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Tia Williams had a fifteen-year career as a beauty editor for magazines including Elle, Glamour, Lucky, Teen People, and Essence. In 2004, she pioneered the beauty-blog industry with her award-winning site, Shake Your Beauty. She wrote the bestselling debut novel The Accidental Diva and penned two young adult novels, It Chicks and Sixteen Candles. Her award-winning novel The Perfect Find is a Netflix movie starring Gabrielle Union. Her novel, Seven Days in June, is a New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Bookclub pick, published by Grand Central. Tia currently lives with her daughter and her husband in Brooklyn.
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Zibby Owens: Welcome, Tia. Thanks so much for coming on to discuss A Love Song for Ricki Wilde. Congrats.
Tia Williams: Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's so fun to talk to you again.
Zibby: You too. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde, tell everybody what it's about, please. I read it right when I first got this galley forever ago. Now I'm like, wait, what was that book? No, I'm kidding. So great.
Tia: Before the holidays, I think.
Zibby: Yeah. I was really excited. I was so excited. So good. I love the way you write. Really exciting.
Tia: It is a modern-day fairy tale about a free-spirited florist who moves from Atlanta to Harlem to open a flower shop and realize her dream. When she's there, she meets a very mysterious musician. They fall passionately in love and lust and all of it. They find out that their lives are inextricably linked in very interesting, enchanted ways. There is voodoo. There's leap year magic because it actually takes place this February, which is a leap month. There's a touch of magical realism.
Zibby: Love it. Where did this come from for you?
Tia: It's funny. I never had a book idea come to me like this. I have insomnia. I was up one night. These disparate ideas ...
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