Melanie Gideon, DID I SAY YOU COULD GO: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Melanie Gideon, bestselling author of The Slippery Year and Wife 22, joins Zibby to talk about her latest book, Did I Say You Could Go. Melanie shares why she has enjoyed changing genres — moving from young adult to memoir and now to a psychological thriller — and why she thinks more female writers should do the same. The two also discuss the politics of mom friends, how the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal inspired pieces of this story, and what lessons Melanie has learned over the course of her ever-evolving career.
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| 0:33.9 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. |
| 0:39.1 | Moms don't have Time to Read Books. |
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| 1:00.2 | medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivie Books. And now back to our daily |
| 1:05.9 | author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show. Melanie Gideon is the author of Did I Say You Could Go? She is the best-selling author of the novel's Valley of the Moon and Wife 22, as well as the memoir The Slippery Year, a Meditation Unhappily Ever After. As I say to Melanie in the podcast, I loved that book. I still |
| 1:29.2 | have my copy from right when it came out and was just over the moon excited to talk to her |
| 1:33.6 | because I had followed along with her life back when her memoir came out. Her books have been |
| 1:37.9 | translated into 31 languages. Wife 22 is currently in development. She has written for the New York |
| 1:42.7 | Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Times, London, the Daily Mail London, and other publications. She was born and raised in Rhode Island and now lives in the Bay Area. Welcome, Melanie. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss, did I say you could go. Thank you so much, Zibi. I'm very happy to be here and talk to you this morning. I have to say this book was fabulous, but I was so excited when I saw the pitch come in |
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