Jane Costello, IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Zibby Books author alert! Bestselling British author Jane Costello joins Zibby to discuss her hilarious, relatable, and delightfully swoon-worthy rom-com meets mom-com, IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE. Jane talks about her protagonist, Lisa Darling—a single mom navigating perimenopause, teenage drama, and an unexpected office romance. This leads to a discussion about the challenges and joys of midlife and the importance of finding love at any age. Jane also shares her journey from journalist to bestselling author, balancing motherhood with writing, and how her characters have grown alongside her readers.
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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 |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 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 zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.1 | at Zibby Owens. Jane Costello is the author of It's Getting Hot in Here, a novel. This is one of |
| 0:49.7 | the books we are publishing from Zibi Publishing, formerly formerly called Zibby Books. I am so obsessed |
| 0:56.3 | with this book. It is funny and real and poignant and all the things that I look for in a great |
| 1:02.8 | read. You have to follow Jane on social because her social channel, I think it's at Jane Costello, |
| 1:08.5 | is just a love letter to women and why 40-year-old women are still where it's at. |
| 1:16.6 | And anyway, she's just amazing and funny, which I love. |
| 1:20.5 | Jane Costello is a best-selling British novelist whose romantic comedies have sold over a million copies in the UK. |
| 1:26.5 | Her novel, You Me Everything, published under the |
| 1:28.9 | pseudonym Catherine Isaac, has been translated into 26 languages. She lives in Liverpool, England, |
| 1:35.0 | with her husband, and three sons. Again, Jane Costello, it's getting hot in here. Welcome, Jane. |
| 1:41.1 | Thank you so much for coming on. Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss |
| 1:44.8 | it's Getting Hot in Here. You're a novel, which, as you know, we are publishing in the US, and I am |
| 1:51.3 | obsessed with in every way, and so excited to talk to you. Oh, I'm so excited to be here. And yeah, |
| 1:57.8 | I cannot describe how excited I am about the forthcoming publication, which is just, yeah, it's just a ride already. |
| 2:08.0 | It's just fantastic. |
| 2:09.2 | So this is really unique for us because it has come out already in the UK. |
| 2:14.8 | So we already have like a peek at what happened. And it's almost like, |
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