Blank: A Novel
A wife, Mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a hilarious debut novel about family, friendship, success, and exhilarating self-(re)discovery.
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 (it ended up sharing a plot and title with superstar author Ella Rankin’s summer blockbuster!), 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 twelve-year-old son came up with it as a joke, but Pippa and her teenage daughter approved.
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About the Author
Zibby Owens is the author of Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, and Princess Charming, a children's book, and is the editor of two anthologies. A frequent contributor to Good Morning America, Zibby has been called "NYC's Most Powerful Book-fluencer" (Vulture).
Creator and host of the award-winning daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, Zibby is the co-founder and CEO of publishing house Zibby Books, owner of Zibby's Bookshop, an indie bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, and creator of "the Zibby-verse" (L.A. Times) community of book lovers, for which she offers retreats, events, classes, a book club, and more.
A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby 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. Follow her on Instagram and Substack where she tells it like it is.