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__BONUS SHOW___ DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL (3) · DA CREW Podcast

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  Welcome to the sc book galat French check Up. We're gonna be talking about
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  the latest and book reviews, author interviews and life. Come on in and
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  join us. We're ready. Are you as I tell you? I have?
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  Hey everyone, it's your girl e s see book out A four three
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  patree scrumble. Yes, I'm here on another night, because you know,
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  I got a new author. So you guys, this author here. I
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  spent my afternoon reading her book. She just things in this book that had
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  me going back and rereading pages because I'm thinking, what in the who?
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  Why? M just come on? A author often the cold jay. She
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  has this book. Y'all, Come on girl, come on after, come
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  on after, see you have You're gonna have to answer some questions here tonight.
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  Okay, how are you doing, sweetheart? Fine? My phone and
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  you got everything going on? Well, we will be talking to you tonight
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  about your book. And so first, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Oh goodness. I'm from Middleville, the area Hawkinsville, Georgia. I
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  grew up just being a normal country girl, fishing, playing out in the
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  road, being hard hit, just everything. I live, listening to music.
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  I'm a wild card. I love hanging out with friends. I love
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  making people laugh. I little cook Yeah, h cooking? Yeah? What's
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  for done of tomorrow? Red beans and ride and some fried fish. She
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  said, look, you keep the red beans, but give me the fry
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  First, I thought you want to say some oks. Oh I'm want some
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  offstairs. Don't know how bad? Want some offs? You know, this
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  wasn't that hard a couple of years ago until he started doing it on TV.
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  And now you gotta spine the officer. You can get dogs tails cheaper
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  now. But anyway, you have this book and me and you were talking
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  before you got online. You wrote this book seven years ago, and reading
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  this book and it feels like you just wrote it. I do not see
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  age in this book. Some books you read you could tell author wrote it
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  a long time ago. This book does not have age. The title itself
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  had me and I had to reread the title a couple of times. So
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  it's called tear Drops and lip Prints on my Tattoo. Yes, So you
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  guys, I am in the process of reading this book and I finally saw
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  that in the book. You got to tell me how did you come up
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  with this title? When I first wrote it, I was around my cousin
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  at that time, and she stayed up all night and I was like,
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  oh my god. When I'm a calling, she was like, I don't
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  know, listen to some music. So you know I love august Alsina and
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  that song came out. I was like, yep, that's I want to
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  call it. Okay from a song? Yeah, I would have never thought
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  that I was waiting for. You can see that this character did this,
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  this character did that. But yeah, okay, so I've read a little
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  bit and my girl z and this Zaia you said she's going through some things.
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  So she tell us about how you came up with this character like her.
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  I had a friend before, uh she did she committed suicide and she
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  was going through like similar things in her in her life like that. And
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  I was like, if I ever write a story, because I always told
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  her I was gonna write because I used to write when I was in school
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  and stuff. So she was like, this name the character my middle name,
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  and I promised her that. So when I did think about this book,
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  I used her middle name. Oh no, it's so sweet. That's
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  sweet. God bless her, God bless her. This this character did go
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  through a lot. Oh yeah, I am so sugarcoat in this book.
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  Okay, you know what I tried, and I was trying to keep it
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  to myself. I'm sorry I can't, so y'all, let me let me
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  give y'all a little background. She gonna help me out. I'm just gonna
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  go through the first chapter, the first the first chapter, so we got
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  Zi, and we got Sean. So Zi and Sean they love, but
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  Zi got some issues. So when she coming in the book, she already
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  running you guys. Okay, now tell me if I'm right. Sean and
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  Zi love each other. But then there is Michael. Michael loves Sean.
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  Yes, but Zi is pregnant for Michael. Yes, I said, as
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  Z is pregnant for Michael, and Michael loves Sean, and Michael and Sean
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  I've been together. So y'all put all the elements together, all of them.
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  Okay, Well stop that book being crazy. This book is past crazy.
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  Y'all should see me. I'm putting up here, getting ready to come
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  on you guys, and I'm sitting up here speed literally setting up a speed
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  reading because I want to figure out what's gonna happen. So how did you?
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  How did you? Because I can't even talk right now, you know,
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  the book could have got me tongue twisted? How did you keep all
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  the characters in line? In my head? I was like, I never
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  did a story outline ever, because like when I type up stuff, I'm
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  just like, okay, this is what happened, that, what happened.
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  This is the person that's the person. I'm just gonna keep going with it.
