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Totally Booked with Zibby

Kristy Woodon Harvey, THE SUMMER OF SONGBIRDS

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author and repeat MDHTTRB guest Kristy Woodson Harvey about The Summer of Songbirds, a warm and hopeful novel about four women who come together to the save the summer camp that changed their lives. Kristy talks about the camp experience (and sailing fiasco) that inspired this novel and then discusses the themes she loved exploring–lifelong friendships, secrets, and the universal feeling of homesickness. She also talks about Friends & Fiction, her publishing journey, and her next book!


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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.

0:21.9

Our books are already out now.

0:23.5

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

0:25.6

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

0:31.2

features.

0:31.8

That's at Zibbymag.com.

0:33.1

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

0:35.4

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop

0:40.3

at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of

0:47.9

our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

0:56.5

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.

1:03.1

Christy Woodson Harvey makes her, I don't know, fourth, fifth, third. She's always on this

1:08.8

podcast. I love her. The Summer of Songbirds is her latest novel.

1:13.6

Christy is the New York Times USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of 10 novels,

1:18.8

including Under the Southern Sky, the Peach Tree Bluff series, the Wedding Vale, and the Summer of Songbirds.

1:24.2

Her Peach Tree Bluff series is currently in development with NBC, with Christy as co-writer and co-executive producer. She is the winner of thebirds. Her Peach Tree Bluff series is currently in development with NBC, with Christy as

1:28.2

co-writer and co-executive producer. She is the winner of the Lucy Bramlett Patterson Award for

1:33.1

Excellence in Creative Writing, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and her books have received

1:37.8

numerous accolades, including Southern Living's most anticipated beach reads, entertainment weekly's

1:42.8

spring reading picks, and Katie Kirk's

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