Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.

I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.

I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more.

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Ali Rosen is the author of alternate endings.

Ali is a best-selling author of novels and cookbooks, as well as the Emmy and James

Beard Award nominated host of Potluck with Ali Rosen on New York City Life, NYC Life. Her novels,

described by the skim as a vacation between two covers, are the instant Amazon bestseller

recipe for second chances and alternate endings. Allie is also the author of three cookbooks, including the most recent 15-minute meals.

She has been featured everywhere from the Today Show to the New York Times and has written

for publications including Bon Appetit, wine enthusiast, and New York Magazine.

She's originally from Charleston, but now lives in New York City with her husband,

three kids, and rescue dog.

She can usually be found wandering the Union Square Green Market or curled up in a chair reading a romance novel.

This is her second time on the podcast, and you'll notice that we talk about the hotel slash castle where the book takes place.

And in the episode, I'm pretty sure that I say how I'm definitely going to go there.

And after I recorded it, I actually did book a vacation at this castle for my husband and my four

kids and me in this coming August. And then a couple months later, I was like, what am I doing?

We're not going to have fun there. So anyway, I canceled it because I don't think young kids can really appreciate, well, at least my kids are not going to appreciate sort of a dark, scary looking castle. But I would. Anyway, I'll go another time, perhaps. But anyway, enough of that. Enjoy the episode. Welcome, Allie. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to read books. Again, now to discuss alternate endings. Congratulations. Thank you for having me again. So appreciate it. I feel like you just, rest me for a second chance is it just came out. What are these six months apart? What's going on? It's insane. I did not write them six months apart, but yeah, you know, you are also with Amazon publishing. So when they have a plan for you, this was their plan for me to put them right together. So, wow. Is it literally six months? It's literally six months. Yeah. The last one was November 1st and this is May 7th. So, but the next one will be a year. A year between them again. No one will have to hear from me again for a year. But a year is still soon. Very soon. Yeah. Well, I think, you know, the romance, I mean, it's amazing. Like the romance reading community is so voracious that they love having multiple books. You know, so they read one book and they say, well, where's the next one? So I think having two books out was the goal. And so hopefully people like it. Yeah, but I loved this book.

It's so great. I found the characters so relatable and so very, very real. The way you write about

marriage, divorce, custody, kids, career, like all the things.

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