Kaira Rouda, THE NEXT WIFE and SOMEBODY'S HOME

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Bestselling author Kaira Rouda joins Zibby to talk about her two novels, The Next Wife and Somebody's Home, both of which she wrote during the pandemic lockdown. Kaira shares how she took the advice she gave to other women in her career prior to writing and became the novelist she always wanted to be, what inspired her to make the shift to domestic thrillers, and what advice she gives to her children about their own writing.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.1	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
0:12.9	Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do.
0:17.9	All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok
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0:26.2	moms don't have time to write on medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy
0:31.3	books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids.
0:36.9	Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:40.7	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to
0:45.7	Kids. Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology. My name is Rex Ogle,
0:51.8	author of free lunch, and I'm stoked to have contributed to moms don't have time to have kids.
0:56.6	My essay is called Historia Sovere Me, Stories About Me, and what I really don't have time for is making time for self-care, but I'm learning to make time, and so should you.
1:07.1	Kaira Ruda is the author of The Next Wife.
1:09.7	She is a USA Today, an international best-selling, multiple-award-winning author of contemporary fiction
1:15.1	that explores what goes on beneath the surface of seemingly perfect lives.
1:19.3	Her domestic suspense novels include The Next Wife, The Favorite Daughter, and Best Day Ever.
1:24.4	Her next novel, Somebody's Home, is out in January 2022.
1:28.2	To date,
1:33.6	Kaira's novels have been translated into more than 10 languages. Welcome, Kara. Thank you so much for coming at Mom's time to read books to discuss both somebody's home and the next wife.
1:39.3	You're just like cranking out the books over here. I know. It's kind of a problem. I think it's a pandemic problem. I like, you know, my kids all came home and we were just in here and I would come up to my office and just write about other people's stories to get away from it. If you can't, if you can't move your body, you might as well get your mind out. Exactly. In other places. Well, let's start with somebody's home. Why don't you
2:02.1	tell listeners what it's about. It's coming out January 18th, correct? Yeah, it's funny. I haven't even
2:07.9	really talked about it yet because it's, you know, kind of this. Yeah. So anyway, but I think the
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