Mary Kay Andrews, THE NEWCOMER: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
"I think my work defines me. I feel as though if I'm not writing, who am I?" Mary Kay Andrews — bestselling author of 26 novels — joins Zibby to talk about her two latest books, The Newcomer and The Santa Suit. Mary Kay shares how the pandemic both changed her writing habits and inspired her and a few fellow writers to start "Friends and Fiction." The group livestreams their conversations and interviews to an audience that has grown to well over 50,000, and they encourage listeners to continue supporting independent bookstores. Mary Kay also tells Zibby what she learned during her career that has allowed her to remain such a prolific author.
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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 Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium, |
| 0:25.0 | and we're accepting submissions, 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, |
| 0:32.9 | and my website is Zibby Owens.com. |
| 0:35.0 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:39.6 | Mary Kay Andrews is the author of The Newcomer, a novel, and also the Santa suit of coming. Mary Kay is the New York Times best-selling |
| 0:46.0 | author of Sunset Beach, the High Tide Club, the Beach House Cookbook, The Weekenders, Beachtown, |
| 0:51.1 | Save the Date, Ladies' Night, Christmas Bliss, Spring Fever, Summer Rental, the Fixer Upper, I'm still going here, Deep D date, ladies night, Christmas bliss, spring fever, summer rental, the fixer |
| 0:55.5 | upper, I'm still going here, deep dish, blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Biddy Lies, Savannah Blues, |
| 1:02.2 | and Hello Summer. |
| 1:03.5 | A former journalist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 1:08.7 | Welcome, Mary Kay. Thank you so much for coming on Moms. |
| 1:11.2 | Don't have time to read books to discuss both the newcomer and the Santa suit. Hey, Zibby. It's great to be with you. Great. So, Mary Kay, first of all, the newcomer came out several months ago, but we're finally getting to this interview, and I'm so sorry about that. And it's, it's so, I've been so backlogged that your next book is |
| 1:29.2 | coming out before I can even talk to you about this book. So tell us about both books and we'll just, |
| 1:34.6 | we'll get into it that way. Yeah. So the newcomer, which came out in May, is about a young woman, |
| 1:41.3 | her name is Lettie. And when the book opens, she pulls into the parking |
| 1:46.4 | lot right at dawn of one of those vintage mom and pop motels on Florida's Gulf Coast. The sun is |
| 1:54.1 | just coming up. She's terrified and exhausted. She falls asleep immediately. She's got a four-year-old in the back seat of her car, |
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