Sara Shepard, PENNY DRAWS A BEST FRIEND

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sara Shepard, the New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series, speaks to guest host Julie Chavez about Penny Draws a Best Friend, a humorous and heartfelt middle-grade series about Penny, a fifth grader who is navigating friendships, finding her people, and lots of worries. Sara reveals she was just like Penny growing up and shares stories of her anxiety, then and now. She also talks about her lifelong love of doodling, which her Pretty Little Liars editors noticed and encouraged her to use in children’s books!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called ZibbyMag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.5	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Sarah Shepard is the author of Penny Draws a Best Friend. This
1:07.3	episode is guest hosted by Julie Chavez, who is the podcast host of Ask a Librarian and the author of an upcoming Zippy books title, Everyone But Myself.
1:17.5	Sarah is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liar series, the Lion Game series, The heiresses, the Elisas, The Perfectionists, Reputation, and Safe in My Arms.
1:28.7	She graduated from New York University and has an MFA from Brooklyn College. Sarah has also been on this podcast before,
1:33.4	where I've had the absolute delight of talking to her, and she even wrote an essay in one of
1:39.1	the Moms Don't Have Time to Anthologies. I'm really happy that she came back on to talk to Julie.
1:45.7	Sarah, thanks for coming on. Moms don't have time to read books to talk to me about Penny Draws a best friend. I'm so
1:51.2	happy you're here. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you. I'm so proud of both of us. We have
1:57.1	mounted and surpassed various technological challenges to make this happen. And so I'm
2:02.3	so happy we get to talk about your book because I finished reading it just a couple days ago.
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