LATEST NEWS
from the word mines...
YES! it's happening...
If you're attending the Eastercon in Belfast, come to my stall in the dealer room and you'll find a CONVENTION EXCLUSIVE there.
GOOD BOOKS GONE WORSE is a sampler of my writing with extracts from my three so-far-published novels PLUS a chapter from my next one PLUS an exclusive short story PLUS a chapter from my Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund report! This will be available at Eastercon ONLY, so don't miss out!
And speaking of TAFF, I am donating all profits from GBGW to that worthy cause. Cost is £4 minimum, but I'll happily accept larger donations. See cover just over there...
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So here we are in 2025, with no end of interesting things going on in the world around us. Does it make you want to escape into a good book? I know it does me.
Fortunately I have good books which you can order direct via this website. Just go to the "contact" section in the above menu.
If, however, you intend to be at the Belfast Eastercon (18-21 April) you will find me and my books there, behind a table in the dealer room (unless I'm on a programme item, in which case it'll just be the books).
Looking further ahead, the signs are looking excellent for me to have my second collection of poetry published toward the end of 2025, and my next novel -- the first in a new, exciting fantasy series, which twists the genre's norms interestingly while remaining true enough to its style to appeal to fans of that category -- should be with you in early 2026.
Onward! Excelsior! Venceremos!
Writing is a disease
There is no known cure
Welcome to my website. There are many websites like it, but this one is mine. I am a writer.
My name is Sandra Bond. I'm the author of the novels THE PSYCHOPATH CLUB (in which a teenage wannabee serial killer, marooned in a tiny and cold town in the US Midwest, finds himself slipping between alternate universes, and visited by an enigmatic supernatural creature he names Horsehead), and THE DEVIL'S FINGER (in which an outspoken feminist comedian, her overworked PA, and her dope-addled ex-husband find themselves tangled up with a standing stone and a rather nervous shapeshifter).
I'm also a poet. I may regularly be found at live poetry events online, or around my home in the Midlands of England. My first collection of verse, POETRY SLUM, contains (as well as the title poem) five ballades, nods to poets as diverse as Wendy Cope, John Cooper Clarke, Emily Dickinson and Gil Scott-Heron, an explanation of why people prefer hamburgers to poetry, and one lone sestina.
All of these may be found on Amazon; or if you prefer to deal direct with the author, you can buy them direct from this site.
If you want to sample my wares before you plunge, you can also find here a short that's exclusive to this website -- "The Happiest Meal". You'll also find a few poems to lure you, including once again a couple not published anywhere other than my website.
​PREVIOUS NEWS BULLETINS
JULY 2024: Just three weeks to go before the launch of THREE MEN IN ORBIT -- available from August 2024 from Amazon or from me, and being formally launched at the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow --and I'm now able to reveal the cover. Drawn especially by the celebrated zine and comix artist, Dan Steffan, I am overjoyed at the way in which he's covered so many of the themes of the book.
My aim in writing it -- other than to entertain -- has been to combine the peerless humour of Jerome K. Jerome, not only with the entertaining genre which is steampunk at its best, but with some more up-to-date themes of modern social issues and problems. Viewing them (so to speak) backward through a telescope has proved interesting to write, and I hope they'll be equally interesting to read.
JUNE 2024: "It is a most singular thing to relate, but everything that you are about to read -- the story of our trip to the Moon in a bathysphere, the story of how the bank was robbed at Oakapple Orbital, the story of how Selene City came within an ace of utter destruction -- occurred solely because Harris craved hot coffee."
STEAMPUNK SUFFRAGETTES IN SPACE! August 2024 will see the publication of my third novel, THREE MEN IN ORBIT. The trio of cheerful but accident-prone protagonists from Jerome K. Jerome's classic THREE MEN IN A BOAT decide, in an alternate Edwardian universe, to take a holiday in space. There, they promptly become entangled with a bank robbery, a party of women campaigning for universal suffrage, and a crew of shady fraudsters. They also discover (the hard way) that none of them are any good whatsoever at steering an anti-gravity sphere by use of a sextant. Watch for further revelations on the run-up to publication!
