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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_BONUS EPISODE_ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL (1) · DA CREW Podcast

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  there? Stuff to get in? Welcomed? Let me go deep deep deep
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  Oh, let me go. Hey everyone, So you know that saying they
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  say it was so nice you had to do it twice? Well, guess
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  what I have two authors this week. Okay, but we're gonna start off
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  with one of our offers today. Who a virgin? Who stole my heart?
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  Y'all? All I can say is go ahead and get your paper your
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  pencil and go ahead and add this to you to be readless or betty yet
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  if you want to, in which I think you should stop what you're reading
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  down and go ahead and grab this one. Okay, we are going to
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  have and we have miss McFarlane here with us tonight. Come on up,
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  girly, come on up and join us. How are you hey? How
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  are you today? I am good? How about you? Man? I
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  wanted to go for a walk, but then the sky's broke loose in Chauton
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  and it's stole like raining now. So yeah, I couldn't get my walking
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  challenge on today. So next tomorrow it's on double time. But I am
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  so proud that you are here with me today. And y'all, she got
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  a little jitter, so we're gonna be nice to her. But we're gonna
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  talk about this book. Okay, yes, but first tell us about yourself.
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  When I'm Carolyn, Hello, I am thirty three, and well i'll
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  be thirty three in June. Gemini gang, and I'm from ban Rouge,
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  Louisiana born and raised. So oh, I hear that accent. Everybody loves
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  my accent. I'm like going at I don't hear, but yeah, I'm
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  like, okay, but yeah. I've been writing for now going on three
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  years. I started out as as a reader, like I was reading like
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  over one hundred books a year, and my dream was to always write my
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  own books. So one day I just picked up the laptop and I just
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  started writing. And I didn't know the first thing about writing a book.
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  I didn't know how you weren't at a book, how you do anything with
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  a book. But I just started writing and putting stuff in chapters, and
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  I reached out to my publisher who I have now, which is John Nasa
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  Gray, and I was like, look, I just want you to read
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  over this, and you tell me if you feel like this is something that
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  I should, you know, continue on because if it's stupid, letting me
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  know. I want the real And she wrote me back so fast, she
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  was like, yeah, you need to finish this. You need to finish
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  it. I'm my girl, are you serious? And from then it has
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  been amazing. This whole journey has been amazing for me, and I have
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  been loving every single step, like just everything about it. I didn't know
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  within my first year it was going to take me places that it is taking
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  me but I am ever grateful and I just thank God for putting me in
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  position to be where I am now, and I see that is beautiful.
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  That is beautiful. So reader to writer, was that a big or even
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  a hard transition or was it like just smooth? It was really cool,
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  which I thought it was gonna be kind of difficult. It's kind of difficult
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  for me now because as much as I want to read, I can't because
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  I'm always working on something. So it's like I do take breaks in between
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  books and I will pick up, you know, a couple of books read
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  and show my supports to other authors, and I'll even give their books to
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  other people. You know. That's just my way of giving back and showing
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  love. You know what I'm saying, because I can't And I get it
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  now, you know what I'm saying. I just don't. I can't always
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  read everybody's stuff, So I find ways to support them, whether it's you
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  know, gifting the book, buying the book for myself, or you know,
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  sharing it, whatever I can do to help the next person. That's
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  just how I look at it. And that's great. And I love the
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  fact that you are helping out the authors because I really feel that. Sometimes
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  authors just feel like if I'm not talking about my book, I'm not talking
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  about nothing. It's like, no, you know, we all in this
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  together. Let's just you know, everybody can eat at the table as long
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  as everybody's doing their part at the table. So I love the fact that
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  you're doing that. But I'm gonna ask you this question. Okay, do
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  you feel that reading all readers can turn into authors, or even all authors
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  should be readers. I guess that's the two part questions. Let's take the
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  first one. Do you feel that all readers can become authors. I'm a
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  kind of answer that all in one. I feel like this. I feel
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  like anybody can be an author as long as you can if you put it
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  in your mind and say that I can do this, you got some tough
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  skin, you can do it. You have to be passionate about what you're
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  doing and you're not just thinking, oh, I'm just writing a book to
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  get a check or just because sometimes people do that they be thinking money wise
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  and they just putting anything out there. But I feel like anybody can write
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  a book, whether you're a reader or you're an author. If you got
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  the talent, go for it. That's just how I look at it,
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  all right, all right, so I love that. Now let's flip it
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  around. Do authors need to continue to be readers? Yeah? Okay,
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  I feel like you shouldn't stop something that you were passionate about doing before you
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  started actually writing. Everybody had to start off reading at some point. Whoa
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  you look at you at your dropping nuggets, girl, That is true.