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  So that was my main thing. I'm good at keeping up or whatever
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  I allows left outfit, so I was just like, let me go create
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  them. So you you don't use character outlines. I know a lot of
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  people use those, and I kind of feel like that that constricts you to
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  this this bubble for that character. And the fact that you don't use that,
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  the character can really go wherever you warn him or her, or in
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  this case them to go. You know what I'm saying. I don't want
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  to give all the book away. I really don't want to. So let's
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  go back. What was your highlight of writing this book? What I think
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  ain't just when I was going through it and thinking about it. I think
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  the ending will really caught me by surprise because I didn't know what. I
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  wanted to keep it down because I did like these different endings, but my
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  cousins like keep down right there. So it was mainly the characters. Ia
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  wh y'all, what all she went through and how she had to fight in
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  for her to find out the truth, and the twisting turns he just had
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  her so in a chaotic mind state. Yeah, because the truth of finding
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  out that this person is related to this person, which means this person is
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  also related to this person, and this person having a baby with this person
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  and this person who ain't this But it was all a cluster, you know
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  what. People, But it, as you say, this does happen in
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  the US. A lot of people do not know their whole families. And
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  like I was telling her, I was dating a guy. He said the
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  same last name. I've had the same last name. He said the same
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  last name, as in being related to them. Oh, it was nice
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  knowing your brother. Like why can't yeah, Like why we can't talk because
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  we got too many factors in common? Yeah, last name, Yeah,
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  and all of them match. So that's it. So did you get any
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  backlash because of that? Like, did any because we talked about the reviews,
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  did any review talk badly? It was it was I think because the
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  publisher actually called me when I was at working. He was like, hey,
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  do you know this person? Because they tried to they contacted Amazon.
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  It was like, need to take the book down because it wasn't hers,
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  And then they wrote me a bad review. So when I looked at the
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  Arthur page, I'm like, you Arthur just like me. But this is
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  the same Arthur that from the other Arthur's had trouble with like and I didn't
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  know that Arthur's paid other Arthurs or other people that read a book read bad
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  review. So I actually got into this area. So it's a dirty game
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  that just like I always think, you stop, nothing was out. I
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  never had the ghost writer. I never had to pay people to do anything
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  because if I'm gonna write a book, my book gonna be my book.
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  There you go. And I, like we talked before, there was a
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  point in time when Amazon, because that's when Amazon really came up at that
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  rule at if they can't see if you purchase the book, you won't be
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  able to put a review on the book. And if if I'm not mistaken,
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  if you're following the author on Facebook and it shows up on good Reads,
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  I think they kind of hold back your review for all a while.
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  But I do remember that era happening, and I'm sorry that that happened to
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  you, because this book right head, Yeah, they need to get they
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  need to stop that, right, you know, they don't never stop making
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  it, don't how they say that trade gone phone. I'm sorry, At
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  what point did you decide that you wanted to put this book out there and
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  you wanted to become an author. What point did you decide to do that?
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  Not the first time I was signed to this publisher being and at the
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  time it taught me, you know, different publishers. I guess they call
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  them hybrid publishers, where it's they authors, but they had their own publishing
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  company with other authors upunder there. And it was like, if I had
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  to do my own editing book cover promotion and you, I'm upunding you.
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  You just put your name on the book and my ring gonna work like that.
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  And I just didn't like the app years of how they were. It
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  wasn't really like a fair city. So I wound up just leaving like I'm
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  not going to do it, and I stopped for the remainder of them years,
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  and I started doing everything else, but I always came back to,
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  hey, I need to really publish this book because I really want to read
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  and I want to be an artist. So I finally did it this year.
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  So this everything else, what all else shoe got going on? I
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  know we talked about some things, but go ahead and get us a little
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  fold run down. I am also I have a business as a doula,
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  and I also have a spiritual practice and a coaching practice. Okay, okay,
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  So that coaching isn't like life coaching career coaching. It falls in life
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  coaching. But I mainly target the mist of violence and suicide awareness as well
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  as trying to help a lot of black girl here because you know, we
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  don't know we have a space being created for us, and it's kind of
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  hard for another black woman to appreciate another black woman. We always meant each
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  other, So I don't mean so many women that just listen to their story
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  is like my life when they are better theirs and they need somebody to talk
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  to. And I also went through losing somebody for suicide you know, and
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  stuff, and it do take a toll on you. I have someone for
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  you to connect with. Okay, Okay, y'all can make some collaborations.
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  Matter of fact, her name is a queen of collaboration and a lot of
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  the things you just hit on she actually talks about. She has a platform.
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  Also, I think what you are talking about, what her what she's
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  talking about. Hey, that's that's choice of forces and how I say,
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  make it do what it do. Okay, Yeah, I'm we're gonna make
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  some emails happen. Okay, So we take a break real quick and we're
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  gonna come back. We're gonna talk more about this book. There's getting me
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  travel when I'm trying to read it and tak the yarlet at the same time.
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  she was looking at me like this girl is a dancing and singing through the
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  book. That's my song, That's my song. I can't help it every
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  time I heard. But I kind of now hit Tyler Harry in my head.
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  How you're talking about you know how they it's stunned. You know I
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  wouldn't. How do you promote your book? I know you said you had
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  to do all your marketing and everything. How do you promote your book?
