Lindsey Palmer, OTHERWISE ENGAGED: A NOVEL
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Former magazine editor and teacher Lindsey Palmer joins Zibby to discuss how her engagement —and the period of life when she felt like everyone was getting engaged and married— inspired her latest novel, aptly named Otherwise Engaged. The two talk about Lindsey's creative approach to writing universal experiences, the ways in which the feedback she received on her past two novels inspired elements of her third, and how the book's cover is truly just the surface.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
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| 0:35.0 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:39.2 | Another day of the June book blast. Today is family-related fiction, and I hope you enjoy these episodes. Lindsay Palmer is the |
| 0:46.0 | author of Otherwise Engaged. She also wrote, If We Lived Here and Pretty in Ink. She's the senior |
| 0:51.1 | editor at Brainpop, an animated educational site for kids, which, by the way, if you haven't checked out, my kids love, so you should definitely check that out with your kids. Brainpop. Anyway, previously, she was a high school English teacher and a magazine editor. Lindsay usually lives in Brooklyn, but has Templar rarely relocated to Cape Cod, along with her husband and daughter. Welcome, Lindsay. Thank you so much for coming |
| 1:10.9 | on moms don't have time to read books. Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here. And I'm grateful |
| 1:15.5 | for you and your role as an advocate for authors and books. It's so wonderful everything you've done. |
| 1:20.8 | Oh, thank you. That's so nice. P.S. I love that otherwise engaged cover now matches the wall behind |
| 1:27.4 | you and even the matching lamp shade on that |
| 1:30.2 | cool lamp. And it happens to be like my favorite color. So there you go. Oh, I didn't even think about |
| 1:35.8 | that. But that's right. I should just, you know, display it all around this turquoise room. |
| 1:39.1 | Live in your book cover. I mean, it's an immersive experience. You might as well. So for people who are not familiar yet with what |
| 1:47.6 | otherwise engaged is about, could you tell them a little bit more about the plot? And then also, |
| 1:52.7 | what inspired you to write it? Sure. So the protagonist of otherwise engaged is Molly. And very early on |
| 1:58.9 | in the book, she and her boyfriend Gabe get engaged. And then very |
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