Todd Doughty, LITTLE PIECES OF HOPE: Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Everyone found their own way to make it through quarantine; for Todd Doughty, that meant compiling lists of happy-making things in a difficult world every day and sharing them on Instagram. Soon, people were gathering in his comments to share their own happy-making things. Todd joins Zibby to discuss what he personally does every day to make himself happy, his journey from book-lover to the publishing industry, and what it was like working on a book from start to finish rather than just on its publicity campaign.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:36.9	Hi.
0:37.4	Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:40.9	Todd Dowdy is the author of Little Pieces of Hope, Happy Making Things in a difficult world.
0:46.7	Todd is currently SVP, deputy publisher of Doubleday and has worked at Penguin Random House for more
0:52.6	than two decades. A graduate of Southern Illinois
0:55.4	University Carpondale and former bookseller, he lives with his partner in Westchester County, New York.
1:00.9	Welcome, Todd. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss
1:05.2	little pieces of hope, happy-making things in a difficult world. Thank you so much for having me. Oh, it's my pleasure.
1:12.7	I have to tell you, I read this while getting over my booster shot sickness, which was terrible,
1:19.4	and I was like, I need something to make me feel better. And I was like, oh, the perfect book.
1:24.3	Well, thank you. I'm happy to, I'm sorry that you needed it, but I'm happy the book was there. Thank you. Yes. And for the record, I have always had a porcelain cow creamer, and it is one of my favorite things since I was a kid. So anyway, that got its own one-page shout-out. I know that. I know. I'm like, okay, all right. I meant to bring it upstairs to this thing, but of course, I forgot. But anyway.
1:46.9	No worries. Okay. So first of all, tell listeners how this book came to be, your whole Instagram story during COVID and all of it. And then we'll get into more stuff.
1:57.5	Okay. Sure. Absolutely. So, you know, with know, the blame for this can be laid squarely,
2:03.2	I say jokingly, at the feet of Metro North, which is our commuter rail here in New York City.
2:09.2	I left the office on Wednesday, March 11th of 2020, which was the day that the WHO declared
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