Latest / DA CREW Podcast / SEASON2 EPISODE_124_DA CREW PODCAST_HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL

Transcript

SEASON2 EPISODE_124_DA CREW PODCAST_HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to another episode of the Proofs.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: I am your.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Visionary Queen Angela. And if you are a diva that's
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: looking to amplify your boys and you're looking for a whole,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: we have faith for you. Come on over and join them.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Diva up Yellowy and amplify.
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: Your person nurses, All things ain't what things, you stupid?
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: Where has in all the blue sky's boot boys and
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: blues from the North and somethings well, persons, all things
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: ain't what they used to know.
• 1:08
  Speaker 4: At Wings of Transformation Publishing, we are committed to helping
• 1:12
  Speaker 4: our authors reach their goals and pursue their dreams of
• 1:15
  Speaker 4: becoming published authors. We work closely with each author to
• 1:19
  Speaker 4: ensure a successful publishing experience, and we are dedicated to
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: helping them tell their stories in the most meaningful and
• 1:26
  Speaker 4: impactful ways. We look forward to putting you on the
• 1:30
  Speaker 4: path to writing your book.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's your girl s see book Galt eight
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: four three, And we are back with another Saturday Night,
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: new author, new book. But there's a little twist in
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: this one, you guys. These books are for our babies
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: at see book out and friends celebrate in the month
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: of August. Nothing but children's books. So every author you
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: will hear this month as a children's book author, And
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: for me, you have to have some talent to write
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: a children's books because those are the people are very opinionated. Okay,
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: So I am so honored in thrill to have Missus
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: Johnson with this tonight and she's gonna talk about her
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: journey of being a children's author and just being an
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: author period. So come on up, Missus Johnson.
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: I'm doing How are you doing?
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: I am great? How are you?
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: I am doing well?
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: All right, So first welcome, Now tell us a little
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: bit about yourself.
• 3:44
  Speaker 5: Okay, well, wow, it's I started actually our I love
• 3:51
  Speaker 5: to read. Not sure I know we were we've been
• 3:55
  Speaker 5: friends for a while, but yeah, I love to read.
• 3:59
  Speaker 5: And then when I got on Facebook and Amazon. I
• 4:02
  Speaker 5: found Amazon, I put in At the time my favorite
• 4:09
  Speaker 5: genre was just uh, you know, for like fantasy, paranormal
• 4:15
  Speaker 5: and stuff like that. But so I put in fantasy
• 4:17
  Speaker 5: paranormal by black women authors, and yeah, and I've been
• 4:22
  Speaker 5: loving to read since I was young, young, but that
• 4:25
  Speaker 5: that was that was favorite. And then what I did
• 4:29
  Speaker 5: was I just started. Amazon took me on a world win,
• 4:36
  Speaker 5: took me to that. It also took me to black women,
• 4:39
  Speaker 5: multicultural authors who write about you know, different black women
• 4:43
  Speaker 5: with different relationships and I love that. So and I
• 4:46
  Speaker 5: got a whole bunch of friends on Facebook. I met
• 4:48
  Speaker 5: a whole bunch of author friends on Facebook for that.
• 4:51
  Speaker 5: And then I started to promote and it was just
• 4:55
  Speaker 5: you know, to win Amazon stuff, you know, or prizes.
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: And then I'm like, huh, is there a market for this?
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: And then I got saw some promoters and I'm like,
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: I can do this. This is easy. Well for me,
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: it was easy.
• 5:09
  Speaker 5: Plus I was uh working like nights in the hospital,
• 5:13
  Speaker 5: so when it was slow, boom, you know.
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: So that's that's how I got into all of that.
• 5:19
  Speaker 5: And then I started having a podcast myself.
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: From some some people I met on Facebook. We were
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: we were talking these business and I had that for
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: a little bit. I think that's where I met you.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, you were, dude you So that was good and I.
• 5:40
  Speaker 5: Started to take a change, you know, change of everything.
• 5:48
  Speaker 5: And you know, my very close friend of mine and
• 5:51
  Speaker 5: she's a sister, we're like sisters. I call her my
• 5:54
  Speaker 5: spiritual sister now because our relationship we just grew from
• 5:58
  Speaker 5: friends to something deep.
