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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and definitely check out those shows as well.

Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Ashley Winstead is the author of The Last Housewife. This was guest-hosted by

Juliana Goldman. Ashley is the author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, The Last Housewife,

and Fool Me Once. She has a PhD in English and lives with her husband and two cats in Houston, Texas.

Ashley Winstead, author of The Last Housewife, thank you so much for joining us.

Oh, it is my pleasure. Thank you for having me.

So The Washington Post described The Last Housewife as deliciously unput-downable, and I 100% concur. So tell us about the last housewife

what it's about. Yeah, thank you. And I call the last housewife, alternately my cult revenge book

and my rage novel because I had some some rage to expel, which I think probably comes

through in the page, but it is a book that opens with a woman named Shea DeRoy. She's newly

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