William Dameron, THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Guest host Julie Chavez interviews author William Dameron about The Way Life Should Be, a tender and warm novel about two husbands enjoying their second-chance marriage after coming out…until their nearly-adult children descend upon their new seaside cottage. William reveals that this novel began as a memoir, sharing the details that stem from his own life (like the cottage rules!). He also talks about the chaotic messiness of blended families, his recent open-heart surgery, and his day job in cyber security. Finally, he shares his best advice for aspiring and first-time authors.

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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.
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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 it. William Damran is the author of The Way Life Should Be,
1:06.0	a novel. This episode was guest hosted by Julie Chavez, author of the forthcoming Zippy Books title, Everyone but myself, and host of Ask a Librarian.
1:15.4	And Bill was on my podcast for his previous book as well.
1:19.4	William Damrant is an award-winning blogger, memoirist, essayist, and the author of The Lie, a New York Times editor's choice.
1:26.2	His work has appeared in the New York Times, Times in the UK, Telegraph, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Salon, Huff Post, Oprah Daily, Serenac Review, Lit Hub, and in the book, Fashionably Late, Gay, Buy, and Trans Men, who came out later in life. William and his husband split their time between the coast of southern Maine and Florida. Bill, thanks so much
1:44.5	for coming back on moms don't have time to read books. I'm so excited to have you here today.
1:49.0	It is exciting to be back, and I hoped I would be back with another book. I bet. I am so, I have so
1:58.2	many questions for you, especially since you wrote your memoir and this is a novel,
2:04.1	and it just feels like it had to be such a different experience. Was it for you? The experience started
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