The View co-host! Sunny Hostin, SUMMER ON HIGHLAND BEACH
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin returns to the podcast—this time to discuss SUMMER ON HIGHLAND BEACH, the third novel in her New York Times bestselling Summer Beach series. Sunny reveals how she makes time to write, which she balances with her morning talk show and a busy family life. Then, she delves into the novel, describing the tense family drama, the themes of self-discovery and self-worth, and the tension between honoring our legacies and finding our own way in the world. Finally, Sunny teases an upcoming project… and it involves witches.
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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. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zivie Readers. |
| 0:31.3 | Sunny Houston is the author of Summer on Highland Beach, a novel. |
| 0:35.4 | She has been on this podcast before and happy to welcome her |
| 0:38.5 | back. Attorney and Four Time Emmy Award-winning legal journalist Sonny Hosten is a co-host of the ABC |
| 0:44.1 | daytime talk show The View. She is the author of Summer on the Bluffs and Summer on Zag Harbor, |
| 0:49.3 | as well as I Am These Truths, a memoir of identity, justice, and living between worlds. |
| 0:55.8 | Hosten received her undergraduate degree in communications from Binghamton University |
| 0:59.3 | and her law degree from Notre Dame Law School. |
| 1:02.2 | A native of New York City, she lives with her husband and two children in Westchester County, New York. |
| 1:06.6 | Welcome, Sunny. Welcome back on Moms Don't Have Time to read books. |
| 1:09.4 | Thank you. You know I love you. |
| 1:11.4 | This is what third time? You got to stop writing books. This is like too much, too fast. I was going to say, I have all my books in front of me. Oh my gosh. And they look so good. Third one. Third one. Wow. That's so crazy. I feel like I was just talking about the first one. You're like, I think they're going to be more. |
| 1:08.4 | And now all of a sudden, here's the pile. |
| 1:11.3 | So. one. Wow. That's so crazy. I feel like I was just talking about the first one. You're like, I think there's going to be more. And now all of a sudden, here's the pile. |
| 1:29.1 | I know. I know. I know. I don't know how, how are you getting all this done? I want to hear, I want you to talk about more about the book. But you're on the view. You're doing all these things. You've had three bestselling, but I mean, this is crazy. When are you doing everything? |
| 1:46.2 | Really crazy. I have to I mean, this is crazy. When are you doing it? When are you doing everything? |
| 2:00.3 | Really crazy. I have to tell you, I'm kind of a little shocked myself, but I work late into the evening. I'm actually a night owl by nature, whereas everyone else in my family seemed to be like morning breakfast. So I just wait until everyone goes to sleep. |
| 2:05.2 | And they usually are in bed no later than like 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock. And then I am up. That's sort of the |
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