Suzanne Park, ONE LAST WORD

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Zibby chats with Korean American writer and comedian Suzanne Park about ONE LAST WORD, a smart and breezy romp brimming with pitch-perfect humor, endearing insights, and lovably relatable characters. They delve into the novel's plot, which revolves around a new app that lets you send messages to anyone you want after you die… and the craziness that ensues for the protagonist when someone with the same name dies and her messages get mistakenly released. They also discuss VC funding bias and workplace dynamics. Finally, Suzanne describes her writing journey, from stand-up comedy to novel writing.

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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, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. Learn more
0:22.2	at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at Zivie Readers.
0:31.8	Suzanne Park is the author of One Last Word, a novel. Suzanne is a Korean-American writer who is born
0:37.2	and raised in Tennessee. She is the author of the adult novels, The novel. Suzanne is a Korean-American writer who was born and raised in Tennessee.
0:38.5	She is the author of the adult novels, The Do-Over, So We Meet Again, and Loathe at first sight.
0:43.5	As a comedian, she was selected to appear on BET's coming to the stage.
0:47.3	Suzanne was also the winner of the Seattle-Cierra Mist Comedy Competition and was the semifinalist
0:52.9	in NBC's Stand Up for Diversity Showcase in San Francisco.
0:56.5	Suzanne graduated from Columbia University and received an MBA from UCLA.
1:00.7	She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, female offspring, and a sneaky rat that
1:05.4	creeps around on her back patio. In her spare time, she procrastinates.
1:09.6	Welcome, Suzanne. Thank you so much for coming on moms.'t have time to read books to discuss one last word, your latest novel. Thank you so much for having me, Zibi. I'm so excited to be here. Can I tell everybody that it is 6 a.m. where you are, and this is like a complete act of, you know, writerly dedication that you are on the podcast this early. I feel terrible.
1:28.5	Yes, but I've listened to other podcasts. Are there people there at 5 a.m.? So I don't feel.
1:33.5	I feel so badly. I don't feel like I have a right to say anything. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
1:39.1	It's totally fun. Okay. One last word. I love the way you write. It's so fun and breezy and like you jump right in and don't want to put it down and you're like, wait, that was like a whole book there.
1:51.2	Like, you know, it's like conversational but yet not, you know, flippant, right? I mean, anyway, I just, I really like books with this tone because they feel so accessible
2:02.0	and accomplishable.
2:04.2	That's not even a word and yet fun, like fast-paced and all of that.
2:08.0	So anyway, I just love it with the inner dialogue and just all of it.
2:12.0	Anyway, I love.
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