Emily Belden

Emily Belden is a Chick Lit, Memoir and fiction author best known for her debut novel “Hot Mess” which she published in 2018. Belden is a 31-year-old novelist from Avondale, West Loop though she was brought up in Elmhurst. For her college studies she went to Creighton University, where she got a degree in Journalism. It was while she was in college that she got interested in copywriting and took an advertising class that got her advertising jobs at several advertising agencies in Chicago after she graduated. She believes that journalism would not have worked for her since she has a very creative mind and reporting news just would never have cut it. For instance, she showcased her creativity when she tiled her bathroom floor with 60,000 pennies and wrote a post about it that went viral. But she got even more popular with the publication of her memoir in 2014 titled “Memoir about Unforgettable Men, Mistakes, and Meals in 2014.” While it was, for the most part, a republishing of the blog posts about her life experiences, it was very well received by critics and readers alike. Belden is currently the lead writer in the adaptation of the book into a TV series by the name “All of the Nope.”