Former Actress now Author Deborah Goodrich Royce on That Best Boy
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
You might know Deborah Goodrich Royce for the amazing summer author series she hosts at the hotel she co-owns with her husband the Ocean House in Watch Hill, R.I. (If you haven’t been, you must.) Or maybe it’s for her previous novels, Finding Mrs. Ford, Ruby Falls, or Reef Road. Perhaps it’s for her soap opera days, or from co-chairing the New York Public Library’s annual spring luncheon, or maybe just from listening to her on my podcast the last few years. We discussed her new book Best Boy, the authors-supporting-authors life and more.
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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 |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 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. |
| 0:44.8 | Deborah Goodrich-Royce is back on the podcast to talk about Best Boy. |
| 0:49.4 | She has been on several times. |
| 0:51.7 | Her novel, Ruby Falls, won the Zibby Award for Best Plot Twist when I was doing those. |
| 0:57.0 | Finding Mrs. Ford was hailed by Forbes and Good Morning America as a top read. And actually, |
| 1:03.0 | I just saw that it has been optioned and has a big deal star attached, but I'll let her reveal all that |
| 1:09.8 | when she wants. She also owns the |
| 1:11.9 | Ocean House in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, where I've done many events and stayed many times. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm obsessed with it there. She runs her own event series and has some really exciting guests |
| 1:21.9 | coming up this summer, which we talk about in the episode. She used to be a soap opera star on All My Children, |
| 1:28.6 | so, well, you can listen to this and then listen to Susan Lucci's episode, which I released. |
| 1:33.9 | And she also owns the Avon Theater, Deer Mountain Inn, United Theater, Martin House Books, |
| 1:39.2 | and other revitalization projects. She is a class act. |
| 1:43.6 | Welcome, Deborah. Thanks so much for coming back on |
| 1:45.9 | Totally Book to talk about Best Boy, a novel. Congratulations. Thank you. It is always a pleasure to talk |
| 1:52.1 | with you. It's so funny, Deborah, because I've talked to you about some of the stuff that's |
| 1:57.4 | happened in the book in person over the years and then to see it all, like, in final form here and knowing that, like, that's happened in the book in person over the years, and then to see it all, |
| 2:01.6 | like, in final form here and knowing that, like, that's what happened to your house |
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