Denene Millner, DENENE MILLNER BOOKS
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Journalist and author Denene Millner is living every writer's dream: her imprint, Denene Millner Books, has just released their first season of books with Simon & Schuster. Focusing on stories for children that celebrate Black families and firsts, Denene has begun to cultivate a community and a platform just as she did when she started her column, My Brown Baby. She talks with Zibby about finding time for her own writing while serving as a doula for others' projects, and the role her own family plays in the stories she wants to tell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. |
| 0:29.1 | And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibi Owens. |
| 0:32.9 | And my website is Zibby Owens.com. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | Dene Milner is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning journalist, and director of the Nene Milner Books Imprint. |
| 0:45.5 | She has written 30 books for authors, teens, and children, among them Around the Way Girl, |
| 0:50.2 | a memoir with actress Taraji P. Henson, and early Sunday morning, a children's picture book. Oh my gosh, |
| 0:56.7 | I interviewed her and I did not even realize until right now that she wrote early Sunday |
| 1:01.2 | morning, which is like one of my favorite books ever. And I cannot believe I just missed that |
| 1:06.5 | opportunity to discuss it with her. We discussed so much other stuff. It was a really good interview. |
| 1:10.4 | But oh my gosh. Oh well. I try to prepare as well as I can, but sometimes I miss, like, big things like this, and I'm sorry. But anyway, that was a great book. Okay. She is also the founder of My Brownbaby.com, a critically acclaimed blog that examines the intersection of parenting and race and the host of speak easy with denine |
| 1:28.7 | a podcast produced by georgia public broadcasting denine lives in atlanta with her two daughters |
| 1:33.5 | and their adorable golden doodle named teddy hi denine okay so let's talk about this amazing new imprint |
| 1:40.6 | that you have from simon and chuster for young readers with all these beautiful books, |
| 1:44.6 | which my kids and I loved, by the way, especially this one. This was our favorite. Also, |
| 1:49.5 | this was great. Love the colors. But this was so sweet and like poignant and awesome. And of |
| 1:55.4 | course, you have other books too. Tell me about starting it. Tell me about everything. |
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