BookTok Sensation! Betty Cayouette, ONE LAST SHOT
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by Betty Cayouette, a former fashion videographer and the creator of the viral TikTok account Betty’s Book List, to discuss her sweet and heartfelt debut romance, ONE LAST SHOT. Betty delves into the plot and inspiration of her friends-to-lovers romance, which is set in Cinque Terre, Italy, and revolves around a supermodel and a photographer with a past marriage pact who meet again ten years later. She also describes her passion for reading (she read 160 books last year!) and what it was like to go viral on BookTok (oh, and she shares some tips!).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.9 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zibi Readers. Betty Kayut is the author of one last shot. Betty Kayut is an author, |
| 0:37.3 | viral video content creator and cinematographer. |
| 0:40.4 | She graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University in only three years. Wow, show off, |
| 0:45.7 | kidding. And currently lives in Salem, Massachusetts. Betty created at Betty's Book List, |
| 0:50.7 | the viral TikTok Instagram account, which is one of the top book recommendation accounts in the world and is featured in outlets such as the Boston Globe, Euro News, Fox News, the London Times, and Glamour, UK. One Last Shot is her debut novel. Welcome, Betty. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss one last shot. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. Yay. It's so fun because in the book |
| 1:14.2 | and in the acknowledgments, you talk about writing the book and your excitement and how it all came to |
| 1:19.4 | be and everything. But tell listeners about your previous career and how it launched, even to being a |
| 1:25.3 | novelist and all of that. So fun. I'm just so excited the book is out. |
| 1:28.8 | I'm so excited to be talking to you because I love all of your content. The whole thing is just |
| 1:32.7 | thrilling. But I was a fashion videographer in my professional life before I did any writing at all, |
| 1:39.8 | which was so much fun and I really love it. It is a blast to do. But it inspired me to write this |
| 1:46.8 | novel, which is a friends to lovers romance between a supermodel and a photographer who, |
| 1:53.1 | after a decade apart, are on a photo shoot together in Cinquateria, Italy and have a second |
| 1:59.0 | shot at love. Love it. So awesome. And you said it had |
| 2:02.5 | never occurred to you to set a novel that you wanted to be a novel, but it never occurred to you |
| 2:06.7 | to set it on a photo shoot until it did. No, I had actually written a totally different novel |
| 2:14.5 | that I queried and stuff before this one that is now put to bed because |
| 2:18.7 | like I said, I hadn't really written anything before. So it ended up just being great practice. |
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