GWENDA BOND is the bestselling author of many novels, including the Lois Lane and Cirque American trilogies and the Match Made in Hell duology. She wrote the first official Stranger Things novel, Suspicious Minds and created Dead Air, a serialized mystery and scripted podcast written with Carrie Ryan and Rachel Caine.

Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Locus Magazine, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. She has an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband and their unruly pets. She believes she may have escaped from a 1940s screwball comedy. She writes a monthlyish letter you can sign up for at her website, and you can also follow her on Twitter.