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  That's literally how I feel like. I feel like you shouldn't stop one thing
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  because you made it for in that thing that you picked up. You know,
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  I would never stop reading because oh I'm writing now, it's just the
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  time thing. But I still find the time in between books or theories to
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  pick up somebody else's book and read. Yes, I really feel that authors
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  should still continue to be readers. Reason being is you want to stay in
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  touch with everything. I mean, you might not be writing whatever the hot
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  genre is at that point in time, but at least you are in touch
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  and still in the community because you just can't drop that book and then go
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  buy you an island and stay out there. You know what I'm saying.
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  You need to visit because you need to eat, you need to communicate,
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  you need to do all these things. So I love that. I love
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  that. So, yes, you about to go to this book here all
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  right? Now Romeo Romeo? Where art thou Romeo Romeo? So the subnopsis
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  that I read, we'll do that game leader. We're not gonna do that
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  game now, Tree, you gotta do that game leader? Who is Romeo?
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  Like? What what means you want to name him? No? Romeo
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  once? And why is streat king? Oh well, the correct pronunciation of
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  his name is Romero Row, Mirror, Julie. I'll give you a little
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  secret about me when it comes down to my books. All of my books
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  have a piece of my life in me. So some of the characters are
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  it's not so much as the person, but it's their personality. That's how
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  I get my characters. I don't use the people. I use their personality.
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  So it's people in my life but or somebody that's been in my life
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  before. There's a gem in every book about Carolynd and what Caroland has dealt
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  with. Yes, so Marrow, it is actually someone that I dated years
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  ago, so I use his personality and that's how I created the character from
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  maryl Now Passion it me. Passion is someone else, but it's their personality.
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  I can't say because I'm still in contact with that person, So you
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  know, I just use their personality. That's how I get my character is
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  Really, I'll be sitting here and it's crazy because I'll be sitting thinking like,
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  Okay, I'll get a name, and I'm like, how can I
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  format this character? Like? And I'll think about somebody in my life and
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  I'll be like, okay, what their personality is? Like it's so it
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  matches that character. So do you ever give that person the book to read?
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  Yeah, and they'd be like me, I'm like, but I'm like,
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  it is but yes. Now some of the characters. Majority of the
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  characters are made up because I have a wild imagination, but some of my
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  main characters are are people I've either dealt with, still in contact with,
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  or like I said, I just it is what I dreamed of you to
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  be. So give me a little bit more of the background of the book,
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  just a little bit, don't don't don't tell me much, just tease
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  me a little bit. Just so, is really like Romeri, your typical
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  street guy, you know what I'm saying, and he meets well, I
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  can't even see how I can tell you without actually telling, I would have
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  to tell you the book. I am ready to eat you gotta tell me.
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  It's like that is so crazy. Let it mold fast. That's the
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  thing. I will tell you that I love books like that. Yes,
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  I realized that it was like that book move face. It did. I
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  kind of typically liked to go slow burned into fast to kind of build the
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  character. But for some reason, they were in my head like, so
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  the more they were I was, yeah, and their whole relationship moved fast,
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  like and I'm talking a couple of weeks span, not just oh I
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  met you today, We get to know each other, you know, And
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  it did kind of happened in one of my relationships like that, like we
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  met and then in a couple of weeks we were together, and then a
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  couple of weeks after that we were moved in together. So it was just
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  like, you know, that's what I mean about using pieces of my life
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  in my books. And I think that's what makes it so exciting for me,
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  the life for me. Right, I made them move fast for a
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  reason. So when you read, yeah, so in part two it breaks
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  down everything. Yes, I had to break that book down. Okay,
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  Yeah, so fright wo is coming soon. Actually, I'm thinking within next
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  week. It should be. Okay, okay, okay, we're gonna take
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  a break because my my feelings are hurt. But we're gonna take a break.
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  And y'all know the game that I like to play, that's the character.
