In BLANK, I wanted to open readers’ eyes a little bit more to the inner workings of the publishing world. I started as an aspiring author then became an author … I was immediately surprised and discouraged by how hard it is for ANY book to find its audience amid all the other books out there in the market.

I tell it like it is. My mission in my writing and in my literary media company is to deepen the connections between readers, writers, and each other. ~Zibby Owens

Zibby Owens is the bestselling author of Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, Princess Charming, and the forthcoming novel Overheard. She is the editor of three anthologies: On Being Jewish Now, Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids, and Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology. Zibby has regularly contributed to “Good Morning America,” Vogue, Oprah Daily, and many other outlets.

Zibby is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, dubbed “the Zibby-verse” by the Los Angeles Times, which includes the Zibby Books boutique publishing house, Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, the award-winning daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, Zibby’s Book Club, and Zibby Retreats for book lovers. Vulture called her “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer.”

A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, she currently lives in New York (and sometimes L.A.) with her husband, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions, and her four children ages 9 to 17.

Websites: www.zibbymedia.com, www.zibbyowens.com

Substack: http://zibbyowens.substack.com

Instagram: @zibbyowens