Coronavirus update: My thoughts, my live event at 2 pm and more
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Hi everyone! In this super short episode, I talk briefly about my thoughts and feelings about this crazy time of life and how the coronavirus has affected the book world - and me.
I discuss the live Instagram and live Facebook I'll be doing today (Sunday, March 15th) at 2:00 pm EST with giveaways, author chats, book suggestions and other ways you can help the literary community. Please watch!
If you haven't already, please check out my storefront on bookshop.org of 150 books coming out in March and April that are affected by the coronavirus -- the authors' tours are cancelled and publicity is harder to come by. Help them out!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. I just wanted to leave a little message now that we're in the midst of the coronavirus social distancing and everybody's off in their homes or everything is canceled. And I haven't responded to that on the podcast, although I have on Instagram many times at Zibi Owens and at Mom's No Time to read books and on Facebook and Twitter. And I hope you're following me all those places as I share my thoughts and feelings |
| 0:23.4 | about what's been going on in the world. |
| 0:25.9 | Today, Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, I'm going to do a live Instagram and live Facebook, |
| 0:32.3 | which of course will be recorded and I'll share them in my posts and everything. |
| 0:36.7 | But I wanted to raise the awareness |
| 0:40.3 | of some of the things I'm doing to help the literary community one of the things you at home can |
| 0:45.2 | do is go to my new storefront on bookshop.org bookshop.org I've made a whole list of books |
| 0:53.1 | that are coming out in March and April of this year that are being affected by the coronavirus. |
| 0:58.0 | All the authors' tours are being canceled, and there isn't as much of a way to promote the books. |
| 1:04.0 | The authors have spent so long working on them, and my heart just goes out to all of them now that it's time for the books to be |
| 1:11.7 | released in the world that there's the bookstores aren't necessarily open and people aren't |
| 1:15.6 | shopping and the events are all canceled so I've put together about 150 books that look really |
| 1:21.4 | good to me a lot of them well all of the books coming out in the next two months that I will have on my podcast here are on that list. |
| 1:31.0 | I also have lists of all the episodes that have come out in January and February of this year because those tours are also affected. |
| 1:38.0 | So please go to bookshop.org. |
| 1:40.3 | You can go right on my website, Zibby Owens.com and on the home page i put a link to that particular |
| 1:47.3 | storefront it's also on the shop um bookshop.org homepage so you can click to it right from there |
| 1:54.0 | i called it zibby's picks for coronavirus or something hopefully not in bad taste um and then all my other |
| 1:59.7 | lists are there under um zby Owens or just search on |
| 2:03.4 | bookshop.org for Zibby and then look under shops, not under books, under shops, and you'll |
| 2:09.1 | find them. Today at two, I'm going to be interviewing a couple authors on FaceTime. I'm going to share |
| 2:17.2 | a few book picks, a couple |
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