Gina Sorell, THE WISE WOMEN: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by author Gina Sorell to talk about her second novel, The Wise Women, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. The two discuss how listening to Zibby's podcast helped her feel more connected to her writing during the pandemic, why she made the shift from acting to writing, and the ways in which her experience with this book differs from her first. Gina also shares how she hopes readers will connect with all of the book's protagonists and whether or not she'll continue on with them in the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
| 0:49.4 | You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com |
| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Gina Sorrell is the author of The Wise Women, a novel. After two decades of working as an |
| 1:04.1 | actor, Gina returned to her first love writing. Graduate of the UCLA Extension Riders |
| 1:08.7 | Program. She is the author of Mothers and Other Strangers and The Wise Women. |
| 1:13.4 | She balances the solitary hours of fiction writing with work as a creative director and brand storyteller |
| 1:18.5 | under the banner of her agency, Words Make the Brand. |
| 1:22.0 | Originally from Johannesburg, Gina has lived in New York and Los Angeles and now lives in Toronto with her family. |
| 1:27.6 | Welcome, Gina. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss the wise women. |
| 1:33.2 | Thank you so much for having me. This is an absolute pleasure. And I don't know if you know this, but during the pandemic, I listened to you constantly. You're on all of my walks, you're all of my breaks when I was trying |
| 1:45.2 | to find connected to writing, when I felt like I was just separated from that whole world and I |
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