Emma Fedor, AT SEA
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Debut author Emma Fedor joins Zibby to discuss At Sea, a mesmerizing, haunting, and genre-defying novel about a whirlwind romance with a charismatic soldier, his unimaginable ability to breathe underwater, and his sudden, traceless disappearance with the baby they had together. Emma discusses the themes she enjoyed exploring: the irresistible pull of first love, the fierceness of motherhood, and the unpredictability of grief. She also talks about her own struggles with infertility, her arduous journey to publishing this book (it involves the slush pile and Pitch Madness on Twitter), the book she is working on now, and the authors who inspire her.
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| 0:34.4 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:39.0 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:47.2 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:55.6 | Our books are already out now. |
| 1:01.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. And we have a magazine called ZibbyMag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle features. That's at Zivimag.com. We have classes at ZippyClasses.com. |
| 1:07.8 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop at |
| 1:13.4 | 1113 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 1:20.3 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 1:26.8 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my |
| 1:29.1 | favorite thing. Enjoy. Emma Fadar is the author of At Sea. Emma grew up in Connecticut |
| 1:39.1 | and later attended Kenyan College, where she double majed in Spanish area studies and English with an emphasis |
| 1:44.8 | in creative writing. After Kenyon, she continued to pursue creative writing at Boston's Grub Street |
| 1:49.7 | and Harvard Extension while working in marketing and communications. She lives in Massachusetts |
| 1:53.8 | with her husband, baby girl, and chocolate lab Homer. At C is her first novel. Maybe we |
| 1:59.3 | could get Homer and my Black Lab Nyad together. We'll see. Welcome, Emma. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss at C novel. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. Listeners cannot see the cover, but you have to just like stop what you're doing as you listen and Google this cover or something for at sea by MFedar. F.E., how do you |
| 2:18.3 | pronounce it? Eidore. But it's this very cool underwater blue with this coral, I don't know, |
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