Kristen Ness, AT LOGGERHEADS

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Kristen Ness joins Zibby to discuss her captivating and clever new novel, AT LOGGERHEADS. Kristen shares her lifelong passion for marine biology and how a sea turtle sighting inspired this book, which took a decade to write. She also delves into her novel's themes (from family dynamics to political intrigue), her literary influences (@maryalicemonoe and @patconroyliterarycenter), and her current work on a suspense novel involving puffer fish toxins. Ultimately, she encourages aspiring writers to keep going and to draw inspiration from their favorite books.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
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0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
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1:03.1	Kristen S. is the author of At Loggerheads, a novel. Kristen grew up in South Carolina and
1:08.3	serves as a volunteer for the island turtle team on Isle of Palms, a graduate of Duke University and the University of South Carolina School of Law.
1:15.8	She is an immigration attorney obsessed with marine biology.
1:18.9	She lives near the coast in Charleston, South Carolina with her family.
1:21.9	And I actually met Kristen when I did an event for the Charleston Society Library and went to a pre-party the night before and met her and she is wonderful. At Loggerheads is her first novel. Welcome, Kristen. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss at Loggerheads a novel. Thank you, Zivvy. Thank you for having me. I'm thrilled to be here and to talk to you. Oh, it's so fun. It was so great that we met in Charleston and you were like, I've got this book. What do you think? And we sort of kept in touch. And now here it is. So I feel like the sense of, I don't know, not ownership, but pride in you. And like all that's happened in the last, what, couple of months. It's amazing how fast things have gone.
2:01.9	Yes, it has it's flown by. And it was such a pleasure to meet you then. And I just felt this
2:06.9	immediate connection like I know so many people do when they meet you. And I'm so glad we kept in touch
2:12.1	and really appreciate you having me on your podcast so we can talk more. I just feel like
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