Zibby Owens, MOMS DON'T HAVE TIME TO: A QUARANTINE ANTHOLOGY
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[0:53]Hi, I don't know if you guys know this or not, but I have an anthology coming out called Moms Don't Have Time to A Quarantine Anthology.
[1:01]And it comes out on February 16th and has essays by 60 plus of the authors who have been on this podcast.
[1:09]So first of all, please pre-order this book. I think you will love it. I'm so excited about all the authors who are represented.
[1:16]Just to give you a few, Chris Bajillion, Jewel Parker Rhodes, Ashley Prentice Norton, Gretchen Rubin, Rima Zaman, Eileen Zimmerman, and that is just from the first page of the multi-page table of contents.
[1:30]So please pick up this book. Moms Don't Have Time to A Quarantine Anthology. It's available anywhere you buy books, Amazon, bookshop.org, and your local independent bookstore.
[1:39]So please pick up a copy. And also, I want to invite you listeners to my fundraiser slash launch party, The Nighty Comes Out on February 16th, the Tuesday at 7 p.m.
[1:53]Book Hampton and the Children's Museum of the East End are co-hosting it for me. And 50 of the authors who wrote essays in this book, as well as many of the amazing authors who blurbed this book, who wrote little praise worthy quotes at the front, will be there.
[2:10]And you can be there too. So if you go to my website, zibbyowans.com and just click on anthology and go to book tour. You will see a whole fundraiser section.
[2:21]And for $50, you can attend. You'll get a copy of the book. And you'll get to Schmooze on Zoom with all of these amazing authors. This is going to be the literary happening of February.
[2:36]So please come. I would love to see you all in person on Zoom, I guess. But even see some of your faces. I know so many of you are really loyal listeners and that makes me really happy.
[2:47]All proceeds of the book and the fundraiser are going to the Susan Felice Owens program for COVID-19 vaccine research at Mount Sinai Health System.
[2:58]And it is named after my husband's mother who passed away from COVID over the summer, which many of you followed along on Instagram as I recounted that horrific experience.
[3:08]So all the proceeds are going there. The cost includes the price of a book. So thank you for supporting this effort. And for supporting my book, I can't wait to see you there.
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[3:54]Today's episode is super special to me because it's my book really stay. Yeah, I'm so excited about my anthology. It's called moms don't have time to quarantine anthology and all proceeds are going to the Mount Sinai program that I started called the Susan Felice Owens program for COVID-19 vaccine research at Mount Sinai Health System.
[4:15]So all the proceeds are going there. I'm really excited and my interview today was done by my four kids. So I hope you enjoy our ridiculous, funny little interview session.
[4:26]But really there are 60 plus authors who've been on my podcast. You contributed really stunning literary beautiful essays, some funny, some sad, all thought-provoking and all destined to make you feel less alone and connected in this time where all of us are far apart.
[4:43]So I hope that, well, I hope you'll listen to this episode, but really I hope you will preorder this book. Well, now order, I don't even have to say preorder anymore. I hope you will order this book anywhere you buy books. I hope you will recommend it to friends. I hope you will spread the word.
[4:56]I hope you will help me raise money for COVID-19 research and help get these essays out into the world.
[5:02]These authors wrote them during the quarantine and they're really fantastic. So thank you, thank you, thank you for using Word of Mouth, which is the most powerful tool in book marketing to spread the word about about my book.
[5:15]Thank you and thank you if you ordered it. I really appreciate it now. Enjoy my little time with my kids here.
[5:20]So today is a very special episode of Mom.
[5:25]So don't have time to read books because I'm here with three of my kids and I'm going to loop in the last one also.
[5:34]But my book is coming out today. So it's called, no, it's called, no, it's called Moms Don't Have Time to Stop.
[5:46]It's called Moms Don't Have Time to a quarantine anthology and 60 plus authors from my podcast contributed original essays to the book.
[5:55]No, we're not starting over trying this again.
