Hey there! Wow, NTTBF was some amazingness. One of the best events I’ve ever been to. Annnnd festival month’s big finale is coming up this weekend — YALLWEST! If you’re there, come say hi. There will be copies of Double Down for sale and then officially all across the land! First week sales are very important, so if you can swing it you have my gratitude.

Here’s where I’ll be….

Friday night preview party:

• Humiliating myself at some point in a classic country duet with Kody Keplinger (who is one of the only people that could talk me into this)

Saturday:

• HEROES & VILLAINS (THE CHICKEN & THE EGG) (MG/YA): 11 a.m. Barnum: Which Comes First? Which Matters More? Good guys, bad guys, and so-bad-they’re-good guys. Moderated by Sabaa Tahir, with Victoria Aveyard, Leigh Bardugo, Gwenda Bond, Ransom Riggs, Kiersten White & Neal Shusterman
• THE PANEL CREATIVELY TITLED “THRILLERS” (YA): 2 p.m. Humanities Building: No mere mortal can resist the pull of a thriller, but it’s not easy to pull off. What makes a thriller fierce – or flop? Moderated by Gwenda Bond, with Alaya Dawn Johnson, Brendan Reichs, Brenna Yovanoff
• Signing: 3 p.m. (I’ll have some What Would Lois Lane Do? wristbands with me, but I’m running low so if you want one this is a good time to score it! Also possibly a few Girl in the Shadows ARCs…)

Sunday:

• Signing: 2 p.m.
• STORY/MAKERS: COMICS & ADAPTATIONS (MG/ YA): 3 p.m. Cafetorium: Make it your own – but how? Moderated by Lorraine Cink, with Gwenda Bond, Kami Garcia, Ryan North, Danielle Paige, Margaret Stohl

Then I will collapse. Haha, just kidding, then deadlines.

I’m so excited to finally be experiencing the legendary RT Convention firsthand, and in Vegas no less!

My hair is now ALL blue (et voila), so if you see me say hi!

The results! pic.twitter.com/68Ie4QFF1a

— Gwenda Bond (@Gwenda) April 12, 2016

Here’s where I’ll be:

YA: Who Runs the World? Girls!

As promised, The Woken Gods is now once more available in ebook and for just $2.99! This is what I think of as my weirdest book and it’s definitely my most world-buildy. I’ve often said it’s my take on if Indiana Jones was an untrained teenage girl who had to go up against trickster gods in a transformed Washington, D.C. (I even gave her Indy’s jacket!) (The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that Blackwood has once again disappeared; that’s because it has found a great new home and I’ll tell you more about that when I’m sure I’m allowed to. It’ll be back next year though. Yay.)

Here’s The Woken Gods new cover and description, and a buy link:

Five years ago, the gods of ancient mythology awoke around the world. This morning, Kyra Locke is late for school.

Seventeen-year-old Kyra lives in a transformed Washington, D.C., home to the embassies of divine pantheons and the mysterious Society of the Sun. But when rebellious Kyra encounters two trickster gods on her way back from school, one offering a threat and the other a warning, it turns out her life isn’t what it seems. She escapes with the aid of Osborne “Oz” Spencer, an intriguing Society field operative, only to discover that her scholar father has disappeared with a dangerous relic. The Society needs it, and they don’t care that she knows nothing about her father’s secrets.

Now Kyra must depend on her wits and the suspect help of scary gods, her estranged oracle mother, and, of course, Oz—whose first allegiance is to the Society. She has no choice if she’s going to recover the missing relic and save her father. And if she doesn’t? Well, that may just mean the end of the world as she knows it. From the author of Lois Lane: Fallout and Girl on a Wire comes a divinely different fantasy that will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman, Cassandra Clare, and Rick Riordan.

“Unique, fast-paced, and rife with tension, The Woken Gods brilliantly pits loyalty against survival, trust against inevitability, and love against fear.” — Carrie Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth series

Get it at Amazon (for now, for any kind of ebooks at some point). And if you’ve already read the book please feel free to review it!

This is NOT the big news of Monday. That’s coming later. MWAHAHA. Oh and p.s. the Fallout Read-Along is underway and super fun. Join us!

I’ve set up a group for the Lois Lane: Fallout Read-Along over at Goodreads, where I’ll post a kick-off thread each week starting March 20. I plan to divulge some tidbits about writing the book, and will happily answer questions and I hope you guys will discuss. You can also ask questions or comment on twitter or tumblr — just make sure you use the tag #FalloutReread — and if there’s call for it, we could do a weekly half-hour chat on twitter about that week’s chapters too. Basically, I’m game for whatever makes this group reading project the most fun for everyone!

Reading schedule:

Week of March 20 – Chapters 1-4
Week of March 27 – Chapters 5-9
Week of April 3 – Chapters 10-14
Week of April 10 – Chapters 15-19
Week of April 17 – Chapters 20-26

One week break then DOUBLE DOWN comes out. Yay!

Join the group here.

Good morning, dearies. I hope your clocks are all reset and the sun is shining to compensate for the blergh of DST. I think perhaps I will get to reveal to you a MOST EXCITING THING this week (finally!), but today some miscellaneous things.

• I wrote a piece about why Lois Lane matters for the Guardian (!!), which ran on Friday. I’m really proud of how this turned out, so check it out and share if you’re so inclined.
• I also did a 10 Things I Love About Lois Lane for Maximum Pop.
• I’ll be chatting with Mariam Khan (and you?) for #FeminisminYA at 7:30 p.m. UK time/3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard tomorrow on twitter.
• The ebook sale is almost over! So click with the clickety if you haven’t! And if you’re an ebook fan, it looks like the preorder of Double Down is also on sale. I’ll put up the details for the group read-along of Fallout later this week, but basically we’ll have a hashtag and I’ll be lurking to answer any questions during discussion on a certain evening each week covering a few chapters for the next month.

Last but not least, if I met you at SEYA you were delightful. What a fun time that was. And now back to work.

In the midst of writing all the things, there’s a lot else going on this week. A rundown of where you can catch me.

Tomorrow, Tuesday night March 8, I’ll be part of a panel at Joseph-Beth Booksellers here in Lexington with Victoria Schwab, on tour for her NEW YORK TIMES’ BESTSELLING (yay!) A Gathering of Shadows, and Julie Kagawa, New York Times’ bestselling author of many wonderful books. I’ll happily sign copies of Lois Lane: Fallout (including the brand-new paperback!) or sit idly admiring these two amazing writers and women. I can guarantee you a fun evening, so come out.

Then it’s off to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for the first-ever Southeastern Young Adult Book Festival (SEYA for short; follow them on twitter), which looks like it’s going to be a gobsmackingly amazing time. I’m doing a school visit Thursday afternoon with Alan Gratz (mwahaha) and Friday is teen day for schools that have already booked which will feature many things including hijinks from me, Carrie Ryan, and Alan.

But Saturday is Community Day and open to anyone and you can see the full schedule here for why you should get there if you’re nearby. Here’s my events for Saturday:

11 – 1 p.m. Signing Bookstore

2:15-3:00 p.m.: Discussion Panel with Victoria Schwab, Beth Revis, Gwenda Bond, Kristin Tubb
LRC 221

All events at:

MTSU campus
1301 East Main St.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132

Hope to see some of you there!

And Thursday is Lois Lane: Fallout release day in the UK, so I’ll be back to post more then. Have a great week, all!