Candice Carty-Williams, PEOPLE PERSON
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Candice Carty-Williams, the bestselling author of Queenie, joins Zibby to talk about her latest novel, People Person, which follows five half-siblings and their larger-than-life father. The two discuss how the writing process for this book differed from writing Queenie, the impact Covid had on Candice's work and her personal life, and how being shy affects her interactions with fans. Candice also shares how she started writing through working in the publishing industry and why she currently loves reading poetry.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening |
| 0:06.8 | to right now. Thank you so much, called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. It is a daily podcast, |
| 0:12.0 | 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their |
| 0:18.2 | career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Also, just a quick note that submissions for the Zibby Awards are open and will close on |
| 1:03.9 | September 15th. Go to Zibby Owens.com and you will find the Zivvy Awards open submissions |
| 1:10.3 | where we celebrate all the under-celebrated parts of a book, |
| 1:14.2 | like the best spine, the best author's note, the best table of contents, and authors can nominate |
| 1:19.4 | their own best publicists, best editors, and so on. There will be an in-person award ceremony |
| 1:24.8 | in October in New York. You will not want to miss it. |
| 1:45.6 | Go to zibby-Owens.com. Candice Cardi Williams is the author of Peopleperson. Best-selling author, Candice Cardi Williams, won the 2020 Book of the Year award at the British Book Awards for her debut novel, Queenie, becoming the first black writer to do so. Queenie was named the Best Book of the Year by NPR, Time, Parade, The Guardian, |
| 1:50.0 | Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, and many more. From launching the Guardian and Fourth Estate short story prize for underrepresented authors and writing a Prada holiday campaign to Queenie |
| 1:55.3 | being adapted by Channel 4, her cultural footprint continues to grow globally. Her highly |
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