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Gwenda Bond is the author of the YA novels Blackwood (out now), The Woken Gods (Sept. 2013), and Girl on a Wire (summer 2014). Blackwood is currently in development as a TV series by MTV, Grammnet Productions, and Lionsgate TV. She is also a contributing writer for Publishers Weekly, regularly reviews for Locus, and guest-edited a special YA issue of Subterranean Online. Her nonfiction work has appeared in the Washington Post, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among others, and she has an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband, author Christopher Rowe, and their pets: Hemingway the Cat, Polydactyl, LLC; Miss Emma the Dog-Girl, CPA; and Puck the Pup...more


Whoops, sorry to disappear, but I predict a return to more regular entries starting now. At least until circus edits land. In the meantime, I'm accumulating research material for a new thing and pecking away at a collaborative project with C that has been major fun so far. And soon now The Woken Gods will be dipping its myth-infused toes into the waters of People Reading It Early and so I must.... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.67 · 1,264 ratings · 389 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
Blackwood
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
Girl On a Wire
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2014
The Woken Gods
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 3 editions
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 897 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions

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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Amazing. Amazing. Will break your heart and put it back together again. The reason Karen Fowler is one of my favorite writers.
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“Moms were psychic and evil.”
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“His body trembled against hers. She held on, afraid that if she let go he'd be gone forever.”
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“Bullfrak," Miranda said. "It's for power. If you're pretending this is about something else, even to yourself, then frak you, you delusional murdering excuse for a nutty professor.”
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Phoebe Gwenda wrote: "THANK YOU! *glows* And back at you. Can't wait for yours.

(Also: How were we not goodreads friends already?)"


<3 <3 I wondered the same thing. Glad you rectified that!


Gwenda Bond Phoebe wrote: "Have I told you I'm just about infinitely excited about your book? Infinite excitement, seriously! And the cover is GORGEOUS."

THANK YOU! *glows* And back at you. Can't wait for yours.

(Also: How were we not goodreads friends already?)


Phoebe Have I told you I'm just about infinitely excited about your book? Infinite excitement, seriously! And the cover is GORGEOUS.


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