Bestselling author Zibby Owens is known for sharing relatable moments with a warmth and openness that make readers feel seen. In Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot (Zibby Publishing), she offers a front-row seat to her decade of reinvention as she goes from being an Upper East Side stay-at-home mom of four to a divorced and remarried “book-fluencer,” author, publisher, award-winning podcaster and bookstore owner.
Laugh alongside her as she shares moments like messing up “the birds and the bees” talk, getting stuck climbing an inflatable raft at her kids’ sleepaway camp and traveling with her new love. Join her in the 40-something trenches as she gains and loses weight, gains and loses friends, makes a zillion mistakes, and finds ways to turn grief, divorce pain, communal tragedy and the anticipation of an empty nest into moments of connection.
“Zibby Owens writes like a woman with her life cracked wide open — and the courage to look straight inside. Between Chapters is funny, tender, unflinching and so deeply human,” writes Jen Hatmaker, author of Awake.
Owens is the author of Blank: A Novel; Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature; and Princess Charming. She is the editor of three anthologies: Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology; Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology; and the national bestseller On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates.
She is the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, which includes the Zibby Publishing boutique publishing house; Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, California; the award-winning daily podcast Totally Booked with Zibby, which she hosts; Zibby’s Book Club; and Zibby Retreats for book lovers.
She served as a keynoter at the 2024 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.