Read with Jenna's July pick! Chris Whitaker, ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
New York Times bestselling author Chris Whitaker joins Zibby to discuss ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, a haunting and unforgettable missing person mystery, serial killer thriller, and sweeping love story, all in one (and the Read With Jenna Book Club pick!). Chris explains the premise of his novel: two abducted teenagers fall in love in a pitch-black basement… and when the boy escapes, he spends the next 27 years looking for the girl. Chris delves into the personal traumas that shaped his life and inspired this story—including experiences with childhood abuse—and how important it has been for him to take control of his own narrative. Then, he hints at his next project!
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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, |
| 0:19.5 | reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zivie Readers. |
| 0:31.1 | Chris Whitaker is the author of all the colors of the dark. |
| 0:35.4 | Chris is the award-winning author of Tall Oaks, All the Wicked Girls, |
| 0:38.8 | and the New York Times bestseller, we begin at the end, which we discussed originally on this |
| 0:43.4 | podcast. Chris lives in the UK, and he will be at Zibby's Bookshop. So go to Zibby's Bookshop. So you can |
| 0:51.1 | find the schedule and come see him. Welcome, Chris. Thanks so much for coming back on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss all the colors of the dark. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I can't believe it's been like three years since the last four years, something. No. Yeah. Well, it came out in the UK four years ago, so I think like three years ago in the US, which is mad, isn't it? You're my first ever US event I ever did. |
| 1:16.4 | Well, well, you've come so far. Look at what. |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah, I feel like I've aged like 10 years. |
| 1:23.5 | I actually can't believe that it's been that long. My sense of time these days is totally warped. I look up and all these people I interviewed in the beginning have new books. It's crazy. It's just crazy. Yeah, that's because you're the busiest person I think I've ever met in my whole life. I don't know. Yeah. How you do it. I need to like slow it down because time is too fast. Time is going too fast. Okay, all the colors |
| 1:45.8 | of the dark. Tell listeners what it's about, please. I'll give you the kind of top line pitch, |
| 1:50.9 | which was my like few line pitch that I gave to my publisher years ago before I wrote it. And the book |
| 1:56.5 | is about two of ducted teenagers that fall in love in the pitch black basement that being held in, |
| 2:01.5 | having never seen each other. The boy escaped and then come find his way back to the girl. |
| 2:06.1 | And the police don't believe that she's real. They think that because he was trapped down there for |
| 2:09.7 | so long because of the trauma that he kind of conjured this girl out of his mind. But he truly |
| 2:16.9 | believes in his heart that she's real and um and what follows is |
| 2:20.0 | this like big epic 27 years search for the girl for the missing girl the love of his life and also |
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