Emma Brodie's Into the Blue (Reese's pick!) and Morgan Radford's Now Then
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Emma Brodie’s Into the Blue: A Reese’s Book Club Pick!
Emma Brodie said she cried every day writing this book which became a Reese’s Book Club pick. (Maybe that’s the secret?!) We connected at Totally Booked: Live about the film/TV world, young love, the what ifs of life, the process of writing, and more!
NBC’s Morgan Radford, Now Then
NBC News Daily co-anchor Morgan Radford is one of the most articulate guests I’ve had on my show with that type of infectious energy and soulful spirit that draws people to her. We discussed her fabulous debut novel about family, relationships, Cuba, and Harvard, at Totally Booked: Live. She’s so impressive!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.6 | Today is a two-and-one episode with two amazing authors. |
| 0:50.8 | Emma Brody is the author of Into the Blue, a love story, which was a Reese's book club |
| 0:55.6 | pick and was published by Jenna Bush Hager's imprint Thousand Voices. It just became a New York |
| 1:02.4 | Times bestseller as well, and I was honored to interview her right the day after she was |
| 1:08.9 | picked as a Rees' book club pick. Emma has worked in book publishing |
| 1:12.4 | for 15 years, currently as an executive editor at Clarkson Potter. She graduated from Johns Hopkins |
| 1:17.9 | University's writing seminars, and her debut novel, Songs in Ursa Major, received the American |
| 1:23.0 | Book Award. She lives on Martha's Vineyard with her husband and their very good dog, Freddie |
| 1:27.1 | Mercury. |
| 1:28.1 | Welcome to Totally Booked Live at the Whitby. I am here with Emma Brody to talk about her book |
| 1:33.8 | Into the Blue. Round of applause, please. Okay, not only is this published by Thousand Voices and |
| 1:43.6 | Valentine, which is Jenna Bush Hager's imprint, but yesterday it became the Reese's book club pick. |
| 1:55.7 | And a book of the month club pick? |
| 1:58.6 | Yeah, who has not picked this book? |
| 2:01.7 | And what is wrong with them? I know. It's amazing. It really is. It's just the most humbling thing, isn't it? I mean, I don't know. I've never been a reason to book club. I will be really humble should I be picked? No, it's incredible. I mean, I've done this before, and I know this is not |
| 2:19.8 | what normally happens to books. So it's just, it's just incredible. Like, I couldn't love this |
| 2:26.3 | project more. And so for it to be happening to these characters that I just adore with every fiber |
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