Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

Our books are already out now.

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

features.

That's at Zibbymag.com.

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop

at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to

enjoy some of our other offerings but this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in

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 my favorite thing. Enjoy. Taylor Wolf is the author of Bertie and Harlow.

Life, loss, and loving my dog so much I didn't want to have kids until I did. Taylor is a professional funny person on the internet. She is the writer behind the Daily Tay blog and founder and creative director of online clothing stores, the Taylor Wolf Shop and Chili Wolf. Her work has been featured in today, The Dodo, and more. Welcome, Taylor. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss Bertie and Harlow, Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog so much I didn't want kids until I did. Thank you for having me. It is a true honor to be here. Oh. Like, this is a very big deal to me, so I appreciate you inviting me on. Oh, well, you're a very big deal too, so you go tell me about everything how you started writing

blogging booking everything just give me give me the whole story i'm totally fascinated okay

so it basically started with one of my favorite english professors a long time ago when i was in

college he's like he told our class if you want to be a writer, write every day.

And so the fact it was 2009, I was like, well, I will start a blog. But back in 2009, I thought, like, our blog's dead. I remember thinking that, but I was like, whatever, I'm just going to do it. So I started a blog just to keep myself consistent. I didn't tell anybody about it for literally, like, two or three years. And then I kind of started to tell people a little bit and it was my inner

circle and they shared posts and, you know, it got just a little bit bigger and bigger. I never thought it could be a job. It was never my intention. I only thought like Perez Hilton and like Mormon mommy bloggers were bloggers. That's all I knew of. But I kept getting fired from jobs because I was

not great at sales and I just couldn't accept that. So finally, I think it was like I got laid off

from something and I was like, I better figure out how to make this blog work because I'm not

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