Alka Joshi, THE SECRET KEEPER OF JAIPUR: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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"I read books so that I could learn from those characters and what they decided to do with those obstacles in their lives. Now, I get to write those characters." Alka Joshi joins Zibby and shares how her latest book, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, stemmed from her readers' requests for more stories about the characters in her first novel, The Henna Artist. Alka and Zibby also discuss why sometimes it's better to become a writer later in life and where we'll see Alka's characters in the trilogy's third and final book.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium.
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0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.8	Alka Joshi is the author of the secret keeper of Jiper. She is a New York Times best-selling author also of The Hanna Artist, which
0:45.6	was Aresa's book club pick, and she's a graduate of Stanford University. She received her MFA
0:51.0	from California College of the Arts and worked as an advertising
0:54.2	copywriter, a marketing consultant, and an illustrator.
0:57.9	Alka was born in India in the state of Rajasthan.
1:00.5	Her family came to the United States when she was nine and she now lives on California's
1:04.6	Monterey Peninsula with her husband and two misbehaving pups.
1:07.9	The secret keeper of Jaipur is her second novel.
1:12.9	Welcome, Alka. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's No Time to read Bex to discuss the secret keeper of J. Perp. Really good.
1:19.0	Thank you, Zivvi. We were practicing my pronunciations about FYI. I didn't want to mess anything up.
1:27.0	Well, congratulations on your second book in this
1:30.6	trilogy, starting with the Hena artist and now the secret keeper of Japer, and now another one to come,
1:35.9	which I want to hear more about. But tell everybody what this book is about and how, I mean, I know
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