Gwenda Bond 🖼️The Frame-Up🖼️ out now
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NYT bestseller. @LexWritersRoom founder. Mr. & Mrs. Witch, Not Your Average Hot Guy, Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds. she/her Reps: @kate_mckean, @literaticat
Lexington, Ky.
Joined December 2006
Get in, babies, we’re doing a magical art heist. Parking this 🖼️ The Frame-Up 🖼️ post for pinning! Cover by @jill_dehaan with design by @reginaflath; coming from @delreybooks in Feb. 2024. Get your preorder on:
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Just saw a writer I admire respond to a post from a reader recommending a book with a photo of their library copy by saying it’s not supportive to get it from the library, because of royalty structures. Do. Not. Do. This. Word of mouth is everything. Libraries are good. Period.
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my real rules for writers.1. Pants are the enemy .2. Naps are essential .3. You want cake? You deserve cake.4. Don't be such an asshole, esp to yourself.5. The only way out is through.6. One space after periods.7. Failure is OK.8. Don't stet in anger.9. Don't make lists of 10.
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Raise your hand if you've ever extended your nap because a cat or dog joined you and you felt it was rude to get up.
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And this, friends, this United situation, is EXACTLY why we don't EVER EVER EVER want government run like a business.
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We switch regularly, especially if one of us is having insomnia -- it always helps!.
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I look forward to the C-J's piece about the officers who assaulted this doctor and their past histories.
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If you could swap your main character for another and have the same story, the character isn’t there yet.
Writer Twitter: what's the single most important thing you'd tell a totally 101 creative writing student about CHARACTER?.
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My sweet, outspoken progressive, 22-year-old track star nephew passed away early this morning after a freak accident. We’re in shock. If you’re a praying type, pray for our family. Hug everyone you love regardless.
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@LauraMLippman @johnlegend @CoreyStewartVA Yes, same! And why taking them down matters more than anything else.
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So rare for a woman in Hollywood to get to be an icon at different ages. Bereft we will not get to witness grand dame-era Carrie Fisher.
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Local spot Sidebar & Grill posted their mask policy sign on FB 🙌
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C-J, you know I love you guys, but this piece is poorly done. This guy is a victim. I know the paper has protocols for how it treats those.
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Returning from walkies, a van pulls up and two pre-teen girls hop out, along with their dad. Girl one) Do either of you like Superman better than Batman?. Me: YES. I wrote a series of books about Lois Lane. Dad: We're doing a scavenger hunt and that's GOT to be extra points.
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Also, I found a J*el Os*e%n book in a little free library and I put it in a recycling bin and I will do it again every fucking time.
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You guys, this Five Calls site is VERY useful -- spread it widely:
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I do want to gently suggest that everyone convinced this is fake think about the fact this is the same way conspiracy theories start for anyone -- let's stick with being the party of evidence and science. The likeliest explanation is that risky behavior led to infection.
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Y’all is y’all. Not ya’ll. Ya’ll is some kind of southern Cthulhu.
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Writers who feel it’s wrong to promote your work right now: Stop it! Tell us so we can support you. Many of us have more reading time at the moment. SHOUT IT REPEATEDLY. We will not miss the serious news of the day because of your promo, but your book might help us survive it.
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Andy Beshear speech . First week in office:. Medicaid waiver is gone . New state board of education . Restore voting rights to 130,000 people . No more pension attacks . 🙌🙌🙌🙌 #kyproud #KYGov #andybeshear.
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Men who rarely or never read books by women need to fix themselves. Same for white people of any gender who rarely or never read books by PoC. I don’t care how well read you think you are, you’re doing it wrong.
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Some kind advice: "Harsh" and "tough love" advice are both overrated. Take anyone who wants to beat down your spirit to teach you something with a huge grain of salt. It's toxic b.s.
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I don’t see *him* having any kids.
The Pope says couples who choose to have pets over kids are "selfish"
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Personally, I think it’s a great time to read #StrangerThings Suspicious Minds if you haven’t! Those! First! Eight! Minutes!
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Guys who think comparing someone to a teen girl is an insult: grow up. Be a real progressive and ask yourself why you think this, then stop.
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In addition to regular purchases, make plans to use indies for at least some of your holiday shopping, if you’re able. We must keep our bookstores alive.
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Honestly, I'm offended on behalf of everyone I know in publishing who is burned out (or almost), working their asses off for their authors, and has to see their work treated as a complete crapshoot by the heads of their companies.