[5:59]60 plus original essays are in this is probably a mistake, but I thought it would be fun for my kids to interview me for my podcast on pub day.
[6:09]So I'm going to start pub day is the name of the day when your book comes out kind of like your birthday.
[6:20]Oh, so it's a presence.
[6:22]No, I don't there are no presents, but actually you should get me presents.
[6:27]What are you going to give me? Okay, we're off to the store. Okay, so
[6:30]she believed she could and she did. Oh, that's perfect.
[6:37]My little guy has given me a framed saying she believed she could so she does. Thank you.
[6:43]That was in her house.
[6:44]And my daughter gave me the scaffold effect by Dr. Harold couple which is a perfect parenting book. Okay, so now, okay.
[6:53]Oh, wait, you guys wanted a time. You said you wanted to go first.
[6:58]Now I'm holding the mom's don't have time to read books poster and a book in Korean. Okay, so, okay.
[7:05]First up is my little sky.
[7:07]Hi.
[7:08]Hi.
[7:09]Do you have any questions for me about my book?
[7:11]What's it good?
[7:12]Good question.
[7:13]It's called mom's don't have time to a quarantine anthology.
[7:17]What's quarantine vote?
[7:18]That's another good question.
[7:19]So most essays were written during the quarantine from the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19.
[7:25]And a lot of people wrote these essays during the pandemic and they all released them on my website.
[7:30]And at first, we found time during the pandemic.
[7:32]That was a great question.
[7:34]Oh, interesting.
[7:35]Thank you. Any other questions?
[7:38]Hmm.
[7:39]So is there any animals in the book?
[7:42]Oh, that is a good question.
[7:43]Are there any animals in the book?
[7:45]I'm going to have to go back and look closely at the book to see.
[7:48]I'm trying to think of any of the essays or about animals or about how much someone loves to talk.
[7:52]There's an animal in the cover.
[7:55]So let me think about it.
[7:56]That's a great question.
[7:57]Anything else?
[7:58]These are really good ones.
[8:00]Is it black and white or color?
[8:03]The inside is black and white and the cover is color.
[8:06]Another good question.
[8:07]That's a question.
[8:08]Yep.
[8:09]Is there anyone in the book?
[8:11]There are lots of moms in the book.
[8:13]Including me.
[8:14]I wrote a few essays in the book.
[8:15]It's true.
[8:16]Yeah.
[8:17]And there are some...
[8:19]There are some...
[8:20]There are some...
[8:21]There are some dads in the book as well.
[8:23]Well, thank you for my interview.
[8:25]That was so cute and amazing.
[8:27]Thank you.
[8:28]You didn't look like Ron and we used to come back now.
[8:30]No.
[8:31]Okay.
[8:32]You're going last.
[8:33]Okay.
[8:34]Now my 13-year-old daughter is up.
[8:35]Okay.
[8:36]She has a twin.
[8:37]She has a twin.
[8:38]But he's not born in school.
[8:39]But he'll go later.
[8:40]Wait.
[8:41]What happened to we found time?
[8:42]That's a great question.
[8:43]So I decided to stop.
[8:45]We found time after about two or three months of running it during the pandemic.
[8:49]I thought that maybe people didn't have as much time anymore because I thought things might be going back to normal, which of course they were not.
[8:55]So I decided to stop doing the magazine.
[8:57]And then in September, I realized, wait a minute.
[8:59]There's so many great essays on we found time.
[9:02]I should try to make them into a book.
[9:04]How many books do you think you have behind you?
[9:07]How many books do you think I have behind me?
[9:09]What do you guys think?
[9:10]I'm sitting in the...
[9:11]Can I estimate?
[9:12]Yes, you may.
[9:13]I think I see about 102.
[9:15]No.
[9:16]Okay.
[9:17]Yeah.
[9:18]I think more.
[9:19]Yeah.
[9:20]There are about 300 books, I think, behind me.
[9:21]What did you first name are you ever did?
[9:23]The first interview I ever did was with my friend from business school whose name is Lee Carpenter.
