From Zibby's Asheville Retreat! Kristy Woodson Harvey, A HAPPIER LIFE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this special episode (a live recording at Zibby’s Asheville Retreat!), Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author and southern sensation Kristy Woodson Harvey about A HAPPIER LIFE, a beautiful, big-hearted novel about a young woman who returns to her grandparent’s long-abandoned home in Beaufort, North Carolina, to clean it out... and uncovers her family's secrets. Kristy talks about the amazing way homes preserve stories, the value of connecting people (via dinner parties!), and the autobiographical elements in the novel—like Salt, the dog! She also reveals the novel’s alternative titles and reads from her unique prologue.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:08.1	I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.
0:14.2	I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more.
0:21.8	Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at
0:28.4	Zivie Readers.
0:30.8	Christy Woods and Harvey is back on Moms and Have Time to Read Books to discuss her novel
0:35.6	A Happier Life.
0:36.9	Christy is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including The Wedding Vale,
0:41.1	Under the Southern Sky, which she came on and talked about here, and the Peachtree Bluff series,
0:45.5	which is in development for television with NBC.
0:48.5	A Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
0:53.3	Hills School of Journalism.
0:54.9	Her writing has appeared in numerous online and print publications, including Southern Living,
0:59.2	traditional home, USA Today, Domino, and O. Henry.
1:02.6	Christie is the winner of the Lucy Bramlett-Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing
1:06.6	and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize.
1:08.9	Her books have received numerous accolades,
1:15.7	Southern Living's most anticipated beach reads, parades, big fiction reads, and entertainment weeklies, spring reading picks. Christy is the co-creator and co-host of the weekly web show and
1:21.0	podcast, Friends and Fiction. She blogs with her mom, Beth Woodson, Undesigned Sheik, and loves
1:26.0	connecting with fans on Christywoodsonharvey.com. She lives on the North Carolina coast with her husband and son, where she is always working on her next novel. Welcome, Christy. Thank you so much for coming back on Mom's during time to read books, so this is like your fifth time or something. It's ridiculous. I'm so glad to be here, and I love us being face to face for this one. It's amazing. I know. I need to, I want to do all in person again. This is what I used to do before COVID, but I didn't know you as well then. So there we go. Okay, so congratulations. Today we have a happier life. Christy Woodson, Harvey. Oh my gosh. So exciting. You'm so excited. You can cheer, everybody.
2:07.1	We are here at the Asheville retreat, doing an in-person podcast.
2:11.5	It's our last event of the weekend, and Christy was nice enough to do a keynote last night, and here we are.
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