Leigh McMullan Abramson, A LIKELY STORY
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to her longtime friend and debut author Leigh McMullan Abramson about A Likely Story, a wise and compulsively readable book-in-a-book about a struggling writer, her iconic novelist father, and the secrets she uncovers about him after her mother’s sudden death. Leigh talks about her fascination with famous people (hence the narcissist, fame-obsessed father) and her career transition from litigation lawyer to MFA drop-out to published author. Finally, she shares her best advice for aspiring authors.
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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. Lee McMullen Abramson is the author of a likely story, a novel. |
| 1:08.2 | Lee was also one of our guests at the recent Fierce Women retreat that I threw at Canoe Place. |
| 1:14.0 | And if you haven't heard about that, go check it out on Instagram at Zibby Owens. And also, you can join |
| 1:20.9 | our next retreat, which will be in Charleston, April 28th to 30th. And we have three more that |
| 1:26.0 | we're planning right now. Well, maybe two more. |
| 1:28.3 | Anyway, it's going to be very exciting, and Lee was such a wonderful guest and panelist for the |
| 1:33.7 | whole weekend. It was amazing. Anyway, Lee has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, |
| 1:38.7 | Tablet Magazine, and Moore. She grew up in New York City, the daughter of a children's author, |
| 1:42.6 | and an illustrator. Lee's parents often collaborated on picture books, many based on Lee's own childhood experiences. Lee studied ballet |
| 1:49.2 | at the School of American Ballet into her teens, but eventually rebelled against her artistic |
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