Zibby Owens.

Author, Podcaster,

CEO, and

Mother of 4.

Photo by Catherine Talese.

Zibby is the founder of Zibby Media, a privately-held media company designed to help busy people live their best lives by connecting to books and each other. Founded by Zibby Owens, it includes podcasts, publications, a publishing house, and a fabulous book-loving community. The three divisions are Zibby Mag, a literary lifestyle site, the Zibby Books publishing house, and the Zibby Audio (Zcast) podcast network, including Zibby’s award-winning daily show Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books.

AUTHOR.

Bookends: A Memoir Of Love, Loss, And Literature

The #1 Bestselling Memoir on Kindle!

A deeply personal memoir about Zibby’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story. BOOKENDS is Zibby’s intimate life story as told through the books she was reading at the time of pivotal moments, the effects they had on her, and what they taught her through each word on the page. It was selected as a June Amazon First Reads pick.

Featured on Good Morning America, CNN, Eyewitness News with Sandy Kenyon, Good Day LA, Good Day Dallas, Good Day DC, Miami NBC, and San Diego

One of Town & Country’s “33 Best Summer Beach Reads”

One of Book Riot’s “8 Surprising New Memoirs to Add to Your TBR ASAP”

Featured in Katie Couric Media, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Woman’s Day, the New York Post, the Jerusalem Post, BookTrib, Thrive Global, Avenue, Quest, Amazon Book Review, Dan’s Papers, Audiofile, the Hindustan Times, Hamptons Magazine, the Palisadian Post, Behind the Hedges, Westport Magazine, Spotlight Hamptons, Social Life, James Lane Post, Our Town, The Post & Courier, The Alliance Times Herald, The Westerly Sun, Tampa Bay Parenting, Hippocampus, Atlantic Avenue

January 2023 Book Club Pick for Friends & Fiction! Selected for many other book clubs!

Princess Charming

Zibby’s first children’s book, Princess Charming, was published by Flamingo, a division of Penguin Random House, on April 19th, 2022, and will soon be followed by a second.

Anthologies

Zibby edited two anthologies with essays she commissioned from authors who had been on her podcast. They debuted in February 2021 and November 2021.


CREATOR.

THE ALL-NEW Zibby Mag

The literary lifestyle destination. A new magazine designed to bring back the glamour of the publishing world and connect readers to authors.

PUBLISHER.

Zibby Books

A innovative new publishing home for fiction and memoir, Zibby Books will launch 12 books per year, one per month, starting in 2023. For more information and to submit manuscripts for publication, visit our site.

BOOK-FLUENCER.

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Looking for that Next Great Read?

Zibby was dubbed “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” by Vulture in 2019. Check out Zibby’s picks in the media! Of course Zibby recommends ALL of the amazing books on her podcast but she also recommends books monthly on Good Morning America, Good Day LA, Good Day DC, and many others.


PODCASTER.

Zcast

Zcast is a new podcast production company and network launched by Zibby Owens. Featuring original, intimate shows designed to enrich, inspire, and improve listeners’ lives — all smart and with a sense of humor — Zcast productions will entertain and educate, making them worth listeners’ limited time.

The award-winning podcast 

Launched in March 2018, Zibby’s daily author interview podcast has been downloaded millions of times. It is part of the Zcast network, powered by Acast.

With an informal, conversational, and warm manner, Zibby routinely gets guests to open up about what’s important to them, giving busy readers the back story to their favorite (or as yet undiscovered) books.

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 Zibby hosts a virtual book club monthly on Tuesdays from 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm ET on Zoom. For the first 30 minutes, book club members discuss the book with Zibby. At 2:30 pm, the author joins in for Q &A. Read about her book club in the New York Post!

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Merch!

Zibby’s merch is for book lovers. Quotes from authors. Phrases like: “Leave me alone. I’m reading.” Tees for kids that say, “My mom loves to read.” Mugs. Totes. Hoodies. Stock up!