Hodunk, Brenda

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Brenda Hodunk is a lead character in Andromeda Chained, but appears on occasion in other books. She was raised in Camden and graduated from Ackerman High School there. She got her degree from Weatherford College, although most of her classes were at Riverside Community College and her degree was through extension coursework. Her educational experience was generally unhappy and she found solace in the online computer game Dragonslayer.

In August 1997, she is hired for her first job out of college as the junior reporter at the Spearfish Lake Record-Herald, with some help from her uncle, Greg Mears. Initially Brenda is not that pleased to be working in such an out of the way place as Spearfish Lake, but as time goes on and she makes friends, such as Carole and Wendy Carter, she comes to like the place. She puts her job on the line over an article about a high school kid called Jason Bailey.

By the end of 1998, after she receives an award for her article on the events described in Andromeda Chained, she moves to Camden as a city editor for the Camden Press.

After her stint in Camden, where she was instrumental in their winning a Pulitzer, she appeared at the Nashville Tennesean as assistant City Editor; she was known there as "Brenda the Hun". When we meet her in July 2001. she is about to leave for a reporting job for CNN.^BB28. In September 2001 she appears on screen reporting from the World Trade Center terrorist disaster.

By September 2002 she has finished four months overseas with WNN (World News Network) when she finds herself sitting next to Jennlynn Swift on an airliner ^MC34, and manages to get an interview with her on the network.