Jillian Medoff, WHEN WE WERE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by novelist Jillian Medoff to talk about her latest book, When We Were Bright and Beautiful, which went through a number of iterations before publication. Jillian shares her concerns about writing a story focused on sexual assault in the #MeToo era, which books influenced this story's twists and turns, and the role her sister played in crafting some of the plot and characters. The two also discuss the life experiences that inspired Jillian to become an author and how the writing process changes with each new publication.
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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. |
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| 0:58.3 | 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 |
| 1:03.8 | September 15th. Go to Zibby Owens.com and you will find the Zivvy Awards open submissions |
| 1:10.3 | where we celebrate all the under-celebrated |
| 1:13.1 | parts of a book like the best spine, the best author's note, the best table of contents, |
| 1:18.0 | and authors can nominate their own best publicists, best editors, and so on. |
| 1:23.2 | There will be an in-person award ceremony in October in New York. |
| 1:26.0 | You will not want to miss it. |
| 1:28.9 | Go to Ziviewens.com. |
| 1:44.3 | Jillian Madoff is the author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful, a novel. She's the author of four acclaimed novels, This Could Hurt, I Couldn't Love You More, Good Girls, Gone Bad, and Hunger Point. Hungerpoint was made into an original cable movie starring Christina Hendrix and Barbara Hershey, |
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