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2-17-26| SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS PODCAST| HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL | · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Klea, and gentlemen, I have your attention please. The show
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  Speaker 1: starts in like Southern sid shoot my cool.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, this is your girl sci book out eight
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  Speaker 2: four three, and it is a Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 3: You guys, how are you.
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: That's good? That's good me. I'm gonna be honest.
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  Speaker 2: I was a little depressed when I woke up this
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  Speaker 2: morning and saw the news about Jesse Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: That just hurt my feelings.
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  Speaker 2: And then I have a ten year old in his
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  Speaker 2: Black history mind, and I don't know if this is
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  Speaker 2: me feeling as a parent, which I kind of feel
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  Speaker 2: that it is.
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  Speaker 3: She asks me, who is Jesse Jackson?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, y'all, that are hurting my feelings?
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  Speaker 2: So do know that she does have a book that
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  Speaker 2: is being sent to my library for her to read
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  Speaker 2: who Jesse Jackson is?
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  Speaker 3: And it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's Black History Month and he passes away and he's like, well, no,
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  Speaker 2: he's not the last one, but he is one of
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  Speaker 2: the last ones, you know. And I don't think Jesse
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  Speaker 2: Jackson would want us to be sad. I think he
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  Speaker 2: would want the next generation to pick up the mantle
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  Speaker 2: and continue on, because if not, we're gonna go backwards.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. But then y'all know me.
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  Speaker 5: I always gotta find the funny side.
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  Speaker 2: To every situation. So we need to check on al Shopton.
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  Speaker 2: We need to check on Patti LaBelle, and we need
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  Speaker 2: to check on Marla Gibbs. We need to check on
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  Speaker 2: our pioneers out there, because this is just too much,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. But doctor Jesse Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: We thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for bringing us to where we are
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  Speaker 2: right now. Okay, but I'm feeling better, you guys. But
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  Speaker 2: just guess what Next week is Children's Book Week? And
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  Speaker 2: let me specify that again. It is Black Children's Book Week,
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  Speaker 2: and I have the honor of having.
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  Speaker 5: An African American children's author.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, her book is like the cutest thing I
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  Speaker 2: have ever seen. I am so excited to have her
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  Speaker 2: on my shelf. But let me tell you a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about this lady.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Jude is a London based children's author that is
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  Speaker 2: the vote the working mother who delights in creating colorful,
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  Speaker 2: family centered stories that celebrate the curiosity, the imagination, and
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  Speaker 2: everyday adventures about youth. Okay. With the background in English literature,
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  Speaker 2: she brings a deep love of language and storytelling to
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  Speaker 2: every book she writes. Drawing in inspiration from her same
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  Speaker 2: Lucian Caribbean heritage, she weeds warmth, family values, cultural written.
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  Speaker 3: Richness into her tales.
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  Speaker 2: She regularly returns to the island to reconnect in environment,
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  Speaker 2: traditions and find new sparks of creativity. Her books are
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  Speaker 2: designed for children ages three to six and the full
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  Speaker 2: right engaging illustrations and are grounded in real life experiences
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  Speaker 2: like them going.
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  Speaker 3: To bed that night okay.
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  Speaker 2: Each story carries a meaningful lesson and crafted to inspire
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  Speaker 2: young readers, nature, imagination, and bring families together through the
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  Speaker 2: joy of shared reading.
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  Speaker 5: You guys, I would like to introduce Miss Claudia Jude. Hey,
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  Speaker 5: how are you hi?
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  Speaker 4: Everybody?
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  Speaker 5: No, I love her, exit just love it. Welcome to
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  Speaker 5: sc Blanke and friends.
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  Speaker 2: I read a little bit of your bio, but tell
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  Speaker 2: us something in their bio that you haven't told us
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  Speaker 2: about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so much.
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  Speaker 6: Outside of what I've said in the bio, I do
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  Speaker 6: so many other things. I am trying to get an
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  Speaker 6: article published in the newspaper at the moment, but that's
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  Speaker 6: to do with children's education and their cognitive abilities.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to write.
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  Speaker 6: Another story just will be a true story, but it
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  Speaker 6: won't be aimed the children.
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  Speaker 4: It will be aim the adults.