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  Oh my god, it's me being new. I do Facebook, TikTok,
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  Instagram and word of mouth. Oh, word of mouth. A lot of
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  people don't do that nowadays, a lot of I have a friend of mine
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  by the name of Keith. He actually goes out and take pictures when people
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  buy their books. He take pictures and uses them as advertising purposes. So
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  it's been a while since I've heard somebody say word now, and I'm glad
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  that you're not only relying on social media because some people are stepping away from
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  social media for a while. So I like that does does the marketing take
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  a lot of time? Take up so much time? To me? How
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  did you fit it in your schedule? If let's say I'm a new author
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  and I'm like, okay, let's just taking too much. How would you
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  tell them to create a marketing strategy? I said, if they can help
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  it, If they weren't do it during break when they get out work,
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  at least do it from an hour either thirty minutes and that's how I did
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  it every day, or either if I wake up early in the morning,
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  I'm putting on there early in the morning, so I try to find a
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  way. Thank you, thank you, thank you, because there's some people
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  like me who can't sleep through the night. So I'm before walk in the
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  morning screenshotting books that I plan on reading or authors I would want to reach
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  out to you. So I appreciate you doing that and understanding that social media
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  is not just nine to five, that there are people up at eleven,
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  two, four, and three a m. In the morning, so thank
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  you for doing that, really, thank you. I always do fun questions.
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  I'm reading all right now? So you said music, you love music?
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  Okay, now this is all script. If you can collaborate with three
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  artists to write a book, who would they be? And block artists?
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  Oh my any I like Chris Brown, Chris Brown? Okay, I love
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  Chris Brown. Okay, Chris Brown. M M. I was at Sena
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  and I can see christ Who Tank? I love Tank? Okay, Tank
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  Tank. So we got to we we got the fellas of r and B.
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  Okay? Who else do we have? M Cardi b because he regic
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  I used a rashnist. That would be jahs character. I can see that
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  being Carly b. Okay, that's a mixture to the type of Chris Man
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  Callie breekank. What would the title that book be? Shog the spice and
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  everything not nice of me? What a soul of money? I call it
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  it? Oh, look at you came off the top of your head,
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  girl, girl. So if you could be mentor because you said you're a
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  reader, So if you could be mentored by one of your favorite authors,
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  who would it be? And why what are your clark? I'm going on
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  yes, because me following her like I've been following her like a child eating
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  week. I love with your Clark. I love everybody else su Zane and
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  Air Drone, Dicky Lord, Blessed Dad, Coon At Jarvis, But what
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  your Clark is. I like the way she could be so diverse and write
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  anything and bring anything that she right into a foolish like she is really a
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  true ghat. And then just looking at her and following her and how she's
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  just so humble and what you need to talk about her life and her stories.
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  It's like, yeah, I want to be I want to meet her.
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  She even got a book by the man that has COVID and the title
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  and it's a blue cover and I just discovered that like a couple of weeks
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  ago. But yes, every thugs and the women who love him. I
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  love starting me. That started me. That was about I can't think of
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  the man name, but Tasha, I do remember I Tasha and Trey Yesh
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  I just did the audio books of the letter. Oh my god, somebody
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  you it's on Hoopla. If you go to your local library and type in
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  the letter. It's three parts. It's no more than ten pages. And
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  she did a whole story from front to end in ten page. Me and
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  you, we are reading sisters. I am with you. We got the
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  bond, so we're gonna wrap it up. But before we wrap it up,
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  Also authors NICOLEJ. You can get my book off of Amazon. I'm trying
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  to figure out how to put it on Google Books and everything to taking me
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  a little longer. But Amazon dot com me either, Candle elimited and downloading.
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  Yes. As a doula, i am a menopolis doula del dula.
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  I'm a safe dula and I'm also a fratunity dula. So alright, y'all,
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  she's telling me about her services. Another woman author. Because I told
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  y'all this month, the next month is about the ladies. We have a
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  ladies night. So I would like to thank you for joining me often.
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  The Cooch's Book and if I invoked you tonight, do be sat up there
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  getting it like this girl is crazy because you want to finish. I'm gonna
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  let you because I'll be able. I need to figure out what's gonna happen
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  to her. And you said you're gonna start working on a book too,
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  That's what you guys say. But right now I'm writing Blood so Tears,
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  So I'm writing a little bit about my situation, what I went through,
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  So I do. I am gonna write that probably next year, Blood Soap
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  Tears. All right, we just got exclusive. She said she has a
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  book coming out next year, Blood Soap Tears. That's the exclusive here only
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  for sc book gall and for MC. Y'all need to go follow her so
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  you can be ready for when that book release and drop and we can have
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  let her have a great, happy release day. But everyone, I want
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  to thank you for joining me for another bonus show tonight. Guess what.
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  I'm gonna be back here Thursday with a whole new author, another female that
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  is about to put it down in the literary world. You guys, have
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  a blessed night. Tell everyone who you know, who you don't know,
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  that you love them because you don't know if they'll be here tomorrow. My
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  heart goes out to my best friends and my cousin Dorian and the Broughton family.
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