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The Final Witchlings In The Series The Sea Witch Prophecy From Claribel Ortega · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: Hello and good morning claire bell how are you doing.
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  Speaker 1: Today Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a conversation with
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  Speaker 2: you because let's talk about this right off the very
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  Speaker 2: beginning because I fell in love with the names of
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  Speaker 2: your characters, Seven, Valley, and Thorn. And you and I
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  Speaker 2: have got something in common here that we come from
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  Speaker 2: a world of old-fashioned names. You've got Clarabelle. My real
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  Speaker 2: name is Clarence. How is it that you're able to
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  Speaker 2: come up with Seven, Valley, and Thorn? And I'm so
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  Speaker 2: jealous of these three because I want them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be really cool.
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  Speaker 2: For you to put this book together, I know they
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  Speaker 2: always tell us, do not judge a book by its cover.
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  Speaker 2: But by God, I want this book cover to be
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  Speaker 2: a poster in my studio. It has got so much energy.
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  Speaker 2: It's got so much flash. What is it like for
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  Speaker 2: you to be able to put something, it starts off
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  Speaker 2: as words first, and then comes the book cover.
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  Speaker 3: It's a really special feeling. I cannot take credit for
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  Speaker 3: the art at all because I am a horrible artist.
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  Speaker 3: If they let me do the book covers, I would
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  Speaker 3: probably not sell even one copy of my books. Lissy
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  Speaker 3: Marlin is the artist of the Witchlings covers, and I've
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  Speaker 3: been so lucky to have her work on all of
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  Speaker 3: the illustrations. It's really bittersweet, especially now, seeing all the
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  Speaker 3: covers together because from book one to book five and
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  Speaker 3: they are getting older in the series of course but
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  Speaker 3: it's a very special feeling I don't think that it's
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  Speaker 3: anything that I anticipated when I set out to write
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  Speaker 3: a book just seeing kind of the book come to
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  Speaker 3: life in that way is really amazing.
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  Speaker 2: What I love about your writing and everything that you
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  Speaker 2: do Clarabelle is that I use it as a tool
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  Speaker 2: in my everyday world in the way that I work
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  Speaker 2: at a grocery store because I just happen to like
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  Speaker 2: being with people and but I will use your books
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  Speaker 2: and your stories to talk to the, the, the YA
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  Speaker 2: readers and younger. And I'll, I'll sit there and I'll say, witchlings,
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  Speaker 2: what do you, what do you know about them? You
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  Speaker 2: know about the witchlings. All of a sudden I become
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  Speaker 2: the coolest guy on the face of the planet because
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  Speaker 2: the guy, so I owe you so much credit for
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  Speaker 2: being so creative so that the other, so the rest
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  Speaker 2: of us can have a connection with the younger people.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you so much. That's so cool. Um, It's
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  Speaker 3: my pleasure, really. I'm just writing about the stuff that
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  Speaker 3: makes me happy and the kind of books that I
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  Speaker 3: wish I had as a kid, you know. So being
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  Speaker 3: able to connect with young people that way is really special.
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  Speaker 3: And a similar thing happens to me with like anime, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like when I go to school visits and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 3: when I'm able to talk to them about that. that
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  Speaker 3: they're watching, it helps them instantly connect to me if
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  Speaker 3: they haven't already read my books.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to ask you about that. When you're writing,
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  Speaker 2: are you thinking of a movie soundtrack? Because, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've seen one critic that talks about your book. It's
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  Speaker 2: Demon Hunters meets Wicked, and both of those feature a
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  Speaker 2: lot of music. So now when I go back through Witchlings,
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  Speaker 2: The Sea Witch, I'm going, really? I know what band
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  Speaker 2: I would like to have playing in this moment of
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  Speaker 2: my reading.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Music plays a really big part in
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  Speaker 3: my writing process and also in the witchlings world. For
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  Speaker 3: anyone who's read all of the books, you know that
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  Speaker 3: the witchlings have a favorite band, Kill the Goose, which
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  Speaker 3: is a made up fantasy band that I made up
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  Speaker 3: for the series. But I have actually playlists for each
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  Speaker 3: of the books. Some of them are on my website
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  Speaker 3: and you can listen to them on Spotify. I listen
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  Speaker 3: to the same playlist as I'm writing the book. And
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  Speaker 3: sometimes I even make chapter by chapter playlists. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a specific song for like a scene or a chapter.
