Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids
Zibby’s second anthology, Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids, features 53 amazing essays by 49 authors including 15 New York Times bestsellers! All contributing authors have been on her award-winning podcast, Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books. Essays are inspired by five things these authors don’t have time to do: sleep, see friends, get sick, write, and lose weight. I mean, do any of us?!? (Pub date: November 2nd, 2021, Skyhorse Publishing, paperback.)
If you haven't already, please pick up a copy of Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. (It makes a fabulous gift for the moms in your life.) It was an Amazon bestseller, up to #138 in all books on Amazon after this fabulous Good Morning America feature!!!!
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Contributors to Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids and special friends went on a virtual indie bookstore tour in November 2021. You can watch the panels now. Each panel was live-streamed by a different indie!!!
Contemporary Fiction Relationships with Kristy Woodson Harvey, Gigi Levangie, Nancy Johnson and Zibby Owens, streamed by Left Bank Books. Watch here.
Contemporary Fiction Relationships with Camille Pagan, Aimee Agresti, Joanna Hershon and Deborah Goodrich Royce, streamed by The Novel Neighbor. Watch here.
Writing about Parenting and Momlife with Lindsay Powers, Shelli Johannes, Leslie Gray Streeter, Chandler Baker and KJ Dell'Antonia, streamed by Merritt Bookstore. Watch here.
Writing about Identity and Faith with Jeanine Cummins, Jean Kwok, Esther Amini, Angela Himsel, Georgina Lawton and Rev. Lydia Sohn, streamed by BookHampton. Watch here.
Historical Fiction with Susie Orman Schnall, Nicola Harrison, Lynda Cohen Loigman, Deborah Goodrich Royce and Allison Pataki, streamed by Warwick's Bookstore. Watch here.
Memoir with Stephanie Danler, Jodie Patterson, Abby Maslin, Jeanne McCulloch, Andrea Buchanan and Zibby Owens, streamed by RJ Julia Booksellers. THIS WAS AMAZING!!!! Watch here.
Essays/Advice with Elizabeth Passarella, Tamara Winfrey Harris, Arden Myrin, Brooke Adams Law and Laura Tremaine, streamed by Pages: A Bookstore. Watch here.
Writing about Grief with Claire Bidwell Smith, Shannon Lee, Carolyn Murnick, Sherri Puzey and Zibby Owens, live-streamed by Bank Square Books. Watch here.
BOOK TRAILER
EXCITING IN-PERSON EVENT
Tuesday, November 30th at 6:30 pm ET: Katie Couric, Going There, and Zibby Owens, Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids, in The Books You’ll Love, hosted by Sheila Nevins at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center. Panel discussion and book fair. Buy tickets here!
Contributing authors include Elyssa Friedland, Adrienne Bankert, Richie Jackson, Sue Shapiro, Gigi Levangie, Jeanine Cummins, Jeanne McCulloch, Michael Frank, Esther Amini, Caroline Leavitt, and Allison Pataki.
BOOK TOUR!!! Virtual + IN PERSON
Sunday, November 14th at 9:30 am ET: Virtual event with Washington Hebrew Congregation. Private event.
Wednesday, November 17th at 11:30 am ET: Distinguished Speaker Series at the River Club. Private event.
Monday, November 22nd at 6 pm ET: Virtual event with the Charleston Library Society. Register here!
Tuesday, November 23rd at 2 pm - 3 pm ET: Zibby’s Virtual Book Club with many contributing authors!! Sign up here.
Tuesday, November 30th at 6:30 pm ET: Katie Couric, Going There, and Zibby Owens, Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids. The Books You’ll Love. In person AND virtual event at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center with panel discussion and book fair. Register here.
Participating authors include Jeanne McCulloch, All Happy Families; Michael Frank, What is Missing; Richie Jackson, Gay Like Me; Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt; Esther Amini, Concealed; Caroline Leavitt, With or Without You; Susan Shapiro, The Forgiveness Tour; Gigi Levangie, Been There, Married That; Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel; Allison Pataki, The Queen’s Fortune; Adrienne Bankert, Your Hidden Superpower.
Thursday, December 2nd at 7:30 pm ET: In person Stamford JCC Moms Night Out with Katie Sise, Open House. More info to come here.
Thursday, December 9th from 6 pm - 8 pm ET: Barnes & Noble in Westport, CT with Emily Liebert.
Monday, December 6th, 12:30 pm ET: Hank and Hannah’s First Chapter Fun on IG.
Tuesday, January 18th at 7:30 pm ET: Virtual JCC Florida event: Literary Book & Author Series. Buy ticket here.
Monday, January 24th at 8 pm CT: In person event at the Houston JCC. More info here to come.
Thursday, January 27th at 8 pm ET: Jewish Federation of Albany virtual speech. More info here to come.
Monday, February 7th at 8 pm ET: Event at the Nashville JCC as part of the Nashville Jewish Book Series with Melissa Gould, Widowish, and Claire Gibson, Beyond the Point. Books sold by Parnassus Books! More info here.
