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Totally Booked with Zibby

Maddy Mara, DRAGON GIRLS

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Zibby is joined by three very special guest hosts to interview Meredith Badger and Hilary Rogers, the duo behind Maddy Mara. Zibby and her kids ask about how the pair began their partnership, what it's like writing together while in different parts of the world, and how many Dragon Girls books they plan to write.


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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,

0:12.2

which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.

0:16.8

All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.

0:20.4

And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.

0:25.0

And we're accepting submissions.

0:26.8

So please send your personal essays there.

0:29.1

And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.

0:32.8

And my website is Zibby Owens.com.

0:35.0

Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.

0:39.9

Another day of my book blast.

0:46.2

Enjoy these children's book, one children's book, one middle grade book, and actually one of them is co-hosted by my children, which you will figure out if you listen to both. So enjoy.

0:51.7

Maddie Mara is the pen name of Australian creative duo Hillary Rogers and Meredith

0:56.6

Badger. Hillary and Meredith have been collaborating on books for children for nearly two decades

1:00.8

and now have come out with the Dragon Girls series. It's their first time co-writing under the name

1:05.6

Maddie Mara, which is the melding of their respective daughters' names. Hillary is an author

1:10.7

and former publishing director,

1:12.3

who has created several series that have sold into the millions.

1:15.6

Meredith is the author of countless books for kids and young adults,

1:19.0

and also teaches English as a foreign language to children.

1:21.8

Wow, I wonder how many books you have to write to consider them countless.

1:24.7

It's pretty awesome.

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