Miriam Parker, ROOM AND BOARD: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by Miriam Parker, author and associate publisher of Ecco, to discuss her latest novel, Room and Board. The two talk about Miriam's writing process for both this novel and her first, why she's happy that her books are not published by the company she works for, and her journey to becoming an author. Miriam also shares her best advice as both a publisher and author herself, as well as what she is currently reading.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
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| 1:29.5 | Miriam Parker is the author of Room and Board, a novel. Miriam worked in book publishing for more than 20 |
| 1:35.3 | years and is currently the VP and Associate Publisher of Echo. She has an MFA and Creative Writing |
| 1:40.1 | from UNC Wilmington and a BA in English from Columbia University. Her short stories have been published in the Florida Review and 14 Hills. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, her daughter, and her spaniel Leopold Bloom. Oh, there you are. Hi, I'm sorry. It's froze. Yeah, weird. No worries. I would never have sort of had the audacity to meet somebody at a summer program or school or anything and be like, okay, let's go have dinner. What do you think? You know? I know. Well, I think that she, I mean, in some way, she forgets to their kids a little bit at the beginning. I think she's, oh, like, this is what I do. I like meet a new person and we go out for dinner. And I think as she's kind of having dinner with this girl, she's like, oh, I'm the grown-up in this situation. |
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