Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

Our books are already out now.

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

features.

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And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop

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enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in

2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is

basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.

Dr. Ayamawa Shields is the author of Life on Other Planets, a memoir of finding my place in the

universe. She is an astronomer, an astrobiologist,

the Claire Booth-Luce Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University

of California, Irvine, and a classically trained actor. At UC Irvine, Dr. Shields leads a team of

researchers and educators at the Shields Center for Exoplanet Climate and Interdisciplinary Education,

S-C-E-C-I-E. Her research focuses on exploring the possible climates and potential habitability

of planets orbiting stars other than the sun called extrasolar planets. She employs a hierarchy

of computer models to carry out her research, including those traditionally used to predict climate and weather patterns on the Earth.

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