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: And when I was at the job I was at.
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: I was I was moving to a lateral.
• 6:06
  Speaker 5: Position and I was kind of bummed because I didn't
• 6:10
  Speaker 5: do too well in that first position. And we were
• 6:13
  Speaker 5: talking about that and then she you know, she's a prophet,
• 6:17
  Speaker 5: prophet as I should say, and she said, do you
• 6:20
  Speaker 5: like you know cats or do you like.
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: For and this is for my children's book, and she
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: said do you like cats?
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like cats.
• 6:29
  Speaker 5: I didn't know how she knew that, because I never
• 6:30
  Speaker 5: told her that. And then she she said, I see
• 6:33
  Speaker 5: you writing a children's book. And I see you writing
• 6:39
  Speaker 5: you know, it's going to be like a series or something.
• 6:42
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, uh, And I didn't even think of that.
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: I looked at kind of looked at it.
• 6:46
  Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, how to okay, you know, and so
• 6:51
  Speaker 5: we hung up. In a day later, I started writing.
• 6:54
  Speaker 5: And then I already knew my illustrator because he's an
• 6:58
  Speaker 5: author himself, and I met him when I was in
• 7:03
  Speaker 5: a black like author of color group for you know,
• 7:06
  Speaker 5: fantasy and stuff like that, and I knew he did
• 7:10
  Speaker 5: he did uh uh, he did the creative, the drawings
• 7:17
  Speaker 5: and it's not called drawings, but he knew he was illustrator,
• 7:19
  Speaker 5: see I can't do. So that night when I started
• 7:25
  Speaker 5: talking about that, excuse me to him and I asked
• 7:29
  Speaker 5: sim all about it, and then I'm like, okay, well
• 7:31
  Speaker 5: are you open because I've seen his work, so I'm
• 7:36
  Speaker 5: like okay.
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: And that's how that started. So that was, you know,
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: having a children's book was something new.
• 7:45
  Speaker 5: I just jumped into that, not jump in, but I
• 7:49
  Speaker 5: just came into it. And and uh, nave shout out
• 7:53
  Speaker 5: to Navi. He's my illustrator.
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: He just he he's been.
• 7:57
  Speaker 5: He gave me inside, he saw my vision, and he's
• 8:00
  Speaker 5: done like other projects for me, so I knew he
• 8:03
  Speaker 5: was connected with me.
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: So that's how that started. As far as my children's book.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: So we're going to come back to that illustrator because
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: I really don't think that we give them enough credit
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: when it comes to these children's books. How does it
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: feel to be an African American author of a children's book?
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: So let me tell you a little bit of background.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: I work at a library. Okay, when my son was young,
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: my son is now twenty one. There was no offense everyone,
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: but there was the white kid and the dog. Okay,
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: always the little white little boy or the White Little
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: Girl and the Dog, but there were hardly any books
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: of color. Now that I have my nine year old daughter,
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: I can't stop looking at them. They are all over
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: the place, and I'm so happy for the diversity. So
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: how do you feel being a part of that change.
• 9:04
  Speaker 5: It's it's I feel great. I'm glad I can help
• 9:08
  Speaker 5: with that. It's surreal. It's just, you know, I'm one
• 9:15
  Speaker 5: of them that would do would say that too. You know, Hey,
• 9:21
  Speaker 5: I need color, you know, I want my you know,
• 9:25
  Speaker 5: I want you know, characters that are related to children
• 9:28
  Speaker 5: can relate to all children can relate, you know.
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: So I'm glad I I you know, I I never thought.
• 9:35
  Speaker 5: I would be in but I would be one of
• 9:38
  Speaker 5: the people be like, okay, well I need any African
• 9:41
  Speaker 5: American authors, which one?
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: So it was so I'm glad I can be a
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: part of that, and I'm glad I can reach people.
• 9:51
  Speaker 5: And I'm glad I'm going to be able to reach
• 9:53
  Speaker 5: more people because it's important.
