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3-3-26|Crown & Pen: Meet Patrice Grimball & T. Ashley—Reigning Queens of Southern Storytelling..ROOTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA| LIVE EVERY TUESDAY · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the SC Book, y'all and friends chat. We're
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  Speaker 1: are you? Hey? Everyone, this shit girl SC Book y'all
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  Speaker 1: eight four three, And it's another beautiful Tuesday. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, it was so pretty today in Charleston, so beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: But I was homeworking and then I had CPR training,
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  Speaker 1: and then I realized I don't have them getting little
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  Speaker 1: knees no more. I don't have them them supersonic knees
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  Speaker 1: no more. I just don't have no more, y'all. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's trouble. Okay. So I did miss CPR training.
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  Speaker 1: I passed it, Okay, cool, fine, dandy. But then I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of like resting my knees right now because God
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  Speaker 1: knows it hurts. But I know y'all don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about my knees and stuff, but I just had
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  Speaker 1: to get that out the way. So how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me? Okay, okay, well I have them, then I'm
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  Speaker 1: very glad that you're doing good. And if you're not
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  Speaker 1: doing good, we're gonna make it better. Tonight because I
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  Speaker 1: have an author that is here releasing her eighth book. No,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say first, I didn't say second. I said
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  Speaker 1: her eighth book, you guys, and it's her first podcast show.
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  Speaker 1: So I am so honored to have her with me tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Then on top of that, we get it before it
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  Speaker 1: comes out. The book is not supposed to be releasing too.
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  Speaker 1: I think it said the sixteenth, so we have the
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  Speaker 1: honor of having it before it is released. But with
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  Speaker 1: all that being said, let me tell you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about our friend, Miss t Ashley. Okay, she's a
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  Speaker 1: storyteller at heart. She blames heart pounding thrillers, steaming romance
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  Speaker 1: with just a dash of hidden magic. And I did
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  Speaker 1: ask her about the hood magic, so I'm gonna find out,
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  Speaker 1: you guys find out. Okay. Her characters are messy, magnetic,
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  Speaker 1: and black on purpose. Okay, whether you're flipping pages at
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  Speaker 1: two am or clutching your chest at the twist you
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  Speaker 1: didn't see coming, Welcome to the world of Tea Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: She was born in Connecticut, raising imagination. She's the author
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  Speaker 1: of When Lies Forget Miss and Jesus Missing, Dating Jessica Brown,
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  Speaker 1: Capturing Celeste, and more. When she's not writing, she's manifesting
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  Speaker 1: dream homes, raising her beautiful kids, and side out in
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  Speaker 1: the world with a pen in the hand and a
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  Speaker 1: story on her tongue. Girl looking here, We're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to talk about all that, okay, she believed the second
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  Speaker 1: chances flowed characters and stories that speak the truth even
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  Speaker 1: when they lie. Welcome, Miss t Ashley. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I am great? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I am doing good? I mean all that. This is exciting.
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  Speaker 1: So I read your bio, but I'm going to ask us.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me one thing about yourself that you didn't say
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  Speaker 1: in your bio.
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  Speaker 2: Oh hi, I have a survival job that is in
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  Speaker 2: I work in banking. I am a banker. So that's
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  Speaker 2: one thing I didn't mention.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever want to just take one of the
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  Speaker 1: characters to come in the thank and put them on
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  Speaker 1: the book I I have.
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  Speaker 2: I actually have one of my old co workers. I
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  Speaker 2: had never met him, and then he left the bank
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  Speaker 2: and I finally met him, and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he could be a character.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I see this. I see this. So this
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  Speaker 1: eighth book mixed and Sophia Rue tell us a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about this book.
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  Speaker 2: So fix and Sophie Rue is about a woman who
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  Speaker 2: has magic. She's aware that she's magical. She her ancestors
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  Speaker 2: have passed it down to her. She casts a spell
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  Speaker 2: when she was six years old and she didn't know
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  Speaker 2: what she was doing and it caused a ripple effect
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  Speaker 2: in the land where they lived, and she has a
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  Speaker 2: destiny that's mapped out for her, however she ran from it.