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  I need to give that this game a real title. I'm gonna think
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  about that next week. But we're gonna take a break. You guys,
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  we're coming back. Come back with us. Turn off the legs, light
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  a candle, tonightlemen a metant. Let's take a shower, shower together.
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  I was abandoned. You was not mad and somewhat wealthy, and say jays,
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  turn off the come to girl. I want to care of you.
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  What special treat You're so sweet? Turn all right, you guys, we
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  are back. We are back. So this section of the show, I
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  don't send these questions to you because I want you to think of your head.
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  Okay, but it's all concerning your characters. Okay. So if Passion
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  was a rap artist, we're gonna do rap and then we'll do R and
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  B. But if a Passion was a rap artist, who would she be?
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  Now I'm seeing Remy Ma, the one who was in love of pathy.
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  Yeah, that definitely her. Yeah, okay, okay, R and
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  B. Why I was thinking Monica, Yeah, not even heard. I
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  was just about maybe the old Keisha Cole okay, the one vibe. Yeah,
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  so we talk about I rather cheata Keisha Cool or were talking about sing
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  from Heaven Kisha Cool a mixture because she showed she shows up. Yeah,
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  ool, that's scary. Yeah, that's scary. That that's that's the Keisha
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  Cole miss the Eliott And I can't remember that song title, but that's the
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  mixture that I'm getting. Mm hmm. You with that one though, because
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  when I was reading the synopsis and I was like, the first thing,
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  can my mom is really mod? Like yeah, I could see her doing
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  this character. I could see her plainness. But then I started thinking king
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  uh Joscelyn. But then I heard her voice in my head and I'm like,
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  no, that's not that chill the whole character. Maybe one of her
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  friends is a Jocelyn. Oh god, why definitely not a Jocelin. She
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  is more. I would even give her an I would even give her a
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  Monica or mm hmm, okay, you know what I'm saying Yeah, she
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  seems like the type of chick like I'm gonna hold you down, but don't
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  play with me because you'll get your feelings hurt. Period. That's definitely like
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  who she is. She she was definitely like that. And you know,
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  I actually love passion character. I really did. It was a joy even
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  writing about her. I shocked myself because I was going one way with her
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  character and then I double began was like, don't even make her like a
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  little fought but then I'm gonna make her like, all right, I'm gonna
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  show you you can't play with me. See that's the type of books I
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  like. I mean, I don't have no problem when she falls in love
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  and then she becomes almoss. She in she she falls apart, but I
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  need her to build herself back up. Like that's some of the things that
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  I listening. It's funny that you say that because me and my publisher had
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  that conversation when I told her about this book. I told her I was
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  like, look, I don't want to make her the weak one thing.
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  You know what I'm saying. I kind of want to make her the I'm
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  She's been through some things in life, but it made her who she is
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  today one of those I know my work. Take none of your crap either.
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  Once I planned up, I'm not gonna be baked out. Oh character,
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  oh see see. Okay, okay, now let's say this name again.
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  Romero Romero. Mm hmmm. I'm getting the vibe of okay, well,
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  I'm looking at the if I'm going to movies now or TV. I'm
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  getting I'm getting meat from bmth. I have a meech in there. Kay,
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  okay, all right, and his character name in the book is okay,
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  all right, so right now my ask me of he's one of them
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  guys so well, like on the outside he's he's this, this, this,
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  h but on the in side he's a frosty that baby like if I
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  love you, I'm gonna submit to you kind of. But I wouldn't show
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  that to the street. Okay, So okay, okay. So I'm trying
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  to get the carricter in my head. I can't find somebody that's a thug
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  but has said the soft side. Oh, I think you might have me
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  stump. Oh Nelly, yeah, yeah, Nelly for shype, And you
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  know what that's kind of like, except for he didn't well, you didn't
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  really say, their relationship kind of resemble Nelly, not as much of what
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  Nelly did, but the kind of the how they are now. So okay,
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  okay, so okay, okay, because they do have a beautiful love
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  story. Even jerk, Nellie, you were jerk. You knew you were.
