Zibby's Book Club pick!! Annabel Monaghan, SUMMER ROMANCE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Zibby's Book Club pick for July! Zibby chats with bestselling author and repeat MDHTTRB guest Annabel Monaghan about SUMMER ROMANCE, an unputdownable love story about a newly single mom and professional organizer whose life is actually a mess—and the unexpected summer fling that turns things around for her. Annabel reveals how her own messy house inspired her protagonist and then delves into the themes of motherhood, grief, and self-discovery. She also talks about her novel’s evolution (the love interest wasn't originally a skateboarder!), her disciplined writing routine, and the influence of her late mother on her work. Finally, she teases her upcoming book!

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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. Learn more
0:22.2	at Zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at Zivie Readers.
0:31.5	Annabelle Moynihan is the author of Summer Romance, which is one of the Zivis book club picks.
0:37.4	I hope you will join us for our
0:38.9	book club discussion about this book and have Annabelle come and join us for 30 minutes of
0:43.6	Q&A afterwards. You can find all the details of that on Zibbibbymedia.com. This is Annabelle's
0:49.5	third time, I think, second, third, not sure, time on the podcast. And she is one of my favorite authors.
0:55.5	Annabel Moynihan is the national bestselling author of same time next summer and Nora goes off
1:00.3	script. By the way, summer romance is, of course, on my list of summer reads, which I hope you
1:05.4	will check out. She is also the author of two novels for young adults, a girl named Digit and
1:10.3	double digit, as well
1:11.7	as, does this Volvo make my butt look big a collection of essays based on her column that appears
1:16.5	on the Huffington Post, The Week, and the Rye Record. She graduated with the BA in English from Duke
1:21.1	University and an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
1:25.5	She hosts an author series called Friends with Words and spent several years on the novel writing School at the University of Pennsylvania. She hosts an author series called Friends
1:27.7	with Words and spends several years on the novel writing faculty at the Writing Institute at
1:32.3	Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Rye, New York, with her family. Her newest novel,
1:36.4	Summer Romance, came out June 4th. Welcome, Annabel. Thank you so much for coming on Mom.
1:41.5	I don't have time to read books. My Zivvy's Book Club pick, but your amazing, amazing, amazing novel, Summer Romance. So good. Loved it so much. Thank you so much. Thank you for reading it and thank you for having me. Oh, my gosh. It's so good. It's just so good. Okay. Tell everybody what it's about, first of all. So it's about a professional organizer whose life is a total mess.
1:45.8	Her house is a total mess.
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