Gretchen Schreiber, ELLIE HAYCOCK IS TOTALLY NORMAL

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Zibby is joined by debut author (and Manager of Books at Reese’s Book Club!) Gretchen Schreiber to discuss ELLIE HAYCOCK IS TOTALLY NORMAL, a big-hearted novel best described as The Breakfast Club meets Five Feet Apart. Gretchen opens up about her medical journey and upbringing around Ronald McDonald Houses and then delves into her book's themes: navigating illness, family relationships, and the impact of social media on personal privacy. Finally, she talks about her exciting role at Reese’s Book Club, giving listeners a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the book selection process and the evolving landscape of book club fiction!

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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 Zibby Owens or join the community at
0:28.4	Zibby Readers. Gretchen Schreiber is the author of Ellie Haycock is totally normal.
0:35.8	Gretchen grew up between the hills of Kansas and the hospitals of
0:38.7	Minnesota, but now calls the hills of Los Angeles home. Well, that is a nice way to say that.
0:43.2	Let me just read that again, because that's a really pretty bio line that I have not heard before.
0:47.8	Gretchen Schreiber grew up between the hills of Kansas and the hospitals of Minnesota, but now
0:53.8	calls the hills of Los Angeles
0:55.3	home. So that's just a little taste for you of her writing. After getting her MFA from USC
1:00.0	film school, she works as a professional bookworm for Hello Sunshine Reese Witherspans Media
1:05.7	Company. She is always down to run away to Disneyland or a bookstore. Welcome, Gretchen. Thanks so much for coming
1:12.4	on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss. Ellie Hacock is totally normal. Yes. I really enjoyed
1:19.6	this book. I really enjoyed the blog from the mom's perspective, how clever that was, the daughter.
1:27.4	I was like frantically like, well, what's going to happen with the surgery? Is she going to be okay? Like, you know, I'm like, can I Google how to, you know, what, you know, and then I'm like, well, maybe she has this. Maybe she has that. Anyway. The number of people who have been like, I was gapping along the lines and trying to figure out what she had.
1:45.2	And I was like, surprise. You're not going to know. Yeah, exactly. Spoiler alert. Yeah. Okay. So Gretchen, give the elevator pitch here. What is your book about? Yes. So the easiest way to talk about the book is that it's Breakfast club in a hospital. And the slightly longer, more
2:01.9	detailed version of the pitch is that it's about a girl named Ellie who keeps her hospital life
2:06.6	and her high school life very separate. And it's what happens when a new illness sends her back
2:12.2	to the hospital and a new group of friends and a new love interest helped her to see that
2:17.2	combining both lives is not only
2:19.1	okay, but also totally normal. Awesome. I love that. And talk about your personal connection
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