Jennifer Weiner, THE BIGFOOT QUEEN
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner returns to the podcast to discuss THE BIGFOOT QUEEN, her charming middle-grade trilogy about friendship, adventure, and celebrating your true self. Jennifer reveals the project's origins and then describes her approach to crafting a story that resonates with young readers while addressing deeper societal issues. She delves into the complexities of adolescence, identity, authenticity, and relationships. Then, she gives us a glimpse of her upcoming adult novel, teasing themes of sisterhood, music, and societal prejudices.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books with Zivie. I'm the host, Zivie Owens. I am an author. My latest is blank, |
| 0:12.0 | pub date March 1st, a novel. I'm also a podcaster, obviously, a publisher, a bookstore owner, |
| 0:17.8 | and so much more. If you love books, you're in the right place. In fact, we call it the Zivieverse, or really, the L.A. Times called it the Zivievers, and we're going with it. Go to Zivie Owens.com to learn more and follow me on Instagram at Zivie Owens. Jennifer Winer is the author of The Bigfoot Queen, The Littleest Bigfoot, Book 3. |
| 0:38.7 | Jennifer is the number one New York Times best-selling author of 21 books, including The Summer |
| 0:43.5 | The Summer, Big Summer, misses everything, in her shoes, good in bed, the breakaway, a memoir and |
| 0:49.4 | essays, Hungry Heart, and the series for children, The Littleest Bigfoot. |
| 0:53.5 | She has appeared on many national television programs, including today and Good Morning America, |
| 0:58.2 | and her work has been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among other newspapers and magazines. |
| 1:03.5 | Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia. |
| 1:05.5 | Visit her online at Jennifer Winer.com. |
| 1:08.2 | Welcome, Jennifer. Thanks for coming back on mom's time to read books this time to |
| 1:12.7 | discuss the Bigfoot Queen. Congrats. Thank you. I'm so glad to be here. I have to say I started reading |
| 1:19.1 | this to my little guy one night before bed and then I was like, maybe I should stop. It's like, |
| 1:26.2 | this person dies and this person, this person's scary and this person, and I loved it. It's like, this person dies and this person, this person's scary, |
| 1:29.1 | and this person, and I loved it. It was so cool. And I was like, what are all of the hidden |
| 1:33.9 | messages? What are we taking away from this? But at the end, I was like, okay, just you go to bed |
| 1:38.0 | now that you've talked about, like, you know, people with extra eyes and hands. |
| 1:43.1 | And he's like sitting there like like to. I remember so way, |
| 1:47.5 | way back many, many years ago when I was in college, the spring semester of my senior year, |
| 1:53.1 | I took children's literature because of course I did. I was graduating in 10 minutes. I had an |
| 1:58.6 | internship at the village voice. I was in New York three days |
| 2:01.4 | a week. I'm like, this will be the easiest class in the world. It was so dark. I mean, |
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