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  Speaker 2: We actually meet Sophie in a previous book clalled Dayton
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  Speaker 2: Jessica Brown, and Sophie has a way of fixing people,
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  Speaker 2: but she doesn't ever fix herself. So the land calls
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  Speaker 2: her home and we see her going through an awakening
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  Speaker 2: so to speak, about fixing the land, fixing herself, fixing
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  Speaker 2: her love life.
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  Speaker 1: So it seems like you have a lot of subtopics
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  Speaker 1: run on in this book. Would view the idea of
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  Speaker 1: fixing Sophie realm.
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  Speaker 2: I always take things that are probably are happening in
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  Speaker 2: my life, and I felt like there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of like fractured things that I wasn't I was avoiding.
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  Speaker 2: I have an avoidant personality, So I was like, what
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  Speaker 2: happened if I put that in a character? Like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Sophie's characteristics and habits come from personal experiences.
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  Speaker 2: And since Sophie was in dating Jesse Brown and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of my readers felt like Sophie didn't get her
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  Speaker 2: redemption story. I felt like I needed to help her
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  Speaker 2: out with that a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So since we're talking about personal experiences, this is
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  Speaker 1: your eighth book. So when did you write your first book?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I wrote my first book when I was like
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  Speaker 2: in the sixth or seventh grade. I entered in a
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  Speaker 2: young Author's competition and it was about a black eyed pea. Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: I still don't eat black eyed peas, but I had
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  Speaker 2: a big imagination and I wrote a mean ip. But
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  Speaker 2: I published my first book and twenty I want to say,
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, mean black eyed pea, you're not yourself. I don't
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  Speaker 1: do black either. I don't too. I can't. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everybody says on New Years you're supposed to have the
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  Speaker 1: black eyed peace. It's so it's like just that.
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  Speaker 2: I make them, but I don't eat them. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't, dude, not for me, Not for me. So
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  Speaker 1: you started when you were six, Okay, so what is
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  Speaker 1: your goal for writing? Do you write for relaxation. Do
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  Speaker 1: you write to just to resolve problems or I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what is your reason to write.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not much of a talker, which is probably why
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  Speaker 2: I don't do a lot of podcasts, and I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I write out my I love journaling, and I
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  Speaker 2: went to school for playwriting, and I realized that I
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  Speaker 2: had a lot more to say between the lines, so
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  Speaker 2: I felt like I needed a different outlet. And writing
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  Speaker 2: gives me that it's a form of therapy because I
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  Speaker 2: can take a situation and that I have been in
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  Speaker 2: and manipulated to how I either it could have come
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  Speaker 2: out or how I wanted it to come out.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people do that, and for me,
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  Speaker 1: journaling is now becoming something.
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  Speaker 3: That I do.
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  Speaker 1: And I never knew how relaxing it was. But then
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  Speaker 1: on the flip side, I never knew how much it
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  Speaker 1: brings up other things that I want to think to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. So how do you handle that? Like you're
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  Speaker 1: writing one thing, but then something else comes to mind,
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  Speaker 1: how do you handle it?
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  Speaker 2: I put it to the side. I try to write
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  Speaker 2: down everything, like anything that I'm thinking about, anything that
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  Speaker 2: I can't express verbally, I put it in words. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's one sentence and sometimes there's one word. Actually started
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  Speaker 2: a journal entry a couple of months ago, and I
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  Speaker 2: wrote a whole book.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh boo ooh. So when you're writing,
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to be placed in that box of genres
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  Speaker 1: because we did speak about the genre of fixing Sofia Root,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about that in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But are you one of those authors that you want
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  Speaker 1: to always spread your wings or you want to say
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  Speaker 1: this is my genre box and this is what I'm
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  Speaker 1: sticking to. No.
