Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now.

Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or

less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this

podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,

wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can

learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com,

but really you're here to learn more about the authors,

and that is what we're going to do.

Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts

in the ZCast Podcast Network.

You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com

and definitely check out those shows as well.

Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Chris Kander is the author of A Gracious Neighbor, a novel. Chris is the best-selling author

of The Weight of a Piano, which was named an Indy Next Great Read in both hardcover

and paperback, and which the New York Times called immense, intense,

and imaginative.

Whisper Hollow, also named an Indian X great read, and 11 stories named by Kirkus as one of the

best books of 2013 and winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Fiction.

She also wrote the picture book The Word Burgler and the Audible Originals Eddies and Grieving Conversations.

Her new novel, A Gracious Neighbor, is one of the books that has been published in 12 languages.

A former fitness competitor and model, she currently holds a fourth dawn in Taekwondo and is a certified women's defense tactics instructor.

...