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Totally Booked with Zibby

Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding, EMMA OF 83RD STREET

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews best friends and co-authors Audrey Bellezza (a two-time Emmy-nominated TV producer) and Emily Harding (also a TV producer!) about their glamorous, heartfelt, and steamy new friends-to-lovers rom-com, Emma of 83rd St. Audrey and Emily describe the wine-soaked night they decided to write a book together and how they actually accomplished that during a pandemic (hint: Google Docs). They also talk about their incredible TV writing careers, the job that brought them together, their exciting publishing journey, and their best advice for aspiring writers.


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

0:06.7

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

0:14.9

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

0:21.9

Our books are already out now.

0:23.5

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

0:25.6

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

0:31.2

features.

0:31.8

That's at Zibbymag.com.

0:33.1

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

0:35.4

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop

0:40.3

at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of

0:47.9

our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

0:56.1

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.

1:03.2

Audrey Balata and Emily Harding are co-authors of the novel Emma on 83rd Street.

1:09.4

Audrey is a two-time Emmy-nominated TV producer who has spent over 20 years writing, developing, and executive producing nonfiction television shows for a number of networks and streaming platforms.

1:19.8

Audrey lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.

1:22.9

Emily Harding is a writer and TV producer whose work has appeared on numerous networks and websites.

1:28.3

When not hunched over her computer working on her bad posture, she can be found losing

1:32.3

another game of Monopoly to her husband and two kids.

1:35.5

Welcome, Audrey and Emily.

1:37.0

Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books to talk about Emma of 83rd Street.

1:42.1

Thank you for having us.

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