Julie Doar, THE GALLAGHER PLACE: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Zibby Publishing alert! Recorded live at Zibby’s Bookshop in NYC, Zibby interviews debut novelist Julie Doar about THE GALLAGHER PLACE, an atmospheric, expertly paced, and utterly chilling murder mystery set in New York’s Hudson Valley. Julie shares the inspiration behind the novel’s haunting disappearance, its exploration of family secrets, and the power of girlhood friendship. She also talks about her journey from Starbucks barista to middle school English teacher to published author, along with the years of quiet drafting and perseverance that brought her story to life.
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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 |
| 0:39.7 | Instagram at Zibby Owens. Julie Dorr is the author of The Gallagher Place, a novel. This is actually |
| 0:49.3 | a book published by my publishing company Zibi Publishing. So thanks to everybody on my team who whipped this |
| 0:56.2 | novel into shape and everybody who's done so much to release it, market it, publish it, |
| 1:02.4 | and make it the amazing, amazing novel that it is, by the way, it has gotten a starred |
| 1:07.6 | review in Publishers Weekly, which is really awesome and many other accolades that I will |
| 1:13.6 | put in the comments or you can search on zibbmedia.com, but this is amazing for a debut author. |
| 1:20.6 | Okay, Julie Doher is a writer and educator, a former Starbucks barista. She grew up in the Hudson Valley |
| 1:26.7 | and currently lives in Brooklyn |
| 1:27.8 | where she teaches middle school English. This is her first novel. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:32.3 | Julie, welcome. Thanks so much for coming on. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yay. Why don't you |
| 1:37.0 | tell listeners, and by the way, this is a book that Sibby Publishing is actually publishing. |
| 1:41.4 | So tell listeners a little bit about your book. This is my debut novel, |
| 1:46.1 | so I'm very excited. It's a murder mystery set in the Hudson Valley, upstate New York. |
| 1:52.8 | It really, I think, explores mostly a family dynamic and the secrets families can keep from each |
| 2:00.6 | other. The main character Marlowe, |
| 2:03.3 | when she was 16, her best friend vanished. And that's kind of something that's haunted her |
| 2:08.5 | into adulthood. And this story explores, it takes place over the course of a few weeks when |
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