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Psst: Can everyone in the nat’l media stop forecasting how hard it will be for Biden/Harris to pass legislation and focus on the legislation instead? Have you learned nothing? I love you, but when will you absorb that you’re affecting the things you observe and take more care?.
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Me, sitting on my hands: Apparently you’ve never heard of PIRACY. Lecture people doing that!.
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Having talked to several friends on the West Coast this morning. does it just feel like as a country we are DOING NOTHING to aid in this massive catastrophe? That's how it feels to me.
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This is an attack and also my file names are so unhinged I just have to date everything because I have made that mistake, you know it, where I am editing a file that is not the one I previously edited which means my working file always has date This One You Living Nightmare.
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Any article about sensitivity readers that doesn’t discuss how white publishing is at every level and how much easier it is for white people to publish stories about POC than actual POC to is missing the essential part of the story.
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One topic that often came up in disaster prep round tables but seems to be addressed very rarely is how so many people will not go to warming/emergency shelters if they can’t bring their pets. Particularly the elderly. We need to get better at sorting out pet-friendly shelters.
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@amandamull It’s hilarious as a complete encapsulation of these buffoons and their inept attempt to steal a democracy.
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Please share — this is not a riot, it is a community in pain.
Some families are bringing their kids outside in front of their houses to watch the protesters as they march through #BlackLivesMatter #Louisville
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I’m bound to lose some people but this—abortion is a vital medical procedure for so many girls/women, for any number of reasons. None of which are your business. Go yell at deadbeat dads and try to reform the foster/adoption system, if the lives of children are important to you.
"No one is pro-abortion." Stop saying that. I'm pro-abortion. There's nothing wrong with being pro-abortion because abortions help people. Saying "No one is pro-abortion" adds to the stigma against abortions and makes things harder for the people who get them.
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Clarification: It wasn’t the author in question’s book. Which kinda makes it worse. Anyway: I don’t want to deluge tiny post elsewhere and have messaged the reader and dropped my .02 in addition to venting here. In 99.9 percent of cases, it’s no one you know. LIBRARIES ARE GOOD.
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Breaking news: We have an important statement from Izzy the Dog.
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My best advice — esp for girls and women — is probably: Learn to enjoy doing things on your own. I can imagine a world in which I didn’t want to go out by myself in Paris and it’s a way less fun world. Your own company is enough. (I wish C was here, but I’m still having a blast!).
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Good morning from elder Puck, who, despite appearances, feels no guilt about eating part of the girls’ breakfast while they were outside
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We HAVE her! She was trapped behind Christopher’s sock drawer.
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Goodbye mental health .Goodbye prescriptions .Goodbye screenings.Goodbye maternity care. The GOP hopes your death is quick and mysterious
House Freedom Caucus source says odds of AHCA passing have improved after GOP leaders offered to eliminate "essential health benefits".
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My best life/career advice: Be interested in other people. Do your own work. Pay it forward. Don't be an asshole.
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In my experience in places of extreme poverty, aka where I grew up, owning and using a cast-iron skillet is the opposite of bourgeois — and also one of the best things you can have in your kitchen but y’all do your thing.
a lodge skillet is like $30 you people are just addicted to saying words
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#Protip: Always look for the people who lift others up, who help and recommend, share and answer questions. Avoid the destructive, the professional-at-negging, the envious. They do not make good friends or colleagues. Life is short. Careers are (hopefully) long.
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There were tons of politics in Mr. Rogers neighborhood. Not seeing that is a privilege. I believe he’d 100 percent want us to carry on the legacy of working toward a better reality. Which means — gasp — acknowledging when Bad and Wrong Things are happening.
So many of us on here grew up with Mr. Rogers / Mister Rogers. (I know I did.). He wouldn't want us to politicize him. He loved all of us, just the way we are. There are no politics in his neighborhood.
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Whereas YA writers are like, "Yeah, you shoulda listened."
Dystopian science fiction writers must be embarrassed they never thought the resistance would be park services and Teen Vogue.
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Dear handful of people trying to convince me putting down teen girls is fine and funny haha lighten up: I will die on this hill. Shoo.
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The good thing is this reminded me I need to do a video testimonial for our library for a thing. I loooove them and forgot to put it on to do list.
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Basically where is my Netflix show that is a woman chef going around talking to other women about food and how bro-y their industry is.
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If a man in the field tells you he will harm your writing career, ladies, tell all the rest of us about it and know that he can't.
