Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now.

Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or

less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this

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Thank you. more at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Alison B. Hart is the author of The Workwife, a novel.

Alison B. Hart's writing has appeared in Joyland Magazine, Lit Hub, the Missouri Review,

the Millions, the Offing, and the Florida Review. She is the co-founder of the long-running

reading series at Pete's Candy Store and received her MFA from the new school. She grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in North Carolina with her family. The workwife is her first novel, and by the way, it was nominated for a Zivie Award. You can check out the Zibby Award nominees and winners on Zibby Owens.com. Welcome, Alison. Thanks so much for coming on. Moms Don't have time to read books to discuss the workwife. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I know you said you just got back from Book Tour. And I was just in Seattle at, where was I think third place books, third streetbooks. Anyway, your book was featured so prominently there.

So I hope you know. I don't know if you ever hear or get like reports from bookstores,

but they had like a whole big thing about it. Oh, that's awesome. That's wonderful.

Yeah. Bless them.

Time for thinking it. Yeah. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Okay, tell listeners, please, what the workwife is about.

Sure. So the workwife follows three women. It's told from the perspectives of these three women who are in the orbit of this famous director slash movie mogul in Hollywood, obviously, where you find such people. And one is his personal assistant. One is his wife and one is his

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