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  Speaker 2: I I feel like my tagline is I'm a multi
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  Speaker 2: genre author. I don't like to be Boxton, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to try everything. Like last year I tried thrillers
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  Speaker 2: and I loved it so but most of my books
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  Speaker 2: have a magical element to it, and a few that's
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  Speaker 2: coming up they won't have a magical element. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying different things. So I don't like to be boxed
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  Speaker 2: into one genre.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love that. I love that hood
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  Speaker 1: Magic is hood magic because when I read that these synopsis,
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  Speaker 1: I can think of what this hood magic? Now?
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  Speaker 3: I know hood you know, I've seen that every day,
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  Speaker 3: But now you're trying to put magic in it too,
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  Speaker 3: and so all I'm thinking is a drug dealer on
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  Speaker 3: the corner, like hey, you know it's please tell me
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  Speaker 3: what is So I.
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  Speaker 2: Wrote this bio after I wrote because I'm from the hood,
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  Speaker 2: like I grew up in the projects. Like my fiance
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  Speaker 2: caused me her pet baby, but I don't necessarily people
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  Speaker 2: when people look at me, they don't think that. So
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  Speaker 2: and my fiance is very like total parl or opposite
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  Speaker 2: of me, Like I'm like, what does that mean? What
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  Speaker 2: are you saying? Like, so she's like, I think you
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  Speaker 2: should write an urban novel, and I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's me. And then I wrote it and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, I could do this. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: I think it was just a spin on the way
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  Speaker 2: that I said magical realism because I don't really write.
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  Speaker 2: I don't world build. I'm not your conventional fantasy author.
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  Speaker 2: I don't go you know, you're not going to go
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  Speaker 2: to a different land or whatever. You're in the backyard.
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  Speaker 2: You're in Connecticut, in the hood. There's hoods in Connecticut,
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  Speaker 2: and you're in Alabama, or you're in Atlanta or New
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  Speaker 2: Jersey or something like that. So it's not like the conventional.
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  Speaker 2: So that was just like a little funny thing that
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  Speaker 2: I slid in there. We have. It's an inside joke
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  Speaker 2: persuing me and my fiance.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's kid. I really loved it because that
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  Speaker 1: as you can tell me, it's a reader. I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: now what is hood Magic?
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  Speaker 2: That mean?
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  Speaker 1: You want to say? Okay, let me go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: grab this book real quick because somebody going to splain
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  Speaker 1: into me hood Magic.
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  Speaker 2: Not that it's not out yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because it's not out yet, we can get the
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  Speaker 1: first here, so you okay. So Sophia and she needs
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  Speaker 1: fixing mm hmm. Without giving the book away, what is
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  Speaker 1: she running from or what does she need fixing?
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  Speaker 2: She's running from everything her that she her destiny. She's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be in her hometown doing what her people do.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like my family is from South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: so it's got a lot of like deep Southern roots
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  Speaker 2: to it. So it's just basically she's running from love,
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  Speaker 2: she's running from her destiny, she's running from herself. She
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  Speaker 2: just doesn't want it, any of it. She wants to
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  Speaker 2: live a free like she's like a I would say,
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  Speaker 2: like not like A. I don't think gypsy is the
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  Speaker 2: right word. I think that is not even politically correct anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But she's like a nomad and she has she just
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  Speaker 2: wants to be free.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So my next question to you would be what
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  Speaker 1: part of this character is so similar to you.
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  Speaker 2: I think the aspect of I pour into everybody, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't take time to pour into myself.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, girl, girl, that is the girl you just knocked
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  Speaker 1: on my door. How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? And we all do it?
