#17: How Hannah Bonam-Young Turns Real Life Into Romance

This week on Off The Shelf, Morgann sits down with Hannah Bonam-Young, author of Out on a Limb and the recently released People Watching. With People Watching releasing on September 9th, they catch up on life, writing, and all the little moments in between (including Taylor Swift’s engagement and how big a deal Halloween is…) The two also dive into: The pregnancy trope done right, what it was like for Hannah to write characters shaped by her own lived experiences, and how People Watching came to be. 

CHAPTERS: 

00:00 Introduction + Taylor Swift getting engaged

3:05 How Out on a Limb was Born 

5:23 Writing a story so close to home

7:35 The power of TikTok

11:16 A pregnancy trope we all love 

12:55 The reason they met at a Halloween party 

15:55 Reading reviews as an author

17:42 Where these very specific OOL moments came from

20:40 20 questions to fall in love

24:55 Firefighters crashing an event

29:40 The bestie duo between Hannah and Becka Mack

31:00 Dream authors to meet

31:51 ‘People Watching’ Synopsis

35:35 How Prue and Milo came to be

38:13 Hannah’s grandmother says hello

39:05: Prue’s mom’s Alzheimer's (and where it came from)

44:38 Hannah’s FIRST male pov 

47:36 Texting in books

50:17 People Watching cover design

52:36 SPOILERS FOR PEOPLE WATCHING!

58:44 The acknowledgements (no spoilers)

1:03:24 Hannah on tour!

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