Ella Berman, BEFORE WE WERE INNOCENT

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews author Ella Berman about her second novel, Before We Were Innocent, a haunting and dazzling page-turner about three teenage best friends and the fateful summer trip to Greece that ends with one of them dying and the other two being blamed for it. Ella discusses a theme she loved exploring: the simultaneous power and vulnerability of youth and female friendships. She also talks about her life before publishing her books (it involves Sony Music and selling vintage clothes), the success of her mid-pandemic debut (The Comeback), the book she is working on now, and what she loves to do when she's not writing!

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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. Ella Berman is the author of Before We Were Innocent. Ella grew up in
1:07.4	both London and Los Angeles and worked at Sony Music before starting the clothing brand, London loves L.A.
1:13.6	She lives in London with her husband James and their dog Rocky.
1:16.8	She is the author of two novels, The Comeback, and Before We Were Innocent.
1:20.3	Welcome, Ella. Thank you so much for coming on Momsdown, have time to read books to discuss before we were innocent.
1:26.1	Thank you so much for having me. I'm honestly
1:28.1	so happy to be here. So I saw on your Instagram that you posted how much you love your cover,
1:33.2	which I'm glad you said because this is like the most amazing awesome cover. So cool. Thank you.
1:39.1	I'm so happy. Yeah. It's always slightly terrified waiting for that email from my editor with the options.
1:46.2	But yeah, I sent over, with my debut, I sent over like a 38-page PowerPoint presentation of, you know,
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