Emily Bond
Author Interview - Emily Bond
Author of Sort of Seeing Someone
On her twenty-sixth birthday, Moonie Miller develops the mystifying ability to glimpse a person’s future by touching palms. Before she knows it, influencers launch her into the world of Insta-witches. Moonie is determined to keep her never-for-sale visions under wraps-–until she shakes hands with Olrik Zetterlind. Super cute, super analytical, and super Swedish, this tall, blond engineer is everything she never wants in The One. Opposites might attract, but how long can “Chicago’s most popular witch” and Sweden’s most analytical export really last?
Author Interview - Emily Bond
Author I draw inspiration from:
I tend not to read any of my own genre (women's fiction), ironically. So some of my faves are:
R. F. Kuang's Yellowface was one of the best books I've read. Granted it's a satire on the publishing industry, I found myself saying many-a-time, "She's not wrong!"
Taylor Wolfe's memoir Birdie & Harlow is my new favorite memoir. I laughed, I cried, I recommended to everyone I know. That's how you know it's a good one!
Finally, for non-fiction/true-crime lovers, a book I read YEARS ago and am STILL thinking about is Mikita Brottman's An Unexplained Death. Don't ask questions, just add to cart.
Author Interview - Emily Bond | Author I Draw Inspiration From
Favorite place to read a book:
On the treadmill or elliptical, because then I know I'm doing two things at once that I barely have time to do: working out and reading!
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with:
I would want to be in the elevator as "Allie" from my first trade paperback novel HOT MESS and stuck with "Angela". For anyone who has read the book, this is a classic case of "IYKYK" but for those who haven't, it's an incredibly dynamic between two badass women plotting to take over the Chicago restaurant scene.
Author Interview - Emily Bond | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author:
Always. Since I was a kid, my letters to The Tooth Fairy or Santa were just...extremely over the top. Let's say that.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook:
I'm a fan of an old fashioned book. I spend too much time in front of a screen writing, that I don't prefer reading (for fun) that way. That said, listening to my first novel HOT MESS on audiobook was one of the best, most surreal experiences of my life. There were five individuals who auditioned and I got to pick the reader. When I heard her do the book, I would spend hours in the car just idling listening to someone else tell a story I've read in my head a million times before. It was like hearing it for the first time. Magical.
The last book I read:
Birdie & Harlow. It really stuck with me as someone who has had a dog she loved more than life itself, and then again as the memoir chronicles the journey of becoming a parent...and how that love shifts from being a pet owner to a baby-mama. I'm botching the synopsis but I swear it's amazing. So amazing, that I reached out to her literary agent, who happened to be on the literary team at Browne & Miller when HOT MESS and HUSBAND MATERIAL were acquired (publishing is a small world!). I asked her to pass along my messages of congratulations on such an amazing memoir. It's the book I gift to all of my girlfriends.
Author Interview - Emily Bond | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer:
Computer. Laptop. Must be a PC. I need that "Delete" button.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with:
I would be best friends with Angela in HOT MESS because she's based off my real-life best friend, Andrea! Everything I ever learned about the cutthroat world of high-end Chicago restaurants is from her. We are going to dinner this Saturday, in fact...ironically, Olive Garden.
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a:
A lawyer. In fact, this is a dream of mine and I want a law degree in real life. I am extremely thorough, passionate about "what's right", and tenacious beyond my own good. Dream client? Luigi Mangione. Just kidding. I think.
Favorite decade in fashion history:
The Pandemic when matching Work-From-Home sweat suits were all the rage. I have not evolved, FYI.
Place I’d most like to travel:
Charleston, SC. I've been a fan of Bravo's Southern Charm for over a decade now and finally got the opportunity to go there last year for my 5th wedding anniversary. I fell in love and it's a city I would go to again and again.
My signature drink:
McDonald's Large Diet Coke. I don't know what they put in that, but I'm addicted and have certainly become BFFs with my local drive-thru attendant.
Favorite artist:
I'm obsessed with Hamilton and & Juliet. In my next life, I'm coming back as a theatre nerd.
Number one on my bucket list:
I want to go on a cruise. Give me that all-inclusive, 24/7 mealtimes, norovirus infested ship and let me live my best life.
Anything else you'd like to add:
I'm a Stage 2 breast cancer survivor. Please, PLEASE be aware of your breast health and read my diagnosis story so it sticks with you forever and ever. www.007emilybond.com/blog/breastcancer
Find more from the author:
@007emilybond on Instagram and TikTok
About Emily Bond:
Author Interview - Emily Bond
Emily Bond is a Chicago-based author and young breast cancer survivor. Her starred-review debut novel HOT MESS came out via Graydon House—a select hardcover and trade paperback imprint dedicated to publishing book club-worthy fiction with strong commercial appeal. Her sophomore novel HUSBAND MATERIAL is sold in bookstores nationwide, including mass retailers Target and Kroger. She is also the author of coming-of-age memoir, EIGHTYSIXED.
