Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the Webby-nominated podcast.

Moms don't have time to read books.

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They're offering listeners their first book for only $5 with Code Zibby, Z-I-B-B-Y.

Again, that's Code Zibby for your first book for $5 to Book of the Month Club, which, by the way, is amazing.

I subscribe every month I get to pick from five of their favorite books.

Most of the time, one of them is by an author I've had on my podcast, and then it just

arrives. I've given it as a gift. I adore it, and you will too. So think of it for gifts,

and for sure go on bookof the month.com and subscribe yourself. I'm here today with V.C. Chickering,

who's the author of Twisted Family Values and Nookytown.

She has written for Comedy Central MTV Lifetime, TLC, Discovery, Nick Mom, and Oxygen Television Networks,

as well as for Cosmo, The Washington Post, and other publications.

She has a local newspaper column called Pissmonger and writes a blog.

She also writes and performs original songs for the

alt-bluegrass indie jazz band Tori Oerstwhile and the Montes, a graduate of NYU. She currently

lives with her family in New Jersey. So welcome to moms don't have time to read books. Thank you so

much for having me. So here's my first crazy question. On your book, it's a VC chickering, but that is not your name. Are we allowed to use

your real name here? Well, who are you? I am a ninja. So V.C. Chickering actually is my

legal name. My legal name is Victoria Chickering, O'Connell. Okay. And I worked professionally and wrote professionally as Torrey or Victoria Chickering until I got married,

which was very late.

I was 35.

So I've never not published anything under Chickering or VC.

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