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Ever wonder how union organizers pull together general strikes? It’s dramatic, and you can read about it step-by-step in my anti-fascist resistance novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps." Read the opening chapters FREE!
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“They made our kids believe they were better than us. They were ‘real’ Americans with no accents & foreign ideas. Our culture. Gone! Traditions. Lost! Heritage. Destroyed! Bastards!”
From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires”
Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#Resist🐸 #BookSky📚💙 #WritingCommunity
From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires”
Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#Resist🐸 #BookSky📚💙 #WritingCommunity
October 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“They made our kids believe they were better than us. They were ‘real’ Americans with no accents & foreign ideas. Our culture. Gone! Traditions. Lost! Heritage. Destroyed! Bastards!”
From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires”
Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#Resist🐸 #BookSky📚💙 #WritingCommunity
From my novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires”
Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#Resist🐸 #BookSky📚💙 #WritingCommunity
I guess girls will be girls. When guys attack them, they will defend themselves.
-- Lawyer for slandered and assaulted woman who fought back.
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
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-- Lawyer for slandered and assaulted woman who fought back.
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
#WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I guess girls will be girls. When guys attack them, they will defend themselves.
-- Lawyer for slandered and assaulted woman who fought back.
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
#WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙
-- Lawyer for slandered and assaulted woman who fought back.
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
#WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙
“Everything’s possible.” Henry Lund said. “We’re building a workers’ paradise!”
“Cripes! If we spend more than we take in,” Laura said, “we’ll end up broke. We have to build paradise on a strong foundation. And that’s the t-r-u-t-h, truth!”
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“Cripes! If we spend more than we take in,” Laura said, “we’ll end up broke. We have to build paradise on a strong foundation. And that’s the t-r-u-t-h, truth!”
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
#Resist🐸 #1u🛠️
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Everything’s possible.” Henry Lund said. “We’re building a workers’ paradise!”
“Cripes! If we spend more than we take in,” Laura said, “we’ll end up broke. We have to build paradise on a strong foundation. And that’s the t-r-u-t-h, truth!”
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
#Resist🐸 #1u🛠️
“Cripes! If we spend more than we take in,” Laura said, “we’ll end up broke. We have to build paradise on a strong foundation. And that’s the t-r-u-t-h, truth!”
From my novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
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New reader review of my novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps:”
“A compelling and timely read that champions the spirit of collective action.”
-- Jeyran M.
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“A compelling and timely read that champions the spirit of collective action.”
-- Jeyran M.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
New reader review of my novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps:”
“A compelling and timely read that champions the spirit of collective action.”
-- Jeyran M.
www.amazon.com/product-revi...
“A compelling and timely read that champions the spirit of collective action.”
-- Jeyran M.
www.amazon.com/product-revi...
“My girlfriend’s father looked at me. ‘What you know unions about?’
‘Nothing, sir. What can you teach me?’
A great big smile blossomed on his face. ‘You give me new job. I be teacher!’”
From novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
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‘Nothing, sir. What can you teach me?’
A great big smile blossomed on his face. ‘You give me new job. I be teacher!’”
From novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
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October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“My girlfriend’s father looked at me. ‘What you know unions about?’
‘Nothing, sir. What can you teach me?’
A great big smile blossomed on his face. ‘You give me new job. I be teacher!’”
From novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
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‘Nothing, sir. What can you teach me?’
A great big smile blossomed on his face. ‘You give me new job. I be teacher!’”
From novel: books2read.com/u/3nqvjR
#WritingCommunity📚💙 #BookSky #1u🛠️
“Worst thing possible?”
“I’d have to win his heart, right?”
“You could never do it!”
I felt like she’d punched me in the gut.
“Ma-ah! Don’t you believe in me? I damn well can!”
“I just wanted to hear you say you could.”
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“I’d have to win his heart, right?”
“You could never do it!”
I felt like she’d punched me in the gut.
“Ma-ah! Don’t you believe in me? I damn well can!”
“I just wanted to hear you say you could.”
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October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“Worst thing possible?”
“I’d have to win his heart, right?”
“You could never do it!”
I felt like she’d punched me in the gut.
“Ma-ah! Don’t you believe in me? I damn well can!”
“I just wanted to hear you say you could.”
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“I’d have to win his heart, right?”
“You could never do it!”
I felt like she’d punched me in the gut.
“Ma-ah! Don’t you believe in me? I damn well can!”
“I just wanted to hear you say you could.”
Buy online at: books2read.com/u/mlLBPM
#BookSky📚💙 #WritingCommunity #Romance❤️🔥
Free eBook! I bet you’ll like my novel, "Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps" Illegal harassment doesn’t stop blue collar workers’ fight for their rights. So business owners attack with an unlawful militia. How will workers win their general strike? Free eBook: dl.bookfunnel.com/oiot0p46u3 🛠️ #1u
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Free eBook! I bet you’ll like my novel, "Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps" Illegal harassment doesn’t stop blue collar workers’ fight for their rights. So business owners attack with an unlawful militia. How will workers win their general strike? Free eBook: dl.bookfunnel.com/oiot0p46u3 🛠️ #1u
Bankers and bosses love inflation. They have it fixed so instead of fighting to get ahead, workers have to fight to keep from falling way behind, while fat cats get fatter and richer. From new novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires.”
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October 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Bankers and bosses love inflation. They have it fixed so instead of fighting to get ahead, workers have to fight to keep from falling way behind, while fat cats get fatter and richer. From new novel, “No Free Soup for Millionaires.”
Buy now: books2read.com/u/4AL10K
#WritingCommunity #BookSky📚💙
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FREE! Read beginning of my anti-fascist resistance novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps"
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Illegal harassment didn’t stop workers from organizing for their rights. So unlawful business owners militia attacks, provoking huge general strike.
#1u🛠️ #Resist🐸
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Illegal harassment didn’t stop workers from organizing for their rights. So unlawful business owners militia attacks, provoking huge general strike.
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October 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
FREE! Read beginning of my anti-fascist resistance novel, “Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps"
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Illegal harassment didn’t stop workers from organizing for their rights. So unlawful business owners militia attacks, provoking huge general strike.
#1u🛠️ #Resist🐸
read.amazon.com/sample/B0D46...
Illegal harassment didn’t stop workers from organizing for their rights. So unlawful business owners militia attacks, provoking huge general strike.
#1u🛠️ #Resist🐸
My anti-fascist, pro-democracy novel, "Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps," just got the Winner Runner-Up for realistic fiction in the Pencraft Awards! Read the opening chapters free!
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October 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My anti-fascist, pro-democracy novel, "Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps," just got the Winner Runner-Up for realistic fiction in the Pencraft Awards! Read the opening chapters free!
read.amazon.com/sample/B0D46...
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