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  Speaker 6: I'm hoping to undertake my PhD shortly, So there's lots
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  Speaker 6: going on. Apart from my day job and being a mom,
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  Speaker 6: There's lots of other things that I'm hoping to pursue
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  Speaker 6: in twenty twenty six. How you had time, Well, when
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  Speaker 6: I log off, yeah, I didn spend my evenings. I
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  Speaker 6: try not to just sit around and watch and watch TV.
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  Speaker 6: But at the same time, you do have to. You
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  Speaker 6: have to have a downtime, you have to enjoy yourself,
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  Speaker 6: and you have to let yourself go. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: try and fit it all in. But I don't give
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  Speaker 6: myself too many strict deadlines because otherwise I probably wouldn't
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  Speaker 6: meet all of them.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So what made you want to become a
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  Speaker 2: children's book after Well, I have.
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  Speaker 6: Twins, and so every evening when they were in primary school,
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  Speaker 6: every evening i'd read to them before going to bed.
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  Speaker 4: Some books were really.
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  Speaker 6: Enjoyable, and there were some books that, you know, I thought, so,
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  Speaker 6: so I decided, when I get the chance, I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to actually try and write something myself. I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: do a children's book.
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  Speaker 3: And my son.
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  Speaker 6: When he came to bedtime, he never ever wanted to
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  Speaker 6: go to bed, not because he wanted to play with
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  Speaker 6: his toys or anything, but he felt he could be
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  Speaker 6: doing something a lot better.
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  Speaker 4: He could be reading, he could be learning. He just
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  Speaker 4: had this active mind from a very young age.
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  Speaker 6: So I then thought of that about a child that
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  Speaker 6: never wanted to go to bed, and I thought, I
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  Speaker 6: think I could incorporate this and do something. So over
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  Speaker 6: the years, you know, I'm fill a paper girl, So
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  Speaker 6: over the years I would drop things down on paper,
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  Speaker 6: and then when they got to a certain age where
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  Speaker 6: I could dedicate more time to myself, I was able
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  Speaker 6: to sort of finalize the manuscript, polish.
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  Speaker 4: It, and try and get itself published.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So because of your twins, and I see that you
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  Speaker 2: you gave everything a priority, and I like that, and
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  Speaker 2: that's something that we parents should do, give everything a priority.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: So what do your twins think about you being an author?
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  Speaker 6: They actually, my son is a bit reserved, so he
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  Speaker 6: doesn't sort of spread the word too much, but my.
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  Speaker 4: Daughter is flamboyant, she's out there. Yeah, she tells everyone.
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  Speaker 6: She's got teachers at schools buy it for nieces, nephews kids,
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, she and but they do help out a
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  Speaker 6: lot with like the poster behind me.
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  Speaker 4: My son is the one who designed it.
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  Speaker 6: My Yeah, my daughter posts a lot of stuff on
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  Speaker 6: TikTok and stuff for me, So they do help a
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  Speaker 6: lot with the social media side of things.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, and the book is.
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  Speaker 6: Actually Caden, my son called Kaiden's actually based on him
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  Speaker 6: as well, So I think maybe that's why he's a
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  Speaker 6: bit of reserved.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's a bit embarrassed really, but he loves it.
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  Speaker 3: Really, you made it a family of fair bed is brilliant.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that is brilliant.
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  Speaker 5: So you have two books currently out right now, and
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  Speaker 5: tell me a little bit about your two books.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have that?
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  Speaker 6: So the first one was is Caden's Bedtime Adventure, and
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  Speaker 6: I self published that in twenty twenty three. And as
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  Speaker 6: I said before, that one is about a little boy
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  Speaker 6: who never ever wanted to go to bed. He would
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  Speaker 6: slow down the process, he would brush his teeth slowly,
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  Speaker 6: he would get into bed slowly, just because he didn't
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  Speaker 6: want to go to bed. But then he ends up
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  Speaker 6: one evening, he gets into bed and he has the
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  Speaker 6: most magical experience that you could possibly have. So that's
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  Speaker 6: Caden's Bedtime Adventure, the first one. The second one is
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  Speaker 6: Caden's Magic Peace. Again, it's based on a family. It
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  Speaker 6: includes Caden's twin sister as well in the book, and
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  Speaker 6: this is about getting children to eat their vegetables to
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  Speaker 6: be healthy. So Caden in this book never ever wanted
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  Speaker 6: to eat vegetables. He never ever wanted to eat his peas.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, through sensible talking from mom, listening to
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  Speaker 4: what Mum.
