A Zibby Summer Reads pick! Jamie Brenner, A NOVEL SUMMER
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Jamie Brenner returns to the podcast to discuss A NOVEL SUMMER, a delightful, sun-soaked beach read about a novelist who returns to the beach town where she spent her college summers… only to face her old friends’ reactions to the recognizable elements in her novels. Jamie reflects on how summer triggers nostalgia and introspection about friendships—and then delves into the different types of friendships, from college friends to “mom trenches” friends. She touches on her writing process, the publishing industry’s focus on books for younger women (driven by TikTok!), and her next project.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, |
| 0:19.5 | reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zibby Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zibby Readers. |
| 0:31.5 | Jamie Brenner is the author of a novel summer, which is a novel, and it is also coming out this summer. Actually, it's out now. |
| 0:39.6 | Jamie has been on this podcast, by the way, eight million times it feels like, and her book |
| 0:43.9 | a year pace has been extraordinary. She'll talk about that as well. Jamie is the best-selling |
| 0:50.0 | author of seven novels, including the Forever Summer and Blush. She spends her winters riding in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and her summers visiting the Beech towns that inspire her books. Welcome, Jamie. Thank you for coming back on moms don't have time to read books for what. Is this your fourth time? I mean, this is great. I mean, I've lost count. Fourth, fifth? Who's counting when you're having so much fun? Who's counting when you're having so much fun? Writing so many books, it's like a piece of cake. |
| 1:12.5 | There you go. |
| 1:13.6 | Okay, a novel summer. |
| 1:15.3 | Tell everybody what your book is about, please. |
| 1:17.6 | Your most recent book. |
| 1:19.4 | My new book coming in July, July 16th, the plot of the book is a novelist is called back to the beach town where she spent her |
| 1:29.9 | college summers to help out at the indie bookstore there. But when she gets to town, her old |
| 1:37.3 | friends are really upset about some of the things she's written in her novels, things they |
| 1:41.7 | recognize about themselves. So while it's about her return to this beach town, the book is really about college friendships |
| 1:50.8 | and how the friendships we make during that time in our lives just can never be matched |
| 1:56.8 | by the friends we make later in life. |
| 1:59.7 | But also about how life tends to pull us away from those |
| 2:04.3 | friends and the pursuit of our careers and our dreams that we shared so closely with |
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