Ann Garvin, I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS WOULD WORK: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Former Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight guest Ann Garvin joins Zibby for a new conversation. The two discuss Ann's latest novel, I Thought You Said This Would Work, and how we rarely ever talk about how significant friendships are in our lives, as well as how destabilizing it can be to lose them. Ann also shares what motivated her to start Tall Poppy Writers, a female writing collective designed to help women connect with one another to not only improve their work but also build a supportive community.

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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.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.8	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.9	And Garvin is the author of I Thought You Said This Would Work, a novel. And Ph.D. is the USA Today bestselling author of I
0:46.3	thought you said this would work. I'd like you just fine when you're not around, the dog year,
0:50.0	and on Maggie's watch. Anne writes about women with a good sense of humor, who do too much in a
0:55.1	world that asks too much from them. She teaches at Drexel University Masters of Fine Arts Program,
1:00.2	and has held positions at Miami University and Southern New Hampshire in their Masters of
1:04.5	Fine Arts Program. Anne is also the founder of the Tall Poppy Writers, where she is committed to
1:09.4	helping women writers find readers. She is a sought after speaker on writing leadership and health and has taught extensively nationally and internationally. Welcome, Ann, thanks so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books. You're, I think, one of the first people who's come on, Moms Don time to lose weight first. Could that be? I don't
1:27.7	know. Oh, I think you might be right. Yeah. Thank you so much for having me. It's such a thrill to be
1:33.0	on your show. Oh, my gosh. Well, you're so amazing. And I loved this book. Tell listeners,
1:39.5	please, what your book is about and what inspired you to write it. So my book's about old friends who had a conflict where they didn't know, you know,
1:50.3	one of them didn't know what the conflict was and the other one had a misunderstanding
1:53.8	about it.
1:54.5	And they were best of friends, like the kind of friends that were sisters in college.
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