Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.

Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do.

All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok

at with Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. Check out

moms don't have time to write on medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy

books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids.

Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.

If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to

Kids. Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. My name is Shannon Lee,

and I'm thrilled to have contributed to moms don't have time to have kids.

My essay is called The Anchor and the Seabird.

And what I really don't have time for is stress.

It doesn't mean I don't have stress.

It just means I don't have time for stress.

I did an IG Live with Christina Clancy about her novel Shoulder Season.

She has been on this podcast before, and I was really excited to have her back.

Christina is the author of the second home, and of course now, shoulder season, and her work

has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Sun Magazine, and literary journals, including Glimmer Train Stories, Hobart, Pleiades, the Minnesota Review, and elsewhere. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Hi. Hi, Cindy. I'm always so nervous when I join an Instagram live. I'm like, am I doing this right? I know, me too. It's not very user-friendly. And I'm sorry about the stress. I feel like my job is just to calm people down for a while at the beginning of every IG live. All my friends, my writer friends, whenever they have a live event with you or an event with you, I was like, I'm so nervous. I'm going to talk to Zibi. And I'm always like the Zippy whisperer. I'm like, no, she's so great. She's so easy to talk to. So I wasn't nervous at all. Oh, good. Well, thank you for doing that. Nobody should be nervous talking to me. Oh, my gosh. I'm like, whatever. I just want to. You're a power house. Oh, I mean, Every day. you should have your own news station just for all your news.

Just wait. Who knows what's coming next? I literally have so many ideas that I want to do. I'm like,

I can't even, I don't even know what to do. I just want to keep, anyway, if only there was more of me.

I'm just kidding. I'm just joking. Okay, shoulder season,

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