Rochelle B. Weinstein, WE ARE MADE OF STARS
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Rochelle B. Weinstein returns to the podcast to discuss her intricate, suspenseful, and completely redemptive new book, WE ARE MADE OF STARS. Rochelle shares the grueling but rewarding process of writing this book (she calls it her "bad boyfriend book"), as it features six points of view and interwoven character arcs. She dives into the novel’s premise—eight strangers spend a transformative week at an idyllic North Carolina inn—and explores the themes of connection, reinvention, and self-discovery. Rochelle also reflects on her participation in ON BEING JEWISH NOW, the challenges of being a Jewish author in today’s climate, and how her writing process has evolved over time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:45.1 | Rochelle B. Weinstein is the author of We Are Made of Stars, a novel. |
| 0:49.8 | Rochelle is the USA Today and Amazon best-selling author of What You Do to Me, When We Let Go, This Is Not How It Ends, Somebody's Daughter, Where We Fall, The Morning After, and What We Leave Behind. |
| 0:59.9 | And she has been on this podcast for several of these books, Rochelle and I have become good friends. |
| 1:04.5 | A former entertainment industry executive, she splits her time between sunny South Florida and the mountains of North Carolina. |
| 1:10.5 | Rochelle is a voracious reader who has shared monthly book picks on Miami's NBC6 |
| 1:14.7 | and is currently the book contributor for Miami's Aqua Magazine and Literary Salon, |
| 1:19.3 | Women Writers, Women's Books. |
| 1:21.2 | This champion of writers also teaches publishing workshops at Nova Southeastern University's |
| 1:25.6 | Alvin Sherman Library. |
| 1:27.0 | Her eighth novel, We Are Made of Stars, |
| 1:29.5 | releases February 2025, and is out now. She is already plotting out books nine and ten. |
| 1:34.5 | Welcome back, Rochelle. Thanks so much for coming. Now it's called Totally Booked with Zibby, |
| 1:38.7 | so thanks for coming on this new iteration of the show. To talk about we are made of stars congratulations thank you and thank you for having |
| 1:47.1 | me again i know you have to stop writing so many books like i can't keep clearing all these spots for you |
| 1:52.5 | are you used one every year right is that what you're on that schedule what i don't know i'm not on |
| 1:59.1 | that's that's my own stuff that I, my self-imposed |
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