Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.

I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.

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Catherine Mack is the author of Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies, a novel.

Catherine Mack is the pseudonym for the USA Today and Globe and Mail bestselling author

of over a dozen novels.

Her books are approaching 2 million copies sold worldwide and have been translated into

multiple languages, including French, German, Portuguese, and Polish.

Television writes to every time I go on vacation someone dies,

and its forthcoming sequels sold in a major auction to Fox TV for development into a series,

with Mac writing the pilot script.

A dual Canadian and U.S. citizen, she splits her time between Canada and various warmer locations in the U.S.

Welcome, Catherine. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss.

Every time I go on vacation, someone dies a novel.

Thanks for having me. I'm excited.

This is also, by the way, on my list of Summer Reads, recommended Summer Reeds.

I know.

I just saw that.

I posted about it. Thank you for putting the book. Of course. I really loved it. You're so clever. I mean, the whole thing, even when you like break the fourth. I mean, it's really clever how you did this book. Really, really. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I was trying to push myself to do something different.

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