Leslie Hooton, THE SECRET OF RAINY DAYS

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Leslie Hooton joins Zibby to discuss her second novel, The Secret of Rainy Days, which she has been working on for nearly fifteen years. The two discuss when Leslie made the decision to start writing full-time, which life experiences and relationships inspired those in this book, and how much they both enjoyed Leslie's visit to New York last year for the Zibby Awards. Read Leslie's article on Moms Don't Have Time to Write here!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.1	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
0:12.9	Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do.
0:17.9	All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. Check out
0:26.2	moms don't have time to write on Medium. And of course, my new publishing company called
0:30.8	Zivie Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids.
0:36.9	Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:40.9	Leslie Houten is the author of The Secret of Rainy Days. Leslie is a powerful speaker,
0:45.8	a lover of language, and the author of Before Anyone Else. She attended the Siwanee Writers Conference
0:51.2	and studied with Alice McDermott, Jill McCorkel, and Richard Bosch.
0:54.9	Growing up in a small Alabama town, Leslie went on to earn her BA and M.A. from Auburn University
0:59.9	and J.D. from Sanford University. She now resides and writes in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1:05.5	Welcome, Leslie. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss
1:09.7	the secret of rainy days. Thank you, Zivie. Thank you for this for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss the Secret of Rainy Days.
1:11.4	Thank you, Zivie.
1:12.9	Thank you for this wonderful bookmark, which I use.
1:16.1	So, always nice to get coordinating bookmarks.
1:20.3	Leslie, can you please tell listeners what your novel is about and what inspired you not only to write this novel but why now, right,
1:30.5	become a debut author? It's about friendship, lucky dust, and funeral casseroles. And it's really,
1:40.0	truly about the transformative nature of friendship. And I had that experience happen to me.
1:47.6	And that sort of is the fuel that sort of is at the heart of this novel.
1:52.6	And it's sort of about this friend that you always, always, always grew up with and sort of
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