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  Speaker 6: Says, he gets there in the end, and he gets
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  Speaker 6: a reward at the end of the story as well
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  Speaker 6: through eating his Peace and hopefully he's gone on to
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  Speaker 6: eat carrots and broccoli and everything else after that. Mhm,
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  Speaker 6: I've else. Caden's Bedtime Adventure was the easiest one to write,
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  Speaker 6: even though it was my first one, but because both
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  Speaker 6: books joined up from real life experiences. But the first
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  Speaker 6: one was definitely based on you know, every evening bedtime
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  Speaker 6: with my son and when he was younger, here we
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  Speaker 6: go again. He doesn't want to go to bed. I
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  Speaker 6: could be reading, Mama could be whatever. So it was
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  Speaker 6: a lot easier to get that story down on paper,
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  Speaker 6: and yeah, to actually finalize it than Caden's Magic Piece.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, the first one was was a lot easier
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  Speaker 6: in terms of the manuscript in terms of the storyline,
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  Speaker 6: but the second one because I had done it previously,
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  Speaker 6: so it flowed more easily in terms of the illustrations
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  Speaker 6: and the self published inside of it.
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  Speaker 3: Soon as you did you eat your magic peace? Oh
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 6: I always hit my magic piece as a child because
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  Speaker 6: otherwise I get in trouble. So nowadays we're a bit
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  Speaker 6: more lenient with our children. But you know, in my area,
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  Speaker 6: I would get in trouble. So yeah, I definitely my piece.
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  Speaker 5: You are so true, because I'm my mom used to
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  Speaker 5: make me eats the beats at one time.
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  Speaker 2: I take the peas over the beats in okays, Actually
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind them.
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  Speaker 5: I felt like I was a vampire biting into them.
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  Speaker 2: Things like who in the world wet these nasty little balls.
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  Speaker 2: You can give me some peas, and you can give
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  Speaker 2: me some string beans, and we did just keep the
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  Speaker 2: beats and the lime of.
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  Speaker 4: Beans lima beans.
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  Speaker 7: I will eat them, listen, y'all, I will eat the
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  Speaker 7: meat out of your pot, but I will not, so
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  Speaker 7: you're illustrations.
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  Speaker 5: I love the cuteness of the characters. How import was
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  Speaker 5: there too your books?
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  Speaker 6: It was really important because I wanted it to be bright.
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  Speaker 6: I wanted it to be vibrant if you saw it
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  Speaker 6: on a shelf somewhere. I wanted the illustrations to attract you.
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  Speaker 6: I like the way the illustrator has done the big eyes.
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  Speaker 6: The whole family has has the big eyes. So it
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  Speaker 6: was really important to ensure that I had something that
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  Speaker 6: would draw people to just by seeing the front cover,
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  Speaker 6: it would draw them to, you know, flicking through it
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  Speaker 6: and then going on and whether it's borrowing it from
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  Speaker 6: the library where it's making a purchase.
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  Speaker 4: So that was very very important to me.
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  Speaker 6: And I wanted to get a balance as well, with
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  Speaker 6: the way everybody looked Mom, Dad meant the illustrator we
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  Speaker 6: had to do the characters from scratch. I told him
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  Speaker 6: exactly how I wanted each character to look, but we
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  Speaker 6: went back and forth with back and forth, and think
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  Speaker 6: it probably got fed up with me. You know, I
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  Speaker 6: wasn't happy with this. I wasn't happy with no. The
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  Speaker 6: outfit wasn't the right color. No, no, no, I didn't
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  Speaker 6: like Mom's hair, So yeah, I wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 6: I got it right. And also depending on different stages
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  Speaker 6: of the story, I wanted to ensure that you know,
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  Speaker 6: that was right as well. So for example, in Cajun's
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  Speaker 6: Magic Peas the Dinner Hall, he goes into school and
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  Speaker 6: he doesn't like his peas and they give him peas
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  Speaker 6: at school. But I wanted to ensure he did the
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  Speaker 6: background and it was a very plain background, and I said.
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  Speaker 3: To him, you know, you need to go back.
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  Speaker 6: There needs to be pictures on the walls, you know,
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  Speaker 6: advertising food, trying to encourage kids to eat in the
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  Speaker 6: dinner hall. Well, in the UK dinner hall there's all
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  Speaker 6: something about eating your five a day or you know.
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  Speaker 6: So he had to go back and he had to
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  Speaker 6: change it and he had to add something, and so
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  Speaker 6: it was really important that it sort of demonstrated what
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  Speaker 6: I wanted it to and it portrayed what the.