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  Speaker 1: Have you saw that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, I haven't because in my mind, I'm a mom first,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm a fiance, a spouse. First, I have
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  Speaker 2: to take I'm the matriarch. I have to take care
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  Speaker 2: of everybody, so even down to my siblings and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm the baby like so's it's hard, especially being
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  Speaker 2: a black woman, you know, and I have I have
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  Speaker 2: a higher position in my job. So it's just like
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  Speaker 2: I was just pour into all these places. So I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I poured myself into these characters, and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: I get some relief from that. And Soda readers, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: My god, like I feel you when you say that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a mom. I have a twenty three
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  Speaker 1: year old and my baby girl, Happy Birthday and Naya
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  Speaker 1: have you read Yeah, it's gonna be eleven tomorrow, eleven
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  Speaker 1: going on thirty five.
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  Speaker 2: God, I have one of those.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody want us something? Why this should be a book?
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  Speaker 1: Say your life is about turn up by now? But
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  Speaker 1: and I totally truly do understand where you're coming from
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  Speaker 1: relationship wise, working my daughter, my son is a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and so I can see you trying to find relief
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  Speaker 1: in your character. So I'm gonna ask did you find it?
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  Speaker 2: I think that I founded more in dating Jessica Brown
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  Speaker 2: the previous book than I did this tie this one happened. This,
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  Speaker 2: this fixing Sophie will have me like looking in turn
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  Speaker 2: and being like, okay, I need to But like in
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  Speaker 2: the aspect of love, I found that writing the previous book.
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  Speaker 1: So you have some questions from people who are listening. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: one one of our viewers the same, banking can be tough,
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  Speaker 1: But what ways do you unwind other than through writing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm a reader first, So I turned my audio
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  Speaker 2: book on, I put my headphones on, and I just
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  Speaker 2: take at least an hour thirty minutes before bedtime to
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  Speaker 2: myself to just like enjoy something outside of outside noise.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so what are you currently listening to?
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  Speaker 2: I'm currently listening to Danielle Allen's Big Girl Boots.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and I'm loving it.
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  Speaker 2: Yah.
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  Speaker 1: I have to write that one down. And another question
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  Speaker 1: is if you have someone who is just starting to journal,
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  Speaker 1: how should I recommend getting over the fear of being
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  Speaker 1: honest on paper?
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  Speaker 2: Why would you lie to yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Right? Why this is? You're pouring your heart out to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big step in vulnerability. But who else can
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  Speaker 2: you be vulnerable to if you can't be vulnerable to yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Mmm? Girl, you did that? Oh you did that? Oh
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, that was powerful, very powerful. This is woman's history, money, you.
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  Speaker 1: What does woman's history mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: Being able to honor the greats that came before me,
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  Speaker 2: being able to honor even like my lineage before me.
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  Speaker 2: Because especially fixing Sophie Rue is about like your ancestors
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  Speaker 2: and the women that came before you and stepping into
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  Speaker 2: those roles. So I think that Women's History Month is
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  Speaker 2: just a great way to honor us and those who
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  Speaker 2: came before us.
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  Speaker 1: So if you can honor that one woman, then you
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  Speaker 1: know what. I don't even want to narrow it down
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  Speaker 1: to one. If you can honor women or the men,
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  Speaker 1: who would they be and why?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, my grandmother's birthday is March eighteenth, and this book
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: is coming out on March eighteenth, and we lost her
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. She was the matrigar of
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  Speaker 2: our family and I dedicated Fixing Sophie Rue to her,
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  Speaker 2: and it's releasing on her birthday. So that is my
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  Speaker 2: ultimate honor to the best woman that I have ever met.
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  Speaker 2: I hope my mom doesn't see this, but no, like
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  Speaker 2: she used to tell me, like when I was little,
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  Speaker 2: that she was more my mother than my mother is,
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  Speaker 2: so that like resonated and stuck with me, and and
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  Speaker 2: she had nine kids. So I just feel like that
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  Speaker 2: if I had to pick one person, hands down, it
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  Speaker 2: would be my grandmother.
