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🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Zibby is joined by #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, Jojo Moyes, to discuss her latest novel Someone Else’s Shoes, which tells the heartwarming and humorous story of two very different women and the gym bag mixup that brings them together and changes their lives. Jojo reveals the inspiration behind this novel and explains why she had to take some serious time off (3.5 years!) before writing it. After 10 years of overworking herself and reaching a breaking point, she finally learned how to take a step back and prioritize herself. The two also discuss Jojo’s persistence (she wrote 8 books before having a bestseller!), her incredible talent for weaving humor and grief into her writing, the book that recently made her cry, and her best advice for writers.
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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, |
0:42.2 | 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. |
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0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
0:58.5 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Jojo Moez is the author of someone else's shoes, a novel. |
1:02.2 | She is the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Giver of Stars, |
1:06.6 | Still Me, Paris for One and Other Stories, After you, one plus one, the girl you left behind, |
1:12.4 | me before you, which by the way is one of my favorite books, the last letter from your lover, |
1:16.5 | the horse dancer, night music, Silver Bay, the ship of brides, and the peacock Emporium. |
1:21.4 | Also a screenwriter, Jojo lives in London, England. |
1:24.5 | All right, welcome, Jojo. |
1:25.7 | Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Center of Time to Read Books to discuss someone else's shoes, your latest novel. Thank you for having me. Oh, I've been a fan of yours for so long, like everyone in the world. I read me before you and cried my way through and watched the movie and followed all of your books and everything. So this is a huge joy |
1:45.6 | for me. So thanks. That's so lovely to hear. Thank you so much. I've been out of the loop for about |
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