The Path to Publication
Thursday, May 15, 2025
6 PM ET
A Virtual Event
Join us for a free 24PearlStreet Virtual Community Event on May 15, 2025 from 6-7:30 pm ET. Zibby Owens, bestselling author of Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature will interview debut novelists Nanda Reddy and Sarah Sawyer.
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
Nanda Reddy is a Guyanese American writer and former elementary school teacher. She immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was nine years old and grew up in Miami, Florida. She loves visiting off-the-grid places, hiking, and painting with watercolors. She currently resides in Reno, Nevada, with her husband and two teenage sons. A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl is her first novel.
Sarah Sawyer is an English teacher who lives and works at a boarding school in Western Massachusetts where she finds endless humor and inspiration in her colleagues and students. She is a graduate of Amherst College and the Bread Loaf School of English. The Undercurrent is her first novel.