March 9th: Westchester JCC event. More info to come.
Tuesday, April 5th at 7:30 pm ET: In person event at the Stamford JCC. More info to come here.
ABOUT THE BOOK
53 SHORT ESSAYS FOR BUSY PEOPLE... BY 49 AMAZING AUTHORS.
Too tired to think? No time to read books? Zibby Owens gets it. Award-winning podcaster of Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books and mother of four (ages 6 to 14) compiled 53 essays by 49 authors to help the rest of us feel understood, inspired, and less alone.
The authors, all previous guests on her podcast (go listen!), include 15 New York Times bestselling authors, 5 national bestsellers and 29 award-winning/notable/critically-acclaimed writers. The super short essays were inspired by a few other things moms don't have time to do: sleep, get sick, write, lose weight, and see friends. Read one a week and you'll finish the whole book in a year: accomplishment!
Topics range from taking care on aging grandmother, mourning the loss of a family member, battling insomnia, wrestling with body image, coping with chronic illness, navigating writer's block, the power of women's friendship, and more juicy stuff.
You'll laugh, cry, think, and feel like you just had coffee with a close friend. If that best friend were a world-renown author.
Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids was already selected as a Publishers Lunch Buzz Book for Fall/Winter 2021. What are you waiting for?! Order today!
Press
3/31/22: Zibby was mentioned in Publisher's Marketplace for ‘Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology’
12/7/21: An excerpt from ‘Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology' featured on Motherhoodlater.
11/19/21: 'Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology' featured in Glamour's best books this November.
11/18/21: Zibby was on the front cover of Inkandescent Women Magazine.
11/15/21: Zibby was on NBC Boston! Watch it here or listen to the podcast.
11/12/21: Zibby was on Good Day LA recommending her November reads!
11/8/21: Zibby was on Good Morning America talking about her new book, ‘Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids’.
11/4/21: 15 books to curl up with this November on Good Morning America.
11/2/21: Zibby discussed "Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids" with Jenna Blum streamed through A Mighty Blaze. Watch it here. It was also an event highlight in the Washington Post.
11/2/21: Zibby’s new book release ‘Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology’ was featured on Publishers Lunch.
11/2/21: Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas Books Perfect for Gifting on Katie Couric Media.
10/29/21: Red Carpet Crash ran a giveaway to win a copy of ‘Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids Kids: A Timeless Anthology’
Featured Authors
aDVANCE PRAISE
"Zibby Owens has done it again! Tender, funny, thought-provoking, and wry, this diverse collection of short, readable pieces about motherhood and its challenges will entertain and inspire parents at every age and stage. Reading it feels like hanging out with your smartest and most empathetic friends — the ones who tell you the truth in a way that feels like love.”
- Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train and The Exiles
”These essays are both timeless and made for this (our) time. Each one is a bite-sized gem, but at heart, this hilarious collection from an astonishing array of literary lights is about how we balance that high wire act of being human. Each essay drew me in and elicited that comforting feeling of talking with my best friend and the astonishing joy at making a new friend.”
-Annabelle Gurwitch, New York Times bestselling author of I See You Made an Effort, You’re Leaving When, and, co-host of the Tiny Victories podcast
“Zibby has brought literary luminaries together in this beautifully curated collection of essays. She has a way of bringing us all together to share in the camaraderie of humanity. I inhaled her book in a single sitting. With each essay I felt more connected and less alone - like a warm embrace at the end of an exhausting journey through this pandemic ravaged year. Zibby’s constant quest to connect to the stories that give our lives meaning is a beacon of hope. A must read for anyone seeking heartfelt, soul enriching connection to a community of fellow travelers on the road of life.”
- Stephanie Thornton Plymale, author of American Daughter: A Memoir, CEO of Heritage School Of Interior Design, and host of the podcast, Overcoming
”These essays help cut through the intense loneliness and isolation of being a mother. Their succinct and often hilarious prose will remind us all that we are in this together. I’m blown away by the incredible women brought together in this single collection.”
- Jo Piazza, bestselling author of Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win and the upcoming novel We Are Not Like Them; host of podcasts Under the Influence and Committed
“Dear Zibby, ‘Pick me, Pick me!’ to contribute to your next anthology! You have a gift for uniting the strongest, most inspiring voices all in one happy place. MOMS DON’T HAVE TIME TO HAVE KIDS made me say YAY!”
- Meaghan B. Murphy, author Your Fully Charged Life and Editor in Chief of Woman’s Day magazine
“Zibby Owens has done it again. If you’re a new mom, a tired mom, a working mom, or any old kind of mom (or dad, or daughter, or son, or basically any human!), you will love these essays.”
- Billie Lourd, actress
"Moms don’t have time NOT to read this wonderful anthology, curated by Zibby Owens, the patron saint of authors. Brimming with heartfelt and relatable essay, it will have you laughing, crying and shouting, “I am not alone!” from the proverbial rooftops.”
- Jane L. Rosen, author of Eliza Starts a Rumor