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Totally Booked with Zibby

Cindy Chupack, WE WAITED FOR YOU: Now We're a Family

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Zibby chats with Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and director Cindy Chupack about WE WAITED FOR YOU, a beautiful picture book that celebrates the moment a child and parent form a family. The two discuss Cindy's literary journey and the impact her 2004 essay collection, THE BETWEEN BOYFRIENDS BOOK, had on readers, including Zibby herself. Cindy also reflects on her divorce, the challenges of infertility, and the emotional journey of adopting her daughter. She even describes a recent painful breakup, which she humorously considers as material for future writing. The conversation touches on themes of love, resilience, and the therapeutic power of storytelling.


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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.

0:06.7

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

0:14.9

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

0:21.9

Our books are already out now.

0:23.5

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

0:25.6

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

0:31.2

features.

0:31.8

That's at Zibbingag.com.

0:33.1

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

0:35.4

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop

0:40.3

at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to

0:47.0

enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in

0:53.3

2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically

0:56.5

my favorite thing. Enjoy.

1:03.1

Cindy Shupak is the author of We Waited for You Now, We're a Family, but so much more than

1:08.4

this, because I have been following Cindy for many, many,

1:10.9

many years. Here's more about her, a prolific storyteller across many mediums.

1:15.3

Cindy Shupak is best known for her work as a writer-producer of shows including sex and the

1:20.2

city, modern family, everybody loves Raymond, better things, and most recently, Fleishman

1:25.4

is in trouble. We waited for you. Now We're a

1:28.1

family is her first picture book, but she has authored two comic memoirs, The New York Times

1:32.6

Bestseller, The Between Boyfriend's Book, a collection of cautiously hopeful essays, which,

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