Neely Tubati Alexander, IN A NOT SO PERFECT WORLD
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Neely Tubati Alexander returns to the podcast, this time to discuss IN A NOT SO PERFECT WORLD, a delightful Carribbean-set romp about a quirky video-game designer and the hot next-door neighbor who invites her on a luxurious vacation… to pose as his new girlfriend. Neely talks about the romance genre (and all the fun tropes!), her creative process (and the challenges of crafting dialogue and picking the perfect word!), the evolving landscape of publishing, and the impact of TikTok on book sales. She also offers valuable advice for writers seeking to connect with others and navigate the publishing industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. Learn more |
| 0:22.2 | at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at Zivie Readers. |
| 0:31.6 | Neely To Body Alexander is the author of In a Not So Perfect World, a novel. Neely is originally |
| 0:36.9 | from the Seattle area and resides in Arizona with her husband and children. By the way, if you've been following the Zibiverse tour on my Instagram at Zibby Owens, you can see pictures of Neely and me together when I did an event with my mom and the Society of the Southwest for Blank. Her debut novel Love Buzz won the Zibby Award for Best Beach |
| 0:56.1 | Read, love that that's in her bio, and was hailed by Good Morning America, which I wrote as |
| 1:01.6 | the perfect escapist read, absolutely delightful. And booklist, which I had nothing to do with, |
| 1:05.9 | declared her an exciting new romance writer. Welcome, Neely. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't |
| 1:11.1 | have time to read books to discuss in a not so perfect world. Thank you. I'm excited to chat. |
| 1:15.8 | I wish we were on a beach and Turks and Kekas today and not, you know, at our desks, |
| 1:21.3 | doing work and talking about books and all of that. I wish we were just reading on the beach. |
| 1:28.0 | Okay, tell listeners what your book is about, please. |
| 1:31.6 | Sure. So in a not so perfect world is about Sloan, who is a video game designer, |
| 1:37.5 | doomsday planner, who is working towards landing her dream job at a top video game design |
| 1:42.6 | company. And she is approached by her |
| 1:46.0 | neighbor Charlie to go on an all-inclusive trip to, all paid for trips to Turks and Caicos to a resort. |
| 1:54.2 | And the catch is that he is using her to make his ex jealous. And so she decides to go to use |
| 2:00.1 | the time away to work on building the game |
| 2:02.1 | design that will help her land her dream job all while trying to avoid catching feelings for |
| 2:07.2 | her hot neighbor. Hot, interesting choice of words since they, one of their first interactions is |
| 2:14.1 | this fire, you know, smoldering, you know, aftermath of an apartment fire from |
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