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I said this in backchannel and people found it helpful so I’ll say it here too. Many of these dirtbags are climbers. They see people in two ways, as objects and opportunities. Being aware of climber types is first line of defense in not being taken in and made shields for creeps.
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The reason, btw, we're all reacting so strongly to today's Bad Take isn't just because it's wrong, but because most of us have had a experience with someone who believed this and it was Not Good. Beyond gross when you discover someone wants to use a community of generous people.
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I really hope men in comics (and elsewhere) realize that the vast majority of women and others of marginalized genders have been through some variety of harassment or abuse, often as part of pursuing their careers. It’s ubiquitous and hugely damaging. This has to change.
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Save us oh creature
A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who's Inside
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Screw all this other stuff: what books made you into readers? As kids or as an adults?.
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@OpticalDesigner @elohciniba @megh_wright Medicaid requires very limited income--the ACA provides subsidies based on income. .
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Real talk: I hope event organizers and publishers are thinking about how to make sure other authors who receive death and horrific threats are safe at public events, and not assume the awful attack on Rushdie can't happen again. BIPOC and queer authors are especially at risk.
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This photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post is perfection (accompany their rally story
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ps Guys, the only truly satisfying TV story is going to be when he resigns or is escorted out of office. The rest is a necessary prelude.
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Getting my hair done for the funeral and had to capture this exquisite Barbie queen (with permission of course)!
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TL/DR: Use "teen girl" as an insult or criticism and I will fight you.
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(Not here obvi because I chose not to blow up the reader’s comments further. But. Sigh. I assume quarantine brain is to blame.).
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Could I love Nora Roberts more? I could not
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There are people insinuating that writing with a pseudonym to disguise a marginalized identity to get work and pretending to be a marginalized identity in order to write from that POV with authority are the same thing. I’m just going to say NOPE.
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Welp we finally broke Earth.
Earth is spinning faster than usual and had its shortest day ever, and if it continues, we may have to institute what's called a "negative leap second." Some engineers say that would wreak havoc on IT systems.
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New plan: We hire an actor to pretend they're a time traveler and convince Trump he has to listen to them to ensure his "legacy.".
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It's about Eleven's mother Terry and her intersection with the MKUltra program and you're going to get to know and love her in a whole new way. I'm SO EXCITED.
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A reminder that many many (most?) female creators get death threats at some point, many regularly — it’s always very telling when people care to notice and condemn it publicly. (It is never okay. Women and especially non-white women must always be aware of these threats.).
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I 100 percent hear and support the discussion of working at the pace that's healthy for you. But please be careful about making it sound like writers who work at a naturally faster pace are hacks k'thx.
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whispers: I would not be at all surprised if it turns out we’ve had community transmission here for weeks.
The U.S. insisted on developing its own Coronavirus test, even though the WHO already had one that worked. Then the U.S.'s test didn't work. And now, it's dangerously behind in proactively testing for an outbreak.
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@charliekirk11 Maybe don't pretend the 18-year-olds dying in military service in decades since don't exist.
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I don’t want to be that person, but I suspect it’s been here for awhile and our surveillance systems are stretched too thin for early detection. Masks are our friends. 🤷♀️.
Having a really hard time believing Omicron is in Canada and not in the US.
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The level of internalized misogyny (among white women, as we're see in vote totals) is one of many things breaking my heart today
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I want to write a Star Wars novel about a gambling world mafia princess who undermines the family business for the resistance. I mean, if we're putting it out there.
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Goodnight, dearies — appropriate gif seems appropriate
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Impromptu pep talk: It's been a hard year and it's okay if you haven't gotten everything done you want. I believe in you. Keep showing up.
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They recorded us both attesting to this, hopped in, and screeched away shouting THANK YOU
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@JessCluess What in the world are you doing here? The idea that because some classic books have radical for the time leanings does not at all mean they don’t also have racist, sexist, and other issues or that they were made canon by white people with an extremely limited view of the world.
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Guys, we think Stella got out. We can’t find her. North side Lexington folks, please watch for her. She’s friendly but can be skittish. Loves treats. Will do whatever it takes to find her. Contact ASAP day or night.
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Shoutout to all the people like me who have election PTSD and are afraid to say anything remotely hopeful because it feels like a jinx. VOTE. Especially in tight districts! READ: Ky 6, get out there for Amy McGrath -- this race is too close to predict and every vote is needed.
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