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  Speaker 1: I think. I think in the African American community, we
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  Speaker 1: do always always have that big Mama, big Mama, but
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: we still respect our mothers. It's not that we're not
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: respecting them, it's just something but something about the greenies,
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  Speaker 1: the big mosas, it's just something about them. And I
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  Speaker 1: my heart goes out to you. My grandma passed, but
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  Speaker 1: I still remember all the memories my Grandmama special her
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  Speaker 1: calling me, uh, she's called us downe behind. We knew
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  Speaker 1: she loved us, but she couldn't get out there right.
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  Speaker 1: She would look us dad in the face and be like, Ashley, Candice,
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  Speaker 1: you you're done behind you see me talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be like we're still standing there like were moving
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  Speaker 1: until you call.
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  Speaker 3: It right now.
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  Speaker 1: That's hey. I love Mi Granting too. So remember I
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  Speaker 1: told you we had those fun questions. Yes, oh, it's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: time for you, my friend, to sit in the hot
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  Speaker 1: seat and get ready for those fun questions all ready.
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  Speaker 1: So we have Sophie. Okay, lifetime is on the line.
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  Speaker 1: They picked up your book. They love it. They said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make the to a movie, but
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  Speaker 1: we gotta cast the characters who would play soap and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: why did you choose that person? But the thing is
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: they have to be an R and B artist from
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the nineties.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean she's a little the first person I'm
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: just gonna say the first person that comes to mind.
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  Speaker 2: But she's a little older. But if she was back
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: when she was out, I would say, Joe Scott.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Ooh ooh, did you listen to her new CD?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I haven't listened to the whole thing. I'm in these
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  Speaker 2: book trench itself, but I'm gonna give it a lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, or her tiny desk I saw her was beautiful? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: why Chill Scott?
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  Speaker 2: Because Sophie's this like, although she's got all these issues,
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  Speaker 2: she's still very positive and she holds herself to a
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  Speaker 2: standard and she is a plus sized woman and she's
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  Speaker 2: just vibrant and people love her and she's magnetic. So
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Joe Scott I relates that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so Lifetime call you say, Okay, I want Jill Scott.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: It's okay, we can need Jill Scott. Jill Scott done.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: But now every good movie has to have that title soundtrack?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: What song will be the soundtrack for Fixing Sophie Ruth?
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, I will say, you can choose
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  Speaker 1: any song you want.
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  Speaker 2: I would say Damaged by Her?
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  Speaker 1: Hr Oh, that's a serious song. Why did you choose
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  Speaker 1: that one?
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  Speaker 2: Because I mean, like, so obviously there's a love interest
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: in the book, but Sophie and Kaya are both apprehensive
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: about this, and they I wouldn't say they're faded mates,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: but it's in their charts. They're supposed to be together.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: But they're so like, if you, if you do, if
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: we do this, don't break my heart? And I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that song like says that it surely does.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: All right, So we got damaged by her Jill Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know, we always got to have that love interest.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: So we have Kya who will play her? But it
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  Speaker 1: has to be an actress.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, oh my god, what is her name?
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  Speaker 2: She created the shy Oh my god, I can't think
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  Speaker 2: of her name not.
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  Speaker 1: Probably always think lead away, okay, And why did you
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  Speaker 1: choose her?
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  Speaker 2: Because if I ever met her, and if I ever
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: had a hall pass, I would try it.
