Jamie Brenner, GILT
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Jamie Brenner returns for the third time to talk with Zibby about her latest novel, Gilt, which takes readers into the world of fine jewelry. The two discuss how living in Provincetown during the pandemic inspired Jamie while writing this story, her relationship with the author community and what is expected of writers these days, and which fictional character helped her craft her protagonist. Jamie also shares what she is currently working on and how it felt to find out the role she played in Zibby's career after reading Bookends.
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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, |
| 0:42.3 | 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. Also, just a quick note that submissions for the Zibby Awards are open and will close on |
| 1:03.9 | September 15th. Go to Zibby Owens.com and you will find the Zivvy Awards open submissions |
| 1:10.4 | where we celebrate all the under-celebrated parts |
| 1:13.5 | of a book like the best spine, the best author's note, the best table of contents, and authors |
| 1:18.8 | can nominate their own best publicists, best editors, and so on. There will be an in-person |
| 1:24.1 | award ceremony in October in New York. You will not want to miss it. Go to Zibby Owens.com. Jamie Brenner is the author of guilt. Jamie writes beach reads with a twist, including the national bestseller, The Forever Summer, and her latest guilt. People Magazine calls her books A Delightful Escape wherever you are. Publishers Weekly says of her new novel, Gilt, |
| 1:44.5 | this beach reads Sparkles Like a Diamond. Jamie grew up in suburban Philadelphia on a steady diet |
| 1:49.4 | of Jackie Collins and Judith Krantz novels. After studying literature at the George Washington |
| 1:53.6 | University, she moved to New York City to work at HarperCollins Publishers, Barnes & Noble.com, |
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