Katy Regan, HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY HOME

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Novelist Katy Regan joins Zibby to talk about her latest book, How to Find Your Way Home. The two discuss why Katy wanted to write about homelessness with a bother and sister dynamic, their shared love and mourning for print magazines, and the personal connection that inspired Katy to include a birdwatching element to the story. Katy also shares the wide range of books she's reading now and how she found her way to writing through other artistic mediums.

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0:23.8	Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer. Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love.
0:28.2	I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.
0:34.1	You can find out more at Zibiowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com. And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything.
0:38.9	Enjoy the show.
0:41.2	Katie Regan is the author of How to Find Your Way Home, a novel.
0:45.0	Katie began her writing career as a reporter on local newspapers and then moved into
0:48.8	writing features for the Classies, becoming a features writer and then commissioning editor
0:53.1	for Marie Claire Magazine, where she also wrote the popular column, and then there were three, sort of about
0:58.7	having a baby with her friend. Her first novel, One Thing Led to Another, was a fictionalized
1:03.3	account of this experience and was published by Harper Collins in 2008. Alongside writing fiction,
1:08.4	Katie still works as a freelance journalist and has written for most national newspapers and magazines, including Stella, Psychologies, The Daily Mail, The Times, and Grazie. She is also the author of two self-help books, Real Focus and Real Strength. She is a proud northerner from Moorcambe, Lancashire, an area that figures in many of her novels and now lives in
1:28.4	Hertfordshire with her son.
1:30.9	Welcome, Katie.
1:31.8	Thank you so much for coming on Mom's.
1:33.3	No, Time to Read Books to Discuss How to Find Your Way Home, a novel.
1:37.4	Thanks for having me.
1:38.7	Would you mind telling listeners a bit about what the book is about?
1:43.3	And I'm particularly interested in the
1:46.0	homelessness angle of it and how you so seemingly realistically portrayed the experience of being
1:53.8	a homeless person and what it's like sort of reacclimating and all of that, all of that stuff.
1:59.5	Yeah. Okay. So how to find your way home is, I would call it
2:03.2	a big emotional family drama. And it's about a brother and a sister, Stephen and Emily Nelson.
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