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About Me

Gwenda Bond posts often about books and writing at her blog, Shaken & Stirred . She's working on a young adult novel, is a member of the LitBlog Co-op, and writes an advice column for Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet as everyone's Dear Aunt Gwenda. She has written for Publishers Weekly, the Washington Post, Kirkus, and Strange Horizons, and is pursuing an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband writer Christopher Rowe, and their pets: Hemingway the Cat, Polydactyl LLC; Miss Emma the Dog-Girl, CPA; and Puck the Puppy, INC.She doesn't believe in "networking."

My Interests

speculative fiction, screwball comedies, circus freaks, Karen Joy Fowler, dinosaurs, champagne, imaginary islands, secret histories, pretty yet comfy shoes

I'd like to meet:

The young Don Ameche.

Music:

Cat Power, Lipkandy, PJ Harvey, Neko Case, Catherine Wheel, Emily Haines, Johnny Cash, Kristin Hersh

Movies:

Midnight, It Happened One Night, Gas Food Lodging, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, Barton Fink

Television:

Veronica Mars, old-school Gilmore Girls, Project Runway, Bones, Rome, Heroes (sometimes), The Office (both), The Avengers, Buffy

Books:

Corrupting Dr. Nice by John Kessel, Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler, Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link, Mockingbird by Sean Stewart, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci, Valiant by Holly Black, etc. etc.

Heroes:

Karen Joy Fowler, Sacco & Vanzetti, Billy Wilder, Louise Brooks, Judy Blume, Molly Ivins

My Blog

Endicott Journal of Mythic Arts

I have a new short story, "Cassie Says," up in the new YA extravaganza issue of the Endicott Studio's Journal of Mythic Arts. You can read it here....
Posted by Gwenda on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:09:00 PST

PW piece

I wrote a feature for Publishers Weekly on the increasing number of literary novels with fantastical elements and, on the flip side, literary SFF books published within the field. Check it out....
Posted by Gwenda on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:24:00 PST

Blogthology story: Unflappable

Writers Dave White and Bryon Quertermous put together their second blog anthology, "Going Twice," last year. (The first one is here.) They sent around the story starter idea of using an object found, ...
Posted by Gwenda on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:08:00 PST

I'm not here, silly...

Mostly I'm over at my real blog, Shaken & Stirred. Do stop by. And I'll try to post the occasional something here.
Posted by Gwenda on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:02:00 PST