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Zibby Owens

Biography

Zibby Owens

Zibby Owens is the author of BLANK, BOOKENDS: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, and the children’s book PRINCESS CHARMING, and the editor of two anthologies. A frequent contributor to "Good Morning America" and other outlets, she has been called “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” (Vulture).

Zibby is the creator and host of the award-winning, daily podcast "Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books"; co-founder and CEO of publishing house Zibby Books; owner of Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA; and creator of  “the Zibby-verse” (L.A. Times) community of book lovers for which she offers retreats, classes, special events, a book club, a writing group and more under the Zibby Media umbrella.

A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby currently lives in New York with her four children ages 9 to 16 and her husband Kyle Owens, co-president and founder of Morning Moon Productions.

Zibby Owens

Books by Zibby Owens

Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot
by Zibby Owens - Autobiography, Memoir, Nonfiction

Bestselling author and award-winning podcaster Zibby Owens’s life today is very different than it was ten years ago. She went from being an Upper East Side stay-at-home-mom of four to becoming a “book-fluencer” adored by authors and readers, a bookstore owner, publisher, TV personality, event host, and community builder. In her decade of reinvention, like so many women, she gained and lost weight, gained and lost friends. Her lifelong passion for writing and reading helped her through it, as did the many conversations she had with authors on her podcast. IN BETWEEN CHAPTERS, Zibby opens up about the chances she took and mistakes she made, sharing stories of friendship, parenting, divorce, loss, and love.

Blank
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.