Blackwood (33 page)
Authors: Gwenda Bond
Tags: #Roanoke Island, #Speculative Fiction, #disappearance, #YA fiction, #vanishing, #Adventure, #history repeating, #All-American mystery
A few closer to home: George the Dog, Poster Boy for American Values, aka the original Sidekick; the current menagerie (Emma, Puck, and Hemingway); my parents, who always believed I could do this; and to my husband, Christopher Rowe, for talking me down and reading more drafts than any person should ever have to.
I've been lucky over the years to have the support of more people than I could ever possibly name here. I appreciate each and every one of you.
About the Author
Gwenda Bond is a contributing writer for Publishers Weekly, regularly reviews for Subterranean Online and 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 been a guest on NPR's Weekend Edition. She holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts' program in writing for children and young adults. Readers of
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
may know her as everyone's Dear Aunt Gwenda. 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 Puppy, INC.
STRANGE CHEMISTRY
An Angry Robot imprint
and a member of the Osprey Group
Midland House, West Way
Botley, Oxford
OX2 0HP
UK
Strange Chemistry #1
A Strange Chemistry paperback original 2012
1
Copyright © Gwenda Bond 2012
Cover art Steven Wood
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eBook ISBN: 978-1-908844-08-8
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