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  Speaker 1: I love your honesty. She's like, if I get a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: hall pass, I'm going for a girl. You go, oh
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: my god, you go. Okay. So we got the hall pass,
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  Speaker 1: we got this home, we got the actresses. Lifetime loved
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: it all and they say, you know what, now we
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: want to do a biopic of you. Who would you
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: give Yona a playing you in your valu?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Pick? Can I pick myself? I went to school for theater.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Listen, Mody, you know you the best, So why would
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you choose you?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: You know what? I probably wouldn't choose me. I feel
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: like I love the I love acting because I can
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: be somebody else. So let me think, let me rethink this.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I would I think she's much older than me, but
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I admire and adore her. But I would pick Viola Davis.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and why.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Because she's just.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: It.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: She's that like, especially her her last acceptance speech that
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: like resonated with me. And I feel like playing all
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the roles that I wish that I could play like
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I just I admire her, like I look up to her,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Like she's brilliant and she just wrote a book. So yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: like she's yeah with John John Gersha, did she or
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: James Patterson one of those big names.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: What, I'm happy to go find him. It's the vag
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: she champions people like when she talks, you have no
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: choice to be. It's crazy zoo. We are down to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the wire, girl. But you know we gotta get the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: run down. So tell us how we can follow you,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: how we can get your book when it comes out,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: where we can purchase. Just give us the run now.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: So Fixing for is on It will be available March eighteenth.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: It'll be on Ku. The audio book is with the
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: engineer right now, so we're gonna see come down to
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the wire, but that'll be out too, and it'll be
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: exclusive to Audible. So Amazon. The paperbacks are on Bookshop,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Gardens and Nobles, all the major platforms and stuff for
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the e book obviously, that's just on Amazon. My socials
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: usually can just look up t Ashley's author t Ashley.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: What else my website is author t Ashley dot net.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I have not put this paper book up there yet
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: because I haven't a couple of events coming up and
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I don't want to put those on the website. But
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: sign paperbacks will be up soon on my website, author
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: t Ashley. I think I said that.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you guys looking at the bottom of the screen.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: All our information had some scrolling at the bottom of
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: the screen. You guys don't want to not grab this one?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Can we pre order?
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: You can pre order and if you're on net Galley,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: it's on there also for our readers.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And I just started Nick Galley, like I'm working at
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the library for so long and I really never paid
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: attention to Nick. CALLI there's a reason why y'all aren't
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a Why do I need to tell y'all why? I
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: guess I'll tell y'all why they didn't have much African
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: American books.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: But there are ways for us to get up there
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: without a publisher. So hopefully I'll be able to like
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: get on Live or something and tell people how to
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: do that, because there's ways.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Please tell me if you could send me some information
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: about that, well, couple of authors who wanted to do that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, let me tell you craziness. Biola Davids is
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: from Saint Matter Soul. Look at all this excellence.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: I did not know.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: We just very can't see that, you guys.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I know Jesse was from South Carolina. I did not
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: know that. But yo is crazy.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: One is this.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I actually do a little segment of all the people
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: from South Carolina, I think.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: But when.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: It comes to the big publishers, and this is one
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: of the reasons why I do what I do, there
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: is not much recognitions for African American books. I remember
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: one time I was using a very popular reader's advisory
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: tools that we use in the library. I put in
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: urban fiction. It brought up a Cowboy book. What and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the reason why? It brought up the Cowboy book? The
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Cowboy book said urban Cowboy? Oh okay, all right, And
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I thought I was seeing things. And I went to
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a training class a couple of months after and we
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: did it in front of everybody, and it did it again.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: So I really would love that information to get these
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: books out there. So I would tell you now, congratulations
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: on your best seller speaking into existence for you. I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: know I'm going to grab a copy. I have KU
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: so I am going to baby can't wait for Fixing
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Sophie Room. I know I'm going to grab a copy.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I have Kendle Unlimited. I'm going to grab it and
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to read it. And you guys go grab
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: your copies. March eighteenth, on Grandma's birthday, y'all go ahead
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and support Mss t Ashley here and I thank you
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: for being on the show, sweetheart, Thank you for having me.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. It was awesome. See you guys.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Y'all.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Look, we're on another Tuesday night and we had this
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: great author with this great book. You guys, go grab
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Fixing Sophie Ruth by author t Ashley. That's going to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: be out March eighteenth, So go ahead and write that
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: day down in the calendar so you can go ahead
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: and grab your copy because I will and join me
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: next week where i