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Gwenda Bond

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NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15h

Love this novel (am halfway through right now!)

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15h

Bookshop has free shipping today, in case you’re looking to pick up the hottest (and also only?) student loan industry heist novel of the year.

The Payback: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 19h

So Demon is charting. 7k in the kindle store, 7 in Demon Romance. Thank you to everybody who has picked a copy up. Can’t say what it means to me. My readers are just the best.

Desperate demon at number seven next to Opal Reyne

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 19h

What an ouroboros of shit.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, figures.

Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 19h

I'd be curious how many are using Amazon affiliate links to bring in passive income as well.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous!

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🙏🙏🙏9️⃣2️⃣5️⃣🙏🙏🙏

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Good way to go.

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💪💪💪

Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

I love them so much!

Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Or Cathy. Ack!

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 1d

if miss frizzle aint in it then im not watching the lost bus...

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Best take 😂

Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

I think @darthbluesky.bsky.social will agree she is a hero

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Josh Boldt @joshaboldt.bsky.social · 3d

Ruby’s 10th birthday is this week. Three years after the cancer diagnosis that she beat, and she is going strong. Still in remission and as healthy as ever! The vet says she is the poster dog for fighting cancer. Happy birthday, Ruby!

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Deep thoughts brought about by the Peanuts category on Jeopardy

Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Do you ever think losing newspaper cartoon sections was a sign of the decline of our culture? I do.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

The Haunted Toe (aka gout)

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

People seem to forget too that one of the smart things Obama did was campaign everywhere.

Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 2d

Yeeikes

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d

and yet the guy who gutted it and laid off half the staff as they were unionizing keeps his job, huh. crazy how that works.

Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social · 2d

After a rough stretch, Quirk Books has been sold to Andrews McMeel Publishing.
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/10/quir...

Quirk Books Is Sold to Andrews McMeel - Publishers Lunch

Quirk Productions, which has been on an acquisitions pause since early this summer after “facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years,” has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Pub...

lunch.publishersmarketplace.com

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 2d

Booker hasn't officially entered the race, but he did leave his government job recently. So I'm def curious to see what he plans to shoot for next.