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Gwenda Bond

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Gwenda Bond is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the first official Stranger Things novel, Suspicious Minds, the Lois Lane YA series, and the romantic comedies Not Your Average Hot Guy, The Date from Hell, and Mr. & Mrs. Witch. She has a number of forthcoming projects, including a magical art heist book, The Frame-Up. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Locus Magazine, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications.

She co-founded and chairs the nonprofit Lexington Writer’s Room, and lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband, author Christopher Rowe, and a veritable zoo of adorable doggos and queenly cats. Visit her online at www.gwendabond.com o
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I hardly know where to start. When someone asks me this in person, I babble on and on and on, but I'll try to be more succinct here.

I keep saying that Lois is an icon, and it's because she is and for a very good reason. Lois is brave, bold, funny. She's also the best at her job, and truly committed to--in the super-parlance--truth and justice. She really is a superhero without any superpowers.

And I also believe that the reason her relationship with Clark Kent/Superman is one for the ages is because (in its best incarnations) it's a true partnership of equals who are not just romantically involved but who also like each other. To steal a line from one of my favorite shows, Parks & Rec, that relationship is a great example of: "I love you and I like you." His humanity, even while he's an alien, is something that makes Superman a great character and Lois brings that out.

Both Lois and Clark are characters who look at the worst people can do and still believe--completely--that the world is worth saving. (less)
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Happy Mid-Summer (Er, Late)

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I’m writing a newsletter because I want to write a newsletter. Just in the past couple of months, I’ve figured out how to work again. My brain showed up, the unreachable limb, and so I’m still BEHIND and LATE on books, but they’re happening. And will be turned in as soon as I can manage it.

All the other nerve-wracking things about late books aside, when my brain came back online — for

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“The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.”
Gwenda Bond, Fallout

“I was many things, but I wasn't a quitter. I didn't give up, and I wasn't going to start.”
Gwenda Bond, Fallout

“I hate it when people add “woman” to make an achievement seem smaller than it is. She was one of the best wire walkers ever. Period.”
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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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