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  Speaker 2: Story was trying to get through to people. Well, you're illustrated,
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  Speaker 2: did a great job. Would you like to take the
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  Speaker 2: moment to shout out to your illustrator.
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  Speaker 4: Hi Didja.
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  Speaker 6: He's based in Indonesia, so Hi, we're working a book shortly.
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  Speaker 3: So, yah, you did a great job, just like you.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So are you with a publishing house or are
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  Speaker 5: you self published?
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  Speaker 6: I'm self published. This all this all started off as
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  Speaker 6: a hobby, and then the feedback that I have had
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  Speaker 6: so far has been, you know, you need to develop this,
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  Speaker 6: you need to try and take it further, you need
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  Speaker 6: to push it, you.
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  Speaker 4: Need to get it on social media, et cetera.
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  Speaker 6: So at the moment, I'm continuing just trying to get
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  Speaker 6: families interested, trying to get children into reading, and hopefully
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  Speaker 6: sometime soon, you know, somebody may see me, may recognize me,
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  Speaker 6: and I can go down that route. But at the moment,
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  Speaker 6: it's it's still I'm still self publishing at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: So you accept that's a great question. You answered some
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel that the journey of being a self
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  Speaker 2: publisher well difficult or do you feel like this is
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  Speaker 2: a great learning opportunity for me to know what's going on.
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  Speaker 5: How do you feel about the self publishing journey.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's a great opportunity for me to know
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  Speaker 6: what's going on. There's the terminology, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 6: things I've learned. I probably would have been with a publisher,
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  Speaker 6: and they would have been talking about BLURM, and they
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  Speaker 6: would have been talking about for children's books, you've got
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  Speaker 6: to know about the bleed, that the illustrations have to
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  Speaker 6: go right through to the end of the page so
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  Speaker 6: that when they print it there's no white lines around it.
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  Speaker 6: So I have learned a lot through the self publishing experience,
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  Speaker 6: and I think it's equipped me for if I do
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  Speaker 6: get a publisher sometime in the future, at least a
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  Speaker 6: lot of the terminology, a lot of the things they're
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  Speaker 6: talking about, at least I'll be aware of it.
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  Speaker 4: And also I believe it's given me the freedom at
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  Speaker 4: the moment to do what I want to do through
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  Speaker 4: self publishing.
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  Speaker 6: I know there'll be some restrictions if I did have
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  Speaker 6: a publisher, you know, don't say this, don't say that,
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  Speaker 6: I don't have that color. So I think for now, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I'm quite happy with the freedom that I've got and
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  Speaker 6: what I've learned from doing it myself.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the freedom of it. And I love I love
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  Speaker 2: the independent self publishing. I really feel that they put
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  Speaker 2: so much into them books that you can kind of
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  Speaker 2: feel like like their heart and soul, the love for
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  Speaker 2: the book, like you can feel that that I work hard.
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  Speaker 3: Here's my baby feel to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so you said earlier that you are working on
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  Speaker 2: the dope book. So my question is which one is easier? Right,
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  Speaker 2: the children's book right near dope book.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's definitely the children's one. It's definitely.
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  Speaker 6: Then I've started the manuscript for the adults one. Well,
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  Speaker 6: it will be teamed upwards. And I went back to
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  Speaker 6: it maybe over the weekend. You know, I had a
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  Speaker 6: bit of a brain wave and I went back and
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  Speaker 6: I did a bit.
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  Speaker 3: More to it.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, you've got to use lots of different words.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to be a lot more expressive so people
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  Speaker 6: understand what's going on. So the children's one, you can
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  Speaker 6: be fluffy, you can be you know, let's have everybody
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  Speaker 6: laughing that. The children's one is so much more easier.
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  Speaker 6: You can have lots more funds with the illustrations, whereas
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  Speaker 6: the adult ones is just chapter books, chapter one and
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  Speaker 6: you know, lots of words. So now at the moment,
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  Speaker 6: I would say I had a lot more fun doing
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  Speaker 6: the children's books, but it's a story that I want
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  Speaker 6: to tell, so I will persevere and I will get
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  Speaker 6: it out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So going back to your books. Now I have
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  Speaker 2: you back on the screen. What's your books? If you
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  Speaker 2: can choose one of them, it would.
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  Speaker 4: Be Caden's spread Time Adventure because there's a.