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  Speaker 3: And that goes for all of my books. Writing is
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  Speaker 3: just like music is just like a huge component of
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  Speaker 3: my creative process because I'm such a big music fan.
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  Speaker 3: So the fact that people are picking up on that
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  Speaker 3: is really great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, since Johnny Depp is starting to get into rock
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  Speaker 2: music right now, you got to include him in the
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  Speaker 2: soundtrack just to get him involved in.
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  Speaker 1: Your movie, right?
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  Speaker 3: I don't really have a say in who gets involved
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  Speaker 3: in that kind of thing, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Claribel Ortega coming
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  Speaker 1: up next. The name of her book, Which Leans? The
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  Speaker 1: Sea Witch Prophecy. We are back with Claribel Ortega.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of the things that my wife, she's
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  Speaker 2: a school teacher, and she loves about your writing, Claribel,
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  Speaker 2: is the fact that You put lessons in here in
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  Speaker 2: a way that people can digest them, the younger readers.
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  Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is, is that I
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  Speaker 2: love the way that you say a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: magic and friendship. My wife lit up on that because
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  Speaker 2: she says keywords there a little bit of. And I went, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God, that's right. She doesn't just come out and
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  Speaker 2: say a lot of you got to overdo this. A
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  Speaker 2: little bit of magic and friendship takes place here. I
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  Speaker 2: love that lesson so that people don't go gung ho
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  Speaker 2: on stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think especially when you're writing for children, there
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  Speaker 3: is a sort of, I think people mistakenly think that
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  Speaker 3: they have to spell everything out for kids. Kids are
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  Speaker 3: really smart and they can tell if you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: talk down to them or trying to make them think
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  Speaker 3: a certain way. My books, I kind of introduce ideas
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  Speaker 3: in a way that I feel is natural in a
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  Speaker 3: way that I'm not like speaking down to them or
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  Speaker 3: trying to teach them a lesson, but I'm just sort
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  Speaker 3: of sharing experiences with them and hope that they come
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  Speaker 3: to their own conclusions. And I know that they will
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  Speaker 3: because kids, especially nowadays are so smart and so tuned
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  Speaker 3: into everything that they can tell immediately. if you are
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  Speaker 3: trying to, if you don't respect them as a reader, right?
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  Speaker 3: If you think that children's books are lesser than, they
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  Speaker 3: can tell right away. And I think it's important when
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  Speaker 3: you're writing for kids, when you're creating any sort of
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  Speaker 3: media or content for kids to really respect them as
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  Speaker 3: a reader, as an audience, as you would an adult
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  Speaker 3: because they do get it and they're very, very smart.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you get it too because you know what?
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  Speaker 2: We rely on authors like yourself, us adults, because you're
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  Speaker 2: learning how to use the word they in the proper
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  Speaker 2: way because in this way, when we see it through
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  Speaker 2: your writing, then we can become a part of that
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  Speaker 2: generation that understands what they is. Now, somebody 20 years
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  Speaker 2: ago would have no idea what I'm talking about, but
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  Speaker 2: you do in where we are right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's so important to sort of be
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  Speaker 3: open to how language ebbs and flows and changes because
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  Speaker 3: it has for such a long time. And there are
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  Speaker 3: some things that we think are different that are not,
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  Speaker 3: that have been commonplace before and it's circling back around, right?
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  Speaker 3: So being open to those things and always being open
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  Speaker 3: to learning new things and experiences and seeing things from
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  Speaker 3: other people's perspective is really important to me and to
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  Speaker 3: my books and learning I think when you write for children,
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  Speaker 3: you very quickly realize that you kind of have to
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  Speaker 3: be open to new things because kids are fun and
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  Speaker 3: quirky and you can't predict what they're going to think
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  Speaker 3: or say. And there's a certain like beautiful freedom that
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  Speaker 3: comes from that. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: You have got to come back to this show anytime
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  Speaker 2: in the future. I love where your heart is. I
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  Speaker 2: know you've got a new writing project that's beginning or
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  Speaker 2: has been underway, and I want you back here so
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  Speaker 2: that we can sway the readers to go in that
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  Speaker 2: direction because you're taking us into a brand new world.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Anytime. I'd be happy to come back. I love
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  Speaker 3: coming on your show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you be brilliant today, okay?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thanks so much.