Jacquelyn Mitchard, A VERY INCONVENIENT SCANDAL
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard, A VERY INCONVENIENT SCANDAL, a page-turning family drama about a young woman who returns home to announce her pregnancy and marriage, only to discover her widowed father is marrying her best friend. The story was partly inspired by Mitchard's own experience; her widowed father introduced her to his new partner, who turned out to be a high school acquaintance. Mitchard discusses complex family dynamics, the importance of empathy in navigating familial changes, and the differences in how men and women perceive and handle such situations differently. Mitchard also shares insights into her writing process, advising aspiring authors to be patient with their stories and stressing the importance of reading for writers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to |
| 0:47.0 | enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in |
| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is |
| 0:56.1 | basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Jocelyn Machard is the author of a very |
| 1:05.9 | inconvenient scandal, a novel. Jacqueline is the author of 24 books of fiction and nonfiction for adults, teens, and children, |
| 1:13.5 | with more than 3 million copies in print worldwide in 34 languages. |
| 1:17.2 | They include the Deep End of the Ocean, the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, |
| 1:21.8 | a number one New York Times bestseller, adapted for film by Michelle Pfeiffer, |
| 1:25.6 | as well as the Midnight Twins in development by |
| 1:27.6 | kaleidoscope entertainment for HBO. Her novels have won or been shortlisted for the |
| 1:32.5 | Women's Prize for Fiction, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Heartland |
| 1:37.1 | Prize for Fiction, and the UK's Talk About Prize, and have included five New York Times |
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