Deborah Goodrich Royce, REEF ROAD: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode (a live event during publication week!), Zibby interviews former actress and author Deborah Goodrich Royce about Reef Road, a brilliant, absorbing, and expertly-paced psychological thriller about two women whose lives collide when a severed hand washes ashore in Palm Beach, Florida. Deborah talks about the real crime that impacted her personal life and inspired the story, her love of dual timelines and shocking twists (and her tricks for accomplishing them), her best advice for aspiring authors, and the artistic process behind her striking book cover.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Deborah Goodrich-Royce is the author of Reef Road, a novel, and she has been on this podcast |
| 1:03.4 | before. I'm delighted to welcome her back. Her literary thrillers examine puzzles of |
| 1:07.9 | identity. Finding Mrs. Ford and Ruby Falls are joined now by Reef Road. |
| 1:13.5 | Deborah began her career as an actress and went on to star and feature films like just one of |
| 1:19.8 | the guys, which I used to watch in the 80s all the time, so this is like a crazy full circle |
| 1:23.7 | situation. She lived in Paris and was a reader for La Studio Canal Blues in the 1990s, |
| 1:29.8 | and was the story editor at Miramax Films in New York. She won a grant from the Massachusetts |
| 1:35.1 | Arts Council in 2002 with her writing partner Mitch Giannizio to screenplay their workshop, |
| 1:41.1 | to develop and workshop their screenplay Susan Taft has run amok. |
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