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D. J. Runnels — author
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Author of 4.5-5⭐️ ghost mystery satires that hit the Amazon top 150 in humor. Imagine Vonnegut and Wilde wrote a mystery. Chicago. 💙Invented the hashtag #SkyWriters. Fiber artist at Life’s an Expedition.
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carmen_emay_: Is it just me or is this staircase actually a stone brontosaurus hiding in plain sight? Photo of a stone staircase that resembles a dinosaur. d.j.runnels: Fluffy! Where were you? Mommy's been worried sick! Thank you so much for finding her. l'll send a semi to pick her up.
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Oh, hello. Did you just slip away from the dining table because your Uncle was ranting again?

Try this story about a Thanksgiving weekend that ends in death. Oops!

Dead Edna has ranked in the Amazon top 150 in American humor.
#booksky 📚💙 #mystery #supernatural

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Man on left. Book on right. House in background. Traffic sign in lower left. Author in lower right. Words: D. J. Runnels Dead Edna Ghosts are people, too. DEAD EDNA by D. J. Runnels Ghost Mystery Satire Suspense
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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A mask can serve two functions: keeping germs at bay or reminding yourself to keep a lid on political confrontations.
The words, happy Thanksgiving. A family wearing masks gathered around a dinner table and a turkey on the table.
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Book covers on the left. Pricing and formats in the center. Text on the right: Ghost mystery satire suspense that made the Amazon top 150 in American humor. Read in any order. Repeating characters. Overlapping timelines. Photo of author.
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Dead Mona D. J. Runnels PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION Mona Hardesty ends up dead after the third wife of her drug-dealing, wife-beating ex-husband gets her fired at work. Ha! And you thought your day was bad. Then she lands in the afterlife, greeted by an airhead with the 1Q of a marshmallow. No offense to marshmallows. Now she's being interrogated in a concrete cell by an Officer Prachtor who has the demeanor of a drill sergeant. And Prachtor wants every detail of Mona's life before anyone will agree to investigate Mona's murder. Seriously?! What part of her ex being a Charles Manson clone do they fail to grasp? So Mona relives her sordid life from 1950-1986, against a backdrop of multiple U.S. political assassinations, the Vietnam War and hippies burning draft cards. So many problems in the world, yet she is denied the chance to marry the boy she loved because…
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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If you liked Stephen King’s 11.22.63, you might like Dead Mona. Same era. Background political intrigue. Touching romance.

Mystery Suspense Supernatural Satire that has hit the Amazon top 150 in American humor.

Amazon.com/dp/B0D3YQX3C8 #Booksky #Chicago #Ghost
Blue book cover on right with the words: D. J. Runnels Dead Mona Confessions of a cranky murder victim. Photo of the Chicago skyline in the background. Words at the bottom: Dead Mona by D. J. Runnels Ghost Mystery Satire Suspense
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Filling your bookshelves with dysfunctional characters. 🏆 #skywriters
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How do your characters lie without speaking a word? d.j.runnels: They fidget. Pause for too long. Turn your questions around to put you on the defensive. Storm out of the room. Pretend to take a phone call to stall for time. Typewriter keys lower left. Author photo lower right. No ai used.
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Sign with the words: USE OF FIREARMS IN THIS AREA IS PROHIBITED VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED PROVO CITY CODE 903.010
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Happening right now. Welp! Gotta go block people.
ME: I'm going wildly viral on another platform. 135,000 views in 12 hours. AUTHORS: Wow! Any book sales from it? ME: Nope. AUTHORS: ME: It's a freaking zoo to monitor it, too. Careful what you wish for.
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
Words: French royalty in the 18th century Picture of two cats. One has a head peeking out of a backer. The other cat is turned away from us and appears not to have a head. Happy Caturday.
November 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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My life now.
Every. Single. Day.
On multiple sites.

Just to clarify, legit authors never send DMs that sound like this. Only scammers or fake accounts pretending to be authors.