[9:27]And she is...
[9:28]Yeah, she's my friend and she's an author and she's a screenwriter.
[9:31]And she's amazing.
[9:32]She wrote a book called The Eleven Days.
[9:34]And Red White Blue.
[9:35]Is this a cop in Dubai copy?
[9:37]Well, yes.
[9:38]Carpenters like she...
[9:39]That's what her name would mean, but she's not really a carpenter.
[9:42]Yes.
[9:43]What would you like?
[9:44]The last interview I did.
[9:47]Well...
[9:48]You can say.
[9:49]I'm trying to think of who I even interviewed today.
[9:50]It's one of those days.
[9:51]What?
[9:52]Exactly.
[9:53]Oh, it's Dr. Coppola.
[9:54]It's just why my book is on my table.
[9:55]Okay.
[9:56]Any other questions?
[9:57]This is great.
[9:58]No.
[9:59]Nothing?
[10:00]Yes.
[10:01]Okay.
[10:02]Yeah.
[10:03]Yeah.
[10:04]Why is there no lampshade over in your lamp?
[10:06]There is no lampshade on the lamp on my desk because I needed more light when I was on
[10:11]good day, LA this morning.
[10:12]But this is being recorded before the February 16th, but today when you're listening
[10:17]to this is February 16th.
[10:19]Thanks for the good questions.
[10:20]Okay.
[10:21]And now last up, my seven-year-old daughter, who is $20,000?
[10:25]She is not annoying.
[10:26]Me, the hug, and it fights a lot.
[10:29]Yes, you do.
[10:30]But you also play and have a lot of fun.
[10:33]Yes.
[10:34]Your throat is cleared for life.
[10:36]Do you have any questions here?
[10:38]Do you like your book?
[10:39]I love my book.
[10:40]I love that all these authors take time to write essays for my book and they're really
[10:44]good.
[10:45]What's your first book you ever wrote?
[10:46]It's my question.
[10:47]That is your name!
[10:48]Wait.
[10:49]Okay.
[10:55]What was your question?
[10:58]Girl?
[10:59]Oh, come on.
[11:00]How many pictures of you are in this book?
[11:03]That's a good question.
[11:04]One.
[11:05]My little guy is now on the bed with the lamp, she's not instead.
[11:09]Okay.
[11:10]Any other questions for me?
[11:12]I'm a question.
[11:13]Okay.
[11:14]Go ahead.
[11:15]Go ahead.
[11:16]That's your first book you've ever read in.
[11:17]This is not the first book I ever read.
[11:18]And also I didn't totally write this book.
[11:20]What are your first book you ever did?
[11:21]I edited this book.
[11:22]The first book I ever did, I was nine years old and my grandparents published it for me
[11:27]and it was called Finders Keepers, Losers, Weepers, and how the doughnut got its whole.
[11:31]Other questions?
[11:43]Okay.
[11:46]Any other questions?
[11:47]Any other questions?
[11:49]Any other questions?
[11:50]Yes.
[11:51]Yes.
[11:52]Tell me.
[11:53]Do you plan on doing the gallery?
[11:54]I do not plan on drinking a gallon of water.
[11:58]I don't even excuse me.
[12:00]Why is your book so long?
[12:02]Because there are so many essays.
[12:05]And also because my acknowledgement section in my introduction are also pretty long.
[12:11]Any other questions?
[12:12]Yes.
[12:13]We're going to wrap it up.
[12:14]Tell me.
[12:15]Yes.
[12:16]Where is that dress where you're wearing on the cover?
[12:21]It is in my closet.
[12:24]And I have this book about this book.
[12:27]The book is about a collection of essays about all the things moms don't have time to do.
[12:31]Come on, John.
[12:32]Time to do this.
[12:33]That's right.
[12:34]Okay.
[12:35]Why did you start this?
[12:36]I mean, because you didn't, because you were in a mom's world.
[12:38]Well, I started this because I wanted other people out there and not just moms, but other
[12:44]people to know that they weren't the only ones having the same thoughts of feeling.
