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Totally Booked with Zibby

Bethany Crandell, SEE JANE SNAP

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Zibby is joined by Bethany Crandell to talk about her hilarious second adult novel, See Jane Snap, which began with just the title. Bethany shares what inspired her to start writing young adult novels and when she knew it was time to make the switch to adult fiction. She also tells Zibby how her own family's story offered inspiration for this book and where she sees her writing going next.


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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 M 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 and my website is Zibby Owens.com.

0:34.8

Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.

0:39.5

Bethany Crandall is the author of C. Jane Snap. She's also the author of the Jake Ryan Complex and lives in San Diego with her

0:44.7

husband, teenage daughters, and two destructive puppies. Bethany loves guacamole, afternoon naps,

0:49.8

and eye rolls. Welcome, Bethany. Thanks so much for coming on moms don't have time to read

0:53.8

books to discuss

0:54.8

C. Jane Snap. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Thanks for having me. By the way, when I

1:00.1

realized how this cover, like why this cover was this cover, I was like, oh, anyway. I know when

1:07.7

the design team sent me the cover, the first mockups, that was the first one that

1:12.8

showed up. And I completely lost it. I was hysterically laughing at my desk. I'm like,

1:17.4

this is perfect. I don't need to see any others. It's perfect. So I know. And readers will get it

1:24.0

once they read. Yes, readers will get it. It will become obvious. So tell listeners,

1:28.8

if you don't mind, give them your little elevator pitch about what C. Jane Sneff is about.

1:34.3

Okay. So this is a story of Jane Osborne. She's a 39-year-old mom and wife to a very prominent surgeon.

1:42.7

She thinks she's living a very comfortable, stable life. It's the

1:47.9

life she always wanted, but it isn't actually real. Her husband confesses to her after 18 years

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