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: It's definitely important. And even me writing this book, it
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: was like.
• 10:05
  Speaker 5: I wanted to make sure it was one like simple
• 10:09
  Speaker 5: in a form like I'm not deep, you know, but
• 10:12
  Speaker 5: I'm also you know, symbolically representing the black family, symbolically representing.
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: Black children with imaginations that are deep, that can be deep,
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: and then use that to help the family or help
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: their community.
• 10:33
  Speaker 5: I wanted to symbolically like that. And I don't even
• 10:35
  Speaker 5: know if I expressed that when I was writing. I
• 10:37
  Speaker 5: just said, hey, look, I'm doing this.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 10:40
  Speaker 5: So, and I wanted to make sure it was family
• 10:43
  Speaker 5: so everyone can read it and it's not you know
• 10:46
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying. They don't have to worry about Oh
• 10:49
  Speaker 5: should I what is this topic about?
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: You know? So?
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the book banning totally totally understand it. Yeah, I don't.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: I don't believe in book pending. I call it conversation starters. Right,
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: I love it. If your book has that big question mark,
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: soon someone's face, you've got a whole new fan for life.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: If there, you're gonna dig and go into that rabbit
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: hole until you figure everything out. So tell us a
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: little bit about your children's book series.
• 11:25
  Speaker 5: Well, it's this is the book one a guitar and
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: sprinkles back your adventure. It's about a little girl that
• 11:31
  Speaker 5: has an imagination that you know, with her cat, her kitten,
• 11:35
  Speaker 5: sprinkles and it's gonna be it's gonna be deep like that,
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: just her imagination. She's gonna meet new friends.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: I'm trying not to give away difference in the series.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: She's gonna meet new friends.
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: The cat's gonna meet new friends, and they're all gonna
• 11:51
  Speaker 5: be it's all gonna be, you know, great. And I'm
• 11:56
  Speaker 5: even thinking about having a take a take off after
• 11:59
  Speaker 5: that that series from like two of the friends that
• 12:02
  Speaker 5: they meet.
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: So I have all these ideas in my head.
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: So it's it's good, it's it's you know, it's interesting
• 12:10
  Speaker 5: because I never thought i'd be writing a children's book,
• 12:15
  Speaker 5: you know, I've never even imagined until it was given
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: to me.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: So yeah, so your illustrator, you say his name is
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: nob Navi.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: Navi, Yes, that is his name. He is on Facebook.
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: I'll send you the the his Facebook name.
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: He is great. I've known him for years and he's
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: he captures.
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: He helped me too. Uh, he is.
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: He has he if you can get it, because I
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: know he's very busy with his books and everything going
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: on he's doing. But he is great. He is very
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: and he's great at what he's done. He's great at
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: helping you know, authors see their vision or any type
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: of you know, any type of vision that you have
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: for him, he's going to do that. He's going to
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: try and do that and it and one thing about
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: I liked what he did is you want to match
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: your illustrator with you. It's important that you guys work
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: together so he can see he or she can see
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: your vision. If they can't, you need to go to
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: somebody who can. So you know, if he didn't see
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: my vision, I would you know what I'm saying, I
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: would have gone to somebody else. I would you know,
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: obviously made him say, you know, still recommended him. But
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: you know, he's very honest like that, He's very he
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: wants to help, you know, And.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was going to ask you, Like,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: how how was the relationship between you and your illustrator?
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: So thank you. I would think that it would be
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: very important to have a great relationship with them.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you can, you know, you just have to.
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: You know, that's important. If you guys aren't seeing eye
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: to eye, then you know, don't I would go move
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: on to another illustrator. You know what I'm saying, Uh,
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: definitely you have to.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: They have to.
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: You have to see eye to eye to them. You
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: have to have a little bit of a connection. You
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: cannot you know, you can't go to some like be like,
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: oh hey, how you doing.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: This is what I need. I'll get back to you
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: some other times.
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: You know, this is something where this is a business
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: relationship where you guys have to see eye to eye
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: about this. This isn't a this isn't a short term
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: Well in that sense, you don't want a short term thing,
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: You want to have that connection. So you guys are
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: both on the same page.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: So which was harder the character, the cover or the illustrations?