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  He will know. I don't like how he you know, and everybody
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  got their own they do. But the fact that y'all can't, y'all you
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  could truly see. I saw a meme that had him with someone else he
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  was dating, and him with a shanty and he showed all thirty two teeth
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  and then not yes, every time he break that out of him. That's
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  who he truly loves, no matter what they've been through. That's who he's
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  always wanted to be. Whenning, sometimes you end up having to spend the
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  block, but hey, yeah, none make sure block is worth spending these
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  days. Okay, So now let's go. If he was an r B
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  person, I would give him uh tyrese and only because of the characters that
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  he would be when he plays his movies. He plays thugged out characters.
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  But you gotta sitting on the back of the bus say in every movie,
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  never noticed it but I do get what you're saying though. Ludacris. Ludacris
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  is a number one. Oh my goodness, yes, I can see that.
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  I can see that all right. See look at this, y'all.
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  A virgin stole my heart. I'm telling you guys, go grab it.
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  It was released on Valentine's Day, yes, and it does not have that
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  Valentine's Day read Thank you Jesus. Well, tell us how can we follow
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  you on social media? Because we want to be there for part two?
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  Okay, so can you give us all your social media contacts and everything and
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  how you know readers can contact you if they would like to. Sure,
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  and you can hit me up on Facebook at Carolyn journ again or Arthur's Carolyn
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  McFarlane. And I am on Instagram uniquely underscore May twenty four, and you're
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  going also follow me on TikTok at Perfect Beauty nine to one. I am
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  more active on Facebook and Instagram. I'm active on TikTok, But if you
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  really want to get in touch with me, hear me up on Facebook.
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  Well, I got this on my tribut re head list. I mean,
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  look, you got me book two. You're gonna have to come back Yeah,
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  to come back, and we're gonna have to do a book discussion because
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  yeah, I got that. I already know what part two. I'm gonna
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  have a ton of questions. I already know because I shocked myself when it
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  comes down to my writing, Like I would plan a book to go one
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  way, and once I'm typing, it goes because howib in the beginning is
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  not. I have to go back and redo it every time. Because I
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  always tell authors this is a big tip for you guys. Okay, do
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  not write your subsnopsis until the end of the book, and that is why
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  your characters will take you in a whole separate direction. I have known ployee
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  of people say I wanted the book to go this way and they turn up
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  going that way. Like that's how it goes. You know, you have
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  to wait to the very end to write that synopsis and then that gives you
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  that that icing on the cake. That's that's the icing on the cake.
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  Yeah, thank you for being here with us tonight. I greatly appreciate you.
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  Ready, I'm going to promote your book. We're gonna get you back
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  on here again because see, if I have to fight you because the part
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  two I'm coming to where you are. I don't don't kill none of my
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  favorites. Don't do none of that. And please don't get nobody. Oh
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  man, see she killed somebody. See they're gonna have to really talk with
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  Part two is released. I'm telling you should be next week though. I
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  we're gonna have to really come back. Yes, I know, gonna be
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  a whirlwind. I know it is. Well. Thank you for joining us
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  tonight, and we appreciate you. Keep on with your writing journey and anything
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  we can do let us know. Okay, thank you you guys, Thank
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  you guys for joining me tonight. Guess what. I'm gonna be back here
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  Saturday with another author and fellas, y'all might want to be here for this
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  one because I think you guys are like this. Okay. Also get this
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  month's copy May's copy of aspiring Author's magazine. We are doing a book contest,
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  you guys. It's a book bingal, but you gotta get the magazine.
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  Okay, so until June fifteenth, it can solely get it into the
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  magazine. Okay. There's gonna be some giveaways. I heard something about a
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  kindo giveaway, so I'm gonna need y'all to be on it. It will
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  not posting to SC bookouts in France until June fifteenth. So if I was
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  you, I would go ahead and get a copy of Aspiring Office magazine,
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  the May edition and you can get your board. Okay, contest starts June
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  first, so that means you get a whole fifth teen day what do you
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  call it, cheap period that anybody else can get. So go ahead and
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  grab your copy. We have our book reviews. You'll get to read some
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  of the other authors, some of the other article writers. So May's issue
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  of Aspiring off the magazine. But you know what, don't even get mazed.
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  Just go ahead and get them all because there's something that each one of
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  them are gonna enjoy. Thank you again for joining me tonight, A bonus
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  night. Now see you guys Saturday. Bye. Thank you for joining us
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  tonight. We hope you found a new book to read or a new author
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  to explore. Join us again in two weeks for SC book gaus and friends
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  chat. Have a good evening. Bye on