Iva-Marie Palmer, CHRISTMAS PEOPLE: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Zibby chats with author Iva-Marie Palmer about her adult debut, CHRISTMAS PEOPLE, an entertaining, witty, and sexy holiday rom com. Iva-Marie delves into holiday nostalgia, the chaos behind picture-perfect traditions, and the inspiration behind Jill, the delightfully reluctant “Lady Scrooge” heroine who finds herself trapped in a Hallmark-esque alternate reality. Iva-Marie also opens up about family, loss, writing across age groups, and the magic of unexpected creative breakthroughs.
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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 |
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| 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 zibbymedia.com and follow me on |
| 0:39.7 | Instagram at Zibby Owens. Ivor Marie Palmer is the author of Christmas People. She is also |
| 0:48.5 | the author of numerous books for children and teens, including the highly acclaimed Y.A. Romcom, |
| 0:54.1 | Gimme Everything You Got, |
| 0:55.9 | and the Jules Verne Prophecy Series with Larry Schwartz. Before turning full-time to writing, |
| 1:01.3 | she worked as a web editor and writer for the Walt Disney Company as an award-winning reporter |
| 1:05.7 | and up close and personal with many a Christmas person as a Hallmark Store employee. |
| 1:13.1 | Iva Marie currently resides in Burbank, California with her husband and two sons. Christmas People is her first adult novel. Welcome, Iva, |
| 1:19.4 | Marie. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked to talk about Christmas people. Congratulations. |
| 1:25.6 | Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here. And I had so much on at |
| 1:29.1 | the event at your store back in September before the book was out. It was so good to see you. |
| 1:33.6 | It was great. I was so happy you were there. Okay. Tell everybody now that we're in full swing |
| 1:39.4 | of the holiday season. Tell me about your book and where you got the idea. And before all that, how do you feel |
| 1:47.6 | about the holidays? Okay, before all that, how do I feel about the holidays? Let's start with that. |
| 1:53.1 | You know, I love the holidays, like when they are in their Finnish state. |
| 2:01.2 | Meaning after the holidays, you love them. |
| 2:04.6 | Yeah, when we're, or like in the pictures or in the like, oh, that was so nice, the memories. |
| 2:09.6 | And I don't hate the holidays by any means. |
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