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Which one racked to your nerves?
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Honestly, that wasn't those were those came flowed smoothly. Really,
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: I will tell you something.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: I will be totally transparent because I want other authors
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: and to know this. Getting it upgraded on Ingram Spark was.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Oh little.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: I had to get once again and and you know,
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: Navi shout out to Navi, he's great.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: I had to get Navy to do it for me.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: I had to get my publisher for or I.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: First I asked my publisher for my other for my
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: devotional to see if he could do it with for me,
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: because it was like you had to write a you
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: had to watch a YouTube on how to upgrade ingram
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: sparks and I'm like how to up uploaded on there?
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I do not have time for that,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm busy. I'm like, nab, I'll pay you, just.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Just do it. Yeah, yeah, go ahead, No, no, no,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, so you have a publisher, do
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: you felt that that was easy a good fit for
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: you or did you ever look to the world of
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: self publishing?
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: So for me, this is just me.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: I'm not a d I wire on things like that.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: When I even I met my publisher for my my
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: devotional on Facebook, you know, and he's he's been doing
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: and he's been great.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: But I am not.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: I know the process and I as you know, I've
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: interviewed other office authors and they told us the process.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: And if I would have had if I would have
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: probably had another Uh. If I was in a different place,
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: I may be able to do a self publishing. But
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: that's just anything that's gonna take that much time, which
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: is good, that's good. I'd rather have like professional do it,
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying shout out to all those
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: authors that self published, because let me tell you, you
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: guys are great.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Just me.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I know I'm going to get frustrated, you know, and
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it'd be like one little, small, little thing, and then
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I'll just get frustrated and give up. So I said,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: let me go a different way.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Let me go to a small publishing company or a
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: indie publishing company and take it from there.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: You know, understandable, understandable. So let's step into the world
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: of promoting. Do you feel that it is hard to
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: find an audience for your book or is it just
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: as easy as in your other books have you written?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: No, it is hard. I need my and even though
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I'm a promoter. You're gonna laugh at this.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: I have not promoted my I have someone promoting my books,
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: but I haven't tooken the time to really market it
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: really well. I need to step it up, step up
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: my marketing game.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: It is very hard.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: That's a whole new you know, getting a published being
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: a published author. You need to done publish your your
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: books and then you have to market. That's two jobs
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: you're doing, and that is hard.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I'm still balancing my full time job, you know. I do.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Even though my son is is in his twenties, I'm
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: still helping him a lot, you know, I'm still doing
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: all this other stuff, so marketing kind of takes a
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: back seat, which I need to step up my game.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: With that understandable. So what would be your dream for
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: your book?
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: My dream, and I say this, is to reach as
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: many children of any family as the stars in the sky.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I want to reach them, not just you know, don't
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: get me wrong.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Making a profit is great, but I want children to
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: be able to read this, understand it, and be excited.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I like the I like
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: them smiling.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, you know, yes, that that makes a lot of sense,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of sense. So who would be your age
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: for your book?
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Are you.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Elementary school, middle grade or Okay, let me rechange that
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: because there's another group I keep forgetting. Are you elementary school, tweens,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: middle grade or high Now from the little bit that
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I saw, I thought.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Tween in my two all yeah, it's seven and under.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: It's you know, yes, seven and under.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: A few books on a few words on a page each,
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: the picture, the book, the story, the illustrator tells the story,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: the illustration, excuse me. The illustration tells the story, well
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: tells the majority of the story. Uh, that's that's who
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: I'm reaching. Seven and under that elementary kindergarten. So from
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: you know, so basically from toddler up to you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: elementary school.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I believe that is that all that is?
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: The story time eight?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Yes, the storytell of age and anyone can yeah, yeah,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: anyone can read it and anyone you know, that's fine.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: But that's who I'm that's the target audience.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Have you ever had the opportunity to read your book
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to a group of students?
