Danny Feekes & Suzanne Skyvara, GOODREADS TEAM
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is a bit of a departure from my typical author interviews. I'm talking to two of the most important people at Goodreads, which many of you fellow book lovers already know about. It's a giant site for book recommendations where you can follow your friends' picks. Danny Feekes is the editorial director at Goodreads and Suzanne Skyvara is the VP of marketing and editorial. They're both terrific, entertaining, and have the inside scoop about what is popular on Goodreads for this summer — and what their own picks are, and more! You’ll have to listen to hear how we ended up discussing naked yoga. Who knew?!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:13.9 | Thanks so much for listening to my podcast. If you like what you hear, please follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens and also at Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:53.2 | Today's episode is a bit of a departure, but I'm really, really excited about it, and I think |
| 0:57.6 | it'll be really entertaining and fun for you to listen to. At least I hope so. You can let me know |
| 1:01.3 | afterwards if you want. But I'm interviewing two of the most important people at Goodreads, and |
| 1:07.3 | they'll tell you more about it if you don't know already about Goodreads, but I'm assuming that many of you as book lovers know about this giant site for book recommendations where you can follow your friends' picks and all the rest. |
| 1:19.7 | Danny Fakesh is the editorial director at Goodreads. |
| 1:24.2 | And in addition to that, has written many of his own articles. |
| 1:28.2 | He does a lot of the book picks for the site and even wrote an article about doing naked yoga, which I kind of poke fun |
| 1:34.5 | at him about during the episodes. You'll hear about that. That was not for Goodreads, by the way. |
| 1:38.6 | That was at a former site that he worked at. And then Suzanne Skivara is the VP of Marketing and |
| 1:44.0 | editorial for Goodreads. And she has Skivara is the VP of Marketing and Editorial for Goodreads, |
| 1:45.3 | and she has also written many roundups of articles and books in the past, |
| 1:49.8 | specifically related to career books for women. |
| 1:52.7 | So there are tons of lists of hers floating about. |
| 1:56.0 | So not only are they Goodreads execs, but they are hardcore book lovers |
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