Terri Libenson, SURPRISINGLY SARAH
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Terri discusses the book's unique format, which explores two "what-if" scenarios from the perspectives of characters Sarah and Leo, involving a school dance and a love triangle. She shares how she blends personal experiences with imagination and explains her writing process, which involves drafting in a Word document, indicating artwork in red type, and then adding sketches and final artwork. Zibby's children, who are fans of the series, ask Terri about character names, book titles, and potential future books. Terri shares personal details, like her Turkish heritage, and then reveals the possibility of her series being adapted into a movie or TV show.
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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 Zibbingag.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. Terry Levenson is the author of surprisingly Sarah, which is an |
| 1:07.2 | Emmy and Friends series. And this episode is guest hosted alongside me by two of my kids, ages 8 and 10. |
| 1:15.4 | Terry is the New York Times best-selling author of the popular illustrated middle-grade series Emmy and Friends. |
| 1:20.5 | She was previously the Rubin Award-winning cartoonist of the internationally syndicated Daily Comics strip The Pajama Diaries, |
| 1:26.0 | as well as an award-winning humorous |
| 1:27.9 | card writer for American Greetings. Terry lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, Mike. She is a |
| 1:32.7 | proud mom of two grown daughters and a spoiled poodle, Rosie. Welcome, Terry. Thank you so much for |
| 1:38.0 | coming back on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, this time to discuss surprisingly Sarah, |
| 1:42.8 | your latest book in the Emmy and Friends series. |
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