Special Re-Release: Courtney Maum, TOUCH

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Re-Release! Courtney Maum’s novel, TOUCH, is so timely that I just had to rerelease for you this weekend. This one was of my first podcasts ever so please forgive my beginner skills! Courtney and I discussed her novel which discusses a life without touch, similar to what we’re all going through on a macro level now. She interviewed professional huggers, imagined touch-free body suits and had a couple struggle in the midst of a world in which physical touch between humans becomes a commodity. Am I the only one who misses hugging people?! Courtney has since written a gorgeous, slim novel called Costalegr and a guide to book publishing called Before and After the Book Deal. And she has used her newsletter to assemble all the resources the literary community is assembling during this time (including mine - thanks, Courtney!!). Listen in or our prophetic conversation. It kind of makes you think, right???

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
0:12.1	Moms don't have time to read books.
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1:05.5	And p.S., their pajamas are amazing, and they were so kind to give us five pairs of pajamas as giveaways, which we're doing on
1:13.4	Instagram and everything else. So anyway, Kauuchi, you are the best. I love your jammies. And I'm
1:18.6	sure everybody else will too. Thanks so much for being a sponsor. Hi, everybody. Today I'm re-reasing
1:23.1	this episode that I recorded as one of my first episodes with Courtney Mom, who's the author of
1:27.6	Touch.
1:28.3	She has since released Costa Legre and also before and after the book deal.
1:32.3	But her novel touch is really timely for what's going on now with the coronavirus and the
1:38.8	inability to touch each other and what society looks like when that happened.
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