[12:48]One question.
[12:49]I have a question.
[12:50]What's that, sir?
[12:51]Okay.
[12:52]What's your question?
[12:54]Okay.
[12:55]Why is that good?
[12:56]It's good.
[12:57]Yeah.
[12:58]On the cover peeling a what?
[13:00]I don't know.
[13:01]On the cover, it's two of the kids who are currently being invited to my interviewers.
[13:05]My interviewers.
[13:06]Are you reading comic?
[13:07]I don't know.
[13:08]She's reading comic.
[13:09]But in case you were wondering if there's another book coming, there is and my two sons
[13:16]will be on that cover.
[13:17]My two daughters are on this cover.
[13:19]Okay.
[13:20]Yes.
[13:21]So we say goodbye.
[13:22]Everybody say.
[13:23]Hi.
[13:24]Hi.
[13:25]Can I ask you?
[13:26]Alright.
[13:27]Wait.
[13:28]You guys do you even know what the word anthology means, by the way.
[13:30]An anthology is a collection of essays.
[13:33]So this book I didn't write the whole thing myself.
[13:36]It's an anthology.
[13:37]Okay.
[13:38]Bye.
[13:39]Bye.
[13:40]Bye.
[13:42]Alright.
[13:43]So I'm now I'm here with my 13 year old son who is away boarding school and he's going
[14:03]to ask me a few questions too.
[14:05]Okay.
[14:06]My and what was the reason for you writing this book?
[14:08]I collected a lot of these essays because I wanted to make people who were home during
[14:13]the pandemic, feeling alone and isolated, feel better. And now it's a way for
[14:18]everybody just to connect and not feel alone. And did you feel like what you did
[14:22]this quarantine was really effective for some people? Now, full? I hope it was
[14:27]helpful for people. People told me it was. So that made me feel good. Well, that's good. Thanks.
[14:32]So what was your moment? What kept you going this entire time with friend, keeping every
[14:37]interview every week, every couple of days? Like what kept you going? Oh, that's a great question.
[14:41]These stumped me. What's the reason for my motor? And why I do all these interviews?
[14:46]I'm really just trying to help people. It's really fun. I have like the best time doing it.
[14:51]I learn a lot. I feel like I'm contributing to the world outside of my home. And I just love it.
[14:59]I guess that's why. That's great. Thanks. And why'd you write a second?
[15:04]Your first time to come out while you're at the second ready? Because it's going to be great.
[15:07]Because there's so many more things that moms don't have time to do.
[15:10]And there were so many authors who I wanted to include. And there were 60 in the first one,
[15:13]and they'll be over 50 in the second. And I just want to keep hearing from authors. I love authors.
[15:19]And they're amazing. And I just, the more content I can put out in the world, just like,
[15:25]I'm a messenger for everybody's stories. It makes me feel good.
[15:28]What's great? Anything else? Has there been anything that made it hard to keep going? Sometimes
[15:33]like being a little bit troublesome. Has there anything that's made it a little troublesome to keep going?
[15:36]You. I mean, it's been a lot with all trying to spend time with all you guys and do everything
[15:47]I'm doing. But it's worth it. And I hope I'm showing you that when you find something you love,
[15:51]you just throw your whole self at it. So hopefully that's a good example. Or else it's just a
[15:56]giant waste of time. I'm trying to do a little bit. All right. Well, thanks for the
[16:02]program. Love you. Great. Thanks so much to three righteous mamas for sponsoring today's podcast.
[16:10]And just a reminder again, please pre-order a copy of my book. Moms don't have time to
[16:15]a quarantine anthology and go to my website under the anthology tab for the fundraiser. And I hope
[16:23]you'll buy a ticket and join me for, and I should have mentioned, um, I'll proceed to COVID-19 research.
[16:29]So please join me for the fundraiser. Thanks so much. Thanks for listening to this episode of
[16:34]Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram at zebi Owens and
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