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Not as of yet.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I got to work, So we're gonna take a break
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: real quick. If we're gonna come back and we get
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to have some fun questions, you guys, make sure you
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: come back. And also you might want to check the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: blall this week of sc Book Gallson ted Friends because
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you may have an opportunity to get your ferry on copy.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: But remember you gotta be on Scbookgalsandfriends dot com to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: win that copy. So we're gonna take a break and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: we'll be back. You guys.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Got sixty seconds take a mental health minute to learn
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: about depression disorders they call symptoms that affect how you feel,
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: how you think, and how you handle daily life. Depression
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: should be treated by health professionals. Don't try to handle
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: it alone or treat it with alcohol or illegal drugs.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Treatments include psychotherapy or talk therapy, medication, and sometimes brain
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: stimulation therapy. These treatments may also be used in combination
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: with one another. If you think you might have depression,
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: talk to a trusted friend, family member, or healthcare provider.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: The earlier treatment begins, the more effective it is. Learn
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: more about depression through the NIMH website and take sixty
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: seconds to share this Mental Health minute to help someone else.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, you guys. So this is my fun time.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: All of my authors, I give them a set of questions,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and these questions are way we used to engate. But
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the second half I loved my authors to think off
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the top of their heads. So my question to you
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: would be who if your book was turned into an
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: audio book, who would you want to read?
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Hmmm, that's that's a good question. So my children's book,
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: obviously it would be a child.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Uh if we can do a child that's either older,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: elementary or middle school, just to make sure, only just
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: to make sure that it's understood. You know, something like that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: That's but a very you know, uh uh. A girl
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: with a great.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Voice and well, a great animated voice who's very excited.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Because my my character Katara, she's all she's gung ho,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: she's she's excited.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: So I need that energy.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: So if you can pick a child star, who would
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: it be?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: I never you know what, I never even thought of that.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: I may have to give back to you on that.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: That's a good idea.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Let me see, I was thinking Kyla Pratt, she does
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the voice of Penny Proud.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay, you know what I was thinking her. She's yes,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: she's good, she's good. And I used to watch that
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: with my son when he was younger. You know what
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: I'm saying.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Hmmm, someone says Haris Harris. Oh yeah, I did see her, Yes,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you guys, I sat there and watched the BET Awards. Please,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I want that time back of my life. Her in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: that little girl who did the duet together. They were
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: so cute and they were so animate. Harris Harris Harris
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: is t I and Tiny's youngest daughter. Okay, yes, you
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: know what.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I remember seeing her when she was a baby and
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: he was she.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Was driving that car, toddlers driving that car. I haven't
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: heard her lately, but I'll have to off to look
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: her up.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Ye have some talent on her. Okay. So if you
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: had to use an older woman's voice to just narrow
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: a narrow in case it had a mother role, a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: mother in your book, who would you want to play
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: that mother?
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Gosh, these hard I haven't even thought of it. Let
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: me see mothering voice. Shoot, I have somebody in my head.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, Loretta Devine.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Yes, she's good. She yes, definitely got that mother uh,
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: mothering voice?
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: You know who else? I was thinking? Yeah, she has
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: range and I know she could do it. Oh god,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: what's her name? Not not her?
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: She plays this character. No, she can't use this voice
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: for for the mom. But she plays Cookie and what's that?
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: And you know who I'm talking about? Not that, not Cookie?
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: Not her?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: She she there is a movie out where she plays
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: karate kid. She does play a mother and karate kids, right,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: that's matter of fact. Her book just hit our library.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, she has a children's book, so like everybody's
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: writing children, Yes, okay, when you read your book, what
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: children's song comes to mind?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: That's good? You know what.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: I was looking at a song to advertise the book
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: for and I hmm, it's hmm.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, the one from.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Curious George, the the that the uh the one that
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: the song you know, you know what I'm saying. It's
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: like key not not the not the one that we
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: grew up with, or not the one that was back
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: in the day, the one from the movie.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: It's maybe that one. I'll have to send it to you.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I can't even think about it. Yes, it was. It
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: was animated, of course, come out.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: It came out when like, because my son's in his
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: twenties too, so when our our our sons were young. Shoot,
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: it's it's you'll hear you can It's not something popular,
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: but I figured something like that, something nice and fun,
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: you know, because you know she's gonna be getting into
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: a lot of adventures and stuff like that.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, so let's see what type of uh
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: cartoon shows or children's television. Did your son look it?
