Byron Lane, BIG GAY WEDDING

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Zibby interviews playwright, screenwriter, Emmy Award-winning journalist, and author Byron Lane about Big Gay Wedding, a hilarious, quirky, and unashamedly proud novel about a conservative mom (who runs a small-town rescue ranch for misfit animals) and her gay son (who wants to get married at the farm). Byron shares his coming out story (and how it inspired bits of this novel); his journey with testicular cancer; his experience working as actress Carrie Fischer’s assistant; and the perks of being married to author Steven Rowley.

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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.
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1:03.3	Byron Lane is the author of Big Gay Wedding, a novel. Byron is also the author of A Star is
1:09.3	Bored, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as wildly funny and irreverent.
1:13.4	He's the playwright, screenwriter, Emmy Award-winning journalist, and former assistant to actress Carrie Fisher.
1:19.4	He's originally from New Orleans and lives in Palm Springs, California, with his husband,
1:23.8	bestselling author, Stephen Raleigh of The Celebrants, and their rescue Dogs, Raintrop, and Shirley. Welcome, Byron. Thank you so much for coming on. Moms. Don't have time to read books to just big gay wedding, a novel. I'm honored. Thank you so much for having me. I love chatting with you. Oh, of course. You too. Before we got on, I was just raving about how beautiful this cover is with the two men holding hands, but you almost can't even tell. It's like this big blue and white wedding season, something blue. It's just perfect. It's totally. Yeah, good vibes. You know, you never really know what the cover will look like when you hold it for the first time. And I'm so happy. I'm so proud of it. Yeah, it's really great. And the book. So tell listeners what the book is about. So Big Gay Wedding is about a conservative mom who runs a small town rescue ranch for misfit animals. And she clashes with her gay son who wants to have his wedding there on the family farm.
2:17.9	That's the quick and easy.
2:19.2	Okay, that's a good one.
2:20.5	It's concise and all that.
2:22.3	It's a little father of the bride.
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