How to Build a Literary Life: Episode 293 with Zibby Owens
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Ever want to know “how she did it”? This episode is our little version of How I Built This, in which we ask Zibby Owens—whose name you surely know by now—about how she turned a desire to be part of the world of books into a one-woman mini book empire.<br/><br/>Zibby Owens is the host of <a href="https://zibbyowens.com/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books-2021">Moms Don’t Have Time to Read</a>, a daily podcast featuring interviews with authors that has over 900 episodes. She’s also a Bookstagrammer with 16K followers, the host of a second podcast—Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Sex—the editor of two anthologies, Moms Don’t Have Time To and Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids—KJ contributed to that last one—and now the CEO of Zibby Books, a new publishing home for fiction and memoir. She’s a regular contributor to Good Morning America, she’s been called “America’s Top Bookfluencer” and she has two books coming soon: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780593326787">Princess Charming</a>, a picture book, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781542036993">Booked</a>, a memoir. She’s also got four kids, and they’re kids—elementary and middle school age, not a bunch of independent high schoolers wandering around<br/><br/>But.<br/><br/>Five years ago Zibby was none of those things (except a mother of four). And that’s what I want to talk about. She’s built a massive literary life, a community, a reputation in just a few years, and—after totally owning the fact that she has help with her kids (heck, not just help, they’re completely gone every other weekend because, divorce sometimes works like that) and also that this isn’t how Zibby earns a living— we go back to the beginning and talk about what it took to get there.<br/><br/>Because no matter who you are, you can’t wake up and say, I think I’d like to be America’s Biggest Bookfluencer, and wh
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How to Build a Literary Life: Episode 293 with Zibby Owens
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