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  Speaker 6: Part of the story where whether where the Avenger begins,
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  Speaker 6: he is in the sea and there's loads of sea creatures,
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  Speaker 6: loads of vibrant colors, loads of just lots going on
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  Speaker 6: in that book. So I think that would be better
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  Speaker 6: for the movie because you'd have the sea, and you'd
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  Speaker 6: have all the big waves, and you'd have all the
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  Speaker 6: different colored fish and you know dolphin that features in
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  Speaker 6: the book as well, So it would definitely be Caden's
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  Speaker 6: bed Time Advnger. I think would be a good movie
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  Speaker 6: for the big screen.
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  Speaker 5: So remember I told you that we had those fun questions. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: well we are here.
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  Speaker 2: From the banks, of course, So now I'm not trying
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  Speaker 2: to play my ignorance.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, some people don't know nothing about it.
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  Speaker 3: So let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're on Sesame Street, right, Yes, all right,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: you are on Sesame Street.
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  Speaker 5: What character is sitting next to.
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  Speaker 3: You while you are reading one of your books?
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  Speaker 5: And why did you choose that character?
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  Speaker 6: Oh gosh, I think it would be Miss Piggy, although
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  Speaker 6: she would although she would distract me whilst I'm writing
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  Speaker 6: the book, but I think she was quite funny, and
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  Speaker 6: I think, yeah, she might be able to give me
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  Speaker 6: some motivation, be able to give me, you know, to
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  Speaker 6: make the story a little more short, bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Quirky, a bit more funny.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, I could ask her for some suggests as well,
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  Speaker 6: because I remember she was quite vocal. So yeah, definitely,
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: I think it would be Miss Piggy.
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  Speaker 5: The first original children's.
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  Speaker 3: Eva, Miss Piggy.
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  Speaker 5: I had died when I came up with that question.
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  Speaker 5: You know, my dad, I thought of Cookie Monster or Grover.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, well, if I'm being honest, The reason I never
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: said Cookie Monsters because I couldn't remember his name. I
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: was thinking to myself there was one that had a
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  Speaker 6: bit of a strange, sort of funny voice, and I
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: just couldn't remember his name.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought, yeah, I can just see him sitting
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: up there laying his head on you be like, what else? Yeah, Okay,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: so you're a mom and your reading your book, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: so we have this television channel called Lifetime and that's
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: not a biopic.
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  Speaker 4: You have that too, We are on cable. Yeah, yeah,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: there you go.
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  Speaker 3: So lifetime is called.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: They love your book, but they would love you to
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: have a character, a children actor to play Canaan. Who
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  Speaker 2: would you give the honor of playing your son in
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: your book? And why?
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Oh children's actor?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know too much him myself.
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  Speaker 4: No, you would go back in the day.
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  Speaker 6: I think it would be but I can't remember his
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: name again, but it was in different strokes and he
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: used to say, we're talking about Willis.
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  Speaker 3: I know exactly who you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: All Arnold, that was his name.
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  Speaker 6: I think be him, not because my son is exactly
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: like him, because he's quite reserved and he's quite but
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: at the same time, I remember Arnold could be serious
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  Speaker 6: and he did know when when it was irrelevant. He
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: did know how to have a good fun and how
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: to have a good time. So I think my son
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: could fit into that character. So I think it would
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: be Arnold. Al don't although he's nearly six four and
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: Arnold was really short, but still if he's playing Caden's
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Bedtime Adventure, if he's playing that age group, the height
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: would be okay. So I think it would be Arnold.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Definitely, all right, So guess what, like I love your
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: choice and they love the book, and they say, you
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: know what, we're gonna do a bio or pick about
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: her writing her next book.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Who would you give.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: The honor of playing you?
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, I think it would be See I'm just not
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: remembering anyone's names today, but I think it would be.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: What was the actress who played Tina Turner in the movie?
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I think it would be her because again, she's featured
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: in lots of movies, brilliant actress.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: She's undertaken different.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Roles, and I think she can be really serious and
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: a lot of the role she's in, she can be
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: serious conservative and at the same time. And when she
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: played Tina Turner, she just went on stage. She was
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: able to rip, lose, she was able to have a
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: good time. And I think my personality is a bit mixed.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: It's a bit like that as well. I think I
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: can be extremely conservative, but I think at the relevant
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: time and with the right people, I can let my
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: hair down and I can have a good time.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, guess what now?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: We got to go back because Lifetime said we already
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: have the actor for Katy.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: We are have.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: You, yeah, and we have miss Pey.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: We need children a children's song.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: What children's song best describes your book?
