Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now.

Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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

less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this

podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,

wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can

learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com,

but really you're here to learn more about the authors,

and that is what we're going to do.

Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts

in the ZCast Podcast Network.

You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com

and definitely check out those shows as well.

Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Patty Callahan Henry is the author of Once Upon a wardrobe and Surviving Savannah.

She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 16 novels, that's 16 novels,

and a podcast host. She's the recipient of the Christie Award 2019

winner of Book of the Year, also the Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year for 2020,

and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for 2019. She is the co-host and co-creator

of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction Live Web Show and Podcast, which, by the way, I was a guest on, and it was so nice of them to have me. Patty is also a contributor to the Monthly Life Lesson essay column for Parade Magazine, a full-time author and mother of three. She now resides in Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Bluffton, South Carolina with her husband.

Welcome, Patty. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books. We're going

to discuss surviving Savannah and also once upon wardrobe. Congratulations. Thank you. I'm so thrilled to be

here. We get to talk off camera sometimes, but it's nice to do it and actually discuss books. This is fun. Thanks for having me. Of course. Thanks. And we first, well, maybe not first, but one of the times we got to know each other was when you all were interviewing me, which was so nice on Friends and Fiction. And I just love all of your co-hosts and you guys do such a good job. I was so blown away by how professional, all that.

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