Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.

And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer.

Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature.

Comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love.

I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.

You can find out more at zibbyowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.

And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show.

Courtney Mom is the author of The Year of the Horses, a memoir. She is also the author of three

acclaimed novels as well as a popular guidebook before and after the book deal. Her other

novels include Touch and Costalegris, and she has been on

this podcast to discuss both of those already, so you can flip back through the episodes and listen

to those if you haven't gotten enough after this episode. But by the way, before and after the book

deal is a writer's guide to finishing, publishing, promoting, and surviving your first book, which many of you

out there could probably use. A nominee for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, Courtney's writing,

has been widely published in such outlets as The New York Times and O. The Oprah Magazine,

and her short story, This Is Not Your Fault, was turned into an audible original. She is the

founder of the collaborative artist residency, The Cabins,

host of the monthly Writing of Fiction Series at Edith Wharton's The Mount,

and she pens the bi-monthly newsletter, get published, stay published, out of her house in Litchfield County,

where she lives with her daughter, husband, and cat. There she is. Welcome. Courtney,

this is what your third time on moms don't have time

to read books. Touch, after Legre. You're of the horses. I mean, amazing. So exciting. Thank you for

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