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: I think although it doesn't actually portray the actual story
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: of Cayden spend Time adventure, but I think I would
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: go with Humpty Dumpty because although Humpty Dumpty had a
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: big four and they couldn't put him back together, my book,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: there'd be a slight twist to it where we were
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: able to put Kayden back together. We were able to
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: get him to go to bed, and so there was
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: a success story at the end. So although they're not
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: entirely the same, I think they could slightly be linked.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: So I would go with Humpty Dumpty.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: See nobody pays Humpty no attentions, you know exactly. So
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: we are almost to the end of ours.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Tell us.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: What would you like to say for your past readers,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: new readers, and the readers you will gain.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: From this podcast.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: I'd like to say to my readers, I'd like to
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: invite them to join Caden and in the book he's
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: twin sister it's called Kurana on their adventures. Each story
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: is created to bring families together, spark imagination, and gently
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: encourage positive have habits. Whether it's going to bed on
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: time and enjoying your sleep, or whether it's trying new
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: healthy foods. Each of my stories have a lesson to
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: be learned, and I would encourage them to go away
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: and read these books and simply see the magic in
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: everyday moments.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: My books are designed I hope to bring laughter.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Comfort and connection, and I hope they become part of
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: the special memories that adults and children share. And I
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: hope children keep reading and keep finding enjoy in the
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: little things that you do with your family and your
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: surroundings through reading books. I'm excited to continue writing stories
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: for all of you to enjoy, and I look forward
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: to collaborating with others who share my paths for promoting literacy.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: And I'll ask.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Everybody to keep an eye out on the third book
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: in the series, Caiden and Kurana's Library Adventure, which is
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: coming in twenty twenty six.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Currently working on it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Now, that is a sum that is crazy awesome.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Now, well, we leave because we got to have somewhere
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: to follow you, so when these books come out, we
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: can know when and where to bout them and where
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: to follow you on social media.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: So can you give us the rundown? So I'm on
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I'm on all platforms.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: I'm on Facebook, I'm on TikTok, and i am on Instagram,
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: and all of them have the same handles. I've got
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: my website which is www dot CJL publishing dot com.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Instagram is just at CJL Publishing dot com. And it's
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: the same for Facebook, the same for x and the
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: same for Instagram. So at cj Publishing dot com. And
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: my books are available to buy at Amazon dot co
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: dot UK. If you're in America, it's probably Amazon dot com.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: All right, you guys.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Of course, if you look at the bottom of the screen,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: you have your links where the books can be purchased
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: and also where to follow her. And it's so easy
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: because it's all c j L Publishing on all the platforms.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: So go ahead, just put in c JL Publishing in
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Google and this click into into into follow follow follow Okay,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: right mm hmm, this, Jude, we did it, and I
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: thank you for being with us tonight and making it
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: whereas we can get back to that family time and
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: spend time with our little ones and read books and
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: create all these memories. Then they could take the book
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: following read it to their kids, and then they take
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: cake and read to heir kids and they can come.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: This family thing is ruling.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: So thank you for being with us tonight.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. It's been endroid. And keep
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: up a good work, Karen, what you're doing.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: And it was a pleasure being here. I was quite nervous,
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: but you know you made me feel really relaxed. And
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: I wish you had another half an.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Hour, all right now, because when the new book come out,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: and when you're adult book come.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Out, you got to come back, Okay, all right, then
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: I'll hold you to that.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's another Tuesday night, and you guys, the links
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: are still at the bottom and I'm gonna keep it
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: right there so you can go ahead and purchase that
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: book for the little person.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: In your life.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Remember next week it's African American Children's Book Week, so
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: this is a great chance for you too. You know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: you didn't get them kills any kind of little Valentine
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Today gift, So go ahead.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Grab I'm a book, give them a candy.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Well, don't give them a candy and the book, because
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: if they get the candy along with.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: The book, they ain't going to sleep, Okay, But.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, reward them, grab them this book or any
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: other book just read to your child. Okay again, I
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: thank you guys for being here and I will see
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: you next week Tuesday, with a new author and a
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: new book. And remember there is no such thing as
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: an old book, because not everybody is read every book.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: You guys, have a good night.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Bye.