Lea Carpenter Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

Interview

Below is a transcript of an interview with the author for her novel, Ilium, with Zibby Owens of Zibby Media.

Zibby Owens: Welcome, Lea. Thank you so much for coming back on "Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books." This is so surreal that we're doing this again all these years later. Oh, my gosh.

Lea Carpenter: Thank you so much for having me. As I was saying, I remember so well coming and sitting at this desk. Think of everything that's happened. It's just incredible. Now I'm sitting here by an army of awards. Seriously, congratulations. It is so incredible what you have built. Thinking about your novel, which I loved, as you know, if you consciously wrote it as almost a metaphor for what you yourself have done?

Zibby: We're not going to talk about my novel. 

Lea: Okay, okay, okay. If you want me to interview you about your book later, we can. Congratulations.

Zibby: Thanks. You too.

Lea: Thank you.

Zibby: We're talking like this — I probably will have said this in the intro. Lea was my very first guest on this podcast. It was when I sat here interviewing you with my long list of printed-out questions, totally overprepared, the opposite of today, where I was like, oh, I love this. I felt like I had gotten to know you in a whole new way when we get to sit like this as opposed to trying to find ...