Patti Callahan, ONCE UPON A WARDROBE and SURVIVING SAVANNAH

June 29, 2022

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Episode Description

Zibby is joined by New York Times bestselling author and co-creator of Friends & Fiction Patti Callahan to talk about her two novels, Surviving Savannah and Once Upon a Wardrobe. The two discuss how Once Upon a Wardrobe grew out of the research Patti conducted for her 2018 book, Becoming Mrs. Lewis, why her books read so visually, and how she finds ways to weave her experience as a nurse into her stories. Patti also shares how she had heard the story of the SS Pulaski five years before she decided to write Surviving Savannah, as well as what project she's working on next.


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Amazon (Once Upon a Wardrobe): https://amzn.to/3byLygK

Amazon (Surviving Savannah): https://amzn.to/3bCpmCJ

Bookshop (Once Upon a Wardrobe): https://bit.ly/3yon9DQ

Bookshop (Surviving Savannah): https://bit.ly/3bA41tB


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