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: He did.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: He looked at doory Xplorer and that and it's and
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: it was before Diego came out. But when Diego came out,
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: he watched that. He liked blukes CU's Blues clues, I
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: can't club He liked Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, the one, the
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: animated one, not the one we grew with.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: What else did he like? And then? Oh, of course
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Sesame Street he liked almost world.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: My child the only one that could not get into
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Sesame Street he was not. My son was into the Wiggles.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, my son liked the Wiggles too. And that
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: now see that helped, like, helped keep me moving when
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I was dancing. You know what I'm saying. I did
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: to dance. That's a good workout too. What else he like?
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: There was one more he liked really a lot. Oh
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: goa Gola Island.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: That is my show? Nick Jr.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Was Nick Junior.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: The show's on, Nick Junr. He liked he liked that
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: octopus Oswald?
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Uh Oswald, Yes, my friend, that is awesome. So if
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you can choose a children television of today, who would
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: be your go to? If you had your grant and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: you say we're gonna watch televisions, Come on, let's look
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: at this. Who would be your go to?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: What's that show? What's that new anime?
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: It's an animated show for little kids and they're they're
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: they're teaching them ABC's and all this stuff.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: But they're it's it like in rhythm and they're dancing.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: You know what. I don't know not is it Greasy's corner?
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Is it Greasy's corner? I see?
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: I only see it when I'm watching like reels on
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: Facebook on tiktoks and they're always there.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: They have a good beat and everyone's.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I think it is corner. Yes, yes, I would have
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: them watch that.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: I would still see if we can find Sesame Street
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: because Sesame Street.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what it was about
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Sesame Street, but it got your learning, you know, Yes?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Because that one through three far five, six, seven night? Yes?
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Or what's the other one? Mommy was a quarter milk
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and a loaf of bread, a katina and milk. Yes,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: you still know that. I would like to thank you
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: for being with us tonight. But before you lead, HM,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: give everybody a chance to follow you. How they can
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: contact you. Why don't you just give us your social
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: media leaks?
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Okay, so you can reach me on Facebook. That's that's
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: where I'm on the most Facebook I do go on
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: to and that's Katar Johnson.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I We are friends, So just go to your friend
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: you know, looking up that one. I also on on.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: A god is see that's what happens when you work
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: all day. So on on Instagram, Instagram, I'm also there.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I am also on.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: I am Katara Johnson on YouTube too. But if you
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: really want to message me or reach out to me,
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: reach out to me for on Facebook because I'll be
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: that's where I check the most, so hit me up there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, well, thank you for being with us tonight, you guys.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I'll have all her social media links on her blog
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: posts of stibook Out and Friant And like I said
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: before we went to commercial, make sure you check the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: post this week. Now i'ma be honest. This week might
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: be a little slow for me because I'm getting ready
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: for a storm, but make sure you check the post.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: You may have a possibility of winning her book and
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: have a copy for the little person in your life.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you, miss Johnson for being with us to the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: connection it's made. You are now a part of the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: st Book gall of Friends and the Crew podcast family.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: So again, thank you for being with us tonight.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Oh thank you for having me. It's great connecting to
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: you again. It's great.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I love you, just f y I'm gonna shout you out.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: I got some free books from you over the years
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: from that your post when you say free books, it's
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: just great to see.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Full It's like full circle you. I was in you
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: and now you're interviewing me, and I love it, and
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I love that you've taken off like this. And we
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: will be keeping in touch because I'll be reaching out
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: I know that you just told me your profession, so
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: I kind of reach out to you next time I'm
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: in the state.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe you know that's something.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you, phill circle always going around. The circle never stops.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys for another Saturday Night. Next Saturday, new
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: children's book author. I will see you next Saturday, eight o'clock.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Good night everyone.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Bye.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us tonight. We hope you found
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: a new book to read or a new author to explore.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Join us again in two weeks for sc book gaals
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and friends chat. Have a good evening.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Bye,