#skywriters
d.j.runnels DM: Hello, Runnels! ME: That's my last name. DM: Let's connect and get to know each other! ME: My Roomba might like you, I guess. DM: What is your biggest hurdle in marketing? ME: Messages like this. DM: What genre do you write? ME: It's not a secret. I mention it in every book post. I have to go. My Roomba is getting jealous. DM: Ha ha! Your humor really shines— ME: You misspelled your author name in your profile. d.j.runnels
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I’m rooting for the Indigenous.
The Buffalo Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. Hardcover. Photo of a buffalo on the cover.
November 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Synopsis of Dead Edna by D. J. Runnels Edna knows she's dead, but just can't let it go. She welcomes the new residents of her ghostly home with glee, especially Maggie Pall, who wants to impress her friends by moving into a trendy Chicago neighborhood. But Edna's childish antics clash with Maggie's self-proclaimed social status. Tensions arise as Maggie's husband finds the house creepy. And her surly baseball-obsessed son would rather live in a tent. To make matters worse, Edna begins to fill Maggie's head with longings for a handsome podiatrist. Their Thanksgiving housewarming weekend goes awry when (oops!) someone ends up dead. Now a fumbling police force, a charming ex-husband ad writer and a brash novice lawyer pivot the story into a legal drama. Going home for Thanksgiving reaches a whole new level in this darkly humorous satire of American upper-middle-class greed and lust in pre-social-media 1996.
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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D. J. Runnels Dead Edna Ghosts are people, too. D.J. Runnels Dead Mona Confessions of a cranky murder victim Dead Edna rated 4.9 stars kindleunlimited Or $4.99 to buy Other formats: Hardcover, Paperback Dead Mona by D. J. Runnels rated 4.4 stars $000 kindleunlimited Or $4.99 to buy Other format: Paperback Ghost Mystery Satire Suspense that made the Amazon top 150 in humor. Read in any order. Repeating characters. Overlapping timelines. Both book covers shown on the left. Photo of the author shown lower, right.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Dark comedy mystery.
Weird mishaps.
Tragic suspense.
Social satire.
Laugh/gasp/cry.

It made the Amazon top 150 in humor. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dead Edna
by D. J. Runnels.
Ghost mystery satire suspense.

Amazon.com/dp/B0C63RZM9V
#booksky 📚💙
#mystery 📚⚡️
Book cover with pink lip print on cover. The words: D. J. Runnels Dead Edna Ghosts are people, too. DEAD EDNA traffic sign upper right. Ghost Mystery Satire Suspense Photo of author in pink jacket lower left.
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Post you from a different era.
Author D. J. Runnels as a preschooler.
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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D. J. Runnels writes ghost
mystery satire suspense that hit the Amazon top 150 in humor.

That includes Dead Edna.
#skywriters #booksky

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A dead end traffic sign along a country road reads Dead Edna instead. Text at the top: My driver's ed class failed to mention this. -d.j.runnels
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Don’t mess with me. I have a town named after me. Population: 2. And I’m in Chicago, so I’m not sure how my dog is faring down there.
Map of an area of Mississippi showing Runnelstown.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I write ghost mystery satire.
Amazon.com/author/d.j.runnels
#booksky #skywriters
I'm thinking of decorating my home with books. d.j.runnels Staircase on right with giant blue book cover in alcove on left: D. J. Runnels Dead Mona Confessions of a cranky murder victim.
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Check your Halloween candy carefully. Someone tried to hide ghost mystery novels in mine. Picture of a candy bar cut open to show two books by D. J. Runnels
November 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Maybe it’s the time change talking but…zzzzzzz.
Person asleep in bed in hotel. Window nearby.
November 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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This is a user profile of someone with 25 times as many followers as the number of people they follow. I WANT to follow them. But I know the odds of them following back are 1:25. They won't show up in my mutuals feed. So l don't follow them.

Trivial. I need to focus on real issues, but…depressing.
This is a user profile of someone who has 25 times as many followers as the number of people they’re following. And I WANT to follow them. But I know the odds of them following me back are one out of 25. So they probably won’t show up in my mutuals feed. And that’s the feed I use most. So I don’t follow them. This happens daily here.
November 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The author vs the books 📚
The words: This is what happens when you play with apps. —d.j.runnels Photo of the author made to look young using an app (not ai) that removed her glasses and supplanted shades with one temple stuck in her right eye. The words: Content warning: my books Dead Mona and Dead Edna contain death. -d.j.runnels Two book covers: D. J. Runnels/Dead Mona Confessions of a cranky murder victim. D. J. Runnels/Dead Edna Ghosts are people, too. Background art of flowers and birds. Cartoon of author in lower right corner.
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Pacino and I made tombstones out of styrofoam insulation from a hardware store. Handy hint: create the shape, carve the lettering with a soldering iron, paint the recessed lettering black, then use a paint roller to apply the gray paint. Attach skeleton to tombstone using a dart.
Skeleton attached to handmade styrofoam tombstone with a strategically placed dart. Tombstone reads: Ouch. Watermark: D. J. Runnels I use watermarks a lot. I like for people to share my images as long as they don’t remove my name. My photos and memes were stolen heavily on Facebook and often users reposted my work with my name blotted out. That’s just one of many reasons I deleted Facebook.
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I write ghost stories that will make laugh and ugly-cry. Amazon.com/author/d.j.runnels #skywriters #booksky 📚💙
Photo of the author D. J. Runnels wearing a pink jacket. The words: I think about death year-round, not just at Halloween. It's just the wacky, fun sort of person I am. @d.j.runnels
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM