Melissa Bond

6 days ago | everythinglubbock.com | Melissa Bond |Grace Beene

LUBBOCK, Texas — It’s always exciting when a show or movie mentions the Hub City, but it can be just as exciting reading it instead of hearing it. Here’s some fictional literature to check out if you want to be proud of the Red Raider hometown. Don’t Touch the Butterflies by Melissa BondDon’t Touch the Butterflies is a crime novel not only based in Lubbock but tells the story of a homicide detective with the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office.

Dec 28, 2023 | artdaily.com | Claire-Louise Bennett |Tess Gunty |Melissa Bond |Peter Baker

NEW YORK, NY.- “You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” humorist Will Rogers once said — which tells you he wasn’t a book publishing executive. In that world, the paperback edition is the second chance, an opportunity to market a book at a lower price and, in many cases, with new cover imagery aimed at new audiences. Goals can include getting big-box stores to display the book, Instagram browsers to pause before swiping, or readers to rethink what’s between those covers.

Oct 20, 2023 | nytimes.com | Melissa Bond

In WHILE YOU WERE OUT: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence (Celadon, 303 pp., $30), Meg Kissinger’s family of eight siblings and two exhausted parents looks, at first, like a robust, love-infused household in the North Shore neighborhood of Chicago. But as early as age 5, Kissinger remembers her beloved mother disappearing for days at a time. By her 40s Kissinger has lost two siblings to suicide, and her alcoholic mother has survived several attempts.

Oct 20, 2023 | nyti.ms | Melissa Bond

In WHILE YOU WERE OUT: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence (Celadon, 303 pp., $30), Meg Kissinger’s family of eight siblings and two exhausted parents looks, at first, like a robust, love-infused household in the North Shore neighborhood of Chicago. But as early as age 5, Kissinger remembers her beloved mother disappearing for days at a time. By her 40s Kissinger has lost two siblings to suicide, and her alcoholic mother has survived several attempts.

Aug 1, 2023 | barnesandnoble.com | Melissa Bond |Brittany Bunzey

By Melissa Bond / August 1, 2023 at 5:05 am Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Blood Orange Night: A Memoir of Insomnia, Motherhood, and Benzos Blood Orange Night: A Memoir of Insomnia, Motherhood, and Benzos By Melissa Bond In Stock Online Paperback $17.99 Melissa Bond’s extraordinary memoir of an accidental addiction and what it took to recover. The writing here is propulsive and vivid; you’re with the author through some truly nightmarish events, most especially...