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Zibby Owens

Biography

Zibby Owens

Zibby Owens is the bestselling author of BETWEEN CHAPTERS: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot; BLANK; BOOKENDS: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature; and PRINCESS CHARMING. She is the editor of two anthologies: MOMS DON'T HAVE TIME TO: A Quarantine Anthology and MOMS DON'T HAVE TIME TO HAVE KIDS: A Timeless Anthology. Zibby is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, which includes the Zibby Publishing boutique publishing house; Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA; the award-winning daily podcast "Totally Booked with Zibby," which she hosts; Zibby’s Book Club; and Zibby Retreats for book lovers.

Zibby Owens

Books by Zibby Owens

by Zibby Owens - Memoir, Nonfiction

In BETWEEN CHAPTERS, Zibby Owens offers a front-row seat to her decade of reinvention as she goes from being an Upper East Side stay-at-home mom of four to a divorced and remarried “book-fluencer,” author, publisher, award-winning podcaster and bookstore owner. Laugh alongside Zibby as she shares moments like messing up “the birds and the bees” talk, getting stuck climbing an inflatable raft at her kids’ sleepaway camp, and traveling with her new love. Join her in the forty-something trenches as she gains and loses weight, gains and loses friends, makes a zillion mistakes, and finds ways to turn grief, divorce pain, communal tragedy and the anticipation of an empty nest into moments of connection.

by Zibby Owens - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Pippa Jones is a fortyish former literary sensation who fears she will be a one-hit wonder. After the follow-up book she was almost done writing, Podlusters, had to be tossed, she couldn’t write a thing. Months of staring at a blank page made her confidence vanish like a one-night stand. When she finds out that she has only five days left to finish (or rather, start) or repay an advance she’s already spent, Pippa has a brilliantly original idea. Okay, fine, her 12-year-old son came up with it as a joke, but Pippa and her teenage daughter approved. Pippa is not only going to make a bold statement, she’ll change the book world while she’s at it! Can she pull it off? At this point, she doesn’t have a choice. When Pippa’s publisher gets intimately involved, it unlocks a series of plot twists she never saw coming.