Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books with Zivie. I'm the host, Zivie Owens. I am an author. My latest is blank,

pub date March 1st, a novel. I'm also a podcaster, obviously, a publisher, a bookstore owner,

and so much more. If you love books, you're in the right place. In fact,

we call it the Zivieverse, or really, the L.A. Times called it the Zivieverse, and we're going

with it. Go to Zivie Owens.com to learn more and follow me on Instagram at Zivie Owens.

Kennedy Ryan is the author of This Could Be Us. A Rita and Adi Award winner. USA Today best-selling author Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly in the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Her heroes respect, cherish, and lose their minds for the women who capture their hearts. Kennedy and her writings have been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Time, O Magazine, and many others. She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son, and we talk all about her son in this episode. Welcome, Kennedy. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss your latest. This could be us. Congratulations.

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Oh, so excited to have you.

We got to meet in person at the LA Times Book Festival last year, which was so nice.

And thanks for coming to the store. You have to come by in L.A. on your tour.

I will. I will. I don't, I'm, my tour stop is long

beach, so I have no sense. Yeah. Not too bad. Maybe I'll make it by. But your whole team is

always so amazing. So thank you guys for always being so supportive and sweet. Oh my gosh. Well,

Sherry and Diana on my team are absolutely obsessed. I think

they've been the biggest, particularly Diana has been like, you know, you are like her number

one author of all time type of thing. A message. Okay, good. I enjoy it. I enjoy it. Before I did

this podcast, I didn't realize that like it would actually really mean that much to authors to hear from individual fans. Like, I would, I thought, like, oh, well, they must get that all the time. But it actually, it really makes a difference. It really does. It means a lot. So, especially when it's someone you respect. I mean, it means something all the time. But then

when it's like people you really respect and who you look at the books they love and you're like,

wow, you have great taste in books and you're like, oh, I love that. Okay, this could be us.

Yes. Which is fabulous. Tell everybody what this is about. And I didn't read the

previous book. So now I feel like, did I miss something? Like, anyway, oh, you know what? I have some

behind me. Okay. Now I'll have to go back. Yes. So you read this could be us, right? But you

couldn't read before I let go. That's right. I love that, though, because I really, it lives in the universe, the Skyland Universe.

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