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

podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,

wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can

learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com,

but really you're here to learn more about the authors,

and that is what we're going to do.

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Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Amy Wallin is the author of How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies, Sweet and Savory Secrets for Surviving the Writing Life.

Amy is also the author of the LA Times best-selling novel Moon Pies and Movie Stars and the memoir

When We Were Goals, a memoir of Ghost Stories. As a writer in residence at Ocean Discovery Institute,

Amy teaches personal storytelling to young people traditionally excluded from science due to race

income status and educational opportunity. She also facilitates and co-teaches manuscript workshops in San

Diego and France, at which she serves pie. For several years, Amy was associate director at the New York

State Summer Writers Institute and a novel writing instructor at UCSD and UCLA extensions. She is the

creator of savory salons, literary salons with pie, a day of discourse

with successful authors on the writing life, and the founder of Dime Stories, three-minute stories

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