KJ Dell'Antonia, IN HER BOOTS
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Former editor of Motherlode and author of the instant New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, The Chicken Sisters, KJ Dell'Antonia returns to discuss her latest novel, In Her Boots. KJ and Zibby talk about the exciting new episodes coming up on her #AmWriting podcast, the effect her book How to be a Happier Parent has had on her own parenting, and what she finds hardest about writing. KJ also shares how she is prepping for an upcoming speech on the importance of reading whatever you like and when she's currently reading (besides a book on how to give a speech).
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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, |
| 0:42.3 | and that is what we're going to do. |
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| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.2 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. KJ. Del Antonia is the author of In Her Boots, a novel. KJ. is a novelist and former |
| 1:04.3 | journalist and editor at The New York Times, where she covered the personal and policy aspects |
| 1:09.5 | of family for many years with |
| 1:11.7 | the mother load column. KJ grew up in Texas and Kansas and attended Kansas State University, |
| 1:16.5 | then spent her 20s locked in a struggle to marry her upbringing with the mysterious ways of |
| 1:21.4 | Manhattan and East Coast culture and to reconcile career choices that included practicing |
| 1:26.1 | law at Kervath-Swain and Moore |
| 1:27.8 | and the New York County District Attorney's Office with her childhood desire to be end of green gables, |
| 1:33.7 | only with more publishing success. During the first internet boom, KJ became the worst vice |
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