Tara Conklin, COMMUNITY BOARD

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Zibby is joined by New York Times bestselling author Tara Conklin to discuss Community Board, a bittersweet, laugh-out-loud novel about a brokenhearted woman who goes back home to be cared for by her parents…only to find that they’re gone and she’ll have to lean on her community instead. Tara reveals that writing this novel was her quarantine escape, which explains the themes of isolation, fear, and social anxiety. She also talks about her unhealthy obsession with the Nextdoor app (and how that manifests in the novel), the next book she’s working on, and what her life is like beyond all the writing!

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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 Zibby Mag 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 one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to
0:47.0	enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in
0:53.3	2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically
0:56.5	my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Tara Conklin is the author of Community Board, a novel.
1:06.8	Tara was born in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands and raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
1:11.5	She's the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The Last Romantics, and The House Girl.
1:15.4	Welcome, Tara. Thank you so much for coming on moms and have time to read books to discuss your
1:19.7	latest novel, Community Board. Thank you, Zibby. I'm so happy to be here.
1:24.3	Can you please tell listeners what your novel is about? Yes. Community Board is the
1:29.3	story of a somewhat hapless heroine, hapless at least at the beginning, Darcy Clipper,
1:35.7	whose life falls apart when her husband decides to leave her rather unceremoniously for a professional skydiver whom he met on a team
1:47.3	building, corporate team building event. And she returns home to her hometown to be sort of nursed back
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