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Totally Booked with Zibby

Wendy Francis, SUMMERTIME GUESTS

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Zibby is joined by Wendy Francis to discuss her latest novel which is all about love in the summertime— but with a twist!! Inspired by the real Wentworth By the Sea hotel, Wendy weaves together multiple storylines to create wonderfully thrilling love stories.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

0:07.0

I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,

0:12.2

which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.

0:16.8

All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.

0:20.4

And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.

0:25.0

And we're accepting submissions.

0:26.8

So please send your personal essays there.

0:29.1

And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.

0:32.9

And my website is Zibby Owens.com.

0:34.8

Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.

0:40.0

Welcome to another day of the June book blast for this podcast. This is rom-com Friday. So enjoy all of these fun, light-hearted

0:47.5

conversations about different rom-coms that I've read and profiled for the podcast. Enjoy. Wendy Francis is the author of

0:56.0

summertime guests. She's also the author of the summer sale, the summer of good intentions,

1:01.4

and three good things. Former book editor, she's written for good housekeeping, the Washington

1:06.6

Post, the improper Bostonian, and WBUR's cognoscenti. She lives outside Boston with her husband

1:13.1

and 11-year-old son and has two wonderful stepchildren. Welcome, Wendy. Thank you so much for coming

1:18.9

on Mom's No Time to read books to discuss summertime guests. Thank you so much for having me,

1:23.7

Zivvi. I'm so happy to be here. I mean, just the image of this is like making me happy.

1:28.1

The image of the cover and the multicolored umbrellas and like laying out by the beach. I'm like, oh, that would be so nice. So anyway. I'm glad you like it. Yeah. I think of a great, you know, covers are sort of, well, I don't know how it went with your cover, but I feel like you usually see lots of different incarnations of them. And this one, the publisher got just right the first time. So, yeah, they nailed it. I was actually, when I started reading this book, I was like, is she talking about the Ocean House? I know. There was so much similar. And then you were like the covered portrait. Yeah, the porch. Right, right, right.

2:01.7

Maybe.

2:02.3

But then, of course, it's that in Boston.

2:05.3

Yeah.

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