Elizabeth Lyons, WRITE THE DAMN BOOK ALREADY: Tell Your Story. Share Your Message. Make Your Impact.
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to author, writing coach, and publishing industry veteran Elizabeth Lyons about Write the Damn Book Already: Tell Your Story. Share Your Message. Make Your Impact., a lighthearted and encouraging roadmap for anxious would-be authors. Elizabeth discusses the most common anxieties for writers (aspiring and bestselling alike) and shares her best tips for book proposals, outlining, identifying your why, and managing sales expectations. She also talks about her own experiences writing books (like when she finished her first book with three kids under three!).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.5 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Elizabeth Lyons is the author of Write the Damn Book |
| 1:06.0 | Already. Tell your story, share your message, make your impact. Elizabeth is a six-time author, book writing coach, and founder of Finn Phyllis Press. |
| 1:14.3 | She's passionate about helping aspiring authors undangle themselves so they can stop procrastinating |
| 1:19.4 | and get on with writing, publishing, and launching a powerful book. |
| 1:23.1 | A mom of five, and yes, we talked about this. |
| 1:25.4 | She is obsessed with decaf coffee. |
| 1:44.5 | It says, Decaf, Elizabeth. Oh my gosh, how many books would you have written if you were obsessed with regular coffee? But anyway, I should have talked to you about that, but I didn't. Anyway, she is obsessed with decaf coffee, gluten-free cupcakes, and is consistently remodeling her already perfectly fine house. She lives in Arizona with whichever of her five kids happen to be home at any given point in time. Welcome, Elizabeth. Thank you so much for coming on. |
| 1:49.1 | Moms don't have time to read books to discuss, write the damn book already, tell your story, |
| 1:54.6 | share your message, make your impact. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks for coming on. |
| 2:00.0 | And for blurbing it. |
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