Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,

which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.

All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.

And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium.

And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.

And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens,

and my website is Zibi Owens.com.

Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.

Deborah Goodrich Royce is the author of Ruby Falls, a novel. Her first novel, Finding Mrs. Ford, debuted in 2019 to rave reviews.

She divides her time between the Northeast and Florida, where she writes, reads, watches lots of

movies, and spend times with her family.

She serves on the governing and advisory boards of the Avon Theater, the American Film Institute,

New York Botanical Garden, the Greenwich International Film Festival, the Greenwich Historical Society,

the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, the Preservation Society of Newport, and the Prasad

Project. She and her husband

have restored more buildings than she can count, including the Ocean House Hotel and the Deer

Mountain Inn. And by the way, Deborah is the owner of the Ocean House, and that is why we are

having our retreat there for moms don't have time to travel in October. So go to Zibi Owens.com and go to my travel part,

and you will see all about it. And Deborah is lovingly co-hosting, which I'm so excited about.

More about her. Deborah holds a BA in French and Italian from Lake Erie College and an honorary

doctorate from the same institution. In an earlier life, she was an actress in film and television and a story

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