Eileen Patricia Curran, HUNGRY HILL
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Zibby is joined by Eileen Patricia Curran to discuss her debut novel, Hungry Hill, which she self-published. Eileen shares what that journey has been like, from assembling a team of passionate experts to distributing her books as far as she can, as well as why she decided to start her own independent imprint. Eileen also tells Zibby about how her own family's connection to the Hungry Hill neighborhood inspired the setting for this story, which parts of her career set her up for success in writing, and what she is planning on publishing next.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at with Zibby and Tracy. My other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. Check out moms don't have time to write on medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvi Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:41.1 | Eileen Patricia Curran is the author of Hungry Hill. She spent her earliest years in the |
| 0:45.6 | suburbs of Springfield, Massachusetts, the primary setting for her debut novel, Hungry Hill, which is |
| 0:50.7 | named after the Irish Catholic neighborhood her father and grandfather grew up in. |
| 0:54.6 | She wanted the setting of her debut novel to be familiar to her and imagined what it would |
| 0:58.5 | be like to return to the neighborhood as an adult after a personal crisis. |
| 1:02.2 | She attended the University of Texas at Dallas with a BA in economics and finance, Boston |
| 1:06.8 | College, MBA Finance and Marketing, and the New York School of Interior Design. |
| 1:11.0 | By the way, this may be why her book cover has, like, the most amazing wallpaper, |
| 1:15.6 | what should be a wallpaper if it isn't, ever. |
| 1:18.0 | But anyway, she currently resides in Florida, the land of weirdness, where she is |
| 1:22.8 | perpetually amazed by the local headlines. |
| 1:25.5 | Welcome, Eileen. |
| 1:26.4 | Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't |
| 1:28.3 | have time to read books to discuss Hungry Hill. Well, it's very nice to meet you and thank you |
| 1:34.0 | for inviting me to speak with you. It's my pleasure. So would you mind telling listeners what |
| 1:40.4 | Hungry Hill is about and then what inspired you to write it? Hungry Hill is, it's kind of a multi-generational story about two women. |
| 1:50.4 | One is Grace Kavanaugh. |
| 1:52.7 | She's a great niece to Maggie Riley. |
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