Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.

And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer.

Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature.

Comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love.

I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.

You can find out more at Zibiowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.

And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything.

Enjoy the show.

Emily Henry is the author of book lovers.

She is the number one New York Times bestselling author of people we meet on vacation and

Beatriz.

She studied creative writing at Hope College and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Hello. Hey, how are you? Good. How are you? I'm good. Thank you. Your office looks so beautiful and cozy. I just want to like climb into it. You know, it is. I'm always like here looking at the computer. I know it's such a waste. I say this often. I need to like set it up, but then I wouldn't have as good a background. Right. You just have like a wall and you're just sitting facing the beautiful set. No, I mean, there are bookshelves this way too, but they're not, they're not like color coordinate. They're messy and, you know, we don't need to share post-its everywhere, and it's like a zoo. The private shelves. Yeah. The private shelves. Oh, my gosh. Well, congratulations on the launch of book lovers. So exciting. Thank you. My gosh. I've been really looking forward to this book and discussing this book and reading it. And it was so fun

and great. And I'm just convinced that you should like text for everyone who ever wants to flirt

ever. Like people should hire you. You should just like be one of those, you know, you know,

that movie Roxanne, like, you know, Syracore or whatever. You're like always talking. You have like

this gift of flirty texting or whatever.

Anyway, and dialogue too, but particularly. Thank you. I think I would have to be both people in that

texting situation, though, because a lot of times it's like you set up the joke and then the person

on the other side is like, okay. Like that's all they have to say. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Well, that's like a, I mean,

that person is not even worth your effort. Right. Right. Delete that number. Yeah. Go move on to someone you can

spar with. But I think there is something so attractive about someone who's on your same wavelength in

that way, right? Yeah. I mean, even when you make a new friend and you're like,

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